{"id":2595,"date":"2013-05-28T09:55:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T09:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2013-06-14T14:12:51","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T14:12:51","slug":"islamic-inspired-stabbing-government-approves-25-faith-schools-exclusivist-policies-abound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2013\/05\/28\/islamic-inspired-stabbing-government-approves-25-faith-schools-exclusivist-policies-abound\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic ‘inspired’ stabbing; government approves 25 faith schools; exclusivist policies abound"},"content":{"rendered":"

So a British soldier was stabbed to death in public, the atrocity being caught and shared on social media. They stayed around to be arrested, not afraid of the consequences, and this is the scary thing, the idea bveing that no space is safe or sacred. Now there is a widespread Muslim backlash<\/a>. To make matters worse, the government has admitted that\u00a0“thousands are at risk of radicalisation”<\/a> in the UK.<\/p>\n

So what do we do to unite society? What do we do to make it more inclusive and less exclusive? How do we break the in-group \/ out-group psychology which fuels the fires of societal discontent and fear? How to we pull down the walls of separation of ‘us’ and ‘them’?<\/p>\n

I’ll tell you how, we give permission for and fund faith schools in the free school debacle that the present idiotic UK government education ministers are lauding. 25 \u00a0new schools to drive an ideological wedge into our children’s lives and between our children, families and cultural sections of society.<\/p>\n

It’s a disgrace. A poorly thought-out disgrace which will in no way help the current situation. Does anyone honestly, I mean bloody<\/em> <\/strong>honestly, think that the way to solve<\/em> <\/strong>the problem of Muslim disaffection and feeling of being out-group is to set up schools for our children which fosters a feeling of in\/out-group, which celebrates separation from society, which otherises mainstream secular society? Is this what they did to break down sectarian violence in Northern Ireland?<\/p>\n

No, Northern Ireland recognised that this was part of the problem<\/strong>. <\/em>For crying out loud, are people that<\/em> <\/strong>stupid? I am so angry.<\/p>\n

Here is what the British Humanist Association have to say<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Government approves 25 new religious Free Schools<\/h3>\n

The Department for Education (DfE) has today\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0the approval of 102 new Free Schools due to open from September 2014. This\u00a0includes<\/a>\u00a025 new religious schools, as well as one Steiner school. The British Humanist Association (BHA) has expressed regret at the continuing increase in the number of \u2018faith\u2019 schools.<\/p>\n

The 25 new schools include 15 schools formally designated with a religious character and ten schools with a \u2018faith ethos<\/a>\u2019. The DfE are yet to publish the details of each proposal\u2019s religion, or any details about rejected proposals \u2013 it intends to publish this information at the end of June (although the BHA is currently\u00a0fighting<\/a>for earlier release in the future).<\/p>\n

However, the BHA believes it has been able to identify the religion of 23 of the 25 schools. These are listed below.<\/p>\n

BHA Faith Schools Campaigner Richy Thompson commented, \u2018We are deeply concerned to see the number of state-funded religious schools in England continue to rise. These schools are allowed to select all their teachers and up to half their pupils in the basis of their faith. They are also free to set their own curriculum, teaching from an unshared, narrow perspective that is inappropriate to some pupils.<\/p>\n

\u2018Every school should be equally inclusive to all pupils and staff, regardless of religion or belief. We will continue to campaign to make this ideal the reality.\u2019<\/p>\n

The full list of schools:<\/b><\/p>\n

Church of England (2)<\/b>:<\/p>\n