Muslim Educational Trust

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Chairman

Prof Ghulam Sarwar^[2]^[3]WebsiteMET^{[dead link]}

Muslim Educational Trust (MET) is an educational organization offering information, advice and publications about education and the educational needs of children to parents in particular.^[4] It is based in London.^[5]

Islamic schooling

From the early 1970s, the Trust started up Islamic religious lessons for Muslim pupils. Schools in the UK had Christian religious lessons as standard, but pupils were allowed to opt out of these classes. The Trust began giving alternative Islamic lessons for pupils to be held during the time in school that they had Christian based religious lessons. Newham was the first borough to allow the Islamic lessons, along with Hackney, followed by Bradford and other cities outside of London. Approx 20 volunteers taught these classes throughout the 1970's.^[6]

The Trust also began supporting efforts to open private Islamic schools in 1974,^[7] and by 1992, 23 Islamic schools were open, all supported by the Trust. Important leaders in this movement were Ibrahim Hewitt, Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens),^[8]^[9] Afzal Rahman,^[7] and Gulam Sarwar. In 1991, Sarwar wrote a book, British Muslims and Schools, which focuses on why such schools should exist and why they should receive public funding like other British schools.^[10]

Notes and references

^ "THE MUSLIM EDUCATIONAL TRUST FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5TH APRIL 2016" (PDF). apps.charitycommission.gov.uk. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ d'Ancona, Matthew (7 October 1992). "Union's school grant attack angers Muslims;Muslim education". The Times. London. ProQuest 317855688.
^ "Britain's Muslims See Bias in State Aid Program for Schools". The Christian Science Monitor. 1 September 1993. ProQuest 291211034.
^ Harris, Rosenberg (5 September 2013). A Handbook of School Fundraising. Routledge. ISBN 9781134731299.
^ "Muslim Educational Trust, ContactUS". Muslim Educational Trust. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ "The Seerah Foundation". Archived from the original on 16 April 2003.
^ ^a ^b "Muslims say they will start own single-sex schools". 8 January 1974. p. 2. Retrieved 15 September 2022 – via Gale.
^ Pilkington, Edward (10 March 1992). "Islam Opts Out". The Guardian. p. 27. ProQuest 187316713.
^ Cunningham, John (18 October 1985). "The double think behind an unholy row". The Guardian. p. 15. ProQuest 186575421.
^ Tytler, David (30 September 1991). "Missing women". p. 33. Retrieved 15 September 2022 – via Gale.