UK schoolteacher gives kids Islamic prayer for handwriting practice

Posted by Robert on August 6, 2007 8:19 AM

Maybe Helen Green figured the game is up, and she'd give these kids a head start in adapting to the new order.

"Kids told to write 'Allah is God,'" by Alastair Taylor in [1] The Sun (thanks to Kaosktrl):

ANGRY parents have blasted a teacher for telling ten-year-olds to copy a Muslim prayer saying “There is no God but Allah”.

Helen Green is said to have picked the Muslim call to prayer as HAND-WRITING practice.

It includes the lines “Allah is the greatest” and “I bear witness that there is no God but Allah”.

Pupil Billy Darbyshire’s stepmum Hayley Clayton said: “The explanation was that the children were learning about Islam in RE.

“But this was like he was taking an oath. A Muslim child would never be asked to write a Bible passage.

“Why didn’t she choose a passage from a normal story book to teach handwriting?”

Hayley, 23, said Mrs Green — deputy head of Newlands Primary School in Wakefield, West Yorks — had acknowledged it was a “sensitive issue” because three of the 7/7 suicide bombers came from Leeds, 15 miles away.

Yeah, you might say that.


Article printed from Jihad Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/08/uk-schoolteacher-gives-kids-islamic-prayer-for-handwriting-practice.html

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