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To be angry that parents won't allow their children to go on school visit to local mosque?

346 replies

ptangyangkipperbang · 04/07/2007 14:06

DS2 is going on a school trip to the local mosque. However, the school nearly cancelled it because so many parents have refused to let their children go. I have only spoken to one parent who won't allow her child to go but she said "I'm not racist but...why should they visit a mosque when we daren't get a plane or go to a shopping centre because of that lot". Not racist .

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bookwormmum · 06/07/2007 20:33

It's quite easy to poke fun at JW's beliefs in private but they are relatively easy to say thanks but no thanks to so I could never be rude to one. I think it's part of their proselyting (is that the right word?) that they don't lecture when they do their rounds .

meandmyflyingmachine · 06/07/2007 20:26

I always take it politely. Why not?

And then I put it in the recycling.

SueBaroo · 06/07/2007 20:22

yes, my regular visitor is a lovely lady who has kids with tourettes, and adhd. She has such a lot on her plate I couldn't bring myself to be rude to her, and she's harmless anyway. >

Kewcumber · 06/07/2007 20:15

my "local" JW is a very old wizened lady - I'd be worried about her having a heart attack. they are so very nice I just can't bring myself to say no to them. [soft git emoticon]

SueBaroo · 06/07/2007 20:11

Nah, Kewcumber, I do too. Although I have occasionally been tempted to open the door with a big kitchen knife and ask them to wait five minutes until we're finished with the virgin

Kewcumber · 06/07/2007 20:07

Am I the only pathetic wimp who takes the Watchtower (?) from the JW's and smiles nicely at them because I feel sorry for them? I'm a bleedin' atheistic I should be trying to convert them!

Mirage · 06/07/2007 20:06

I daren't do that bookwormmum,as the recycling box was at the end of the drive,ready for collection & as they followed me up the street,they would have seen me 'recycle' it.

I can't beieve I felt guilty about offending someone who accosted me in the street!

bookwormmum · 06/07/2007 19:50

Oh dear. I had a very nice young Jehovah Witness (just the one, which I thought was unusual) give me a leaflet the other day. It went in my recycling box .

Mirage · 06/07/2007 19:47

A couple of very nice Jehovahs Witnesses tried to convert me today,on my way through the village.Unfortunately for them,we only have a population of 200 & most of them were in church for a wedding at the time,so their doorknocking would have been in vain.

SueBaroo · 06/07/2007 15:24

How does that work then? He just woke up one morning and decided he preferred Reverend to Mister? I mean he's in a non-conformist church tradition, so I wouldn't have expected him to have been ordained a vicar or nowt...

harpsichordcuddler · 06/07/2007 14:12

yes Ian Paisley is a reverend in the same way as I am the ArchBishop of the Church of Bagpuss. which I have just made up.

duchesse · 06/07/2007 12:18

Sorry, meant SueBaroo (fun moniker btw)

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ptangyangkipperbang · 06/07/2007 10:55

Can't believe the way this thread has taken off. The power of MN.

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KerryMum · 05/07/2007 19:30

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dinny · 05/07/2007 19:22

Aloha, as usual, is speaking sense.

SueBaroo · 05/07/2007 19:05

I've had too much o' the fear o' God put in me by his sermons to suggest that

duchesse · 05/07/2007 18:54

It was more fun though, SueW.

SueBaroo · 05/07/2007 18:52

twas me using silly abbreviations. Sorry about that. i meant denomination

duchesse · 05/07/2007 18:44

Now how did I just mis-read that as "he started his own demon"?

SueBaroo · 05/07/2007 18:17

hmm, moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church, he is. Can't see more than that atm.

SueBaroo · 05/07/2007 18:12

Well, I think he started his own denom. not sure about that

bustles off to check

meandmyflyingmachine · 05/07/2007 17:51

He reverended himself I think.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

I'm often tempted to do the same.

SueBaroo · 05/07/2007 17:22

Harpsi, well, he is a reverend I think. I've heard some of his sermons

He took a lot of flak from the unionists over the final deal, as I'm sure the Sinn Fein members did. I really hope it lasts long-term.

harpsichordcuddler · 05/07/2007 16:32

religios leaders I should say

harpsichordcuddler · 05/07/2007 16:31

I do agree that relgious conflict in Ireland (and elsewhere) very often reflects or is superimposed on tribal rivalries.
but I think it relfects very badly on organised religion and religious in particular that, far from preaching peace, they stir up, deepen, encourage, make respectable and a matter of faith and even fund violence in the name of their religion or sect.
I am thinking of the "reverend" Paisley in particular but there are lots of examples

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