Why more Muslim Americans are choosing to send their children to Islamic schools Many Muslim parents are opting to send their children to Islamic schools because they feel secular schooling is heading in the wrong direction

(Middle East Eye) Abdullah Khan attended public school his entire life. The truth is, his parents had wanted to send their kids to a private Islamic school, but they just couldn’t afford it — and Abdullah believes he suffered because of it.

“Sex and drugs,” Khan told Middle East Eye. “That is what I was around all of high school.”

Khan, who is now 32, and his two siblings went to a public high school in Michigan. He said he spent the first two years experimenting with drugs, just like many of his other classmates. He remembers going to parties and being in a room with a young woman but forcing himself to leave before anything happened.

Khan is Muslim and was raised as such.

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