Fuss about religion lessons Leiden school | Inland

For example, the commission asked, “How come people believe in a religion that produces so much violence?” And: “Why are there so many Muslim terrorists?” In the assignment on “freedom of religion and Islam”, students had to process these and other questions into a 500-word newspaper article.

Political party Denk, among others, reacted indignantly to the assignment. The party sent a tweet and the text: “Islamophobia is bad and dangerous, we will never teach it again.”

Short statement

The school responded in a short statement: “Het Visser ‘t Hooft Lyceum takes the position that no single religion or philosophy as a whole should be held accountable for the actions of a small group. As a school, we distance ourselves from a few questions in the writing assignment during this week’s religion lesson.

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