The Arabic Schools

Madrasas are known as  Islamic schools however I call it arabic schools or arabic language schools because the only language they teach  is arabic they don't teach math, science, geography, history or anything else but the so called holy scripts aka Quran, hadeth and arabic alphabets.

I have been attending the arabic schools approximate  four years and I learnt  nothing but Quran and arabic alphabets I used to attend in the morning and in the afternoon twice everyday saturday through thursday fridays were the only weekend for us, in the morning we recited the Quran and after that we were assigned to memories new verses of Quran for tomorrow the Ma'alin the madrasa teacher decided for us kids where we would start our tomorrow's Quranic verses and where to end and he will know if we skipped some for example he assigned us  five verses of quran but we read only three  he'll know  sometimes he mark with a pencil sometimes he have that precious brain to remember every kid's assignment as every student have his/her verses of Quran

WE were not taught of what the Quran or the verses we're reciting means or what our religion is or the history of Islam nothing just that the quran is the God's spoken words and that we must not tore, drop on the ground if it accidentally falls on the ground we must kiss, and we must maintain the cleanliness of the Quranic book  because it's holy. We were taught not to question about God and his work before we question about God we must question how we came to this world and how the world is created and that Islam is the correct religion because God spoke himself to Mohammad.

I have seen so many people who finish the Quran more than once they would start from the beginning again and again for (hifz) memorizing of the whole Quran it's like attending to  school  multiple times with same course of study and never getting a degree however the more they read Quran and memorize the more they grow western hating  religious  the girls who  used to wear  lightweight shawls and normal dira a  large gown worn by muslim women who never prayed and have not read Quran before start wearing burqas and eventually end up  wearing the face veils (Niqab) same as  boys start from   normal pants and shirts to thawbs with kufis Islamic skull cap.

Those kids don't want to go madrasas but what choice they have. they're forced to go by their parents and even if they skip or refuse they're punished. the Ma'alin himself have the  beats the students even if the parents didn't give him the permission it's  obligatory for madrasa Ma'alins to beat the students if they fail to read Quran or show  bad behaviors. I have seen Ma'alin beating students with his belt, with sticks,  I have seen kids being carried from their homes to the madrasas  by other students because he/she refused to go to the madrasa, I have seen Ma'alins ordering  2-4 of his oldest and strongest students to held a poor boy's arms and legs and he whipped the boy's butt, I have seen Ma'alin letting the students lay down on the heat for hours,  I have seen Ma'alin punishing student to bent over  their heads low, cross  their arms in the back of their their leg and insert their index fingers in their ears he then whipped and told them keep going in half an hour,I have seen ma'alins whipping kids' palms till the skin went off of the palms,there were stories of kids locked in the madrasa till they accept their fate and start attending to the madrasa regularly,  I have seen parents in line to report their kids to the Ma'alin for doing bad behaviors or refusing to come to the madrasa or not recite in the Quran and the reason they come is to report and tell the teacher to punish  them Those kids go madrasa because their power is taken away from them as I was taken away from mine when I was attending.

My own sisters and brother who were born and raised in Minnesota were radicals even they were too young and were  born and grew up in here somehow since each of them started Madrasa in MN at age 5  in weekends they would not watch kissing scenes on the T.V when the parents are around, They were skeptical with infidel visitors or anyone who is not wearing Islamic dress code or say Assalama aleykum Islamic greeting,, my 7 years old sister reported me to mother when she saw me talking with a white classmate on the video phone  I mean it's unbelievable to me to see my 7 years old sister who was born and grew up  in a country with diversities   is reporting me for talking to white people, and they were punished by whipping them with belts, wooden spoons,shoes  and  cords

Those kids from poor families aren't able to attend schools their parent would rather pay them to go madrasas than elementary schools because they think that sending the kids to madrasa will benefit them in here and hereafter  than sending them to normal schools, in my opinion madrasas or any religious schools shouldn't be funded instead the children should be sent to schools and funded to those who can't afford.