Eat me

As much as I like the idea that Alice's world could be perceived as tangible - perhaps it is inappropriate for me to suggest that this is an analogous to believeing in a creator, or a heaven or hell. In practicle terms - a 'Wonderland' is not a place inhabited by a community of believers. It is a place where the individual chooses outcomes, and where the physical matter is at the mercy of individual whim. Religious faith suggests the opposite: that human destiny is in the hands of an uber-engineer who leads us all into temptaion, or not, as he/she sees fit. If Muslim students are already negotiating the world in the belief that their will, and outcomes, are preordained, is it not unrealistic to ask them to consider ideas, particularly those that foreground individualism (democracy, progress, success?), apart from that belief?  Rather, we should find a way to bring the belief system (and system is an important word here because the way in belief is maintained is embedded in multiple practices) into the classroom - at least as a point of dicussion.