Schoolboys punished for not praying to Allah?

[Big Les]

Just how much truth is in these reports, I wonder?

http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5itR3ObU5KN4KQ6ECht004C7cysFA

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1031784/Schoolboys-punished-detention-refusing-kneel-pray-Allah.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2247388/Schoolboys-disciplined-for-'refusing-to-pray-to-Allah'.html

[SusanB-M1]

I have not read the reports, but there was a discussion on BBC Radio FiveLive last night with the uncle of a girl in the same class in the studio and a Moslem spokesman (who hardly listened to any reply) and people phoning in. I am not sure of the exact time, but it was around 11:0 p.m.
From what I heard, it seems the teacher was very much out of line.

[sophia8]

We only have the childrens' and their parents' version of what happened. It sounds to me like the teacher was trying to get the kids to join in role-play, two kids got boshie and the teacher applied appropriate sanctions.
The teacher is subject head in that school, so she's not some student teacher who got it wrong.

[PingOfPong]

It sounds to me like the teacher was trying to get the kids to join in role-play

That's still wildly inappropriate. It would be as disrepectful as asking muslim children to "role-play" a baptism.

[Darat]

And from the accounts I'd say you are right sophia8, it doesn't seem that anyone was told to pray to anyone never mind forced to.

Still house prices are down....