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[quote]Peace and Blessing Upon you quarthadast,

You are wrong that you did not explain yourself. You did. You are right in that my post refered to things you never stated. I gave you my opinion, which was not necessarily directly in response to your post. I know you were talking about tolerance and the whole melting pot thing, but true authenicity in diversity and intercultural and interreligious exchange, in my opinion, needs to go way beyong just tolerating others. I think more than tolerance, your post spoke of acceptance and assimilation. I think adaptation may be more appropriate. I did not avoid your comment about being a good person as you said "we non believers". The question of sending my future children to Islamic school or public school has nothing to do with you or non-Muslims being good or bad people. To me, that is a totally different issue altogether. I am a product of U.S. American Christian private school AND public school system. I was also a Spanish teacher at a public high school for 3 years before changin careers, so I am very familiar with how our system works here since i have experienced public school life both as a student and as a teacher. Public schools are not bad for my children; however, the question is not what is bad. The question my husband and i must ask ourselves is what is BEST for our future children. I am glad you are bringing up your son withthe ideas of tolerance and acceptance. It would be abetter world if more parents did so.
You asked, "How would you feel if I tell my son to not going around with muslims so his faith can be preserved?" First of all, you are Christian in a majority Christian/Catholic society. Therefore your son's Christianity is not something that takes extra steps to ensure its preservation. You may feel differently if Christianity was a minority religion where you live and you and a few members of the community and family were all your son had to  rely on to pass on religious knowledge.
When i wrote, "They won't try fitting in or feeling left out by their peers. They would be the norm and the standard istead of trying to fit some other standard unnatural to the way of life of a Muslim." I was meaning that school kids often try to fit in regardless of their religion, height, weight, rae, etc. It is what happens. There are negative and positive peer pressures in school. As a parent it will be my job to make certain informed decisions regarding my children. When Islam is taught correctly, Standard Arabic and Qur'an recitation are required course in the general curriculum, times are set aside to perform prayers, halal food guidelines are observed, dress codes for women/girls and men/boys are enforced, and classes are seperated by both rade level and gender, then ojala I will not have ANY reservations about sending my children to public school. 
Making my choice in liberty without fear and with prejudice,

Jameelah[/quote]

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