Post by stavros on Jul 12, 2010 16:58:51 GMT 1
Just spotted on the BBC news site:
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Swimming lessons in some Staffordshire schools should stop during Ramadan to ensure Muslim pupils "do not swallow water", a council has suggested.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has issued an 11-page Ramadan guide for schools to help pupils who may be fasting when the school year starts in September.
It said swimming was acceptable to Muslims but posed a high risk of swallowing water that may break a fast.
Islam requires Muslims to fast from dawn until dusk for one month per year.
This year's Ramadan is expected to begin on or around 11 August and finish 30 days afterwards.
The council guide states: "Schools with a significant number of Muslim pupils should try to avoid scheduling swimming lessons during Ramadan to remove unnecessary barriers to full participation."
It also suggests re-scheduling sex education classes during the holy lunar month, as Muslim followers who have reached puberty are required to avoid sexual thoughts during this period.
Because of the religious requirement for Muslims to avoid eating during sunlight hours, some pupils get up before dawn to eat with their families.
Schools have been advised this can disrupt pupils' sleeping patterns and it suggests examinations could be re-scheduled to reflect their lower levels of concentration.
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But they chose to come here, usually to benefit from a better life-style, more freedom, more opportunities! This is yet another example of the PC brigade coming up with nonsensical ideas, to the detriment of indigenous Britons. We've had the mayor of a major British city suggesting that schools should have hindi, or pushtu or gujarati, whatever, as the principal teaching language. We've had our druid Archbishop saying that there was nothing wrong in moslems communities holding their own courts, judging according to Sharia law. We kowtow to unelected Eurocrats who prevent us expelling fanatics to their country of origin. When is the worm going to turn?
One can only wonder how many handwringing hours, how many anguished days & weeks, were spent - at public expense - to dream up this 11 page load of cobblers! Oh, and by the way, any fule kno that in general, the schools' summer holidays are from 24th July to 4th September, with some local changes; if Ramadan is just 30 days, then that would be 11th August to 9th September inclusive. If school begins again on Monday, the 6th of September, that will mean a whole four days when this poor oppressed minority could find its religious observance threatened by our British decadence!
In mixed or girls' schools, pupils have always been "excused games" one week in four to allow for the female cycle - don't the bleeding hearts know this?
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Swimming lessons in some Staffordshire schools should stop during Ramadan to ensure Muslim pupils "do not swallow water", a council has suggested.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has issued an 11-page Ramadan guide for schools to help pupils who may be fasting when the school year starts in September.
It said swimming was acceptable to Muslims but posed a high risk of swallowing water that may break a fast.
Islam requires Muslims to fast from dawn until dusk for one month per year.
This year's Ramadan is expected to begin on or around 11 August and finish 30 days afterwards.
The council guide states: "Schools with a significant number of Muslim pupils should try to avoid scheduling swimming lessons during Ramadan to remove unnecessary barriers to full participation."
It also suggests re-scheduling sex education classes during the holy lunar month, as Muslim followers who have reached puberty are required to avoid sexual thoughts during this period.
Because of the religious requirement for Muslims to avoid eating during sunlight hours, some pupils get up before dawn to eat with their families.
Schools have been advised this can disrupt pupils' sleeping patterns and it suggests examinations could be re-scheduled to reflect their lower levels of concentration.
"unquote
But they chose to come here, usually to benefit from a better life-style, more freedom, more opportunities! This is yet another example of the PC brigade coming up with nonsensical ideas, to the detriment of indigenous Britons. We've had the mayor of a major British city suggesting that schools should have hindi, or pushtu or gujarati, whatever, as the principal teaching language. We've had our druid Archbishop saying that there was nothing wrong in moslems communities holding their own courts, judging according to Sharia law. We kowtow to unelected Eurocrats who prevent us expelling fanatics to their country of origin. When is the worm going to turn?
One can only wonder how many handwringing hours, how many anguished days & weeks, were spent - at public expense - to dream up this 11 page load of cobblers! Oh, and by the way, any fule kno that in general, the schools' summer holidays are from 24th July to 4th September, with some local changes; if Ramadan is just 30 days, then that would be 11th August to 9th September inclusive. If school begins again on Monday, the 6th of September, that will mean a whole four days when this poor oppressed minority could find its religious observance threatened by our British decadence!
In mixed or girls' schools, pupils have always been "excused games" one week in four to allow for the female cycle - don't the bleeding hearts know this?