Re: Hindu, Christian students struggle in Arabic in state-run schools
As usual the secularists are making a mountain out of a mole hill..
It's handy to learn all languages, they should teach Arabic, as well as Sanskrit, and Latin etc... It's a terrible excuse that just because kids don't hear Arabic at home they can't learn it... Most Muslims kids don't know Arabic other than the regular prayers and phrases either... It can't be that hard since our national script is related to the script used for writing Arabic or Persian.
We had to learn German/French at school, the Urdu/Bengali option wasn't there till late but we didn't complain... We also had to sing hymns, say the Lord's prayer every morning and afternoon and say grace before we ate, we had to go to church and take harvest presents for the vicar but we had no choice, we had an option to go to Islamic schools and have our parents pay but we didn't make use of it so that's our own fault.