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Date/Time 29 Dec 2014 3:52:42pm
The author proposes that religious instruction "should be for the sake of social cohesion" and "as a gateway to learning about and celebrating diversity".
In other words, religious instruction should be used as a vehicle to preach her religion, multiculturalism, whose very motto "Unity through celebrating diversity" provides sufficient warning of its inevitable failure, to those of us not of the faith.
Never mind that people who are vastly more informed than the author have already declared its failure -

'Nicolas Sarkozy joins David Cameron and Angela Merkel view that multiculturalism has failed':

Furthermore, one way migration from Islamic to Western countries testifies to the superiority of the Judaeo-Christian over the Islamic model. The Muslims are voting with their feet. The only way multiculturalists can get around this reality is by denying the West's "Judaeo-Christian heritage".

Why then should Islam be given equal time to Christianity in Australian classrooms, especially given that it is practised by only 2.2% (author's figure) of the population? And why should religious instruction be used as a front for promoting the failed policy of multiculturalism?