Posted on 12/09/2008 3:09:04 PM PST by 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.
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Uh-huh. Right, sure. Molech, Allah, Baal, Chemosh, Ahura Mazda, YHVH: all same! GET A CLUE!
No, they shouldn’t be. If Muslims don’t like it, take them out of Catholic Schools. That’s why such schools are called Catholic. It’s outrageous.
If we don’t stop such inappropriate agressivenss coming from Muslims, they will consume us all!
Firstly, this is merely a proposal, idotic of course, but not official policy.
Secondly, as Catholic pupil rate decrease in Britain, methinks this is a cynical attempt to keep and get more cash from the Govt, who continue to support state faith schools.
Me?. I respect religion, but I am a hardcore secularist when its comes to issues like this. And I would be even if I was a staunch church goer (Protestant, Catholic or Jewish)...
Not enough Catholic pupils.
They have been taking local non-Catholics(usually Protestants) for years in Britain if numbers drop.
Those are just names a human made up. They are no more God than Tom or Bill is.
Should be no more than Jewish kids in a Catholic school would get.
I am no great theologist, but I do know this much:
Allah is NOT the Christian God.
The greatest ruse the Devil has ever played is not convincing man he does not exist, it is convincing some men that he is God, and Islam is the execution of that ruse.
The threat from Islam is not that every muslim is evil, it is that it gives decent people religious justification for doing incredibly evil things.
Not every Muslim is inately evil, but ISLAM at its core is indeed evil, and that’s the real problem. It was founded on hatred and war by a madman, and has not changed.
I wish the Pope would sack the lot of them.
Britain is now a third world nation.
Well probably reason why UK is very secular society also Cathoic church not doing their job by becoming PC either last 30 years
This is absolute madness. Catholic schools should be teaching the Holy Faith, not acting as enablers for the practice of a false system.
If the muzzies want their own prayer rooms, fine. Let them build their own dam#ed schools and let them pray away the day. Leave the Catholic schools alone. And while they’re at it, leave the rest of the schools alone as well. Scum.
LOL
Think they are bad, try the C of E, mind you the Church of Scotland isnt much better. The Catholics at least in Scotland and NI try to hold to traditional arguments.
That good that they try keep on traditions
Least Cathoics want keep it just losers leaders that want be PC all that
Oops, did I say "head?"
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