[Uthman]

A school in Sandhurst tackled Islamophobia by becoming the first in the borough to welcome an award-winning Muslim theatre group to perform a special play.

The Khayaal Theatre group was at Sandhurst School in Owlsmoor Road last week to perform Herts & Minds – a play about identity and how a young person might become drawn into violence.

Khayaal Theatre is the UK’s first award-winning professional theatre company dedicated to the dramatic explorations of classic Muslim world literature and the experience of Muslims in the modern world.

Hearts & Minds focuses on Muslim teenager Asif whose views on the world are challenged by events around him and he finds he has to make some tough choices.

It aims to teach the audience some of the basic principals of Islam and counter perceptions that Islam may encourage revenge and violence.

The play has been specially commissioned by Reading-based Berkshire Forum Against Extremism and the Muslim Education Forum in Luton and supports the Government’s anti-racism initiative Prevent which is being rolled out across the UK.

Sam Hunt, assistant headteacher at Sandhurst School, said: “I hope the play, which forms part of the citizenship curriculum, will give the Year 10 students something to think about and discuss.

“We arranged for the play to be performed at the school because we wanted the debate to be far wider than just Islamic extremism.

“We want to tackle Islamophobia which appears to be growing in this country.

“The play and subsequent discussions among pupils will go a long way towards dispelling myths and misunderstandings about Islam.”

Pupils at the school will also be looking into extremism like neo-Nazism and animal rights protests to spark debate about positive protest.

Bracknell Forest councillors and members of the Bracknell Islamic Cultural Society have been invited to see the play.

Cllr Iain McCracken, executive member for public protection, said: “We are fortunate to live in an area where racial tensions are not a major problem.

“But it is important to open a dialogue about these issues, both in schools and in the wider community.

“This is an excellent play and there is an opportunity and funding for other schools and community groups to invite the theatre company to perform it.”

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[Uthman]

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[Supreme]

Any awareness of discrimination and its evils is to be welcomed. All discrimination is essentially the same, so hopefully this will not just tackle Islamophobia, but racism and homophobia too.

 

[جوري]

why is a depraved sexual act a part of that list? how is what two men, or a pederast and his alter boy's sexual putrefaction akin to religious discrimination? I don't understand why every topic has to descend down the road of moral dissolution and incorporate newfangled ideas of appropriate and 'politically correct' and everyone is to jump on that band wagon or else!

One can't take joy in the mildest of effort without having it marred by some by some ridiculous comment.

 

[Supreme]

why is a depraved sexual act a part of that list? how is what two men, or a pederast and his alter boy's sexual putrefaction akin to religious discrimination? I don't understand why every topic has to descend down the road of moral dissolution and incorporate newfangled ideas of appropriate and 'politically correct' and everyone is to jump on that band wagon or else!

One can't take joy in the mildest of effort without having it marred by some by some ridiculous comment.

In our country, we do not believe that any discrimination is acceptable. That includes the rights of consenting adults in sexual relations, although it's clear you're availing to take the thread off its course.

 

[czgibson]

Greetings,

why is a depraved sexual act a part of that list? how is what two men, or a pederast and his alter boy's sexual putrefaction akin to religious discrimination? I don't understand why every topic has to descend down the road of moral dissolution and incorporate newfangled ideas of appropriate and 'politically correct' and everyone is to jump on that band wagon or else!

People get sometimes get discriminated against on the grounds of their sexuality and sometimes on the grounds of their religion. The connection is obvious. Maybe you can't see it because you've been brought up to hate homosexuality, so you think that kind of prejudice is normal.

Peace

 

[JaffaCake]

In our country, we do not believe that any discrimination is acceptable.

Who's "we", and what do you mean by "any discrimination"?

If you can't discriminate based on how people think and act, how are you supposed to make any kind of decision where people are involved?

 

[Supreme]

Greetings,


People get sometimes get discriminated against on the grounds of their sexuality and sometimes on the grounds of their religion. The connection is obvious. Maybe you can't see it because you've been brought up to hate homosexuality, so you think that kind of prejudice is normal.

Peace

Especially seeing as discrimination is essentially the same. Anyone who claims to hate racism and yet perpetuates homophobia is nothing more that a bigoted hypocrite.

