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/

[jackthehat]

One reader of the paper commented...
///"Yes that's right, keep the kids completely in the dark about other religions and cultures so that they too end up as adults like these reactionary thick idiots standing outside that school." ///

I think that sums it up pretty well.

[Bathsheba]

storm in a teacup trt, don't believe everything you read :)

Baths
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[dannyk13]

Succinctly put Jack

[chelle7272]

Agree with the JTH.

[-SharonA-]

I would not object. It is good for kids to learn and make up their own minds about any religion without being brainwashed by their parents!!!!!

[andy-hughes]

Why not TRT?

Would you prefer that someone like Tommy Robinson came and talked to your children instead?

The whole point about education is to educate - the clue is in the name.

Education eradicates ignorance, and without ignorance there is no fear.

Large swathes of the adult population in this country live in fear and ignorance about a faith they know nothing about, save the extreme examples that make the headlines.

If you read in the paper that all Christians behaved like twelfth century crusaders, raping and pillaging their way through a foreign country, you would know that it is not representative of the way the Christian faith teaches its followers.

So - some 'from the horse's mouth' truth about what Islam means, delivered to children open-minded enough and curious enough to listen and assimilate it, untroubled by years of media scaremongering, can only be a good thing.

Unless their parents pass on their own fear and ignorance to their children, and teach them to be fearful and close-minded - that would be a serious tragedy and a waste of an opportunity to build some tolerance, something which is in serious short supply in the world we live in.

[MargoTester]

Are the children being given the opportunity to learn about othe religions too, Christianity, Judaism etc etc?

[Bathsheba]

Yes Margo, I believe they are.

[Bathsheba]

a quote from article trt posted
: "As a school we feel it is important that in our modern secular society children are given a wide range of opportunities to learn about, interact with and learn tolerance and respect for other cultures, religions and communities."

[dannyk13]

I think the idea behind of the lesson was to counter Islamaphobia.IMO a good idea.

[Mamyalynne]

Knowledge is power, a lesson about something is not a recruitment drive after all.

[MargoTester]

If that is so then I wouldn't have a problem with it. (14.34)

[agchristie]

> Would you prefer that someone like Tommy Robinson came and talked to your children instead?

Someone like Tommy Robinson? Who would that be then Andy?

[-SharonA-]

So TRT, what is your main gripe????

[andy-hughes]

agchristie - //> Would you prefer that someone like Tommy Robinson came and talked to your children instead?

Someone like Tommy Robinson? Who would that be then Andy? //

Well, Tommy Robinson probably!

But failing that, any self-appointed ignorant Islamophobic rabble-rousing fraudster will do.

[agchristie]

Ok that's interesting. Might I suggest you have provocatively used that name purely because of the other thread Andy?

Wouldn't it have been more obvious to have suggested 'someone like' Anjem Choudhary???

[agchristie]

Piedpiper - bang on!