| Children, Sex and the Koran Muslims, Christians challenge Ontario’s more explicit sex ed. The Ontario government is shelving a controversial new sex education curriculum that it had planned to roll out next fall. Premier Dalton McGuinty moved swiftly on Thursday to nip in the bud a mounting problem for his government, one that was pitting it against Christians, Muslims. Globe and Mail, April 22, 2010 Muslim and Christian opposition was successful in getting the McGuinty (Ontario) government to back down on a controversial sex education program that would have seen children as young as eight receive explicit sexual information from their teachers. I understand the Christian opposition. Sex education for the majority of Christians is a parental responsibility; but for Muslims to voice their opposition to teaching children about sex in the classroom is another matter. Children as young as four years old who attend madrassas (Islamic schools) receive a sex education as part of their religious indoctrination. There is a very common ceremony practiced throughout most of the Muslim world called Khatmi-Qur’an. It is the ceremony to recognize and celebrate a child’s first full reading of the Koranic text in Arabic. This complete reading of the Koran, according to Islamic scholar and writer Yahiya Emerick, “takes about two years under the guidance of a teacher for children to master the proper pronunciation and to read the text clearly from the first verse to the last. Most children complete the Qur’an between the age of four and seven” Reading the Koran children learn that females are inferior, deceitful, week-minded and are consumed with lust for the male body, and left to there own devices would bring chaos to the orderly world if Allah has made their fathers, brothers, uncles and later their husbands their guardians and masters. Reading the Koran children learn that homosexuals are to be despised for committing what Allah refers to as the "foul act". Reading the Koran children learn that Paradise is a place where men can fornicate to their hearts content, with Allah providing perpetual virgins, blushing maidens, purified wives and heavenly, sexually adept pleasure mates called houris. In Teach Your Children Well, I explained why we should all be concerned about an early childhood sex education skewed by Islam’s concept of sexual morality. Bernard P. April 23, 2010
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