The media makes this sound like the teacher was some crazed lunatic forcing students onto their knees to pray to Allah. Do you really think that’s the whole story? Do you think that is even relatively close to the REAL story?

It can’t hurt to learn about other religions through the process of praying, and this sensitive idiocy and refusal to understand and/or participate in what is alien to you is and has been one of the most common causes, if not the most common cause, of war and violence throughout all of recorded history.

Now, I’m not a religious guy, but I go to a mostly religious high school, and we do this kind of hands on religious education all the time. We’ve studied Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, and many more and have never had a problem with it. I personally find it more likely that these students were causing a ruckus about it just because they could, (the fact that there were two of them just makes this more likely) but I wasn’t there so I wouldn’t know.

PS: I don’t know what’s going on in the UK right now, but there seems to be quite a bit of prejudice towards Muslims from what I can discern from the comments, and the US seems to be the same way right now with Mexicans and Indians. Seriously, wake up please, let’s think for ourselves for once, yes?

Anyway, Reed, your thoughts? Come ON!!!111!!!!!cos 90 (-1)^2

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Pat Condell, LOL.

*spitting with fury cat sounds*

Honestly the teacher should have asked the kids if they would like to participate in a demonstration, and maybe got a Muslim guest in to demo it and explain it properly, not forced the kids to start prostrating themselves. You’ll never understand something second hand, I understood that after travelling to work on the train with a Muslim woman on a regular basis.

So what are your thoughts on this, though?

I’d be interested to know, if you are ever able to respond, of course, :D.

Also, PAT CONDELL LOL.

Now the problem is that freedoms are gradually being eroded, one by one – and they are the little things, so people think “Oh, it’s only something minor; let the baby have his bottle.”

Eventually, so many small freedsoms are encroached on that we don’t have any – it’s like a slippery slope, if you follow.

And my worry is, though, that Muslims will be allowed to run lawless in the streets (an example of this is that police dogs may soon have to wear booties in Muslim households, and to combat this problem the police just think it’s best to avoid the search altogether rather than bugger around with booties, which would be even more ridiculous).

Or Muslim shop assistants being allowed to hold up the queue for fifteen minutes while they consult the Koran to see if they can sell this or that – the boss won’t fire them for incompetence, because it would be religious discrimination (or, according to some, racial discrimination, since they’re so narrow minded that they’re unable to see that not every Muslim is an Arab nor vice-versa).

We try and keep confrontations and disputes to a minimum – only, sometimes we end up taking it too far and not confronting issues when we need to. No-one can balance on this line exactly.

So what about now?

I also pose the question in comment 1 to Reed.

Still, PAT CONDELL LOL.

And lo and behold, political correctness strikes again.

Reed, it seems now that the UK is becoming much more easy to push around by muslims, even so called ‘moderate’ ones (in reality they are just less extreme, but still rather extreme).

Do you ever think that pro-Islamist views could infiltrate so much that the UK could ever end up being an Islamic state