Look, I don’t know much about Nadiya Hussein but I gather she’s a lovely woman, famous
for baking cakes. Beyond that I remained in happy ignorance until I saw this headline in the
Times, ‘I make my kids go on 6 am walks.’
This strikes me as both cruel and unusual, but that isn't the half of it. If you read the article you discover the line ‘The family wakes each morning just before 5am to pray.’ 'For me,' she says, 'it's about making the most of the day.' - I mean, really?
Naturally I was reminded of the blessed Christopher Hitchens’ remark that he thought teaching religious knowledge in schools was a very good thing because it guaranteed an ongoing supply of atheists. I assume much the same can be said about waking children at 5am for prayers.
