A British charity is at the centre of a row after a children's magazine it publishes appeared to depict Christians as Islamaphobes who regard Muslims as terrorists. In a cartoon strip, a boy wearing a large cross around his neck is shown telling a friend that a smiling Muslim girl in a veil looks like a terrorist, The Daily Mail reports.
He later confronts her and shouts: "Hey, whatever your name is, what are you hiding under your turban?"
She replies that the garment is called a hijab and it is part of her religion, "like that cross you wear".
p>The girl is then shown standing up for another boy, who is being bullied, and her behaviour is contrasted with that of the boy wearing the cross.The cartoon story, entitled Standing Up For What You Believe In, appears in the latest issue of Klic!, a quarterly magazine aimed at children in care aged from eight to 12.
Published by the Who Cares? Trust, a government funded charity set up in 1992, it is described on the cover as "the best ever mag for kids in care" and is widely distributed by town halls.
Mike Judge, of the Christian Institute, said: "What about Christian children in care who received this magazine? How will they feel to see themselves mocked as narrow minded Islamaphobes?
"It is a clumsy caricature, symptomatic of a culture which says it is OK to bully Christians in the name of diversity."
But Who Cares? Trust chief executive Natasha Finlayson said she had no intention of withdrawing it, describing the cross as "bling" rather than a religious symbol.
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