Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Britain targets Muslim women to fight extremists

LONDON (Reuters) - In a school in south London, women in headscarves are learning English, childcare skills and citizenship, to smooth their integration into British life.
The courses are encouraged under a new government policy to "empower" Muslim women, ultimately to combat the threat from Islamist violence, a threat made brutally clear when four home-grown suicide bombers killed 52 people in London in 2005. dig more http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2008-03-26T013524Z_01_L19739136_RTRUKOC_0_UK-BRITAIN-MUSLIM-WOMEN.xml

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