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What Was All The Fuss About?
This story has been in the news the last few days. A Toronto public school has been allowing Islamic Friday services to take place in the cafeteria after lunch for about a year. Students are not being taken out of classes nor is any religion being taught as any part of the curriculum. The school population is almost completely Muslim and this is a decision that has been made at the local level with the knowledge and approval of the board. Naturally, the proverbial you-know-what has hit the fan. Talk radio and columnists are all abuzz over it for all the predictable reasons.
This is not new. There has been a Christian school that has long been under the jurisdiction of the Niagara public board and pretty much does exactly the same thing. It makes one wonder what all the fuss was about during the last Ontario provincial election.