Teaching LGBTQ In Schools: Time To Move Abroad?
Mary: "Are you for LGBT or against LGBT?"
Zainab: "I'm not for or against LGBT"
Mary: "You have to support LGBT"
Zainab (not her real name) was asked this question by a fellow school mate. She is in year 7 (11 to 12-year-olds) in a central London school. They are family friends and her mother is trying to decide whether to pull her out of school.
Education or indoctrination?
My children are no longer in school, so even I am shocked when I hear about the different ways the LGBT agenda is now being pushed in schools. Through compulsory lessons, in books and with teachers discussing the most sensitive and sometimes sexually explicit subjects with young pupils. There is also the questioning of who really is a boy or girl!
All to normalise acceptance, even promotion of the LGBT lifestyle, same sex relations and gender fluidity.
How is an 11-year-old Muslim girl expected to stand against this onslaught?
Changing times
When Margaret Thatcher was UK Prime Minister, it was illegal (Section 28) to teach children about homosexuality in schools. Now, it is compulsory.
If you try to teach or publicly raise the fact that Islam (and other religions) see such relations as a sin to be avoided, you are called a bigot. So, the UK’s talk about pluralism and respecting different opinions and faiths is just a lie. Only the secular liberal opinion is acceptable.
In this climate, a child mentioning the Islamic position on LGBT relationships is sometimes jumped upon - as Zainab experienced.
Whose guidance do we follow?
Whose guidance is best? That of human's who make legal what they said was illegal yesterday? Where will this end?
Allah's unchanging guidance in the Qur'an and Sunnah is best for all human beings. So, we have to continue to teach our children Islam’s position on LGBT relationships and gender issues because Allah (swt) made parents responsible and accountable when He said:
يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ قُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَكُمْ وَأَهْلِيكُمْ نَارًۭا وَقُودُهَا ٱلنَّاسُ وَٱلْحِجَارَةُ
عَلَيْهَا مَلَـٰٓئِكَةٌ غِلَاظٌۭ شِدَادٌۭ لَّا يَعْصُونَ ٱللَّهَ مَآ أَمَرَهُمْ وَيَفْعَلُونَ مَا يُؤْمَرُونَ
“O believers! Protect yourselves and your families from a Fire whose fuel is people and stones, overseen by formidable and severe angels, who never disobey whatever Allah orders—always doing as commanded.” [At-Tahrim 66:6]
1)Challenge and influence schools
Some school head teachers are sensitive to parents’ concerns. Muslim parents need to engage and speak with school heads and school boards. We need to challenge LGBT indoctrination, point out inappropriate teaching materials and offer alternative and Islamicaly acceptable ways of talking about these matters to children.
2)Muslim school and home schooling
Where school heads fail to listen or it becomes clear that inappropriate material continues to be used to indoctrinate our children, we need find alternative schooling arrangements. That could be putting them in an appropriate Muslim school or home schooling them – sometimes together with other families so the burden is shared.
This is what I had to do with my children over several years. It was not easy but definitely worth it. Alhamdulillah
3)Go abroad?
I discussed this latest LGBT push in schools with a friend. He said his children, in their late teens and early twenties, should go and live in a Muslim country when they have their own children because this current tide of LGBT indoctrination in UK schools is unstoppable now that the government has made teaching about it compulsory.
Where do you go? There is a pandemic of secular liberal ideas sweeping the world, including the Muslim world. Yes, but in some Muslim countries, the LGBTQ agenda is not pushed as aggressively or openly like it is in the secular liberal West. So, I would suggest that parents who are able to should consider going to such a place.
Raising Muslim children in the West was always a challenge. It has only gotten harder with the hyper-sexualisation of society and the latest LGBTQ indoctrination and gender fluidity which is being pushed by western governments. May Allah (swt) help us to safeguard our belief and those of our children.
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Taji
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يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَا تَعْتَذِرُوا۟ ٱلْيَوْمَ ۖ إِنَّمَا تُجْزَوْنَ مَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ
“˹The deniers will then be told,˺ “O disbelievers! Make no excuses this Day! You are only rewarded for what you used to do.” [At-Tahrim 66:7]
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