Abdullah al Andalusi – Is your culture so fragile that Muslim prayer is such a threat to you vs UK right-wing channel
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A Muslim debate initiative is facing criticism from parents and students at MacKayla Community School in London, but the high court has ruled that it was a violation of their freedom to pray. The decision was made after pressure from parents and students, who had previously restricted their ability to pray. The decision was made after the high court's ruling that no prayer was allowed at MacKayla Community School, and the school's decision to ban everything except prayer.
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A Muslim student's challenge at the high court
against a London school's ban on prayer rituals
has been rejected. The students argued that the
ban at MacKayla Community School in London
was discriminatory
and unlawfully breached her right to religious freedom.
However, the school said, allowing prayers risks security
threats and could undermine
social cohesion among pupils. Well, joining me now
in the studio is Abdullah Al Andalusi, co
founder of the Muslim debate initiative. Thank you
for joining us in the studio.
So Katherine Berbulsen called this victory for all
schools. Presumably, you disagree?
Yes. I think it's,
unfortunate. I mean, why why isn't prayer deemed
to be a threat in society today?
We there's always a lot of complaints, especially
on GB News about Christianity and Christian Christian
practices
being restricted in the secular Britain.
And yet, when it comes to other religions,
we, celebrate, unfortunately, the the these bans and
and and students being prevented from simply praying
in their lunch breaks when they would be
presumably playing games. They would just wanna pray,
choose to play pray instead, and that's gonna
be banned, unfortunately.
Except it wasn't about that. It wasn't about,
a specific religion. It was about the set
out in the charter and the rules of
the school
that no prayer was allowed at all. And
that was made clear to all all parents,
all pupils before
they enrolled at this school. In fact, she
said in the ruling, you don't have to
come to the school, but these are my
rules. I'm free to make my own rules.
If you don't like them, you can go
elsewhere.
Well, actually, she she said she used to
allow people to pray in the yard,
voluntarily.
And then there was she complained that it
was making other Muslim,
students more religious or that there was some
pressure on Muslims who didn't want to be
religious or what have you. And then she
just said, you know what? I'm gonna just
ban Muslim prayer altogether because apparently,
culture and social occasion is so fragile that
prayer, just simply prayer is is a threat
to it.
If if such a culture,
is so fragile that prayer is a threat,
we need to reexamine that culture. Well, maybe
we need to reexamine the culture that emerged
from this. A backdrop of events, including violence,
intimidation, and appalling racial harassment
of our teachers. That's the backdrop, the consequence
of this decision. Surely, that proves
that introducing prayers, special treatment for whatever groups
within a school, when it leads to this
kind of intermaration, it proves the point. There
should be no special dispensation
for Muslim prayers in British schools. The high
court agreed. Well,
such things are deplorable, but they were coming
from outside the school, not from inside the
school. So it seems like Katherine just buckled
to outside pressure and decided just to ban
everything. You know? I mean, is this the
kind of social cohesion we have? Like, are
we gonna imitate are we gonna imitate China,
which, prevents and bans all kinds of demonstration
of religiosity
in their schools in the sake of a
monoculture. Because anything else than a a government
approved monoculture
creates division and destroys social cohesion. We're not
living in China. You know? If she wants
to create, I mean, what what next? If
she's gonna mandate unisex toilets and calling everybody
day and not he or she because this
creates division too. Are we gonna go down
the Marxist route there, it seems? Well, she
she wanted actual universality
and not preferential treatment. That's what this is
about, but thanks for joining us in the
studio. We appreciate your time. Ad Dola, Al,
and Lucy, thank you very much for joining
us on that debate. And up next, we'll
be discussing GB News' favorite, Meghan Markle, who's
got a new job making jam. I'm Martin
Daldney on GB News, Britain News Channel.