British Education Secretary Michael Gove decided to include Islamic History in the mandatory British school units. The revisions were made to address an outcry over a prior draft that did not include any references to the monotheistic Abrahamic religion, the PressTV reports.
The Muslim Council of Britain, representing 500 Islamic institutes in Britain, said they were “deeply disappointed” by the fact.
However, both Muslims and Christians approved the revision of the course. The new curriculum will be introduced in 2014, but not at free schools and academies, which set their own curriculums.
The revised curriculum is “great,” though, according to Salim Mulla, chairman of the Lancashire Council of Mosques. He believes that people in the country could use “a better understanding of all faiths”.
“There is already a good understanding of Christianity taught in schools”, - said Mr. Mulla. - “But I don’t think a lot of Christians really understand what the Muslim faith is about”.
A spokesman for the Blackburn Diocese Board of Education (DBE) said: “The Blackburn DBE endorses a National Curriculum that promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at school and of society, and prepares pupils at the school for the opportunities, responsibilities and experience of later life, particularly, in a fast changing globalised world.
