Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Wuppertal wrote:Seems rather unfortunate if you ask me, and will increase Islamophobia, even though a huge number of ordinary, righteous, moderate Muslims see the punishment as overreactionary and harsh.

The newspapers have made a good job of leaking the general locations of the extremist imams in the UK so one has to assume that the rest (the majority) are "moderates".

One area with no "outed" extremists is Lancashire but today's paper has the story of an imam and family in Lancashire who have a death contract out on his daughter for converting from Islam. If he is a so-called moderate imam has to worry about the validirty of classifications.
The girl is under police protection - it seems to me that the imam should be billed for the cost; why should the rest of us pay for his actions?

Iagree-I heard the daughter on the radio ths morning. What a brute her father is.

As we have been away I have missed much of the coverage of this. I will add a story of my experince in Brunei. I was teaching a Secondary 1 Class. They had done very little practical Mathematics in Primary School, so I decided they should make cubes. They were horrified that I was NOT going to tell them how to cut out the squares, they would have to work it out for themselves.

After a several minutes Ahmed, one of the quickest lads came out with the exclamation 'You're making us draw Christian crosses'. (One of the most obvious nets is cruciform). I was totally taken aback, but fortunately there are about a dozen different arrangementsof the 6 squares and I was able to encourage him to find as many as he could.

One reason for telling this story is to show how things can be misinterpreted very easily. I had been living in Islamic countries for about 8 or 9 years when this incident happened - but I had not thought through the possibility that I could be accused of making the students draw crosses.

Its funny because im sure if childen in this country are asked to draw something that is of religious significance in another religion but was not directly to do with the religion would there be the same reaction?

It's wonderfully difficult to offend a Buddhist, but be careful what you say about the King...

A banner apparently spotted when Cardiff City played Colchester United on Saturday:

Fowler may be God but Teddy isn't Mohammed

For the benefit of those who don't follow football Robbie Fowler now plays for Cardiff and scored a lot of goals for Liverpool and England earlier in his career and Teddy Sheringham now plays for Colchester and scored a lot of goals for England and many clubs notably Manchester United.