Parents Object To Muslim Lessons At School.

[trt]

I dont think I would be very happy if one of my children went there, considering the ongoing problems around Europe..

http://m.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/14269330.Muslim_lesson_at_County_Durham_primary_school_sparks_anti_Islam_protest/

[Mamyalynne]

I rather think giving a talk about Islam is a whole lot different to saying - this is what the Koran says and it is true.


Giving children some broad understanding of the world around them and the people they meet is in my mind not a bad thing, if of course the talk was overly preachy then I would object.

As it stands I haven't seen any content.

[mikey4444]

naomi...we crossed in the post. So is every other religion on earth...why single out Islam ?

[naomi24]

Mikey, Really? Which British schools would they be?

[jim360]

I suppose essentially the point is that Islam should be treated equivalently to Christianity -- or at least, proportionately. Like it or not, people will insist on teaching religion in schools, and there are, what, about a couple of million Muslims in the UK? Not teaching it in schools at all in that context (again, if you allow that religious teaching is a part of education) seems bizarre.

The ideal is that religion should disappear largely from school life, although even then I suppose there's a case to be made that studying it at school would be a good counter to learning about Islam (and other religions) at home or at the respective place of worship. At least in the context of a school lesson it's much more open what is being taught, and why.

[mikey4444]

Mamy...the voice of common sense, as usual !

[Svejk]

///Naomi...similar nonsense is taught every day///

Lol, so let's have some more.

[naomi24]

Mikey, //why single out Islam ? //

If you took the trouble to learn about Islam you wouldn't ask the question.

[-Talbot-]

religious education, the ultimate oxymoron.

Today kids I will teach you about a superhuman omnipresent
controlling power, he goes by the name of God.
Right make yourselves comfortable kids I have lots of amazing things to say about this amazing fella.

[TWR]

Do you not think that children ask their parents why that person has a mask on, why that person is all in Black on a hot day? why is some Idiot in some town wailing through a tube? why some British Town are full of dam Rockets? why do those men wear their pant half way up their legs? why don't those men Wear socks? Mikey. why the feck do we have to go out of our way to please them.

[mikey4444]

When I was growing up in the 50's/60's, I went to a Catholic School.

Back then, we were taught that Catholics were the Good Guys, Protestants were heretics, and Jews were beyond the pale, because they murdered Jesus.

Everybody else were heathens and mostly black, and that was it !

[Mamyalynne]

If children ask about the world around them , you answer simply and clearly in nice language they can comprehend.


You have rockets??

[naomi24]

Mikey, //Mamy...the voice of common sense, as usual ! //

Common sense because she's saying what you want to hear? Islam cannot be separated from the Koran - or from its prophet.

[mikey4444]

Your usual answer then Naomi....

"I have read the Koran and I am always right and therefore everybody else is wrong "

[naomi24]

Mikey, //"I have read the Koran and I am always right and therefore everybody else is wrong " //

I would never say that everyone else is wrong - but you are.

[mikey4444]

TWR...."why is some Idiot in some town wailing through a tube"

I think you have just produced the best reason possible why children should educated !

[mikey4444]

Why Naomi...because I don't agree with you ?

!

[-Talbot-]

mikey4444
naomi...we crossed in the post. So is every other religion on earth...why single out Islam ?..


why single out Islam ?.. I have been asking my kids teachers that for many years. Every year there is about a two week period of learning about Islam.
Never has there been any teaching of any other religion including Christianity.

[jackthehat]

Perhaps one day it will be possible to discuss Muslims/Islam without it degenerating into the same old sound-bites?

Not today, it appears...

[Jackdaw33]

I wonder how many people have been invited to a madrassa to give a talk on Christianity

[-Talbot-]

Can you answer TWR's question though , mikey?

It seems like bizarre behaviour to me.