DH won't let daughter go on school trip to mosque

Well that's even worse then! Unless they're telling men to do the same it's utterly disgusting.

Come out from under that rock. It's nice out here.

How people practice their religion is of course influenced by their culture. E.g. in some Catholic countries women wear a veil to mass but that is very rare here.
Some Muslim women cover their heads, some do not, some follow varying degrees of modest dress.
Some Christian groups follow certain dress codes (the craziness of the evangelical trad wife movement), whereas in my local churches people will wear jeans and jumper.
This does not mean they are not religions.

In my opinion, no.

There is a lot of interplay between all world religions and politics. They are still religions.

Well technically. I don't know where in the Quran though that it states women should be covered at all times to the eye balls. It's essentially been hijacked by misogynistic men.

It's the same at my daughter's school. They had an Eid party where children were invited to come into to school wearing sparkly party clothes. Yet I notice at the school Christmas play, the Muslim children are absent and not taking part.

Islam is the name of the religion. A follower is called a Muslim.

Well to be honest in the Batley area in West Yorkshire one of the primary schools organised a trip to a both mosque and a church for the pupils to promote understanding of other faiths.

The trip to the mosque was first. All went well and the children were told lots about Islam.

The subsequent trip to the church did not happen because the parents of the Muslim children refused point blank to allow their children to enter the church.

It certainly taught the other parents and children something about Islam but perhaps not quite what was intended.

I doubt they'll be many Mumsnetters saying those parents are a disgrace and racist for their narrow minded stance and views on Christianity though.

The Muslim religion follows the Quran. Islam is different kettle of fish.

The Qur'an is a political text?

No. It's a political ideology.

How would it be good for social cohesion? It comes across as a criticism of their religion which isn't likely to be very welcome.

I hope these talks are going to include all faiths and cultures as otherwise it comes across as singling people out.

This is bullshit.

You don't think Islam is a religion?

This is not necessarily a religious issue so much as a cultural one in some parts of the world, especially underdeveloped countries.

And look at some of the Christian cults in the USA who were making young girls marry their leaders, the Sugars where the girls were basically household maids and nannies, with restrict on clothes, privacy, significant corporal punishment, segregation from the outside world etc.

I don't think what a high level of unconscious bias you are viewing this through.

Most major religions offer this. The community school I taught I visited a Mosque, a Catholic cathedral, and Anglican cathedral and had a Rabbi visit to give a talk at assembly. It's common.

Well get on Google and research it. I'm not doing it for you!

A quick Google on the comparative rules around marriage for each religion is interesting.

Islam is the only one of the 4 that explicitly allows polygamy, child marriage and makes it much harder for women to divorce their husband than vice versa.

Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism don’t seem to have very strong feelings on homosexuality whereas opinions are very polarised within Islam, with some Islamic countries imposing the death penalty for homosexuality and others apparently being more open to it.

It seems that there’s quite a bit more to talk about with Islam in all levels, whereas the other religions are far less controversial.

Finding common ground?

Understanding better how to combat Islamic extremism together

Better social understanding and cohesion?

Is that not something we should be striving for? Reading the comments against OPs DH, they are certainly not going to make any progress with that level of nastiness.

@BundleBoogie

It would be really good if there was an environment where we could talk and find out their opinions on the treatment of women by their religion, especially in certain countries and whether they plan to do anything about it.

For what purpose?

Omg go on what could the motives be???!!!! You visit lots of places of worship for religious studies to LEARN about them

Why aren't we having the same discussions regarding Hinduism, Sikhism or Buddhism? Why Islam? Funny that. Makes you think.