Dance lessons may also offend Muslims due to potential male-female contact, according to guidance.
Schools in parts of northern England have been warned that some pupils’ drawings could be viewed as blasphemous under Islamic law, according to media reports.
A guidance document titled “Sharing the Journey,” first produced in 2022 by councils in Leeds, Calderdale, Oldham, and Wakefield and recently reissued to teachers, says several subjects – including art, dance, drama, music, physical education, religious education and Relationships, Health and Sex Education – could trigger “sensitivities… for some Muslim parents.”
The document advises teachers not to ask pupils to depict religious figures such as Jesus or the Prophet Mohammed, noting that some Muslims consider visual representations of prophets to be inappropriate. It adds that “three-dimensional figurative imagery of humans is considered idolatrous by some Muslims” and warns that “some Muslim pupils may not wish to draw the human figure.”
The guidance follows a series of rows over religious imagery in schools, including Muslim protests outside Batley Grammar School in West Yorkshire in 2021 after a teacher showed a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed in class.
The document also warns that music and dance lessons may conflict with Islamic teachings because they could involve “physical contact between males and females.”
Councils say the guidance is designed to help schools handle religious sensitivities in diverse classrooms. It says concerns should be addressed with parents instead of scrapping lessons.
The guidance has drawn criticism from free speech campaigners.
“So much for the Government’s social cohesion action plan. Labour’s idea of integration is that the indigenous population of Britain has to change its behavior to fit in with the non-indigenous population. Soon they’ll be insisting children learn Urdu,” Lord Toby Young, founder and director of the Free Speech Union, told GB News.
The booklet also highlights sensitivities across other faiths, including dietary rules for Jews, Hindus, and Sikhs and fasting practices among Rastafarians, Mormons, and Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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Who gives a f? If they don’t like the Western culture, go home!
Gross and typical of a protestant country with pretences of ” tolerance’
Gross and typical of loonies that promote foreign practices over local.
My body wants to vomit by the repulsion from reading this article.
Meanwhile the UK is complicit in the genocide Israel has undertaken in Gaza and is helping the US in its war of aggression in Iran, which led to the death of over 100 children and a major Islamic religious figure. Wonder which actual Muslims find more offensive?
Why isn’t it any other religion. We know why eh !
Not any other religion you say…..
Multiple commanders across all branches of the US military have offered a fundamentalist Christian explanation for the attack on Iran, describing President Donald Trump as the harbinger of the Second Coming and the conflict itself as a “signal fire” for Armageddon, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has reported.
https://www.rt.com/news/633672-us-troops-christian-nationalists/
Eradicate monotheism!!!
I believe the word your looking for is Sharia law in Britain. The sooner restore takes over the sooner that nonsense will end permanently
Its a means of disguising the UK’s endless wars in the Middle East. So yes if the UK doe not want a stream of displaced persons, from Iran and the like, the globalists need to go.