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Christian leaders cause shock and dismay<\/a><\/p>\n

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The head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, and Church of England bishop Reverend Tom Butler have both suggested that Muslim faith schools may be inappropriate for Christian children. <\/p>\n

The comments are likely to feed into the debate about faith schools, and the wider question of multicultural Britain in the wake of the London bombings. <\/p>\n

Speaking on a BBC Two programme, God and the Politicians<\/em>, due for broadcast tomorrow, Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor said he welcomed Jewish and Muslim parents sending their children to Catholic schools. <\/p>\n

But he said he would not want large numbers of Catholic children going to Muslim schools, saying the "creed of Islam is totally diverse from the creed of Christianity". <\/p>\n

On the same programme, Reverend Butler, Bishop of Southwark, said he would not have sent his own children to a Muslim faith school. <\/p>\n

The general secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain, Sir Iqbal Sacranie, reacted with disappointment to the comments on the programme. <\/p>\n

Mr Sacranie said he had received his secondary education in a Catholic school, and did not see why Christian children could not benefit from an education in a Muslim faith school. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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