Just been on the blower to a friend and his daughter received a letter from the school asking to attend a Mosque. Does the same courtesy extend to all religions? Meaning do children go to them all to get a better understanding of religious cultures?
I've recently planned a trip to a mosque for a year group. The year before they went to a Sikh temple and a Synagogue. It's about seeing and experiencing all the classroom learning they have done in a real life setting. Kids love it and it opens their eyes to how different the world is.
I think that in a non muslim country like ours, it should be the case that muslim youngsters and their parents should be attend a Christian church. We are after all the host culture, and they have opted to make their life here. One thing I will never understand with these islamist hotheads is why they get so irate about our presence in 'muslim lands' yet can't seem to see the element of hypocrisy as they reside among us here. Why would an avid muzzie voluntarily reside among the infidels, in a kuffar country? Is life in islamic countries so ****?
Is there any old Mosques in the area ? i lived near the one on Spring bank about 20 yrs ago , but id love to visit and old mosque . . . do they allow visitors ? On a side note i'd also love to visit the Worship hall place on Jarrat St , i assume its RC or something
Do the Muslim children visit churches and different places of worship? I wonder if the school children in Saudi Arabia will be taken to visit churches, Sikh temples and synagogues?
When I was a lad, it was 'Scripture' lessons- no need for expensive jollies. Maybe kids are more interested in the visual exoticism of far eastern religions than the primitive tenets of those faiths?
What business is it of ours what trips children in Saudi Arabia go on? EVERY child in a school is invited to wherever it is, and their folks have the right to say no if they wish.
Expensive jollies? **** it. Cancel the trip to the bread making factory. Cancel the trip to Victorian workhouse museum. Cancel the trip to the Deep. If they're not sat in class writing in a book it's not learning right?
It's a different type of learning. A 'softer', less demanding and possibly less 'academic' way of learning.
The current way of learning is completely redundant and has been for years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U 10 mins long but interesting.
Went to a wedding there quite a few years Ago. An amazing place inside . Seemed very Gothic to me . A memorable visit. It was a Catholic wedding.
The most spectacular missing of the point I have read for a long time. If you are involved in the education of our children I feel,sorry for them. Look,kids, you have to learn about and understand Islam so you can appreciate their viewpoint but they won't be coming to learn and experience what children from other cultures do. I,would hazard a guess that a higher proportion of Muslims don't join in than there are others. The point about Saudia Arabia is that they fund the building of mosques in this country. They take it as their to be able to do so but deny similar rights to other religions where they have control so Saudi kids can't experience other things and see what else the world has to offer. A simple point which appears to be too complex for you to grasp. All schools should be secular.
It's close season and the actions of this week mean there are some topics if interest that wouldn't normally get on the board, this is certainly one of those at it sits squarely with politics and religion. I can only see this going one way, but I'll give people the chance to prove me wrong.
By all means schools need to give a brief account of religions of the world yet I'd like Atheisim and its arguments to be taught and the fact that it is a bona fide standpoint. We need to show children that morality and being a good, responsible person is not dependant on religion, supernatural beings & ancient scriptures written by Bronze age goal herds.
From the National Curriculum: Religions and beliefs a.Christianity b.at least one other principal religion c.a religious community with a significant local presence, where appropriate d.a secular world view, where appropriate So according to the National Curriculum, Christianity is the only subject mentioned by name and secular views have the same weighting as 'one other principal religion'. Seems pretty reasonable to me.
