Hate mail arrives after kindergarten asks imam to teach kids

[Mio_Akiyama]

How is having a militant atheist teaching about religion going about it in an unbiased way?

[Taggart]

Now you see this relies on your preconception that all religious pastors are incapable of understanding how faith works and that each religion (and lack of it) has its place, which simply is not true. One of the RE classes at a school I volunteered at had the local protestant priest standing in for the Imam due to ill health and not once while he was teaching the kids about Islam did he go "but Christianity is the only real religion kids, remember that".

You don't have to be an athiest to be indiscriminate to other ideologies.

[Shitty Bill]

Geez, some of you guys are acting like they're running bible studies and practicing the Eucharist.

Pretty sure it's literally just them explaining the basic tenets of their belief system and different holy days and shit. Basic stuff that might be useful to know if you plan on dealing with people of different faiths at some point in your life. They're not signing their lives away to it.

[Gum100]

If the aspects of different religions are being taught equally (as seems to be the case here), then yeah, I don't particularly see any issue with the teaching itself.
I had a quick google and found this though:
https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/10305/3/03Chapter1%2C6_Hort.pdf
Which if I understand the results correctly after a brief scan through, children don't usually start to understand contradictions until the ages of about 7 or 8. Given this, I think there could possibly be benefit to delaying religious education till those ages, as opposed to during kindergarden, simply because they'd be able to have a more reliable understanding of how say, "Religion A believes the world was created through Y" and "Religion B believes the world was created through Z".