Malaysiakini - Non-Muslim students forced to eat in shower room
School canteen is closed for puasa so the above happened.
In my days, during Puasa, Muslim students were given access to the library during meal recess; some of them gathered beneath the canopies of the several flame-of-the-forests (butea monosperma, parrot tree) that grew in my school to chit chat until class resumed. The non-Muslims continued their use of the school canteen as per non-Puasa times.
Today, the 'nons' are banished to the confines of a shower room, next to a smelly and filthy toilet.
One distressed mum said: "The bathroom is full of bacteria and smells ... and the toilet next door has a horrible smell."
Apparently, when parents complained to the school, the school administrators merely told the students to go to another bathroom or a store room.
School canteen is closed for puasa so the above happened.
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| flame of forest better to eat under such a tree than in a bathroom |
In my days, during Puasa, Muslim students were given access to the library during meal recess; some of them gathered beneath the canopies of the several flame-of-the-forests (butea monosperma, parrot tree) that grew in my school to chit chat until class resumed. The non-Muslims continued their use of the school canteen as per non-Puasa times.
Today, the 'nons' are banished to the confines of a shower room, next to a smelly and filthy toilet.
One distressed mum said: "The bathroom is full of bacteria and smells ... and the toilet next door has a horrible smell."
Apparently, when parents complained to the school, the school administrators merely told the students to go to another bathroom or a store room.
Why couldn't they be allowed to use the canteen. Afterall that's what a canteen is for. No one was asking for the Muslim students to join in. Why must 'nons' be denied due access to the appropriate facility for meals?
“Is this fair? Can school treat like this. No food serve and no canteen. That bathroom is full of bacteria and smell because it's a bathroom and next door [to a] toilet with the horrible smell.”
“Is it fair for a Sekolah Kebangsaan Sri Pristana treatment our non Muslim children like this during puasa month?”
From the Malay Mail Online, she was reported to asked:
“Is this fair? Can school treat like this. No food serve and no canteen. That bathroom is full of bacteria and smell because it's a bathroom and next door [to a] toilet with the horrible smell.”
“Is it fair for a Sekolah Kebangsaan Sri Pristana treatment our non Muslim children like this during puasa month?”
The mum continued (as reported by Malaysiakini):
"As a mother, I am in tears and sadness. How many times do they need to run ...? Dear Malay friends, is this fair to you? Does your Allah allow this?"
No Mum, Allah swt does NOT countenance such inequality. It's man who proposes and in Malaysia, also man who disposes (such callous injustice).
No Mum, Allah swt does NOT countenance such inequality. It's man who proposes and in Malaysia, also man who disposes (such callous injustice).
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