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| Schoolboys Get Detention for Refusing to Pray to Allah |
| 2008-07-05 |
| Two boys were punished this week for refusing to kneel on prayer mats and worship Allah during a class demonstration on Islam, the Daily Mail reported. Irate parents said a religious education teacher at the Alsager High School in England told student to wear Muslim headgear during a lesson on Tuesday. "But if Muslims were asked to go to church on Sunday and take Holy Communion, there would be war," the grandfather of one of the students said. The two boys belong to a class that includes 11- to 12-year-olds, and after their refusal to participate they were given detention, the story says. Another parent, Karen Williams, told the Mail: "Not only was it forced upon them, my daughter was told off for not doing it right. They'd never done it before and they were supposed to do it in another language." Deputy Headmaster Keith Plant said the teacher has given her version of the incident but he declined to elaborate. According to a statement from the Cheshire County Council on behalf of the school: "Educating children in the beliefs of different faith is part of the diversity curriculum on the basis that knowledge is essential to understanding. "We accept that such teaching is to be conducted with some sense of sensitivity." |
| Posted by:Yosemite Sam |
| #4 Take the "teacher" to the local high street, and give him/her 200 lashes with a cat-of-nine-tails for political indoctrination and anti-royalist behavior. That MIGHT penetrate a thick head or two, but it's doubtful. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-07-05 23:19 |
| #3 No such thing in England |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-07-05 22:39 |
| #2 Sue the school for breach of separation of church and state like they do for Christians. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-07-05 21:39 |
| #1 This doesn't seem to penetrate: Muslims believe that Christian and Jewish holy texts, were distorted by Satanic possession of post Abraham' "prophets." The "Satanic Verse" incident, as described by Tirmidhi and others, reveals that Muhammad is believed to have suffered the same possession. Muslims refuse to discuss that case; it is too embarassing for their cult. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2008-07-05 20:50 |