I’ve managed to find yet another primary school getting involved in the Islamic propaganda game and pushing Islam onto vulnerable and impressionable 7 and 8 year olds. The latest school to climb aboard the Islam -promoting bandwagon is Farndon Primary School in Chester, Cheshire. They recently took a party of their Year 3’s and year 4’s (seven to nine year olds) to a mosque in Liverpool where the children were no doubt bombarded with lie that ‘Islam is a religion of peace’.
There are some interesting and indeed worrying aspects to this latest case of Islamic propagandising. The first is that the trip to the mosque was combined with a visit to an art gallery therefore wrapping stuff that parents may approve of, such as being exposed to art, with something negative, such being given a false impression of Islam. The second concern is that this mosque visit was not done under the auspices of Religious Education, a subject that parents have some rights to withdraw their children from. This mosque visit was apparently done as part of a curriculum instruction to ‘teach British values’, which could make it much more difficult for parents to raise legal objections to their child’s attendance on this visit.
I do wonder sometimes how these sort of trips, especially combined trips such as this one that contain good stuff as well as the propaganda for Islam, are sold or promoted to parents. Do the parents genuinely not care that their children are being told dishonest guff about Islam or do busy parents just see ‘school trip’ and sign their child up for it willy nilly without examining the trip in detail? There is also the possibility that schools may be asking parental permission for something generic such as ‘religious education trip to….’ but are leaving out the fact that a mosque is involved.
This is yet another heavy dollop of evidence to show why the teaching profession needs to be treated with a lot more suspicion by British parents. We should not be allowing our children to be exposed to pro-Islam propaganda even if it is a ‘curriculum requirement’. It’s the job of parents to give their children an education in moral and religious matters and is not the job of teachers, too many of whom seem to have a left wing/multikulti agenda.
Here’s Farndon Primary School’s own account of the propaganda trip to a mosque in Liverpool. It is entitled ‘A trip to the mosque and art gallery’.
Lesson: British Values
Class: Year 3 Year: 2015 – 2016
Mrs McCarthy and the team took the Year 3 and 4 children to Liverpool for their rearranged trip to the Museum and the Mosque. This was part of our work in the curriculum for the British Value of respect and tolerance of other faiths, cultural development and spiritual development.
The children had a wonderful time and learnt so much about the 5 pillars of Islam, how they worship within the mosque and obviously the main features within this place of worship. They also got to experience some very hands on displays at the museum.
What was most pleasing was that the staff at both venues commented on how well the children beheaved – they are a credit to the school!
(Please note the spelling mistake on the word ‘behaved’ in the quote above is not my mistake but the school’s)
A few comments on this piece on the school’s website. It seems that Mrs Rachel McCarthy is the regular Year 3 teacher but also has responsibility for RE and PHSCE (Personal, Health, Social and Citizenship Education). There is a tragic and almost laughable irony about this trip, which is taking children to visit the place or worship of one of the most intolerant religious ideologies in he world as a way of teaching tolerance. The children may have learned about the 5 pillars of Islam but were they told the truth about Islam such as how it spread by violence from the Arabian peninsular. Especially worrying for many parents with religious beliefs of their own is what looks like simulated Islamic prayer which one of the pictures on the school website appears to show.
http://www.farndon.cheshire.sch.uk/work/trip-to-the-mosque-and-art-gallery/13908
I must say that reading it reminded me of the passage in Brave New World where a whole bunch of identical genetically engineered children were given ‘death conditioning’ at a hospital for the dying in order to make them not fear death. These sort of trips to mosques are a sort of ‘death cult conditioning’ which could have the effect of making our children less wary of the ideology of Islam than they should be. Islam is a threat and teaching children that it is not a threat is in my view a form of child abuse.
School trips are a valuable way of enhancing a child’s education but parents need to realise that there are some trips that are a) not worth the money and b) may be giving children less than honest information. This is yet another example of why British parents need to become more involved in their children’s education and not just leave it to the teachers. Teachers have proved time and again that they are a little too enthusiastic about pushing the ideology of Islam onto children or co-operating with those who wish to do so. Parents need to realise that we send our children to school to be educated in the sort of things that will assist them in their later lives, we do not put them in the care of teachers only for them to be given pro-Islam propaganda.
Another school, another lot of children lied to about the nature of Islam. It’s long past the time that teachers were made more accountable to parents, who after all pay these teachers wages.
Note.
If you wish to write to Farndon Primary and make your view on this latest incident of pro-Islam propaganda known then here is the school’s contact details.
Head of RE and PHSCE and Year 3 tutor
Rachel McCarthy
Farndon Primary School
Churton Road
Farndon
Chester
Cheshire
CH3 6QP
Telephone:
01244 981280
Please let the school know your objections to this sort of behaviour and this sort of blatant propagandising. If people don’t object now then such pro Islam activities in schools will only get worse. As usual I would ask those who contact the school to keep their communications within the bounds of taste and decency, strictly factual and of course non-threatening.
