kids visting a mosque

[Blyss]

My kids school has no set reglion , and today all the kids aged 9 to 12 were to visit a mosque . I first the parents were okish about this idea , as we were told two weeks before hand , yesturday though My daughter came home and told us that she needed a head scarf and a covering for her face ..shes only 9!!!
We felt that , this practice was going a bit far and kept the kids of school today ...as did most of the parents .
I am all for the kids learning new reglions and vivsting places with the school , but I felt that making my daughter dress in that way was a bit over the top .

what would you have done??

[China Doll]

Given her a head scarf and covering to be honest Blyss. They're going to a mosque as part of a learning process and it's only fair that they are respectful while they're in there. It's only for a few hours afterall.

I think it's the same as dressing approprately for any event really.

[4getmenot]

No I think if its their religion and beliefs and if they are being nice enough to welcome us into their temple then we should go by their rules and respect that, just like they should uncover their faces while in our community. I remember going to a mosque when I was at school but we only had to cover our heads so most of us wore baseball caps. :-)

[flipflop104]

I agree with China Doll.

And providing they are going to go to other places of worship - a church, a synagogue (sp?), etc. so long as they're getting an equal and broad subject matter, then they should have worn what was suggested, same as boys will have to wear skullcaps (apologies if this is incorrect) when they go in a synagogue - would you object to that if your child was a boy??

[4getmenot]

So if I didnt put it yes I would put her in a head scarf out of respect for their religion. :-)

[Blyss]

if it was just the scarf I wouldnt have minded much ..as it was ..they wanted the whole face covered ...as far as Im aware roughly 50 odd kids didnt go today,, because of the face covering

[flipflop104]

Also agree with forgetmenot (but that post wasn't there when I started typing mine)

[4getmenot]

Well each to their own and obviously those 50 will now lose out because their parents didn�t want them to. Did you ask your daughter what she wanted to do?

[Blyss]

flipflop ..last year they went to visit a jewish church and they had to wear the skull cap ..they were not permitted to wear anything else ..and yup my son refused to go.
Can I add also ..that I am not anit muslim in any way ..I dated 3 muslim men in my past . I was the fact that we were not told this til the very last min and the kids ..being kids as they are were all horrified .
There is also no islamic kids around where I live , no wee girls who wear the hinjub{sp},, no women either.

[B00]

winces at wardy's comments


Here we go again.................


:-(

[4getmenot]

well if your child refused then fair enough. But to go into a mosque and not follow the rules is a different thing. But I would always ask the child first if they didn�t want to then I wouldn�t force them to, but I would have no objection to my child having to cover their face out of respect.

[China Doll]

< Winces along with Boo >

(Eh up, this should be good. Popcorn Boo?)

[China Doll]

I think you should have had more notice but I will stick with my first answer. There's just so much silliness around these days as you no doubt know Blyss that I think it's good for kids to see things for themselves.

[China Doll]

Lol! Nice name, I like it actually!

Wardy, behave... it was only the second paragraph that was fact, the first paragraph was an opinion ;0)

[Agent_Smith]

true wardy tho, very true!! they wont take the viels off for our religions and beliefs?? or will they??

i am waiting for the hunt pack to have a go at W~M and i will watch the fireworks with baited breath!!!

[Octavius]

Are you entirely sure that they were expected to cover their whole face? This seems highly unlikely. In (most) mosques women wear clothes that cover them from head to ankles, but keep their faces uncovered. All people who visit a mosque are expected to remove their shoes. This has been the case in all the mosques I have visited in the world. In the way that we would expect others to respect our beliefs and rules (whether it be taking your shoes off in the porch so as to keep the carpet clean in your house) so should we respect theirs. But he whole face thing does seem a bit odd. Are you sure it wasn�t just a head scarf? i.e. to cover the hair?

[Blyss]

Yes , Im sure ...I understood about the headsarf , had no problem with that ..but the whole face covering was told to us yesturday ..My daughter and a few others were a bit scared to be honest, that I felt was outrageous enough.

[Octavius]

Which mosque was it?

I am intrigued as it would appear reactionary to introduce this. Unless they were trying to make a 'current affairs' point.

[tyler06]

They should of worn their halloween masks from yesterday kids and muslim's would be happy then?