 

[Supreme]

Who's "we", and what do you mean by "any discrimination"?

If you can't discriminate based on how people think and act, how are you supposed to make any kind of decision where people are involved?

Ah, my mistake, I meant the sociological discrimination. Statistical discrimination is necessary.

 

[JaffaCake]

Do you agree with religious discrimination?

 

[Supreme]

Do you agree with religious discrimination?

Me? Absoloutely not. Everybody should be able to worship whatever god they want.

 

[GuestFellow]

Any awareness of discrimination and its evils is to be welcomed. All discrimination is essentially the same, so hopefully this will not just tackle Islamophobia, but racism and homophobia too.

I do believe Homosexuality is a sin however I have nothing against laws to tackle Homophobia. I have heard of cases where homosexuals do get attacked for no reason and there is some form of hatred against homosexuals which should be tackled.

 

[جوري]

In our country, we do not believe that any discrimination is acceptable. That includes the rights of consenting adults in sexual relations, although it's clear you're availing to take the thread off its course.

Do people usually know what goes in other people's bedrooms, unless people advertise it? The only way you'd receive 'sexual discrimination' is if you were making your sexuality known to other people. Folks don't usually advertise that they are heterosexual and march in parades wearing tiny colorful speedos in front of children. If it isn't acceptable from heteros, then it isn't acceptable from homos.
I like the way you project.. a topic of Islamophobia has to have a mention of a depraved sexual act where the 'immorality squad' are sure to come by with their BB guns, and I am the one steering the topic off course... Funny stuff!

Greetings,


People get sometimes get discriminated against on the grounds of their sexuality and sometimes on the grounds of their religion. The connection is obvious. Maybe you can't see it because you've been brought up to hate homosexuality, so you think that kind of prejudice is normal.

Peace

It is funny how you know so much about my life and how I was brought up? You must be psychic? I didn't know atheists had crystal balls :shade: I didn't practice Islam until my early twenties a handful of years.. I didn't know about homosexuality until I came to the western world and was well into my teens, It isn't something that the normal 'natural mind conceives;, and I have learned about from non-Muslim people 'in health class', not my parents, but by folks who were trying to initiate me into the 'okayness' of the act. I have never had the discussion with my family, or religious figures.. it is common sense that is clearly lacking in someone whose entire morality and behavior code is skewed and very questionable!

all the best

 

[titus]

The only way you'd receive 'sexual discrimination' is if you were making your sexuality known to other people.

I walk down the street with my wife holding hands. We got married in front of our friends and family. We have even been known to give each other kisses in front of other people.

People all the time introduce other people to their wives and their girlfriends, their husbands and their boyfriends. When they do this they are, in effect, publicizing their sexuality.

If it is not an issue what goes on between two adults in the privacy of their own bedroom, then why should they feel the need to hide it? Noone is saying that you have, or should, accept it. What they are saying that is that these people should not persecuted because of it, or discriminated against.

 

[جوري]

I walk down the street with my wife holding hands. We got married in front of our friends and family. We have even been known to give each other kisses in front of other people.

People all the time introduce other people to their wives and their girlfriends, their husbands and their boyfriends. When they do this they are, in effect, publicizing their sexuality.

If it is not an issue what goes on between two adults in the privacy of their own bedroom, then why should they feel the need to hide it? Noone is saying that you have, or should, accept it. What they are saying that is that these people should not persecuted because of it, or discriminated against.

and what does any of this have to do with a topic on Islamophobia? Tolerance doesn't equate to acceptance of homosexuality.. I wasn't proposing folks beat on homos anymore than I am suggesting they beat on necrophiliacs or pederasts .. however what they do, should be confined to their personal life ( if a depraved society doesn't see it fit to punish or at least offer help to frank deviance) there is no room for a public spectacle and certainly not an opportunity to force others to accept views that are in not in concert with ones personal ideals!

 

[Fishman]

I do believe Homosexuality is a sin however I have nothing against laws to tackle Homophobia. I have heard of cases where homosexuals do get attacked for no reason and there is some form of hatred against homosexuals which should be tackled.

