HKIS asks students to remove controversial item from the school yearbook and return it to teachers
Students at Hong Kong International School have been asked to cut out and return to teachers a controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed that was reprinted in the school yearbook.
The move was welcomed yesterday by Islamic community leaders. But on their advice, the chief imam of the Kowloon Mosque, Muhammad Arshad, turned down an invitation to speak to students at the school's end-of-term community gathering.
The Tai Tam school devoted 20 minutes of the gathering to the debacle that saw the cartoon - whose publication in a Danish newspaper sparked outrage and violence earlier this year - reprinted.
Students leaving the event yesterday for their summer holidays said they were happy with the way the school had dealt with the issue.
One student in Grade 11, who asked not to be named, said: 'The principal talked to us about this issue during the assembly. Our school is a Christian school. People in our school have always been responsible and respecting [of] other cultures. So if the school has done something wrong, they'll always admit [it] and apologise afterwards.'