Saying No to the Culture of Death

One of the issues being brought before the British Parliament at the present time is a bill requiring that faith schools accept one quarter of pupils from other faiths. To an outsider, like myself, it is not at all clear why such a bill is necessary, or why such a requirement is being mooted. From what I have read so far on the subject, it is not clear if this is an attempt to have Muslims admitted into Christians and Jewish schools, or whether it is meant to have Christian and Jewish pupils admitted to Muslim schools. From an outsider's point of view, the requirement is sheer lunacy on the part of the British government.

Is this the price that the faith schools have to pay because of government funding? What seems to be happening in Great Britain is that the secularists are having too much say on what is allowable for faith schools. Why should a Catholic school have to admit pupils who are Muslims or Jews, just because of a government requirement? However there is another side that has been brought to my attention concerning the way in which secularists are attempting to control who is employed by the faith schools. It seems that the unions are opposed to a bill that will allow the faith schools employ staff who are members of their own faith. According to those opposed to this bill, this would increase intolerance. Well to be honest I believe that such a reaction sounds a lot like politically correct twaddle by a minority who want to impose their views over who can be employed in faith schools.

Let's face it, the controversy over the niqab wearing Muslim teacher is one that should not have happened if faith schools were allowed to appoint support staff amongst members of their own faith. In that case the school was a Church of England School. The teacher's assistant role was to work as a translator. The woman who won the job was a Muslim and she attended the interview without wearing the niqab, plus, she did not tell the people who interviewed her that she wanted to wear the veil at work. The pupils who needed her assistance complained because they could not communicate with her behind the veil. They could not understand her whilst she wore the veil. It was only after she got the job at a Church of England school, that she demanded the right to wear this item of clothing because there were male teachers in the school. What a load of hogwash!!!!

According to this article:

http://education.guardian.co.uk/faithschools/story/0,,192...

"Lord Adonis, the schools minister, has brought forward an amendment to the education bill which will allow faith schools to favour members of the same religion when choosing support staff.

The government says the move is intended to help schools choose staff who will offer "pastoral support". But the GMB union and the National Secular Society warned last night the change could extend discrimination in about 3,000 schools."

What has the National Secular Society got to do with who can be employed by faith schools? If the issue related to a government school, then I agree, that there would be a case regarding employment of the best person for the job. Surely a Catholic school, for example has the right to determine the selection criteria for teachers including a criteria that teachers must be of the Catholic faith!!

There is more than one issue that has surfaced here. The Catholics and the Jewish are opposed to the attempt to force new schools to take in a quarter of pupils who do not belong to their faith. The Catholic schools already accept pupils from other faiths, when they have the vacancies. The Catholic schools exist so that Catholic children can receive a faith education, usually at a low cost for the parents. The same goes for the Jewish schools. If the government forces the schools to accept the situation of a quarter of the pupils from other faiths, then this would in effect be discrimination against these schools. Why is this requirement being mooted? Well, there is only one reason, it comes back to the good old Culture of Death, otherwise known as Islam.

According to this article:

http://education.guardian.co.uk/faithschools/story/0,,192...

"The amendment to the education bill is designed to encourage communities to mix. But the Catholic church's education service voiced strong opposition to the measure, which would require it to accept a substantial proportion of non-Catholic pupils in its 2,000 schools. Unlike Church of England schools , Catholic schools were set up specifically to educate members of the faith."

"MPs warned yesterday that existing divisions were becoming more entrenched as rows over faith and its public expression continued. John Denham, the influential Labour chairman of the home affairs select committee, said comments by ministers were exacerbating tensions.

"In a situation where there is, frankly, too little understanding between the Muslim community and the wider community and vice versa, it seems to be producing a defensiveness and lack of willingness to debate on the Muslim side, and in the majority a sort of generalised feeling that Muslims as a whole pose some sort of threat to our entire way of life ... that is not a debate," he told BBC Radio 4."

So here is the real reason why this bill is being proposed. It is to accomodate the Muslims. There is no consideration at all for the members of the Catholic Faith, Church of England, or even Jewish religions. Everything is based upon appeasing the Muslims. The Catholic Church schools already take in pupils from other faith groups, and the children who belong to these other faiths are not expected to attend anything that is specifically Catholic. The danger of demanding that Muslim children attend a Catholic school is that the Muslims would start demanding that the religious symbols of the Catholic faith, such as the Crucifix be removed from the wall of the school. Why on earth should a minority person who does not belong to the faith be allowed to dictate what is on the wall of a Catholic school? This is the end result if the government in the UK goes ahead with this requirement. On top of that there are the secularists who seem to think that faith schools lead to discriminatory practices and that faith schools are a part of the problem.

The Brits really do need to wake up and get their act together. They need to stop behaving like bleeding hearts who see the aggressive Muslims as the victims. The political parties need to stop the appeasement and vote chasing. They need to put these Muslims back in their place. The veil must be banned in public places, and no woman wearing a niqab should be allowed to be in control of a motor vehicle. The faith schools need to be allowed to choose teachers from their own faith, and there should be no forcing children who are not of that faith into a faith school. The problem is due to the way in which the left wing members of society have failed to understand Islam. They need to stop listening to the Muslim councils, and they need to start calling the shots. If the Muslims are not happy with the changes, then they can pack up and leave.