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[quote]I believe that good education should be part and parcel of the life of every Muslim. It's inherently wrong to categorize any education as 'Western'. The correct categorization, in my opinion, would be:

1. Religious
2. Formal

In a Muslim society, these two kinds of education should be combined and the issue of whether to send the children to an Islamic school should not arise since religious education would be a component of formal education.

In a non Muslim environment however, the entire responsibility of religious education falls on the parents and the community. In such a scenario, it does not sound wise to cut the children off from the society where they are living in. They can be sent to Islamic schools over the weekends for example, in addition to an exemplary behavior by their parents. Parents have an enormous influence over the psychological growth of a child and they are most likely the people the children end up following.

Here I would like to emphasize the importance of formal education. After a humiliating defeat at Badr, a lot of unbelievers were taken prisoners. Whoever taught ten Muslims to read was promised to be released. The unbelievers, of course, were not asked to teach Islam to the Muslims. Nor was it thought that they would have a negative influence over Muslims.

Regards.[/quote]

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