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Rattigan and Abdel-Hafiz have left Saudi Arabia, but both still work as FBI agents. Rattigan is suing the FBI, claiming that it discriminated against him on the basis of his race, religion and national origin. (He is an African American of Jamaican descent who converted to Islam in Saudi Arabia in the months after 9/11.) Rattigan at times wore Arab headgear and robes on work assignments in Saudi Arabia, as did Abdel-Hafiz, also a Muslim, which did not go down well with some FBI managers in Washington. Rattigan claims that among the ways the FBI thwarted...
...A.C.L.U. card on camera.) But the series is not strident, and seems to have been made in a genuine spirit of curiosity. Later episodes, in which Spurlock serves as host and does interviews, are mixed; anti-aging therapy is simply not as burning a social issue. But the Islam episode--a devout Christian moves in with a Muslim family--is fascinating, moving, funny and without a shred of manipulation...
...Principal Siddiqui, 35, a mother of three whose parents came from India, contends that the strain of Islam taught at Universal is one that is free of provincial baggage. Certain features of regional Islam - arranged marriages, a ban on women driving - are not part of the program here. "It's a constant battle, separating cultural issues from religious values," says Siddiqui. The school does teach how to avoid being seduced by those parts of American culture many parents consider un-Islamic. "What we're up against in movies, television and music," she says, "is profanity, sex and violence. The whole...
...Universal School go back to the arrival of a wave of new Muslim residents in the southwest Chicago suburbs during the 1970s and '80s. Many were Palestinian immigrants who had fled the violence and lack of economic opportunity in their homeland. Busy pursuing the American Dream, they assumed Islam could be passed on to their children around the dinner table. What began to show up at mealtime instead was dyed-green hair and requests to start dating, like the other kids in the public schools. The Islamic students faced discrimination as well, to which they responded with a different...
...second order of business is creating what Universal calls an "Islamic environment." The Koran and the sayings of Muhammad are taught two days a week, Arabic three days a week. Grades 2 to 12 break for prayer once a day. Beyond Scripture, a Muslim approach influences the traditional curriculum as well. When teacher Fuzia Jarad's English class read Romeo and Juliet, the girls wanted to know, "Is it love at first sight?" "Yes," the teacher answered. "As Muslims, we don't do that. The difference is lust versus love; appearance versus knowing. Islam protects you from mistakes." For assistant...