Sunday, April 18, 2004 |
17:49 - Change! Change! Change at all costs!
http://opinion.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/04/18/ueton.xml&sSheet
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Another link via LGF: Eton College in Britain "is appointing an imam to promote Islam to the children of Britain’s upper crust".
Eton College is to become the first top public school in the country to appoint an imam to help pupils gain an understanding of Islamic culture and thought.
The school, which has taught 18 British prime ministers, is also to offer Arabic as a language for the first time from this September to increase better understanding of the Muslim world.
The appointment of Oxford graduate Monawar Hussain has already been supported by many who say it is a positive initiative on behalf of Eton and a sign that many traditional British institutions are changing.
This is what I find so baffling and maddening: there are those to whom "change" is the most positive possible thing, the word "progressive" is the best ever to codify a thought, and "traditional institutions" are nothing more than an evil to be eradicated.
Never mind what we're "changing" into. As long as we're changing. As long as we're making progress.
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