No Religious Tolerance
Muna Al-Fuzai
I really believe in the need to exercise and show tolerance in our daily life, no matter what our religion is or the belief system we follow.
Now, I don't wish to speak about tolerance in today 's world as I personally don't see much of it in a world full of chaos, blood and anger all around, especially in the Muslim world.
Recently, an expat mother came to me with a complaint that I personally found to be sadly true. It was either a bad practice followed by a school management or a bad decision made by the officials at the ministry of education. It seems like a contradiction when we claim that we, the Muslims, are open about our beliefs and we practise a model of tolerance.
If we cannot display that in real life and in the simple day to day life in a school, then I surely fail to see how we can make that claim. This mother, who was not a Muslim, and her 10-yearold son, heard many expats in Kuwait talking about Islam and they didn't k now much about it.
Let us be fair here – not many of the non-Muslims can afford the time to go to places to attend sessions about Islam because they neither have the time nor the interest.
Anyhow, this mother wanted her son to attend some class in Islamic religion, just like the Muslims' children, to learn more about Islam and to know about the religions of this country. Fair enough. But her request to allow her Christian son to attend these classes at school, which carried no grades or credits, was denied.
According to the school, non- Muslim students were not allowed to attend classes for Muslim students in religion? Why not?
If the parents agree, what could be the harm? I think these things spring from a mind that sees matters only from one perspective. What could be the risk if parents, who live in this Muslim country, wanted their sons to attend a call or wanted to know about the religion of this countr y in which they live and deal with its people, whose majority has faith in this religion?
We ask people to show tolerance and try to understand Islam but we do not show it in our daily practice. This complaint only proved the common idea that some of us are not doing enough to prove what we really claim.
By Muna Al-Fuzai
muna@kuwaittimes.net
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