Female students at the Ellesmere Port Catholic High School in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire were ordered to dress like (not mandated by the Qur'an) muslim women by wearing trousers, long sleeve shirts or blouses and headscarves on a compulsory school field trip to a local mosque. Students who refused to Islamicise their outfit were punished by being branded a truant and their permanent school record marked with an unauthorized absence.
This is far from the first example of British schools playing the role of the dhimmified clothing police as they further the forced Islamic indoctrination of British school children.
The girls and their parents needn't expect the UK police to come to their aid - many female police officers are way ahead of Ellesmere Port Catholic High School and have already embraced the wearing a version of the muslim get-up.
Avon and Somerset Assistant Chief Constable Jackie Roberts
Absolutely laughable that this forced 'diversity-embracing' conversion of non-muslim girls into muslims was done under the guise of the school being "REQUIRED to promote tolerance respect and understanding".
Interesting that some religions, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, are exempt from such mandates -and one speculates that muslim girls' are not expected to dress in Western clothing to attend a Christian church - if they ever are forced to attend a Christian church - so who is this really targeting? Clearly in Great Britain, some religions demand more respect than others.
As Sharia law creeps into everyday British life - and is an alarming harbinger of the decline of Britain - what is next?
More evidence of the non-muslim British population being mandated to goosestep in unison - to the screeching noise of the muezzin - as the Country marches into utter dhimmitude.
Article in full:
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:19 AM on 12th May 2010
A Catholic schoolgirl has been branded a 'truant' by her teachers after she refused to dress as a Muslim for a school field trip to a mosque.
Staff had ordered 14-year-old Amy Owen and her classmates to dress in headscarf, wear trousers or leggings and keep her arms covered for the compulsory visit to the mosque after it was arranged to promote 'community cohesion.'
Parents at the 1,100 pupil Ellesmere Port Catholic High School in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire were also told they were each required to make a £3 contribution towards the trip for all Year Nine students.
Michelle Davies' daughter Amy Owen was ordered to wear a headscarf and trousers or leggings for a school trip to a mosque
But when Amy refused to dress in Muslim attire for the visit to Al Rahma Mosque in Toxteth, Liverpool, staff warned her about rules and said refusal would mean non attendance which would then be marked down as an 'unauthorised absence.'
In a stern letter to her family with words in block capitals and underlined, the school's headmaster Peter Lee said the visit was 'as compulsory as a geography field trip.'
He added: 'There are two reasons for these visits. One is that the scheme of work in religious studies REQUIRES children to have knowledge and understanding of other world religions.
'The second is that the school is REQUIRED to promote tolerance respect and understanding. This is known as community cohesion. A failure to do this could result in an unwelcome inspection judgement. None of us would relish that.
'Whilst I may not require you to pay for this I must require your child to participate.'
It is believed up to ten other families from Amy's Year 9 classes also refused to dress as Muslims and were marked down in the truanting register.
But Amy's mother Michelle Davies, 34, a home help said: 'It's like they're putting a gun to your head - either you go to a mosque, or you're marked down as an unauthorised absence on your record - that's it no two ways about it.
The Ellesmere Port Catholic High School letter to parents notifying them of the trip to the Al Rahma Mosque in Toxteth, Liverpool
'It's like they are saying she is playing truant for not wearing a head scarf. If the trip had been without the leggings and the headscarf, that would have been fine but I wasn't having my daughter dressed in the Muslim way.
'There are some parts of RE lessons that children who are Jehovahs Witnesses don't have to attend because that's part of their religion and the fact is Amy is Catholic and not a Muslim.
'She's proud of her school uniform and what it represents and she should be able to wear it like she would on any normal school trip.
'She likes to learn, she takes history and she is really interested in it, she wants to learn, but she can do that her classroom without changing the way she dresses.
'I even did some research on the internet about non-Muslims attending mosques and it says you don't have to adhere to the dress code.
The trip to the mosque was organised so that students could 'deepen their understanding and broaden their knowledge' of Islam
'I also fail to see how a three-hour trip to a mosque is of any educational value to a Catholic when she can learn about the Muslim faith in the classroom.
'I can guarantee that if there were ten Muslim girls coming to our school it would adhere to what they wanted, because that's their faith, their religion, their dress code.'
The school claimed it had arranged the trip in accordance with diktats sent down by Oftsted and the Roman Catholic diocese and said it to abide by a 'strict dress code.'
Mrs Davies who has two other children said: 'No sooner had I objected to the dress code, I got a phone call from her head of year saying I don't see what the problem is, it teaches them respect. I said to her, is that not my job and your job as a school?
'Then she asked it was a problem with the cost, and I told her not to patronize me. I said it was for religious reasons. I'm not a devout Catholic, I've never claimed to be but my daughter is a white, British Catholic girl - not a Muslim girl, therefore she is not adhering to a Muslim dress code.
'The next thing Amy was in Mr Lee's office with three other kids being told it was a compulsory trip. He gave me a parent consent form, but I didn't give my consent and I was told it would be an unauthorised absence.
