[Coach]

>->Actually, Coach, I know a few non-Muslims that could recite
>the Fatiha in Arabic. They lived within Muslim communities,
>and absorbed the information over the years.

That is very rare. Usually, the people with negative opinions about Islam (ahem ahem) don't know that much about the faith. They go on ranting about things they've heard from others and don't have the nuts (or maybe wit) to gather information from the source.




>->There's more inter-faith dialogue going on than is
>immediately apparent. Some Muslims, Christians, Sikhs and
>Hindus visit each other's places of worship, and learn about
>the tenets of each other's faith, or cooperate to volunteer
>much needed services to their communities.

This should be done in every country; may I ask where this is taking place?




>->Were you an 8-4-4 scholar? If yes, did you find yourself
>studying CRE by default? I often wished that we'd had
>something similar to social ethics at the primary level.

I am unfortunately an 8-4-4 product and we didn't have an alternative to CRE until later on when IRE was introduced.