UK Church Groups: New Educational Code Forces Schools To "Promote Islam"

from Mere Rhetoric

At first I thought that this was just a way to get some use out of the pro-jihad propaganda and manuals that UK libraries have been stocking. But then I remembered that most of those books are in English so they're useless to 40% of British schoolchildren. Then I thought maybe they were trying to get kids reading the Korans inside UK libraries. But then I remembered that those copies, per the demands of Muslim groups, are kept on the top shelves. How are schoolchildren going to reach all the way up there? So now I'm back to square one:

The Roman Catholic Church has severely criticised a proposed new code of conduct for teachers which it says will force Christian schools to actively promote Islam and gay rights... The code proposed by the GTC would be binding on all schools, including the 2,300 primary and secondary schools run by the Catholic Church and the 4,660 run by the Church of England... The Christian Institute, a non-denominational charity, says that the GTC code means that universities might ask applicants about their willingness to promote gay rights and Islam. If a teacher was asked at interview if he or she was willing to use materials designed by gay rights groups, the teacher could be rejected for declining... If a pupil asked an RE teacher if Jesus Christ was the only means to salvation and the teacher replied yes, a non-Christian parent could complain to the GTC over a breach of Principle 4. Ofsted inspectors would also be able to criticise schools for promoting the Christian vision of marriage, while teachers who say they will pray for troubled pupils could be suspended for failing to 'value diversity'.

I like how the new code emphasizes both tolerance for radical Islam and respect for homosexual rights. It's a much purer level of unblinking multiculturalism than the plan from a couple weeks ago to get British schoolchildren to relate to the 7/7 bombers:

Britain's government apologized Thursday for endorsing a lesson plan which asked students to think like suicide bombers. Britain's government-run Teachernet Web site pointed teachers to a lesson plan about the deadly attacks which suggested that students think about the bombings from the perspective of the people who carried them out. A spokesman for the Department for Children, Schools and Families described the site as a "one-stop-shop" for British teachers looking for lesson plans and teaching aids... The lesson plan, called "Things Do Change," examines life in multicultural Britain... Among the lessons' suggested features was: "A brief presentation on the 7/7 bombings from the perspective of the bombers."

Eh. British teachers already take students on mosque field trips where clerics call them non-Muslim dogs. There are Church of England schools that now cater exclusively to Muslim schoolchildren. Many British schools that have stopped teaching about the Holocaust because it offends the sensibilities of Muslim parents. So why not make the whole arrangement official? References and previously after the jump...