| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Religious meetings at the Natural Cafe | |
| Posted by: | Alan Duffy | |
| Date/Time: | 20/05/07 20:59:00 |
| "I think we all know that intolerance exists mainly in religious people" People who have read your earlier contributions to this thread will know this is untrue. "all anyone is suggesting is that faith schools tend, in a mixed society, to lead to isolation of the different community groups. Muslims children socialise mainly with Muslim children, Catholics mainly with Catholics" As most Muslim children go to non-Muslim schools in this country your example doesn't really support your position. In any case what evidence do you have that forced integration works? My sister in law works at a London comprehensive and says that Muslim, West Indian and Hindu gangs are in constant state of open warfare with each other which polarises the communities further. It is actually almost impossible for a child to grow up in London without coming into contact with a wide variety of groups but forcing them apart from their communities doesn't necessarily engender harmony. How would you feel if you were told that you had to stop socialising with white middle class people of no faith because you needed to learn about other cultures? "As you will recall, this sort of thing worked BRILLIANTLY in Northern Ireland. Religious schools just means that children are encouraged to think of themselves as members of a specific religious community rather than as citizens of England." So you blame the divisions in Northern Ireland on schools and say it has nothing to do with invasion, colonisation, subjugating one section of the population by concentrating power in the hands of the other? No it couldn't possibly be anything to do with Britain's errors but must be to do with the ignorant suspicious Irish I suppose. As somebody with more familiarity with this part of the world than you I can usually spot the workings of the mind of a bigot. You are really no different from those of either side of the divide in Northern Ireland despite your lack of religion. |