{"id":33249,"date":"2024-04-18T14:13:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T13:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=33249"},"modified":"2025-07-09T18:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:18:22","slug":"muslim-student-loses-prayer-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/muslim-student-loses-prayer-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim student loses prayer case"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A Muslim pupil at a London school has lost a High Court challenge against its ban on prayer rituals. But in a nation slowly turning demographically Muslim, how long can that ruling endure?<\/p>\n

The girl wanted permission for Muslim children to pray en masse in the school’s yard.<\/p>\n

Last year, until the ban, the court heard up to 30 children were praying using blazers to kneel on. She argued the ban was discriminatory.<\/p>\n

The Bible says:
\nProv 18:17 The first in his own cause seems just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.<\/b><\/p>\n

In its own evidence,\u00a0Michaela Community School<\/b><\/a> in Wembley told the High Court that \u2018allowing prayer rituals risked \u2018undermining inclusion\u2019 among pupils.\u2019<\/p>\n

The school argued its prayer policy was justified after it faced death and bomb threats linked to religious observance on site. It told the court of concerns about a \u2018culture shift\u2019 towards \u2018segregation between religious groups and intimidation within the group of Muslim pupils\u2019.<\/p>\n

There is no legal requirement for schools to allow pupils a time or a place to pray. Michaela is a non-faith state secondary free school, independent of the local authority, but around half the school’s roughly 700 pupils are Muslim. In Britain as a whole it\u2019s 8% and rising. The 6.5% of Muslims in the UK population are having more children than the rest.<\/p>\n