i used to teach the rohingyas for almost 2 years. i’ve never seen a group of children so interested and excited in their studies other than the rohingyas.. i had an experience teaching the local orphans(malaysians) but these children arent as hardworking and determined as the rohingyas. perhaps due to the better treatments and facilities provided for them. these children arent bother to work hard to improve themselves. Unlike the locals, the rohingyas are always ready for every classes. they always asked for extra homework and are very ambitious. Some want to become pilot, soldier, astronaut etc. it really hurts when you know that is not going to happen unless the government is willing to change the policy. These kids need proper education but they are not allowed to attend schools due to various reasons.

It’s been almost a year since i last saw them. i really miss my students but i cannot go and visit them anymore. the madrasah is closed.. the students revealed that one of the ustazs had been sodomising them for quite sometime.. i reported this case to the police and as usual when it involves the refugees not many is interested to pursue..my friends and i manage to get one of the victims to a better madrasah but as for the rest… only God knows their conditions.

i really hope that one day we (muslims) can work hand in hand to help these kids irregardless of nationalities, gender and religion.

The Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies is a part of the NCEIS. The NCEIS, in turn, was launched with much fanfare as a supposed gift from the UWS nomenklatura to Australian Muslims. Yet, whenever Muslim academics or even qualified Muslim scholars have politely stated their unease with certain aspects of the NCEIS, the response has been an undisguised snarl on the part of UWS, from the top down. UWS Muslim students at the NCEIS have been treated in an even worse manner. UWS’s appartchiks seem to believe that literally anything is permissible, if they simply invoke the mantra of ‘academic freedom’.

The reality is that the NCEIS was not established to facilitate understanding of Islam, but as part of a dishonourable exercise in social engineering. Among other things, this aims to produce so-called ‘modern’ or ’secular’ young Muslims. That is why Units studied at the NCEIS include 101.471: ‘Women in Arabic and Islamic Literature’, which supposedly uses Qur’an and Ahadith, then other literature, to examine how Islam impacts on women. In reality, Muslims enrolled in this course have faced a barrage of propaganda in favour of lesbianism. People are free to decide their sexual preferences for themselves, of course, but one wonders whether the content of this course was not chosen with the express purposes of provocation and misleadership.

The Holy Qur’an has been derided as supposedly misogynist in the NCEIS. It has been asserted that Ahadith are simply hearsay accounts (so-called ‘Chinese whispers’) of statements of Prophet Muhammad (S). Students are taught that homosexuality ‘is neither condemned nor condoned’ by Islam, and that hijab is not obligatory in Islam. Again, people will make up their own minds about these questions, also, but such instruction is hardly part of a genuine attempt to understand Islam. It is, however, very much part and parcel of a nasty pseudo-intellectual attempt to break the Islamic convictions of many of its students, as well as to foster a bowdlerised version of Islam. All this has been documented by myself.

None of this is new, of course. Britain pioneered such shenanigans in colonial India — albeit not so crudely.

Academics are well advised to steer well clear of these two toxic centres.

For more information, go to:
http://www.mfp.org.au/index.php?paged=2
(Scroll down the page for 3 blog entries.)

http://www.mfp.org.au/?page_id=13
(A fully referenced and documented critique of the NCEIS.)

Dr. Ali White

Just wanted to say keep up the awesome work on your website and all the related websites. Your insights are important for Muslims like myself.

BTW, if you can help gimme some direction on possible career opportunities for Muslim sociologists, especially of the coming generation- I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks

-Dawud

P.S. I think my website might be of anthropological interest to you…