New Delhi: Hindu students being threatened to convert and beef being hurled at others are among some of the examples documented in a new report released on Wednesday by a UK think-tank, which includes anti-Hindu attacks. The trend has been warned against. Hate in UK schools ‘Anti-Hindu Hate in Schools’ by the Henry Jackson Society, an anti-terrorism think-tank, found that 51 per cent of Hindu parents surveyed reported their child facing anti-Hindu hatred at school. Is kept. It was also recorded that teaching on Hinduism was reported by some of the study participants as promoting religious discrimination towards Hindu students. “The report highlights the prevalence of discrimination against Hindus in British schools, with 51 per cent of Hindu parents surveyed reporting that their child has faced anti-Hindu hatred at school,” the report concludes.
“The findings underline the urgent need for greater awareness and understanding of the Hindu experience in schools and further research into other lesser-known types of prejudice that may be manifesting in UK classrooms. highlights the need for specific and accurate reporting mechanisms.” events,” it notes.
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Religious education (RE) is compulsory in schools in England until the age of 16, with the option of taking it as an examination module within the GCSE curriculum. The report’s analysis is based on Freedom of Information (FOI) requests from 1,000 schools across the country, as well as the results of a survey of 988 parents about the experience of school children.
“This report has lit a torch on an important issue. If our children are afraid to go to school, it is not acceptable regardless of their faith,” Baroness Sandeep Verma said during the report’s launch event.
The report’s author, Charlotte Littlewood, said the schools were the focus of her analysis of violence between Hindu and Muslim communities in Leicester last year in the wake of an India-Pakistan cricket match in Asia. The cup was held in Dubai in late August.
Littlewood said, “What we found was that teachers were playing into the problem, including covering up reductive and in some places prejudicial views of Hinduism.” “If we are to have an equal Britain going forward, we have to tackle all forms of hate in our classrooms,” she said. His report states that some of the discrimination displayed in the classroom was similar to the expressions of hatred seen during the unrest in Leicester between Hindus and Muslims.
“There were several instances of derogatory references to Hindus, such as mocking their vegetarianism and insulting their gods, by Islamist extremists rallying against the Hindu community in Leicester. Twenty mentions of attribution. India is reminiscent of the treatment of Jews in relation to Israel and Muslims in the post-9/11 climate,” the report said.
It makes a number of recommendations for the government, including the need to record all forms of hate-based bullying, reporting such incidents, specialist demographic and faith-based training for schools, and greater engagement with the Hindu community.