February 09, 2010
A non-Muslim teacher at an Islamic school...
by Brian Saint-Paul   
8/20/09

Ever wonder what it's like to be a non-Muslim teacher at an Islamic school? If Holland's Hennie Metsemakers's experience is representative, it's lousy. She had been an employee at the As Siddieq school in Amsterdam, and got a first-hand look at how the Religion of Peace views non-Muslims.

Orthodox Islamic schools treat Dutch teachers who are not Muslims as inferior beings. They have to have their meals separately and cannot be greeted in the same way as Muslims, says a former teacher...

Hennie Metsemakers was suspended by the school a year and a half ago because she spoke of religions other than Islam in the lessons. "I had drawn a timeline and shown the most important events of a number of beliefs on it." Not only was that forbidden, but she was also ordered to teach the children that Christianity would be abolished, she told Het Parool newspaper....

Non-Muslim teachers at As Siddieqschool and other schools are treated kindly, but not as full-value colleagues. Metsemakers had gone to work at the school full of integration ideals. "The leadership was attentive and nice, but turned out to have a hidden agenda. In the breaks, we had to eat separately. We were not allowed to be greeted in the same way as Muslim teachers, not with the word salaam, peace, because non-Muslims cannot know what peace is."

Did I mention that the school is subsidised by the Dutch government?

 

Readers have left 5 comments.
   Quote(1) The Coming Storm
August 20th, 2009 | 9:07am
This is but one more confirmation that "orthodox" Islam is incompatible with Western civilization. Europeans are coming to understand this more and more...I fear for the future, because the clash is inevitable because "multi-culturalism" has blinded people to the reality that not all cultures can co-exist on an equal footing. Ask Iraqi Christians what they think of the idea that Islam is a "Religion of Peace"...I've talked to them, and their story is much different. Even the "nicer" strains of Islam view non-Muslims as inferior, and that "co-existence" is paying the tax and contentedness living as second class.
 Written by D.B.
   Quote(2) Other religious schools?
August 20th, 2009 | 9:40am
Are other religious schools subsidized by the Dutch government? If so, I have no problem with the Dutch government subsidizing this school. I would certainly hope that a Catholic school would be allowed to teach true Catholicism instead of having it watered down be requiring that contraception, abortion, and homosexual acts are taught as valid choices. If government can interfere with a Muslim school teaching some form of Islam, it can certainly interfere with an orthodox Catholic school. Just look at Belmont Abbey being required to cover contraception.
 Written by Joshua
   Quote(3) Look in the mirror
August 21st, 2009 | 2:05am
It is ironic that your post displays the same type of generalizations and intolerance that you are supposedly (gasp) uncovering. You choose the alleged experience of one person without any corroboration and without allowing those you are attacking to defend themselves. This is the kind of behavior that makes me embarrassed for you. Perhaps you should read your own rules before your next post.
 Written by Steve
   Quote(4) Re: Look in the mirror
August 21st, 2009 | 9:55am
It is ironic that your post displays the same type of generalizations and intolerance that you are supposedly (gasp) uncovering. You choose the alleged experience of one person without any corroboration and without allowing those you are attacking to defend themselves. This is the kind of behavior that makes me embarrassed for you. Perhaps you should read your own rules before your next post.
— Steve

The "alleged experience of one person without any corroboration"? Sorry Steve, but that kind of statement can only be made by someone wholly ignorant of the many well-publicized examples of non-Muslims treated like subhumans by the orthodox Islamic faithful. Are you utterly unaware of the catalog of persecutions suffered by Christians, Hindus, Jews, Bahai, and Zoroastrians in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Sudan, Iran, Malaysia, etc.? Have you somehow never heard of the jizyah tax -- a fee paid by non-Muslims for the privilege of living in an Islamic state? You'll find that in the Quran -- you know, the holy book of their religion.


Fight those who believe not
In God nor the Last Day,
Nor hold that forbidden
By God and His Apostle,
Nor acknowledge the Religion
Of Truth, (even if they are)
Of the People of the Book,
Until they pay the Jizya
With willing submission,
And feel themselves subdued.
— Quran 9:29

I used the Dutch story not as an evidence unto itself, but as yet another example of what any reasonable observer already knows: that traditional, orthodox Islam has no room for those of other faiths.

You're right to be embarrassed, Steve, but I'm not sure you should be wasting it on me.
 Written by Brian Saint-Paul
   Quote(5) some Peace from these so children of God
August 24th, 2009 | 8:55am
I failed to understand why these people although being persecuted by their own kind seeking refugees status in our christan lands(knowing we christian are peace-loving and kind) treat the "hands that feed them" with scorn. It should be mandatory that they are guests and liable for deportation; and as guests should refrain from promoting their brand of religion and conform to the values of their adopted lands.
The attitule and behaviour spell calamity in the making.
Yes, we do not get reviews of Christian persecuting or for that matter -beheading. Place your index finger on any part of the third world you will find persecution engineered by so-called peace-loving Muslims. If they cannot find Muslims to bomb and attack, they wiil invariably turned to their kind.
Yes, western governments are benevolent they do not segretate, they care for everyone in their fold and the result?
Sometimes, we need to take on the role of "extremists" for kindness is deemed weakness by these collobrators of satan.

terrence.
 Written by terrence

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