Never Underestimate The Stupidity Of The Right

[sp1814]

Mind boggling.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/britain-first-post-heartbreaking-picture-of-children-seemingly-doing-yoga-which-supporters-mistake-as-muslim-pray_uk_56f6a19fe4b0787ff7c9520e

[naomi24]

mushroom25/hc, I know. I know. I've already said there were crossed wires.

[naomi24]

Mamyalynne, it isn't what?

[hc4361]

:)

Anyway, there is nothing wrong with schoolchildren having a 'virtual tour' of a mosque and learning about Islam. All the major religions are taught in schools, including real tours of churches, mosques, synagogues and Hindu and Sikh temples. At my grandchild's school they have also been looking at ancient religions and atheist philosophers.

Whether we like it or not, religion plays a big part of history and geography so an understanding of religious basics helps to understand those subjects, too.

[Mamyalynne]

It isn't the school in the answer I replied to - as you say we are all crossing in the ether.

[naomi24]

Mamyalynne, ah right.

hc4361, they teach children about different religions, which from a social point of view might be useful, but they draw the line at teaching the truth about Islam.

[agchristie]

I hope a yoga expert is in a position to explain what might be going on ;)

[Zacs-Master]

What would you teach 7/8 year olds about the Muslim Faith / Islam Naomi?

[naomi24]

Zacs-Master, I wouldn't teach children religion.

[anotheoldgit]

I don't know about the stupidity of the Right, those stupid enough to follow the Left, continue to make themselves look silly,by posting something that they know nothing about.

The Huffingtonpost indeed.

[Mamyalynne]

I still strongly recommend the pose to anyone with back pain , as part of a programme whatever the truth behind the pucture.

http://www.thehealthsite.com/fitness/know-your-yoga-pose-balasana/

[retrocop]

Mr aog
This final comment on the link just about sums up the OP. :-)

!!!!!!!!! Oh how you love to stir the s***!!!”

[Zacs-Master]

Yeah, let's all stick to using the Daily Mail as a benchmark for accurate journalism.

[hc4361]

naomi, how would teach children about the concentration camps of WWII without mentioning Jews and Judaism, or Henry VIII without Catholicism?

How would explain current affairs around the world and the UK if you ignored religion?

Or take children on a school trip to Granada in Spai and not explain the effect the Moors had on the architecture and the food?

[viv41]

Call it history ??

[stuey]

It is not at all unusual for photographs to be used out of context or to be attributed false meanings in order to stir up the public's' feelings. The one that come to my mind is the picture of the gallant Tommies in a fixed bayonet charge against a German position in North Africa...It turned out to actually staged at a base camp miles away from the battle area. In this case the photo was meant to stir up feelings of patriotism; in the case being discussed here, it was meant to stir up feelings of discontent, unease, and perhaps even hatred...Nothing new at all.

[naomi24]

hc4361, history can be taught without the details of religious belief.

[stuey]

In a follow-up to my previous post, would you consider the British people at that time to be "stupid" because that picture instilled in them feelings of loyalty and patriotic fervor?

[-Talbot-]

Look what our far right cousins in the US get up to http://pix11.com/2016/03/27/why-is-there-a-donald-trump-tombstone-in-central-park/

[ToraToraTora]

looks very similar to me SP.

Is this another yoga position SP?
http://16005-presscdn-0-36.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/isis-gays.jpg

[sp1814]

ToraToraTora

What are you trying to say?