BBC: Teacher sacked over telling the truth

4 February 2007  

Actually, the title of the BBC news article is “Teacher sacked over religion row“, but that’s not strictly accurate, is it?

A supply teacher has been sacked from a secondary school following complaints from Muslim pupils.

Andrew McLuskey was sacked from Bayliss (sic) Court Secondary School in Slough after a Religious Education lesson discussing the pros and cons of religion.

Pupils at the predominantly Muslim school claimed Mr McLuskey said most suicide bombers were Muslim.

To say that most suicide bombers were Muslim is not comparable to saying “most muslims are suicide bombers”, in which case they could have rightly said that this was unfair and discriminatory. But I would point out that walking — while wearing a vest covered in, or driving a truck full of, nail-engorged-plastique — into a crowded place before pushing a button to blow yourself and any other hapless bystanders to smithereens has pretty much been something that muslims have a near monopoly on in recent times. I’d be happy to be proven wrong on this count.

Either way, I’d opine that such actions should be considered a “con” in terms of religion, regardless of the flavour of the believer in question.

I don’t know the circumstances of what prompted McLuskey to say what he said in the first place, and I won’t comment on the appropriateness of the comment considering that he had muslim students in his class, but it doesn’t take a degree in journalism to comprehend that what he said and reality aren’t strangers to each other.

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