Tony Blair, George Bush, A suicide bomber or Osama Bin Laden...well that's what a survey is asking kids in school.

The survey entitled Race, Religion and Culture is made up of 33 pages with over 100 questions and is being given to or has already been completed by pupils in selected schools in Kirklees, Blackburn with Darwen and York.

The majority of the questions look to gauge the opinions concerning Muslims and to find the attitudes of all pupils with regards to dress in particular the veil, friends and bullying.

However, it is the sections concerning politics that has come in for some criticism. And Asian Image has learned certain schools have declined to sign up to the survey after reservations about the content.

The survey was announced back in May but the questions were not revealed until now when Asian Image acquired a copy from Kirklees.

Parents may be alarmed at why they were not consulted on the content of the survey which asks pupils their views on the American government, the Iraq war and whether it is right for a suicide bomber to blow himself in his own country to kill troops from another country.

Pupils from years 7, 10 and 12 from schools and colleges are targeted in the survey.

However, the survey has been defended by an ethnic minority organisation who are heading the project in one town.

EMDA (Ethnic Minority Development Association) is administering the questionnaire in Blackburn with Darwen. It was put together by a team of psychologists from York St John's University headed by Dr Adrian Brockett. EMDA say the survey may prove to government agencies that Muslim pupils are not extremists.

Dr Sohail Bhatti of EMDA said, "Everybody is telling the community that we are extremists however this survey may prove otherwise.

"It is wrong to ask people such questions? Should we continue to deny that there are differences in attitudes?

"Fear and prejudice exist when there is no information and actual facts. We feel this survey will provide those facts."

"What is important to point out is that ALL pupils fill in the survey and not just Muslim schoolkids." "The survey is entirely confidential. However it does ask for the postcode of the pupil."

When asked who had been consulted about the survey Dr Bhatti was adamant that it had been put out to a wide range of people and agencies.

"The survey has been ethically approved by a team of experts and has been studied by selected headteachers, members of the police and local authority officers"

"It is also important to remember that after the survey each class have a discussion about some of the issues raised in the questionnaire."

When we asked Blackburn with Darwen Council they said the decision had been left to individual schools.

However Witton Park and Pleckgate said they were approached and declined to take on the survey.

Mrs Patel a parent told us, "I think it is not right to ask a 13-year-old some of these questions.

"What has one's support for the Iraq war got to do with being an extremist?.

"I understand in the current political climate the desire to get the opinions of young people but shouldn't parents have been asked their views first?"

Another parent Hamid Ahmed said, "If a Muslim pupil is sitting next to a non-Muslim in class does this help portray that his friend is the problem?"

"What if Muslim pupils put down that George Bush is an extremist?"

Junaid Qureshi of EMDA said, "None of this has been underhand in any way and everything is transparent."

Mr Qureshi did confirm that the survey would be carried out, or had already been, in Blackburn at Beardwood High School, St Bedes, Al-Islah School and Blakewater College.

York St John University commented, "The main aims of the specific social inclusion and diversity project, of which the research forms a part, is to more fully understand the nature and extent of the views of young people locally about community cohesion and race and religion, with particular reference to Islam."

"We hope this understanding will contribute to the development of interventions that help to reduce potential areas of misunderstanding and conflict.

"It is best to avoid taking individual questions out of the overall context."

Some of the questions posed include: >> How do you feel about the American Government because of the war in Iraq?

>> How often do you choose to pray?

>> How does out of school religious teaching affect other areas of your life?

>> If you think the Government is deliberately working against your beliefs do you think it is okay to respond with violence?

It also asks pupils whether they think these actions are right or wrong?

>> A suicide bomber blows himself up in a different country to his own because that land has been taken over by another country.

>> A suicide bomber blows himself up in his own country in order to kill troops from another country >> The police raid your next-door neighbour's house looking for a suspect.

>> Other questions ask which political party you agree with and if being British is more important than being a Muslim.