{"id":1554,"date":"2002-07-31T01:05:44","date_gmt":"2002-07-31T06:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2002-07-31T01:05:44","modified_gmt":"2002-07-31T06:05:44","slug":"growing_numbers_of_muslims_homeschool_their_kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/07\/growing_numbers_of_muslims_homeschool_their_kids\/","title":{"rendered":": Growing Numbers of Muslims Homeschool Their Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>It started with educational supplements like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muslimyouthcamp.org\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Muslim youth camps<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/community-2.webtv.net%2FT-LOUNGE%2FPMHRNSVIRTUALSUMMER%2F\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">after-school programs<\/a>, and Sunday schools at mosques, and has even grown to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirajschool.org%2Fdocs%2Fnews.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">full-time Muslim schools<\/a> in areas with high Muslim populations.  But as many Muslims seek more control over the education of their children, many are turning to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muslimhomeschool.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">homeschooling<\/a> as a viable alternative to public or private full-time education.  The reasons are as varied as the American Muslim landscape.  \u201cMy sons didn\u2019t learn enough about [their] religion,\u201d explained homeschooling parent Faizah Badeges. \u201cNow my husband and I are teaching them about other religions, about the similarities the religions share. We\u2019re teaching them to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com%2Fnational%2F20020729-373097.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">accept other people<\/a>.\u201d  Others cite a lack of intellectual challenge, the need to instill Islamic social values in the face of a youth culture that is increasingly sexualized, and the lack of full-time Muslim schools in the area.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabesq.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ArabesQ<\/a>, an online Muslim home-schooling advisory organization, says it has served 30,000 Muslim homeschooling families, many of whom are determined not to sacrifice quality in order to get an <a href=\"http:\/\/ourseeds.tripod.com%2F\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Islamic education<\/a>.  \u201cI didn\u2019t pull my children out of public school so they can memorize the Koran,\u201d explains Afeefa Syeed of Sterling, VA. \u201cHome schooling is all about ensuring a holistic education and ensuring that my children grow into good people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Shahed Amanullah is editor-in-chief of altmuslim.com.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More American Muslims are choosing to home-school their children, making them one of the fastest growing segments within the home-schooling movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-briefings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>: Growing Numbers of Muslims Homeschool Their Kids<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"More American Muslims are choosing to 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