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Amy Owen, 14, and several of her friends at Ellesmere Port Catholic High School in Cheshire refused to go on the visit after being told that they had to conform to a Muslim dress code involving covering their heads and wearing long skirts or leggings.

Her mother, Michelle Davies, 34, received a letter from the headmaster, Peter Lee, insisting that the trip to the al-Rahma mosque in Toxteth, Liverpool, was compulsory because of rules promoting “community cohesion”.
The letter, parts of which were underlined and written in capital letters, also suggested that a failure to do so might see it marked down in an Ofsted inspection.

A teacher then telephoned Miss Owen telling her that if her daughter did not go on the trip, organised by the Religious Education department, it would be marked down as an "unauthorised absence" even after she had refused to sign a parental consent form.

“It's like they're putting a gun to your head, either you go to a mosque, or you're marked down as an unauthorised absence on your record, that's it no two ways about it,” said Miss Davies.

“It's like they are saying she is playing truant for not wearing a headscarf.

“If the trip had been without the leggings and the headscarf, that would have been fine but I wasn't having my daughter dressed in the Muslim way.

“There are some parts of RE lessons that children who are Jehovah’s Witnesses don't have to attend because that’s part of their religion and the fact is Amy is Catholic and not a Muslim … This is an infringement of her human rights.”

Although Miss Davies said the objection was for “religious reasons”, she admitted: I'm not a devout Catholic, I've never claimed to be but my daughter is a white, British Catholic girl - not a Muslim girl, therefore she is not adhering to a Muslim dress code."

In his letter, Mr Lee insisted that the visit was as compulsory as a geography field trip.

“The school is REQUIRED to promote tolerance respect and understanding,” he wrote.

“This is known as community cohesion. A failure to do this could result in an unwelcome inspection judgment. None of us would relish that.”

Miss Davies claimed that up to 10 other Year Nine girls had also refused to go on the trip for the same reason.

Among them was Charlie Sheen, 14. Her mother, Kirsty Ashworth, said: “I didn’t see the educational benefit of it.”

Mr Lee said that the school, which was described in a recent Catholic diocesan report as having an “outstanding” religious environment, also organized visits to Auschwitz and meetings with holocaust survivors as part of the same commitment to learning about other faiths and cultures.

“In keeping with accepted good practice and the school’s status as a humanities college we are pleased to provide students with an experience of a visit to a Mosque and the chance to talk and question a representative of the community which it serves,” he said.

“This is an exciting and for many, a unique opportunity to learn at first hand how Islamic practices and beliefs map against their own.”

The case follows a series of controversies over the wearing of religious dress.

Last month Shirley Chaplin, a nurse from Exeter, lost a religious discrimination claim after being banned from working on hospital wards for wearing a crucifix around her neck.

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Op vrijdag 14 mei 2010 10:27 schreef JaniesBrownie het volgende:
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Jezus, is nauwelijks te lezen man!

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Op vrijdag 14 mei 2010 10:48 schreef _Led_ het volgende:

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En terecht.

Het is school.
Er zijn zoveel dingen die je op school moet doen die je misschien niet leuk vindt, maar toch moeten.
Het punt is juist dat ze er wat van opsteken, of ze nou willen of niet.