{"id":17364,"date":"2012-10-18T09:08:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T14:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17364"},"modified":"2012-10-18T09:08:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T14:08:10","slug":"treating-one-particular-religion-as-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/treating-one-particular-religion-as-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Treating one particular religion as special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/columnists\/james-delingpole\/8688061\/treating-islam-with-special-reverence-is-cultural-suicide-and-just-plain-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Delingpole<\/a> discusses his niece&#8217;s exposure to religious education at her school, and discovers that one religion is exalted above the others:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My brilliant niece Freya was talking to my brother the other day about the religious education curriculum at her predominately white, middle-class state school in a pretty English cathedral city. She happened to mention \u2018Mohammed, Peace Be Upon Him.\u2019 \u2018Eh?\u2019 said my brother. \u2018It\u2019s what we\u2019re taught at school. After we mention \u201cMohammed\u201d we have to say \u201cPeace be upon him\u201d.\u2019<br \/>\n[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed, Peace Be Upon Him? I suppose it would make sense for a non-Muslim to use that phrase were he, say, trying to persuade his Islamist terrorist captors in Mali perhaps or the Yemen not to cut his head off. But since when did it become necessary for white, notionally C-of-E-ish English kids in a middle-class school in a pretty cathedral town?<\/p>\n<p>I mean it\u2019s bad enough \u2014 as I\u2019ve argued \u2014 to teach kids to think that their country\u2019s religious traditions no longer really matter. But what is surely unforgivable is simultaneously to teach those same kids that there is one particular religion which matters so much that even when you don\u2019t subscribe to it you must still treat it with the reverence, fear and awe of those who do.<\/p>\n<p>Why? You can imagine the fuss if at every mention of the name Jesus Christ all children of whatever creed were forced to raise their arms in the air and add \u2018Our Lord and Saviour, He is risen, Alleluia\u2019. We ought to be equally appalled, I would suggest, at what children at Freya\u2019s school are being forced to do with regards to the prophet of a rival religion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Delingpole discusses his niece&#8217;s exposure to religious education at her school, and discovers that one religion is exalted above the others: My brilliant niece Freya was talking to my brother the other day about the religious education curriculum at her predominately white, middle-class state school in a pretty English cathedral city. She happened to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,79,11],"tags":[360,47,504],"class_list":["post-17364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-education","category-religion","tag-christianity","tag-islam","tag-teenagers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4w4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17365,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17364\/revisions\/17365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}