Australia: Preschoolers to receive Mandatory Arabic lessons

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More Islam in the West. In a federally funded program, pre-schoolers will now be taught Arabic. Aussie taxpayer dollars at work to advance Islamic culture.

Mark Steyn explained the real implications of the Arabic language here in an interview I conducted with him some years back.

“It shows how we mischaracterized, we willfully misunderstand Islam. Yes, on the face of it, yes, Arabic is a language. In a sense there would be no difference between opening a foreign language school — a Spanish language school or a french language school — but in fact Arabic is more than a language. It is explicated the language of Islam, so in that sense it is part of the Islamic religious imperial project. Radical Islam advances through the Arabic language. And you go all kinds of places that aren’t in the Arab world now, like Pakistan, Indonesia, Central Asia, the Balkans, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Canada and the United States, and you will here those Imams preaching in Arabic. Arabic is not just another language like French or Italian, it is the spearhead of an ideological project that is deeply opposed to the United States.

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“Townsville preschoolers to receive Arabic lessons,”

MOVE over playdough animals and sandpits: three and four year old pupils at a Townsville early learning centre will be taking Arabic language lessons as part of their preschool experience next year.

Announced as a trial site for the federal government’s $9.8 million Early Learning Languages program, The Wishing Tree Rasmussen Early Learning Centre is now preparing to skill-up its employees to help deliver online tutorials in Arabic language learning in 2015.

Wishing Tree director Susan Langmaid said the centre was owned by an Australian family living in Abu Dhabi but also chose Arabic as its ELLA language to reflect the high proportion of Defence families in Townsville.

“A lot of families that are in the military do know some basic words and they’ve got lots of stories about their trips away,” she said.

“We get a lot of questions because we can hear the guns fire here from Mount Stuart and we see the military helicopters flying over.”

The one year trial will test the effectiveness of exposing preschool children to a language other than English through online learning, with Mandarin, Japanese, Indonesian, French and Arabic offered.

Forty preschools were selected from more than 1000 applicants nationwide.

Ms Langmaid said preschool was a great time to teach children a language.

“It also opens them up to realise everyone is different,” she said,

“We’re a very multicultural centre where we try to teach them everyone’s the same, everyone’s equal, we just look a bit different.

“We’re just seeing how it goes next year and hoping it continues in 2016.”

The University of Queensland’s Institute of Modern Languages director Georgiana Poulter said Arabic had grown in popularity in the last decade alongside Australia’s growing Arabic community.

“There are a variety of reasons people study a language like Arabic — they hear on the news about different events happening in Arabic speaking countries and they want to understand the language and the culture,” she said.

“It’s an important language for the Australian Defence Force. They hear about their parents and friends’ parents going to Iraq and Saudi Arabia so it’s a natural language for them to be learning.

“Then there is travel because there are quite a lot of countries where Arabic is spoken.”

She said the most popular languages were still French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Italian and German, but Arabic was at the top of the second grouping with Russian, Korean and Indonesian.

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John Dough
John Dough
9 years ago

“We’re a very multicultural centre where we try to teach them everyone’s the same, everyone’s equal, we just look a bit different.

This is the problem with the ridiculous concept of multiculturalism. We are NOT all the same. Our differences are not skin deep. Some cultures think grown men marrying school girls as young as 8 is ok. Or that people who mock their religion deserve to be killed. These are big differences. Differences that are causing problems for us now in western countries.

I’m so tired of our governments telling us we have to respect other cultures while telling immigrants they don’t have to respect ours.

No more!

Cat Srebmahc
Cat Srebmahc
9 years ago

what an absolute load of BS….children have issues speaking english, let alone the language of Islamists!

Jenny Marie
Jenny Marie
9 years ago

This is a barbaric belief, we do not want our children learning about this culture, what’s next?? teaching them how to pray to their god? we do not want sharia law, your forcing us already with halal certified and no labels now you want to teach our kids.. frig off

Jenny Marie
Jenny Marie
9 years ago

please explain why they want to teach arabic to preschoolers when its never been an issue with any other culture?? I would have thought japanese if it was going to be any… little kids have enough problems with their own language, and they want to teach them this barbaric language of hell

SCREW SOCIALISM
SCREW SOCIALISM
9 years ago

SCREW mohammed/muhammed/mooo-ham-eid

ishkabibul
ishkabibul
9 years ago

How about -them -learning English -as they migrated to -our -country -why?are -we? learning their language ?-how can we accept this ideology ? by doing so we are accepting their laws of sharia which are barbaric and so dam cruel -they should be attending our public schools and assimilating -religion should be kept out of public schools -this must not be allowed -if I had children at school they would not be getting -islamized -are the is;lamic children going tp be taught about Christianity??

RationalFearOfTerror
RationalFearOfTerror
9 years ago

“There are a variety of reasons people study a language like Arabic – the only reason the West has even bothered to learn Arabic is because we need to defend ourselves from a culture which utilises it. That is the only reason the West has considered it necessary.

Debs
Debs
9 years ago

Sort of ironic that you complain when Australia’s first peope (Aborigines) were forced to Learn English, forced to adopt foreign culture, had their children removed etc… by immigrants.

Debs
Debs
9 years ago

Also it’s not just Arabic, the children will be taught a wide range of languages. Oh my children learning foreign languages to be able to converse in a global economy, therefore making them more employable in the future and perhaps, dare I say it, broadening their horizons? The horror. …

Michael Fry
Michael Fry
9 years ago

Can just see that going down like a lead balloon

greatattractor
greatattractor
8 years ago

I thought Australia was tough on immigrants. Now..this?

Miriam Brenner
Miriam Brenner
8 years ago

“It’s an important language for the Australian Defence Force. They hear about their parents and friends’ parents going to Iraq and Saudi Arabia so it’s a natural language for them to be learning.

“Then there is travel because there are quite a lot of countries where Arabic is spoken.” ————————————– how about not to travel to muslim countries? be safe and not beheaded? not raped? not charged when you kiss your wife in public? etc….just ban travels to muslim countries!

Isn’t that nice…this is beyond ignorant. Just empower the oppressors when they take over and requires submission. Caucasian Westerners must be the stupidest most naive people on the planet.

Miriam Brenner
Miriam Brenner
8 years ago

THE WESTERN WORLD JUST CANNOT STOP THEMSELVES FROM COMMITTING SUICIDE!

Miriam Brenner
Miriam Brenner
8 years ago

“Then there is travel because there are quite a lot of countries where Arabic is spoken.” ————–but every other arabic country speaks different arabic…dialect is totally different! so how many languages needed to learn? 6? 8? etc..

Miriam Brenner
Miriam Brenner
8 years ago

even american different from english….many words said differently like we say “pants” brits say “trousers” we say “beer” they say “lager”

Miriam Brenner
Miriam Brenner
8 years ago

arabic spoken in Egypt different from arabic spoken in Iraq…..or Lebanon…or Jordan…and different from Saudia….even arabs do not understand each other 100%

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