Jesus, they’re taking kids to fucking mosques? When I was a kid we were taken to museums, parks and book shops. Raising kids in this age seems absolutely insane to me, and extremely difficult.
I'm absolutely fine with the "this is what other people believe, understand this, and to be polite don't give any Muslim or Jewish mates a bacon sandwich" kind of cultural education. I don't actually want them to be ignorant dolts about other people's culture, but what they then do with that information is up to them. They have friends who are reasonably observant Jews, and one of the ways they show their affection and respect for their friends is to show respect for their beliefs and traditions. I'm fine with that. I also respect the traditions and beliefs of those I care about, not because I subscribe to the traditions and beliefs myself, but to make my friends comfortable. This is normal friendship. My meat-eating pals don't make nothing but meat when I come over for dinner, so I don't make food they can't eat when they are over at mine. They wish me a merry Christmas and I am happy to wish them a happy and peaceful Eid. This is the normal respect we show friends. My non-Catholic friends came to our wedding, but they did not take Communion or participate in the Credo. You understand what I'm getting at here. There's respect, and then there's something else, which in itself is not respectful. Their little mates joined us for Christmas dinner last year (because a big dinner and new toys at our house and they were bored) and we were very glad to have them and share the non-religious part of the celebration with them, but we certainly did not take them to midnight Mass the night before because that's religious practice and not the same as respecting or even sharing a cultural practice.
But I am not having my daughters taken to a mosque.
We were told the girls should cover their heads. Now, I understand that. I would not personally enter a mosque without veiling as it is grotesquely disrespectful, and I don't expect people to come into my house of worship and disrespect my God.
But because of that very requirement, I wouldn't fucking go. My daughter is not Muslim. She is not hijabi, she never will be hijabi, I will not veil her in deference to a religion she does not belong to.
People who don't accept Allah should not be at the mosque. Sorry not sorry: a place of worship is for worshipping, not for cultural tourism.
And I won't veil her. I choose not to raise her in the Islamic faith, and I choose not to raise her in a country where veiling is a legal requirement. Neither the law of my country nor the instructions of my God tell me to veil my child, so I fucking won't.