بريطانيا: إجبار الطلاب على الصلاة بفناء المدرسة في البرد والمطر

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في ظل استمرار إجبار طلاب "مدرسة ميرفيلد فري جرامر" بمنطقة "هودرزفيلد" بغرب مدينة "يروكشير" البريطانية على الصلاة في فناء المدرسة بالرغم من البرد والأمطار - أكد أولياء الأمور أنهم قد يضطرون إلى اتخاذ إجراء قانوني ضد المدرسة التي تمنع الطلاب من الصلاة في الأماكن المغلقة داخل المدرسة منذ أكتوبر 2014.

وتعليقًا على الأزمة، أكد المدير التنفيذي أن المدرسة تضم أغلبية من الطلاب النصارى، وأنه لا يوجد مكان مخصص ليكون مصلى للمسلمين، ويمكن للطلاب الذهاب للمسجد القريب؛ حيث يُمكنهم الصلاة أثناء اليوم الدراسي؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Mirfield Free Grammar School: Muslim pupils 'forced to pray outside'

Parents of Muslim pupils at a Yorkshire grammar school are threatening legal action after claiming their children were forced to pray outside.

Families of students at Mirfield Free Grammar School, near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, say their children have had to perform their prayers in cold temperatures and rain in the playground since October 2014 because the school offers no indoor facilities.

Parents told the Daily Mail that their children had previously been allowed to use the school hall to pray before permission was withdrawn. The school insisted the hall was never used as a prayer room for pupils.

Sixth form pupils are allowed to pray offsite and use the town’s House of Resurrection monastery to pray.

But the three-mile round trip means students are absent from school and potential classes for up to an hour.

Akooji Badat, chairman of the nearby Masjid and Madressa Noor-Ul-Islam mosque, told the Daily Mail: “For children to be made to go outside in horrible conditions is surely wrong in anybody’s eyes.

Executive Principal, Lorraine Barker said in a statement: “We are a broadly Christian Academy and have never had a prayer room.

"Before students join the Sixth Form, we make them aware of the facilities we have on site and we make it clear that we do not have a prayer room.

"Sixth Form students are welcome to leave the site to attend their own mosque, however, local mosques have offered their facilities to them if this is more convenient.”