Parent’s anger over child joining school prayer group without consent

A Muslim community leader has questioned whether NSW public high schools are doing enough to guard against extremism among students after he discovered his 12-year-old child was attending a prayer group without his consent in breach of departmental policies.

Authorities have designated the 16-year-old’s alleged attack on Christian Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel as a terrorist incident, with police saying the accused had made comments “around religion” in the lead-up to the violence. The teenager’s lawyer told the court on Friday his family had advised he had a long history of behaviour consistent with suffering from a mental illness dating back to when he was a young child.

At the time it was also reported Farhad Jabar, a year 10 student from another school, who murdered NSW police employee Curtis Cheng, regularly attended the lunchtime prayer sessions. Guven Biber told the court he chose to send his son Mehmet Biber to a public school because he thought it would be “totally secular” but found it was a “religious hothouse” where his son was exposed to fundamentalist beliefs while attending prayer groups.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

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