In late 2015 the British government began to take steps to investigate "unregistered" ''[[madrassa]]s''. There are about 2000 such schools in the UK. Reports of squalid conditions, beatings, abuse, [[radical]]ization, the teaching of in[[tolerance]], anti-Semitism, and [[extremism]] have circulated for years. In 2013 an 18-year-old Islamic man received a suspended sentence and no jail time in the UK for the rape of a 13-year-old girl, his claimed defense being his "religious education", which taught him women were "worthless".<ref>[http://www.religiousfreedomcoalition.org/2013/01/31/uk-muslim-rapes-13-year-old-but-no-jail-time-because-he-didnt-know-it-was-wrong/ ]</ref> | In late 2015 the British government began to take steps to investigate "unregistered" ''[[madrassa]]s''. There are about 2000 such schools in the UK. Reports of squalid conditions, beatings, abuse, [[radical]]ization, the teaching of in[[tolerance]], anti-Semitism, and [[extremism]] have circulated for years. In 2013 an 18-year-old Islamic man received a suspended sentence and no jail time in the UK for the rape of a 13-year-old girl, his claimed defense being his "religious education", which taught him women were "worthless".<ref>[http://www.religiousfreedomcoalition.org/2013/01/31/uk-muslim-rapes-13-year-old-but-no-jail-time-because-he-didnt-know-it-was-wrong/ ]</ref> |