Once Muslims become the dominate population (or at least 5% from recent research) the demands for accomodations rise and become more strident. In this case it was simply a matter of Muslims occupying, in force the area they live and voila! Local authorities hand over the keys as a gesture of interfaith dialogue and tolerance.
The new owners may as well name it the Cordoba Mosque. Barry Catholics can be complete wimps also > -------------------------------------------- > Daily Mail > > Roman Catholic school could be handed over to a mosque after number of RC > pupils falls to 'five or six' > > > By _Liz Hull_ > (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=y&authornamef=Liz+Hull) > Last updated at 5:38 PM on 25th September 2010 > > * > (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1314972/Roman-Catholic-school-run-MOSQUE-just-RC-pupils-left.html) > > A Roman Catholic primary school could become the first in the country to > be > run by a mosque after a dramatic rise in the number of Muslim pupils, it > emerged today > Church bosses want to close Sacred Heart RC Primary School, in Blackburn, > Lancashire, because the number of Catholic students has plummeted from 91 > per cent to just three per cent in a decade. > In what would be the first case of its kind in Britain, the primary would > be handed over to another organisation to run - most likely the local > Tauheedul mosque - and re-opened with a new name. > > Read more: > _http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1314972/Roman-Catholic-school-run-MOSQUE-just-RC-pupils-left.html#ixzz10kn02jlU_ > (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1314972/Roman-Catholic-school-run-MOSQUE-just-RC-pupil > s-left.html#ixzz10kn02jlU) > > Around 95 per cent of the school's 200 pupils are of Asian origin. Many do > not speak English as their first language and the majority follow the > Islamic faith. > The Diocese of Salford has told Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council that > it no longer believes it is “appropriate” for the church to be in charge. > According to a report presented to the council's executive, the school, > which sits in a predominantly Asian populated area of the town, has been > struggling to recruit a permanent headteacher because of rules imposed by > the > church that the head must follow the Catholic faith. > The board of governors also made a decision to resign en masse because > they > believed they were not an accurate reflection of the local community. > Geraldine Bradbury, director of education at the Diocese, said population > shifts meant there were only “five or six” Catholic pupils left at the > school. > 'We have never experienced a change to this extent before,' she said. 'We > want to make sure that the educational needs of the community are met. > 'We would not be serving the local community by insisting that we run the > school. It brings things like having a Catholic headteacher and devoting > 10 > per cent of the timetable to RE. It would be very wrong of us to insist > on > putting a school community through that.' > > Read more: > _http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1314972/Roman-Catholic-school-run-MOSQUE-just-RC-pupils-left.html#ixzz10kmtgp5B_ > (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1314972/Roman-Catholic-school-run-MOSQUE-just-RC-pupil > s-left.html#ixzz10kmtgp5B) > > -- > Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community > <[email protected]> > Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism > Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org > -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
