dailycaller.com So much for art class.
British schools “have been advised that children’s drawings could be considered blasphemous under Islamic law,” according to The Telegraph. The outlet cites a school guidance document called “Sharing The Journey” issued “to teachers by Labour councils in northern England.”
“[T]hree-dimensional figurative imagery of humans is considered idolatrous by some Muslims,” a version of “Sharing The Journey” reads.
“It is very important that the school understands this and is also careful not to ask its students to reproduce images of Jesus, Prophet Mohammed or other figures considered to be prophets in Islam. Some Muslim pupils may not wish to draw the human figure.”
I’m reminded of a phrase coined by The Blaze’s Auron MacIntyre: “The side that wants to win will always beat the side that just wants to be left alone.” Multiculturalism is the story of the more tolerant side gradually acquiescing to the demands of the less tolerant side, until you wake up to find that your child has earned a demerit for his stick figure portrait of Christ.
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