This was a field trip for a group of children aged six to eight in the Beaver Scouts, part of the Scout Movement in the United Kingdom. While screenshots of the photo have been modified, the clip appears to be authentic; even local Islamic Facebook groups do not deny it happened.

The Scout leader took them for an educational visit to the Central Scotland Islamic Centre in Stirling, Scotland, a Muslim mosque founded in 1982. Muslims are compelled to pray five times a day toward their holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, bowing to show submission (the meaning of the words “Islam” and “Muslim”) to their god Allah.

In order to earn their “Faith Activity Badge,” the young Scouts were then encouraged to follow this religious observance in prostrating themselves before the Muslim god.

One young man refused. Completely. Definitively. Courageously. 👇

Commenters did not fail to see the biblical connections:

Speaking of the Bible, one can only imagine the national outrage if Scottish children had been taken to actively participate in a prayer service in a historical Scottish church as a sign of submission to the name of Jesus Christ!

Stirling, dubbed “Scotland’s smallest city” and “the gateway to the Highlands,” is just north of Falkirk and is surrounded by rich farmland. The area now has a thousand Muslims living in or near the city of 37,000.

Like most cities in the UK, this number is expected to rise. The number one boy’s name in the country has been variations of “Mohammed” for over a decade now.

Probably the best meme I’ve seen come out of this?

This one: