From the Mouths of Babes
The London-based City Circle blog brings you the voice of the British Muslim youth:
For over eight years, the City Circle has been running a supplementary school that offers academic support to students between the ages of 8 and 18. The school is run by volunteers and serves around 110 students. CC Saturday School enjoys a great reputation and fantastic feedback.
Inspired by the movie Freedom Writers, we decided to give our students the chance to share their views on the CC blogs. The students were given the freedom to write about whatever they want and that the good pieces would be published unedited. To encourage the students, we promised prizes to the best six stories. Over this week, the CC blogs belongs to the young ones, the innocent, those with no political agendas. Some bits will make you laugh, other make you shed a tear, some are entertaining, others thoughtful. Above all, we cannot ignore them. They are the future.
To find out more about the school please visit the school’s page.
- War Rose - by Salem, aged 11
War,
Would you like to be beaten to the core?
Violence for freedom,
Freedom from violence,
At the end, all you will hear is silence…
- Race & Religion - by Asma, aged 10 and Aya, aged 11
Stand up for yourself and make Islam a happy community for us.
- My Homeschooling Life - by Sara, aged 14
Some people think that homeschooling kids don’t socialize enough but they are wrong.
- The Night I saw the Light of Allah - by Aisha, aged 17
I always knew something is missing in my life. Everyday, every night, I wake up sad and sleep miserable. I considered if I turn to Allah it’s too late. Until one night I was searching to fill my heart, I opened the Koran, the word of Allah. Bang! The voice of Allah hit me. “O son of Adam! I do not care even if your sins should pile up to the sky and should you beg pardon of Me, I would forgive you“
- Ramadan & Eid - by Yousef, aged 8 and Huda, aged 9
Eid is a special thing for Muslims when they pray in the Mosqe and I went to the Mosqe with my mum and dad and when I came home we had a big Party and we had Sweets and Chocolate.
- When I Grow Up - by Eman, aged 15
When I grow up I wonder if people will be more afraid to cry than they are to die.
Will I be able to ever see a rainbow above a green hill and a blue sky?
Or will we be killing trees alive, or how will the planet survive?
Will the internet have a web site called www.Lifetimeairsupply?
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