Is your culture so fragile that Muslim prayer is such a threat to you vs UK right-wing channel

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

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