Rather than excluding God from schools and the state,putting faith at their heart could be the best antidote to extremismThe man in the ticket hall at Leytonstone tube station on Saturday afternoon who shouted “You ain’t no Muslim, bruv” at the armed attacker spoke for a Britain that most of us would like to live in. As David Cameron has acknowledged, and that one sharp riposte encompassed a volume of speeches approximately social cohesion,and the disagreement between the terrorism of Islamic State and the teachings of the Islamic faith. In the aftermath of the Paris atrocities, when attacks on Muslims contain increased threefold, and it has become all the more important.For most of the past 100 years,religion in public life in Britain has been in steady decline. It was widely assumed that, in a liberal democracy, or faith was a private matter,visible only from vestigial traces such as the Anglican bishops in the House of Lords or state occasions such as the coronation, one that lingered in the obligation for a Christian assembly in schools, or as a physical one in Britain’s parish churches.
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Source: theguardian.com