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CBC News: Quebec knew about religious schools in Hasidic community for decades, trial hears
CBC News: Quebec knew about religious schools in Hasidic community for decades, trial hears
"For decades, the Quebec government was aware that schools in the Hasidic community of Tash, north of Montreal, were operating without a permit and failing to provide children with an adequate secular education, a courtroom heard Tuesday.
Bruce Johnston, a lawyer for 42-year-old Yohanan Lowen and his wife Shifra, 41, questioned an Education Ministry bureaucrat about the government's years of inaction on the second day of a trial pitting the former Hasidic Jewish couple against the province and the community they grew up in.
The Lowens, now married and living in Montreal, say they missed out on learning the basics, including French and English, math and geography, leaving them ill-prepared for life in the outside world.
They are seeking a declaratory judgment that would force the province to ensure children who attend private religious schools are taught the provincial curriculum."
"An ex-Hasidic Jewish woman who is seeking a judgment against the Quebec government for allegedly denying her a proper education told a Montreal trial she was terrified to speak out against her former community but came forward because she wants to help future generations of children.Clara Wasserstein, a former member of the ultra-Orthodox Tash community north of Montreal, told a courtroom Wednesday she decided to bring legal action after seeing how her oldest son thrived when he was finally put into a public school, with access to classes such as gym."We had our children in the regular school where they had all these good things and I saw them blossom," she told Superior Court Justice Martin Castonguay."I thought it was selfish to think, 'my kids are good,' when so many others are suffering."Wasserstein, 41, and her husband, Yochonon Lowen, are not seeking damages from the Quebec government. Instead, they want a declaratory judgment stating the Quebec government and several Boisbriand Hasidic schools violated provincial law by failing to ensure the couple received a proper education.They are hoping a declaratory judgement will help ensure other children in Quebec's ultra-Orthodox schools are given an education that adheres to the provincial standard set for all students."
The Atlantic: Why Extremists Need Therapy
" ... The first part of deradicalization, then, is understanding individuals' psychological state, previous trauma, and personal circumstances—not just their political and religious beliefs. "We used to work with a group who worked in U.K. prisons," Moustafa Ayad, a deputy director at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, an international think tank, told me. "The way they described it was 'deconstructing the terrorist and rebuilding the human.' It's not anything that's set and planned."
One of the hallmarks of a terrorist worldview is its rigidity: us and them, the righteous and the unbelievers. Cracking that is key to deradicalization, according to Rashad Ali, a former member of Hizb al-Tahrir, an Islamist group that Britain has repeatedly considered banning. Ali, now a senior fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, told me that creating a "cognitive opening" to allow people to reevaluate their beliefs was vital.
In the context of the penal system, this is difficult. Muslims are overrepresented in British prisons compared with the population at large, which a government report found "could chime with the radicalisers' message of the victimisation of Muslims." Following the July 7, 2005 bombings in London, the scope of terror offenses was widened to include "glorifying" and advocating terrorism. Those jailed for such offenses—overwhelmingly men—are prime targets for further radicalization in prison, to move them from glorification to action. As well as training prison imams in counter-extremism, the report recommended isolation for the most extreme prisoners."
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