A secondary school in the Dutch city of Leiden has expressed its regret for describing Islam as a "religion of violence", after a wave of anger on social networking sites.
Pictures taken of questions about the Islamic religion were published on the communication sites, which were included as part of a school assignment entitled "Freedom of Religion and Islam" at the "Visser't Hooft" school a few days ago, which aroused the discontent of the Muslim community.
The pictures showed questions such as "Why do people believe in a religion that produces all this violence?"
And why are there so many Muslim terrorists?
Een schrijfopdracht (middelbare school @VissertHooft in Leiden).
Ik vind het zo erg voor moslimkinderen op deze school, plaatsvervangend misselijk.
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After the Muslim community protested these questions, the school published a statement on Saturday confirming that it did not agree with some of the questions that were mentioned in the homework.
"We must respect each other, regardless of origin and religion," she said, "and express our regret that people were harmed because of that schoolwork."
And local media reported that a Muslim student, while he was doing his homework during the lesson, read the questions and left the class sadly.