Gobsmacked!
British moms and dads were fuming after a school instructed students to write an essay explaining why they had converted to Islam.
Gemma Gough posted the assignment on Facebook—and said her child would not be completing the assignment.
“This is not acceptable,” she wrote. “Kids are too impressionable and imagine if these letters got in the wrong hands in years to come.”
The 12- and 13-year-old kids at Beaucamps High School in Guernsey were told to consider what it would be like to become a Muslim. They also had to write a letter to their loved ones explaining their decision to become a Muslim.
Can you imagine when the students returned home?
“Mummy, Mummy! I converted to Islam! Cheerio!”
The controversial lesson was part of a creative writing exercise as part of a religious education lesson, The Daily Mail reports. The school pointed out that it was a make-believe scenario—and no child was actually forced to convert to the Islamic faith.
Local residents were not convinced.
“In this day and age when easily led youngsters are being radicalized, it is a dangerous road to be taking,” wrote one observer on the Guernsey Press website.
“Teach pupils about religion by all means, but be very careful when you ask them to be Muslim,” another wrote.
The school said they plan to expose the students to other religions—like Christianity and Judaism. But let’s be honest—do you really think they’re going to have the kids write about how Jesus Christ changed their lives?
Brigette Gabriel, the founder of Act for America, told me what’s happening in Great Britain is already happening in American public schools. She discusses that subject in my most recent podcast.
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