The Church of England is the most politically correct of the Christian churches. It's like a religious version of The Guardian.
Even the enthronement of the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, at Canterbury Cathedral on 21st March had to have African dancers (contrary to popular belief, the monarch is not the head of the Church of England. The belief in the Church of England is that Jesus, not the monarch, is the Head of the Church of England. The monarch is merely the Supreme Governor and the Archbishop of Canterbury is merely the chief religious figure on Earth in the Church. Unlike Catholicism, we have no mere mortal as our head).
That school is hardly unique. Throughout England there are CofE schools which have lots of Muslims attending them, or even have a majority of pupils who are Muslims.
Bishop Bridgeman Church of England Primary School near where I live - the school I attended as a kid - is, as its name suggests, supposed to be for Church of England pupils. It even has a large white cross pinned to one of its outside walls. But almost every kid who attends that school now, unlike when I was a kid, is Muslim, and it even has special prayer rooms for them to partake in Muslim prayers during school time. And this in what should be a Church of England school.
All this is despite the fact that Muslim kids also have their very own Muslim schools, too, such as my town's Bolton Muslim Girls' School. But can religions other than Muslims, such as CofE, Catholic, Jew, Hindu, Sikh etc, attend these Muslim schools? No, they can't. Only Muslims can go to them, yet Muslims are allowed to take over CofE schools.
When schools with mainly Muslim pupils start getting ramshackle, they get brand new schools built, such as is happening with Clarendon School near me, even though in that case a large children's play area and a floodlit all-weather football pitch are being torn up to make way for it. No amount of angry members of the public pleading to the council stopped it.
Yet if a school which isn't full of Muslims gets ramshackle, it doesn't get rebuilt. It usually just gets a few little extensions added onto it.
Even the enthronement of the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, at Canterbury Cathedral on 21st March had to have African dancers (contrary to popular belief, the monarch is not the head of the Church of England. The belief in the Church of England is that Jesus, not the monarch, is the Head of the Church of England. The monarch is merely the Supreme Governor and the Archbishop of Canterbury is merely the chief religious figure on Earth in the Church. Unlike Catholicism, we have no mere mortal as our head).
That school is hardly unique. Throughout England there are CofE schools which have lots of Muslims attending them, or even have a majority of pupils who are Muslims.
Bishop Bridgeman Church of England Primary School near where I live - the school I attended as a kid - is, as its name suggests, supposed to be for Church of England pupils. It even has a large white cross pinned to one of its outside walls. But almost every kid who attends that school now, unlike when I was a kid, is Muslim, and it even has special prayer rooms for them to partake in Muslim prayers during school time. And this in what should be a Church of England school.
All this is despite the fact that Muslim kids also have their very own Muslim schools, too, such as my town's Bolton Muslim Girls' School. But can religions other than Muslims, such as CofE, Catholic, Jew, Hindu, Sikh etc, attend these Muslim schools? No, they can't. Only Muslims can go to them, yet Muslims are allowed to take over CofE schools.
When schools with mainly Muslim pupils start getting ramshackle, they get brand new schools built, such as is happening with Clarendon School near me, even though in that case a large children's play area and a floodlit all-weather football pitch are being torn up to make way for it. No amount of angry members of the public pleading to the council stopped it.
Yet if a school which isn't full of Muslims gets ramshackle, it doesn't get rebuilt. It usually just gets a few little extensions added onto it.
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