[jambutty]

Islam does not recognise other religions so there is absolutely no chance of a Muslim school teaching Muslim children about other religions.

In my view religious instructions should be extra curricular and done out of normal school hours. If the parents want their kids to follow a particular religion then let their church/mosque/synagogue/temple do the teaching. As Wynonie Harris has already pointed out schools in the UK should be secular. Even schools run by a religious order. Religion should be taught by the church/mosque/synagogue/temple for those who wish to take part.

A point of order here Wynonie Harris. We refer to this country as a Christian country because it is and has been for centuries and all residents of this country should recognise it as such.

Islam, as decreed in the Koran, is pushing its way into this country step by slow cancerous step and we are bending over backwards to aid its mission. It has gone so far as to have a judge declare that Sharia Law could be acceptable in this country for specific issues – as reported in the Express on Friday.

Learning about all the major religions of the world is fine as far as it goes, it is just another subject but making pupils enact an act of worship in any of them is totally wrong. The teacher at the centre of this controversy should be sacked after apologising profusely to the children and their parents.

Yeh! I know! I can dream!

At secondary school, which was not a Catholic school and by virtue of my parents’ wishes I was a Catholic, would have assembly prayers in the morning and none Church of England pupils would use a classroom for their prayers. RI (being religious instruction rather than religious education) was the same. We Catholics would use a different classroom where we were obliged to read the Catholic bible because there was no one to teach us Catholicism.

It was exactly the same in the navy. The various religious groups were separated for prayer time.