UK to set school exams around Ramadan

[Regina]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...count.html

I don't think I've heard enough yet to fully form an opinion. It sounds like a lot of exams are simply being moved to the morning of the day they'd be on anyway. If we're talking about moving exams earlier by weeks though, doesn't that negatively affect everyone? It gives you less time to learn the curriculum and prepare.

I just think it's stupid. No discussion about the asinine practices that are the real cause of these kids' suffering education, no, everyone else has to move to accommodate it.

And side-note as well, I'm getting sick of hearing this selective "Britain is a Christian country" argument, that people who never go to church bring out when Islam hits the news. We're a country which has historically had a Christian majority, we are not a Christian country anymore in the 21st Century. Stop that.

The UK is constitutionally a theocracy, and a monarchy. So if someone says it's a Christian country that's because it is. The Christian God is considered to be the highest authority in the land. You might claim that it "functions" as a democracy, and while that may be true it certainly isn't one. For example, no bill from parliament can be passed into law without approval from the Crown. The fact that the Queen's policy is to rubber-stamp anything doesn't detract from the fact that she holds the power over what becomes law and what doesn't, not the parliament and not the people.

It is true that The United Kingdom still, technically, has Protestantism as the state religion (with the Royal family as the head of the English Church). However, I think culturally when you look at everyday British people, it is wrong to call us a "Christian country" in 2016. Christianity has very little, if any, cultural influence in the everyday life of the average Brit in the 21st Century. It's very un-theocratic for a constitutional theocracy, Christianity isn't forced onto anyone here. The Churches are half empty, and the majority of the people who still go are a dying generation. Virtually nobody my age ever goes to church, it's not something people have any interest in anymore. Sure "we have Christmas", but even Christmas (now) is just an opportunity to decorate your house nicely and exchange gifts, and an excuse for a public holiday, nobody celebrates it as a religious holiday anymore.

But I also say all that to call out the selective argument of these people who love shouting "We're a Christian country!". I've heard people say this who I know are not in the slightest bit "religious", and are just saying it because they think it's a good argument against Islam. It's disingenuous hearing those words coming from someone who doesn't give a toss about Christianity, and hasn't been within 50 feet of a Church since the last wedding in their family.