PannickAtTheDisco
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especially when they get preyed upon by the darker elements due their innocence and naivety.
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Protests outside a Batley School
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You can talk openly while being sensitive. There are aspects of all religions we may dislike but as a teacher you would talk about what the religion teaches and not your personal view of the religion or its followers.No shit...exactly my point. But if I can’t talk openly and candidly about religion, it’s being shut down.
Brightwell’s left peg
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If you just teach about what the religion teaches, are you allowed to talk about the bad stuff it teaches?You can talk openly while being sensitive. There are aspects of all religions we may dislike but as a teacher you would talk about what the religion teaches and not your personal view of the religion or its followers.
straight up question oldius, why it is offensive, and who decided?Many, many Muslims are not part of this issue and would be disappointed at the actions of those protesting.
We are all the things you say but, in my opinion, we should be sensitive. That is not un-British. I have taught Islam many times and I have always avoided showing sensitive images but I have discussed the issue, of course, because children are inquisitive and will ask, "What does he look like?" Or, "Are there any pictures?". I have always said that within Islam, that person is considered so powerful and so important that pictures showing images are considered offensive. We have then moved on to other features of the religion or aspects of the mosque. Granted, I teach primary age children.
I deplore any kind of retribution or threat but I cannot condone what the teacher did as I feel it was insensitive.
It's in the quran.straight up question oldius, why it is offensive, and who decided?
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Sorry I missed my 'attack' - please let me know where it was and I'll try to be less aggressive in future.Still think you’re attacking the wrong people for being “fucking stupid” and “lacking common sense” on this topic.
It's in the quran.
not that i know mate
Nothing in the Quran, Islam's holy book, strictly bars portrayals of Mohammed. But the faith, like the Hebrew Bible's Ten Commandments, has long discouraged any graven images,
From what I have read it is that the god and prophet are considered so important that human depiction is unworthy and cannot reach their ethereal status. I have only studied the religion at a primary level so I'm sure someone more knowledgeable may add to that.straight up question oldius, why it is offensive, and who decided?
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Depends what they’ve been taught. My wife has taught primary level at “international” schools in Qatar for seven years. Each year around the same time some of her Islamic children will gift her with Korans as it’s at that age (6 turning 7) that they’re taught that Christians “burn in the fire” as they aren’t Muslim (this is in their separate Islamic lessons taught by Arabic teachers). As they often like her, they always want to stop that from happening.That is not my experience as, fortunately, children tend to be very open and accepting.
It actually breaks her heart they’re thinking along those lines at that age.
That is part of a wider conversation outside the religion, more of a PSHE focus about tolerance and kindness which, bizarrely, tend to feature in most religious teachings.If you just teach about what the religion teaches, are you allowed to talk about the bad stuff it teaches?