Comments by "" (@WarrenPeaceOG) on "'Hypocrisy' of a London school's Muslim prayer ban" video.

  1. Secular means non-religious, not anti-religious. Secular elementary schools in UK teach religious studies as a matter of cultural context. Faith-based schools teach one faith
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  2. The student "requested a modest accommodation to pray for approximately five minutes during lunchtime on specific religious dates, without disrupting regular classes." The authorities said, no.😹
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  3.  @simoncox9689  I went to a secular elementary school that nonetheless reflected the community in which I lived, which was majority Mennonite. This amounted to not being allowed to dance. The school reflected the village community, but it was secular: they did not teach any religion at all. We watched Olympic hockey in class because it was part of the national culture, like the pagan-Christian mashup we call Christmas, and the pagan oddity we call Halloween. In contrast, the Boy Scouts in the village was run by Mennonites, and it was faith-based. We had bible study sessions about Jesus. We did not study Islam or Judaism. If we had, they'd have taught us Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in the same God. Today we would not design a building without wheelchair ramps (doh!) or extra rooms for prayer, meditation, chess club ;-) It's a minor accommodation. We'd probably also design men's, women's and co-ed toilets
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  4. ​ @mariano3205  The student "requested a modest accommodation to pray for approximately five minutes DURING LUNCHTIME on specific religious dates, WITHOUT disrupting regular classes." [My emphasis] Perhaps they followed your issue with precedents when they said no
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  5. The student "requested a modest accommodation to pray for approximately five minutes during lunchtime on specific religious dates, without disrupting regular classes." The correct pluralist, liberal, secular answer is, 'Knock yourself out. Why don't you find an available room and book it in the calendar.'
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  6.  @mariano3205  You should tell Middle East Eye to stop publishing untrue statements. Wouldn't it be sad if they destroyed their reputation for reporting on the genocide because they got a local story about an incident in a school wrong? Remember the fake Trojan Horse school scandal the MSM reported. Maybe this is like that
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