'I'm so angry - in particular with the letter Mr Lee sent with bits underlined and words in block capitals. And also, you can't tell me that by making some year nine kids attend a trip to a mosque is going to make his his OfSTED report look better.
The school says the trip was an exciting and unique opportunity for students
'I had to send a letter in to the school explaining why Amy was absent, and I explained exactly why Amy wasn't there.
'What really infuriates me is that if she wore leggings to school, she would be told to take them off because they're not school uniform.
'If Muslim girls came to Amy's school, the school would probably allow them to wear their leggings and head scarf because it is respectful. If they were told to remove them, there would be uproar.'
Another parent Kirsty Ashworth, of Ellesmere Port, whose daughter Charlie Sheen was due to attend the trip said: 'I didn't see the educational benefit of it and I can't see how it would help her get a job or anything like that.
'I'm not racist or anything but I send my daughter to an English speaking catholic school, so I don't see why she should dress as a Muslim.'
A spokesman for the school said: 'In keeping with accepted good practice we are pleased to provide students with an experience of a visit to a Mosque and the chance to talk and question a representative of the community which it serves.
'This is an exciting and for many, a unique opportunity to learn at first hand how Islamic practices and beliefs map against their own.
'We hope to provide other experiences to further our students' appreciation and tolerance for faiths and culture as opportunities present themselves, as all good schools will do in the name of education.'
This is disgraceful. How about compelling Muslim kids to eat bacon sandwiches in the spirit of them embracing 'diversity' and understanding our native culture? Would it be the case of "I predict a riot"?
Posted by: Durotrigan | May 12, 2010 at 06:31 PM
This is disgusing,why 'deepen their understanding and broaden their knowledge' of Islam??how about teaching about their own religion and about Jesus chris,after all isn't that the reason why it's a catholic school?peter lee should be sacked or punched in the mouth!!
Posted by: Rick jones | May 13, 2010 at 07:17 AM
How interesting, you will show tolerance & understanding OR ELSE... and, a voluntary contribution IS REQUIRED! Nice to see more people prepared to run the gauntlet of "racism" & "islamophobia" and refuse to conform to multicultural Britain. Other countries are currently considering outlawing these items but Dhimwit-in-Chief Peter Lee is INSISTING his pupils wear them, while learning about the wife-beating, child-raping, book-burning, kuffar-hating culture they belong to. I'm surprised he didn't also insist the girls underwent FGM as well.
Posted by: S Langton(Scottish Infidel) | May 13, 2010 at 09:23 AM
I believe this school has a Humanities staus. What is the problem? These parents needs to get a grip of themselves. They chose the school, adhere by it's rules. Oh, I am a practicing Catholic, white and British.
Posted by: This is laughable.com | May 13, 2010 at 01:20 PM
We ought to email the head teacher P Lea and give him peace of our mind, he should be made aware of Islamic literature for him to read.It is people like him who are going to bring this country to its knees, ie subjugate through interaction with faith such as Islam.I would like to see muslim girls dressed like average English girls and go to Church to learn some thing about Christianity. www.faithfreedom.org
Posted by: skai | May 16, 2010 at 05:02 PM
To this is laughable, the only thing laughable about this is people like you, its your kind of thinking that allows the bullys to keep on slowly taking over the freedoms and way of life that the western world has come to enjoy, what happened to free choice in the west? yes it is their choice to send their kids to this school, but what makes this school think it has the rights to FORCE students into these places where they obviously dont want to go, why not just mark them as absent and leave it at that, how is it truency when they had the permission of their parents not to attend? people like you go on about the rights of muslims and the people that follow it, what about the rights of the parents and kids like Amy that choose not to be a part of this nonsence,as some of the kids have said, and rightly so how can a 3 hour field trip to a mosque help improve their education or help them get a job? people like you who think all this treat the bullys with respect and understand their culture is going to save the world, you have some misguided view that you are somehow heros of the world, when in fact its girls like Amy that are actually the real heros, they stand up to the bullys and if their were more people with her attitude we wouldnt have the problems we have with these medievel bullys that spread throughout the world infecting any culture or country naive enough to pander to them, maybe you should concentrate on supporting your own people, christian, white and Brit and everyone else in the world that can see these so called people for what they really are, why dont their schools start sending their students to visit western style churches etc to learn about tolerence towards the western way of life, why dont you support that instead of forcing our kids to have their medievel violent backward views shoved down their necks?
Posted by: stand up to the bully.. | May 19, 2010 at 01:20 AM
Prior to 1983, the 1917 Code of Catholic Canon Law stated that women "shall have a covered head and be modestly dressed, especially when they approach the table of the Lord" (i.e. in Church).
Since 1983 there is no longer any canonical obligation for women to wear a head-covering, but in light of 1 Corinthians 11:3-16, some would still consider it a moral obligation.
Of course, we would not expect Catholics who send their children to a Catholic school to know what their own religion teaches on the matter.
It is much better to consider it all something terribly foreign, rather than a well-rooted tradition of their own faith.
Posted by: Tim | July 01, 2010 at 04:46 AM