Posted on 12/09/2008 3:09:04 PM PST by Lorianne
Muslim prayer rooms should be opened in every Roman Catholic school, church leaders have said.
The Catholic bishops of England and Wales also want facilities in schools for Islamic pre-prayer washing rituals.
The demands go way beyond legal requirements on catering for religious minorities.
But the bishops - who acknowledge 30 per cent of pupils at their schools hold a non-Christian faith - want to answer critics who say religious schools sow division.
The recommendations were made in a document, Catholic Schools, Children of Other Faiths and Community Cohesion. 'If practicable, a room (or rooms) might be made available for the use of pupils and staff from other faiths for prayer,' the bishops said.
'Existing toilet facilities might be adapted to accommodate individual ritual cleansing which is sometimes part of religious lifestyle and worship.
'If such space is not available on a permanent or regular basis, extra efforts might be made to address such need for major religious festivals.'
The Islamic cleansing ritual, called 'Wudhu', is carried out by Muslims before they pray.
Islam teaches that Muslims are unfit for prayer if they have not performed Wudhu after breaking wind or using the toilet.
Wudhu involves washing the face, hands, arms and feet three times each, gargling the mouth three times and washing the neck and inside the nose and ears. Some Muslims also wash their private parts.Catholic schools would need to install bidets, foot spas and hoses to facilitate such extensive cleansing rituals, Muslims say.
Daphne McLeod, a former Catholic head teacher from south London, said it would be 'terribly expensive' for the country's 2,300 Catholic primary and secondary schools to provide ritual cleansing facilities.
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Let it out s-l-o-w-l-y
S.B.D.
The punishment for a muslim apostate....death. Religion of peace my A$$. No wonder it’s a fast-growing religion, nobody dares leave it.
So? What’s your point?
They don’t have to be Catholic. They just don’t get to practice their religion in the school.
Haven’t many schools upened up Muslim foot washing centers?
Christian groups should meet there for prayer meetings and Bible studies.
Islam is paganism, plain and simple, and debating silly questions like this is where multiculturalism gets Christians. If an Islamic prayer room, why not a special area for Satanists or Scientology folks? They are less violent, just as Christian, and every bit as as valid as Islam. Allah may be an ancient pagan god, a mythologized, dead ancestor, (once known as Enlil), but he is no less a part of our pagan past than Satan, and a whole lot less real. I hope you Catholics who are smart enough to see this for the nonsense it is will get the Pope’s ear. The non Islamic world should recognize that Islam is out to reduce us to its primitive ignorance or kill us. We shouldn’t help them.
The catholic church is having a nervous breakdown.
WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT
And, the Catholic bishop approves?
Vatican needs to remove the bishop. He's a mad hatter.
And, expel the disruptive students. School is for leaning not religious theater.
So when does it become legal for muzzies to execute “gays” in England?
My God...don’t they realize they are being played like a fiddle??
another World Catholic ping
That is the whole point.
1. Face Mecca
2. Protrate yourself to Satan
3. Fart towards Heaven & God.
4. Rinse, repeat for total of 5 times.
6. Exit, laughing
7. Register for the free drawing for you very own bomb-belt on the way out.
“I got question what hell is Muslums doing in Cathoic school that question”
Trying to take over Christianity.
What you goat doesn't know, won't hurt her...oh, you meant the other.
Actually, they only need to do this before the first morning prayer; then, they're good for prayers the rest of the day, provided they are able to hold everything in.
Why do you think so many of them inexplicably explode?
You didn't really think it had anything to do with the ritual explosive belts, did you?
LOL
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