Exactly. Whatever weirdness homosexuals get up to in their private lives is not of our concern, and certainly shouldn't be the government's. If homosexuals are victimised and abused they are just as entitled to sympathy as anybody else.

Back on topic, I don't see how anybody can condemn initiatives such as these. Drama is a very good way to get a point across, as the viewer gets to see and hear the emotion of the characters involved, not just read about it, or see a depiction of it on a screen.

Still, it is a shame that even though Muslims praise projects like this, the bodies in charge of Islamic schools or Madrassae would not think of running similar projects in favour of people that Muslims often stereotype or discriminate against. For example Jews (the amount of nonsense I have heard about Jews is simply bonkers, though it doesn't happen that much on these forums), or, dare I say this, homosexuals (the fact that Muslims regard homosexual acts as sinful doesn't justify all the bizzare myths and overeactions about them).
However, I imagine there is similar hypocrisy in conservative Christian schools as well. I long for the day when the religious are not blinded by empty dogmatism and 'towing the party line'.

 

[titus]

I wasn't proposing folks beat on homos anymore than I am suggesting they beat on necrophiliacs or pederasts .. however what they do, should be confined to their personal life

Confined to their personal life in what way?

What if someone made the same comment about Muslims, that they should confine it to their personal life and not let it be made public? They aren't saying that Muslims should be beaten, simply that they need to keep their Islam at home where no one else can see it.

That would be wrong. That would be discrimination. You should be allowed to practice your religion without hiding it. Yes, people of other religions may think you are going to Hell because of it, but that is their issue. You may feel that homosexuals are going to Hell for what they believe, but that is your issue. Neither group should be discriminated against for what they believe.

 

[czgibson]

Greetings,

It is funny how you know so much about my life and how I was brought up? You must be psychic? I didn't know atheists had crystal balls :shade: I didn't practice Islam until my early twenties a handful of years.. I didn't know about homosexuality until I came to the western world and was well into my teens, It isn't something that the normal 'natural mind conceives;, and I have learned about from non-Muslim people 'in health class', not my parents, but by folks who were trying to initiate me into the 'okayness' of the act. I have never had the discussion with my family, or religious figures.. it is common sense that is clearly lacking in someone whose entire morality and behavior code is skewed and very questionable!

Are you saying that you developed this particular hatred all by yourself?

I always thought you were born a Muslim - my mistake if that's not true. Sorry. Still, the connection between these two types of discrimination ought to be obvious to anyone.

When I first saw that this play was being put on in Sandhurst, I thought it had something to do with trainee officers in the army - putting it on for them might not be a bad idea as well.

Peace

 

[جوري]

Confined to their personal life in what way?

What if someone made the same comment about Muslims, that they should confine it to their personal life and not let it be made public? They aren't saying that Muslims should be beaten, simply that they need to keep their Islam at home where no one else can see it.

That would be wrong. That would be discrimination. You should be allowed to practice your religion without hiding it. Yes, people of other religions may think you are going to Hell because of it, but that is their issue. You may feel that homosexuals are going to Hell for what they believe, but that is your issue. Neither group should be discriminated against for what they believe.

Islam isn't a depraved sexual act.
That is where sexual acts (of any nature) belong --in private, until such a time coupling like donkeys in public becomes the norm, that is what is acceptable social mores the world over .. Again, I fail to see any connection between the topic and non-standard acts of lewdness?.. Normal acts of sexuality aren't to be made public, let alone depraved ones and that is what homos define themselves, solely on their sexuality... in what way is there semblance between religions and screwing another guy?

You should seek a permit to write!

 

[جوري]

Greetings,


Are you saying that you developed this particular hatred all by yourself?

Do you hate pederasts and necrophiliacs? labeling me hateful is your view because you are unable to distinguish the difference of not accepting and finding an act abominable and how that differs from hatred toward a random person.

I always thought you were born a Muslim - my mistake if that's not true. Sorry. Still, the connection between these two types of discrimination ought to be obvious to anyone.

Can a Muslim not be practicing? and no I don't see a connection between the two, not even by a long stretch of the imagination.
Religion and skewed deviant sexual acts as per DSM-II are in concert as under water basket weaving and zollinger Ellison syndrome.

all the best