Islamic school that taught pupils ‘gay men should be killed’ shut down ‘after pupil exposed its extremist beliefs’
The story goes on to suggest how the fee paying independent school, was teaching the young girls 'extremist Islamic beliefs' such as that it is acceptable for a husband to beat his wife and that the death penalty is appropriate for gay men. The additional information that this is a 'fee paying' school also represents the girls parents negatively as it implies they want their children to go through this extremist schooling.
These accusations come from a former student who was expelled in 2011 reportedly, for owning a disposable camera, and also claims three other girls were expelled after being accused of being lesbians.
Despite the accusations against this school being serious as the spread of extremism is significant issue in today's society, the way this story has been constructed seems to label the entire religion of Islam as extremist. It is evident that if this story was reporting about a Christian or Catholic school, the reporting would be very different, I assume the target would be on the individual priests or nuns who taught the extreme views, rather than the entire religion.
Furthermore, the article then goes on to list other schools that have been required to close under a similar pretext of the spread of extremism, which not only takes away from the sensationalist perspective of this story but also suggests that perhaps Muslim schools are being targeted as a way for the government to be seen as combating extremism.
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