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The exercise is part of the school's Islamic studies syllabus and approved by its PTA, one of whose members supplied the animals.
Parents of children at a primary school in Batu Caves have expressed concern after Year 6 Muslim pupils were made to participate in a mock animal sacrificial ritual involving some 70 quails.
Checks at the school confirmed that the programme was conducted yesterday as part of an annual exercise to “educate students on the proper way of slaughtering animals” according to Islam.
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FMT has been made to understand that the mock slaughter, approved by the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA), was carried out at the school compound when classes were in session, and supervised by an Islamic studies teacher who guided the students.
One of the PTA members had supplied the school with the quails, a source revealed.
It is also understood that apart from the ritual slaughter lessons which made some students uneasy with the gory scenes from such an act, 12-year-old Muslim students also attended an exercise on the ritual bath (mandi wajib), an obligatory act after sexual intercourse or ejaculation.
The ritual sacrifice left some parents shocked and wondering if the exercise was part of the national syllabus.
One concerned parent who spoke to FMT on condition of anonymity, said his son was traumatised after watching the birds being slaughtered.
“I want to know what the school was trying to achieve by having the gruesome event in the school.
“Were guidelines followed to ensure the slaughtering exercise was hygienic or even halal?” he asked.
“What was the school management trying to prove, by getting a bunch of 12-year-old children to slaughter live animals?”
He urged the ministry to probe the matter immediately and put a stop to such practices in the future.
FMT was informed that a school in the same vicinity had also carried out a similar exercise last year involving quails and chickens.
Original article from http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2016/10/14/ritual-slaughter-lesson-at-school-ground-shocks-parents-students/
