Muslims not happy.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/feb/1 0/secondaryschools-schools

The headteacher has resigned followed by the chair of the school's governing body in support of her, over this matter.

The visitors to this country are most welcome to all the hospitallity that we bestow upon them, but they must learn it has got to be on our terms?

If they are not happy to embrace our countries culture and traditions as their own, and integrate with the population of the country they chose to settle in, then I'm afraid to say "perhaps they would be more happy to live in a country that is more befitting their own way of life".

I have copied the following two extracts below from the Daily Mail's report, seeing that the Guardian failed to report them.

Now there are fears a move intended to unify the 240 pupils has instead split the school.

Around a fifth are from ethnic minorities, with about 35 Muslims.

[Gormless]

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is a start anyway

[fredpuli47]

Steve.5 Who,if anyone, is asking you to 'adopt their ways and customs' ?

[R1Geezer]

yep Jake is spot on, get all the mumbo jumbo out of schools. Can anyone seriously believe any of the brands of h0rsesh1t? I can't fathom it myself, how can anyone above simpleton believe any of it. Kids should use the time for somthing more useful to their education.

[fredpuli47]

RIG , the Education Act of 1944 required schools to have a morning assembly, broadly Christian in character. In practice this has been watered down to suit the intake of the schools.It's an utterly stupid provision. It's not as though children would not learn morality unless they heard a Christian prayer or sang 'Onward, Christian soldiers' ! It's the height of pedagogic arrogance to think either that children could not learn about Christianity elsewhere, and would not,or their young lives were enriched or improved by this ritual.When I was at school the Jewish chidren used to withdraw from the rest of us during the religious part of assembly. Very wise, though the reason must itself have been religion.The Act also made provision for religious education to be broadly Christian,

It's high time we abandoned this attitude altogether and had no religion in schools save for a neutral discussion and teaching of 'comparative religions', since children ought to have some understanding of what various major religions teach and have as their tenets and custom. As it is we have C of E schools in Lancashire where 90 per cent of the intake is muslim,. Not sure where that leaves the case!