Schoolboys disciplined for 'refusing to pray to Allah'

Just amazing:

[the boys] were given detention after refusing to take part in a practical demonstration of how Allah is worshipped.

Yesterday parents accused the school of breaching their human rights by forcing them to take part in the exercise.

One, Sharon Luinen, said: "This isn't right, it's taking things too far. I understand that they have to learn about other religions. I can live with that but it is taking it a step too far to be punished because they wouldn't join in Muslim prayer.

"Making them pray to Allah, who isn't who they worship, is wrong and what got me is that they were told they were being disrespectful."

OK, it's just another teacher zealot, move along, nothing to see here.... But I wonder if Muslim students were made to pray the Rosary or read from the Torah?

Of course not. There would be a different kind of protest if the religions were reversed.

"Educating children in the beliefs of different faiths is part of Cheshire's diversity curriculum on the basis that knowledge is, of course, is essential to understanding.

It's obvious that you can teach about a religion without having to practice it. And if you're concerned about intolerance towards Islam, you should also examine the intolerance of Islam.