Muslim prayer rooms should be opened in Catholic schools, say church leaders

Daily Mail ^ | 02nd December 2008 | Simon Caldwell

[Lorianne]

Muslim prayer rooms should be opened in every Roman Catholic school, church leaders have said.

The Catholic bishops of England and Wales also want facilities in schools for Islamic pre-prayer washing rituals.

The demands go way beyond legal requirements on catering for religious minorities.

But the bishops - who acknowledge 30 per cent of pupils at their schools hold a non-Christian faith - want to answer critics who say religious schools sow division.

The recommendations were made in a document, Catholic Schools, Children of Other Faiths and Community Cohesion. 'If practicable, a room (or rooms) might be made available for the use of pupils and staff from other faiths for prayer,' the bishops said.

'Existing toilet facilities might be adapted to accommodate individual ritual cleansing which is sometimes part of religious lifestyle and worship.

'If such space is not available on a permanent or regular basis, extra efforts might be made to address such need for major religious festivals.'

The Islamic cleansing ritual, called 'Wudhu', is carried out by Muslims before they pray.

Islam teaches that Muslims are unfit for prayer if they have not performed Wudhu after breaking wind or using the toilet.

Wudhu involves washing the face, hands, arms and feet three times each, gargling the mouth three times and washing the neck and inside the nose and ears. Some Muslims also wash their private parts.Catholic schools would need to install bidets, foot spas and hoses to facilitate such extensive cleansing rituals, Muslims say.

Daphne McLeod, a former Catholic head teacher from south London, said it would be 'terribly expensive' for the country's 2,300 Catholic primary and secondary schools to provide ritual cleansing facilities.

[rahbert]

Let it out s-l-o-w-l-y

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Let it out s-l-o-w-l-y

S.B.D.

[CanaGuy]

The punishment for a muslim apostate....death. Religion of peace my A$$. No wonder it’s a fast-growing religion, nobody dares leave it.

[autumnraine]

So? What’s your point?

They don’t have to be Catholic. They just don’t get to practice their religion in the school.

[earlJam]

Haven’t many schools upened up Muslim foot washing centers?

Christian groups should meet there for prayer meetings and Bible studies.

[pallis]

Islam is paganism, plain and simple, and debating silly questions like this is where multiculturalism gets Christians. If an Islamic prayer room, why not a special area for Satanists or Scientology folks? They are less violent, just as Christian, and every bit as as valid as Islam. Allah may be an ancient pagan god, a mythologized, dead ancestor, (once known as Enlil), but he is no less a part of our pagan past than Satan, and a whole lot less real. I hope you Catholics who are smart enough to see this for the nonsense it is will get the Pope’s ear. The non Islamic world should recognize that Islam is out to reduce us to its primitive ignorance or kill us. We shouldn’t help them.

[samtheman]

The catholic church is having a nervous breakdown.

[Little Ray]

Sure. When madrissas have Bibles and chapels for Christian students.

[Freedom_Fighter_2001]

WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT

[SandRat]

[xtinct]

stunned sh*tless --> washing rituals and prayer after passing gas...

And, the Catholic bishop approves?

Vatican needs to remove the bishop. He's a mad hatter.

And, expel the disruptive students. School is for leaning not religious theater.

[Zionist Conspirator]

So when does it become legal for muzzies to execute “gays” in England?

[navyblue]

When I was taking a Psych 1 class we were taking a mid term exam I sat in the 2nd seat from the front. To my left and in the first row sat a muslim student. He would reach down to his right, open the text and find his answer. The prof saw this, came and picked up his paper and sent him out of the class. Then she said to me, “can you beleive that? Right in front of me.)

[bricklayer]

My God...don’t they realize they are being played like a fiddle??

[Gene Eric]

another World Catholic ping

[ApplegateRanch]

So what if you break wind during a prayer?

That is the whole point.

1. Face Mecca

2. Protrate yourself to Satan

3. Fart towards Heaven & God.

4. Rinse, repeat for total of 5 times.

6. Exit, laughing

7. Register for the free drawing for you very own bomb-belt on the way out.

[ViLaLuz]

“I got question what hell is Muslums doing in Cathoic school that question”

Trying to take over Christianity.

[MahatmaGandu]

Okay, it's a museum where the call to prayer is shouted out five times a day.

[ApplegateRanch]

I bet there’s a whole lot of cheating going on.

What you goat doesn't know, won't hurt her...oh, you meant the other.

Actually, they only need to do this before the first morning prayer; then, they're good for prayers the rest of the day, provided they are able to hold everything in.

Why do you think so many of them inexplicably explode?

You didn't really think it had anything to do with the ritual explosive belts, did you?

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

LOL