Boys punished with detention for refusing to pray to Allah

Parents outraged: 'If Muslims were asked to go to church
on Sunday and take Holy Communion there would be war'

Posted: July 04, 2008
6:15 pm Eastern

Two seventh-grade boys were given detention and their classmates forced to miss their scheduled refreshment break when the pair refused to kneel and pray to Allah during a religious studies class.

Outraged parents called the punishment of the boys for not wanting to take part in the practical demonstration at Alsager High School near Stoke-on-Trent, UK, of how Muslims' worship Allah a breach of their human rights.

"This isn't right, it's taking things too far," parent Sharon Luinen told the London Daily Mail...

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