00:00hey guys so various versions of this story have been posted online a 121
00:06year old kindergarten in Japan took its graduating five-year-olds to a mosque and
00:12the children prayed towards Mecca in Arabic on the floor so as you can
00:17imagine the clickbait is no when they post that that all people can absolutely
00:22lose their minds and leave some really crazy comments underneath that one so
00:27what they don't tell you because they never give you the whole story the
00:30clickbaiters is the principle of the kindergarten released a statement he
00:37said this time as part of God's study we were allowed to visit a mosque for an
00:42Islamic tour however based on the articles and photos posted on our
00:47Instagram and other platforms the articles and photos from the mosque visit
00:50mainly showed the children performing worship such as praying and from various
00:56sources which is going to be clickbaiters and attention seekers we received
01:01comments such as they forced the children to do it without considering their
01:05feelings and experiencing it as a young child can be brainwashing and
01:11experiencing it promotes Islam this has led to misunderstandings and concerns
01:17although we provided an experience as part of the learning process we sincerely
01:22reflect on the biased wording in the photos posted this initiative the God
01:28study has been ongoing since last year's graduation with the idea of what is
01:34God from the graduates as part of the initiative we held a Christmas party we
01:40held a presentation focusing on hymns Christian hymns and in the subsequent
01:45presentation we presented various expressions of gods on the stage using
01:50Greek mythology and Japanese mythology as subjects we also visited shrines temples
01:57and churches in the area listen to their stories and learned about etiquette and
02:02manners as a continuation of our various
02:08experiential activities we were allowed to visit one of the three major religions in
02:13the world Islam and even visited a mosque as the kindergarten we treated each
02:19religion equally and without bias but we are truly sorry this post has caused
02:24misunderstanding and anxiety in the future we will strive to ensure that such
02:29incidents do not happen again end of quote so it seems that this kindergarten had a
02:36very comprehensive academic approach to learning about various religions
02:44including Shinto and was it Buddhism and Christianity and Greek mythology and
02:50Japanese mythology and Islam so across the board which nobody seemed to object to we
02:57made a video recently comparing Christianity and Islam in Japan the reason for that was
03:02the same sort of thinking as this school that that to look at it objectively if you
03:07compare with other ones however as we found numerous times recently presenting
03:15people with facts does not necessarily help the situation or change their biases and
03:23opinions on things there are people in the world who still believe that what the
03:27earth is flat so obviously it doesn't matter what facts you present people are going to
03:34believe what they're going to believe we've also found recently there are a couple of
03:37people out there who are interested in the facts this video was for you so when you
03:42see that clickbait and attention-seeking nonsense you'll have the whole story and be
03:47able to draw your own informed conclusion more videos coming soon
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