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Monday, May 31, 2004
Girls at London Saudi school are treated 'as inferiors' - Telegraph
"A London school funded by the Saudi Arabian government is facing complaints from parents that it is teaching British children 'fundamentalist' Islam while giving girls an inferior education. The King Fahd Academy in Acton, west London, named after the current Saudi ruler, devotes up to 50 per cent of lessons to religious education and teaches almost all classes in Arabic, with boys and girls following different curricula ... The school is segregated and younger boys and girls are now taught different courses, to comply with Saudi education policy, which states that a girl's education should 'enable her to be a successful housewife, an exemplary wife and a good mother' or prepare her for work which is 'suitable to her disposition as a woman'."
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