The Deep and Difficult Dilemma of Islamic Education

{writeup: bit.ly/AZddd} Western education teaches the superiority of Western civilization and knowledge. An Islamic education should teach us that the Quran provides us with complete and perfect guidance for all times to come, and knowledge revealed by God to mankind is superior to any knowledge which could be or has been created by man. Today, our models for Islamic Education end up reinforcing ideas of Western superiority, instead of teaching the value of the Quran and Sunnah for our modern lives. There is no easy solution to this dilemma. The greatest challenge facing the Ummah today is to devise an educational model which builds the entire stock of human knowledge on Islamic foundations.