Islamic Education in British Schools

When I was a teenager living in England during the 1960s, religion — i.e. Christianity — was still studied in the schools. I attended a grammar school in Yorkshire, and if memory serves, some of my fellow students took Scripture O-levels.I presume all that opiate-of-the-people rubbish got thrown out when the big switch to comprehensive schools took place in the 1970s. But, after 35 years, religion is coming back to state schools in the UK, only this time it’s not the Christian religion.According to The Daily Mail:State school pupils are set to be taught Islamic traditions and values in compulsory citizenship lessons.Why, you ask yourself, would anyone want to inject Islam into the official curriculum of the British public school system? Don’t they have enough unofficial Islam in the schools already?The move — part of a... [read full story]