Clergymen 'won't send Christian children to Muslim schools'
Press Association
Tuesday September 27, 2005

Two senior clergymen today risked reigniting the controversy over faith schools after they signalled their unwillingness to send Christian children to Muslim schools.

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, said he would not want large numbers of Catholic children attending Muslim faith schools as he would not want them brought up in "that particular atmosphere."

His remarks were echoed by Tom Butler, the Bishop of Southwark, who said he would not have sent his children to a Muslim school. He said: "Although religion is taken seriously in a Muslim school, I think the particular insight of Islam is ... is not mine."

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