Parents, protesting about their kids learning about Islam, block Mosque trip

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Class trip to mosque blocked by parents

22.11.06
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Cancelled trip: Children didn't get to see this Croydon (London) mosque




Parents have forced a school trip to a mosque to be abandoned because they objected to their children learning about Islam.

Atwood Primary in Croydon was forced to call off a Year 5 class visit to a mosque after nearly a third of parents refused to give consent.

Headteacher Alex Clark said the religious education tour of Croydon Mosque was no longer "financially viable" after nine out of the 30 pupils were withdrawn, with several Christian parents saying they did not want their 10-year-old child to be exposed to a "religion that was not their own".

Croydon Mosque believes the reaction was due to the mosque featuring on BBC Newsnight after a senior Home Office official was exposed as an activist for the radical Hizb-ut-Tahrir group.

Tanveer Sajjad, for the Croydon Mosque, said: "There is no question of children being exposed to radical preaching."

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tracy

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I think that's a shame. We weren't raised religious at all, but studied all sorts of religion in school. It was usually done in social studies when learning about a foreign country. We studied their religion just like we did their food, language, etc.