Teaching Islam in schools?
Hey my kids learn about Christmas and easter, so I think it's only fair their school talks about Eid too.
I think the basics of each religion should be taught but in more of a historical context...Religion has played a huge part in history and I think to understand it properly you have to appreciate the differences in each religion.
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How will you understand the problems of the world without understanding the historical context of religions, including what the basic beliefs are?
I don't see anything wrong about teaching Islam at school. Each religion should be taught, especially from the historical context and basic ideas. How about the already existing Christianity and/or Judaism?
Islam has its origins to some extent in Judaism and Christianity - that's why they're called the Abrahamic religions. If you're going to teach the latter two, you should also teach Islam. As you should also teach other, non-Abrahamic belief systems. Either that or don't teach any religions at all - which would be kind of silly, because schools exist to educate kids, and religions are very much part of the world.
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