Faith

There’s been a lot of publicity in the UK recently about Muslim women/girls wearing veils in public places/schools. This has been due to some high profile court cases where schools have banned girls from wearing veils, and a teacher was sacked due to her wearing of a veil in a school. In both of these cases the schools argued that the wearing of a veil in a teaching environment interferes with the teaching/learning process, as the teacher (in the case of students wearing veils) is unable to tell if they are paying attention to what is being taught etc.

Now, I fully believe that everyone is entitled to follow their own beliefs/religion whatever, but, only as long as it doesn’t break any rules/laws of this country. After all this country predominantly Christian, yet things have gone so far out of whack that it’s practically racist for us to openly admit this. It’s got to such an extent that schools are now banning traditional English celebrations in schools for things like Easter/Christmas, stopping the morning assemblies where hymns are sung, are even some councils have been following suit, all for fear of offending people of a different belief system.

Surely, rather than trying to force their beliefs on the majority of the populace, in instances such as these they should follow the rules of this country. If they don’t like these rules then of course, they can either go to a country that is predominantly of their faith, or in the instances above find a faith school to attend rather than an ‘English state run school’


I think this quote sums things up beautifully, and not just about this, but about the state of the world today: “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts” Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970)