Michaela School: Muslim student loses school prayer ban challenge

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68731366

Posted by varchina

9 Comments

  1. Possible-Pin-8280 on

    I love how the youth are becoming more religious, just the vision I had for 2020 and beyond <3

  2. SilverDarlings on

    Suella Braverman was the first chair of governors of the school, no surprise there then.

  3. EwokSuperPiig on

    Complete shame and the excuse the school uses about undermining inclusion is nonsense. If kids don’t want to be friends because of prayer rituals than you having bigger issues. This shows about how you let bigots in power it permeates throughout the institution

  4. Good. I’m a Catholic, but if I sent my kids to this school, I know the rules ahead of time. The other families of which there are other faiths involved managed to accept it just fine. Muslims are no different but they want some special treatment which defeats the purpose of the way this school is run in the first place.

  5. thejackalreborn on

    >Mr Justice Linden rejected the student’s claim in a judgment delivered on Tuesday morning.

    >The case will be seen as upholding the right of non-religious schools to make their own decision about whether to set aside time and space for pupils to pray.

    My instinct is schools should have a multi-faith prayer room for students to use if they wish to do so during break times.

  6. limeflavoured on

    As long as the ban is being enforced equally against all religions then you can’t really say its discrimination, because you’re free to move to a different school which allows you to pray.

  7. ferrel_hadley on

    >The case will be seen as upholding the right of non-religious schools to make their own decision about whether to set aside time and space for pupils to pray.

    The observable Universe is 93 billion light years across. If you believe something created that and all that lies beyond, then I think they will not mind if you stay and in class and learn rather than make a big performance of needing to pray.

    Its not like there was a point between when we were the ape like Lucy/ Australopithecus Afarenensis and modern humans when the custodian of the 93 billion light year wide Universe suddenly needed us to pray otherwise they would feel bad. They will get over it.

    (edited the obvious inference being that we are not dealing with science deniers here who think the world is a couple of thousand years old)