Lord Baden Powell is not pleased.
Look up the definition of the word ‘capitulation’ in the dictionary. I think this turn of events aptly describes it.
As another poster cited, B-P probably would have had little problem with substituting “Allah” for “God”, but dropping the pledge to the Queen would have been anathema.
The highest award in the British Scouts is the Queens’ Award. I don’t know what it is in Scotland. If it is there, I wonder what they’ll do when these guys earn it?
If you take a look at world-wide membership numbers and what countries they are in, you’ll realize that there are probably as many or more Moslems in Scouting as there are of any other single religion.
The country that has the most members is Indonesia - 6 million. And according to the head of the Asia-Pacific Region of World Scouting (who said this in a speech I was present at in Narita, Japan) there are quite likely at least half again as many more that are participating as members but just aren’t on the membership roles due to administrative issues (it’s a Third World country made up of 1000+ islands - the mail doesn’t always get through). Even just adding in the ones that are documented, toss in the Middle East (excluding Israel) and figure that almost all of them are Moslem and you start to see some interesting numbers.
In a number of Asian countries Scouting is part of the school system.
This man ought to learn something about Scouting before he presumes to speak for it. That was never true.