When Muslim homeschoolers attended the Islamic Society of North America's conference on Islamic education they were struck by many things. Muslim homeschoolers take as a given that tarbiyah is an integral part of the educational process, but it to Islamic schools that concept is new and just beginning to be implimented. Even strong Muslim families living in the west struggle with tarabiyah and go head to head with Shaitan's enticements. Sometimes they watch their sons become involved with drugs and with gangs. Sometimes their daughters leave the house wearing skin tight, revealing clothing and bare mid drifts or change into them on the way to school.
Parents can feel helpless to stop it or are unaware of it.
Only a small minority of children attend Islamic schools, even when one is available, or are homeschooled. These children, their children, our children, hear everyday about how horrid Islam is, how violent even evil it is, how restrictive Islam is, how Muslims have never given anything back but have always taken away, how great western non-religious society is compared to the poorness of their own . . . We have to catch them. . . Many of them don't even understand what it is about. Non-Muslims have a hard time grasping that our holy days and holidays don't come in a set season every year.