Refusal for Mosque Visit: € 300, - fine for parents of pupils.

Parents of a student in the northern German Rendsburg were fined more than 300, - after they had refused mosque attendance by their children. The visit took place within the framework of the geography education.

The refusal of the visit to a mosque in the context of geography education afforded parents of a pupil in Rendsburg (Schleswig-Holstein), a fine of more than € 300, - on the news report "MMnews".

 

The topic of the lesson was, according to the timetable, "The Orient - power factors of water and oil." But was visiting a mosque actually suitable to transmit this content? For them the visited Muslim prayer house suspected of promoting radical Islamic terrorism.

Parents: no one should have to go against their will to enter a religious building let alone to be forced.

From fear of religious indoctrination the child's parents sought out a dialogue with the school. The parents that belong to no  faith community and believe that no one can be forced against his will to enter a building intended for the religion.

Then the school filed a complaint against the parents. The district commissioner gave two fines (one for each parent), after the child had stayed home and had not participated in the mosque on the "briefing".

At a Hearing: The parents have not put forth valid or exculpatory facts"

Eventually it will come to a hearing. As stated in the fine, the parents would "not have put exculpatory facts  forward." They would "not have done enough for regular school attendance of the schools meetings of their child" and thereby "deliberately acted'' for this sanction.

The parents signed a  protest, after which the case will probably come before the district court.

To inform public opinion on the matter, it was published in 17 pages consisting defense lawyer Alexander Heumann.

http://heumanns-brille.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Heumann-Rendsburg.pdf