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bolding I think that's the most deluded comment by far that I've ever read from a mainstream news outlet and that's saying something. How many parents have tried to have some say in their child's spiritual/religious education and failed? Quote:
But wouldn't this lead to even more segregation and even less brave new world integration? How about the education system keeps its face out of religion altogether and leaves the education of that (or lack of, as the case may/should be) to the parents?
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What about the rights of the non-muslim children at the affected schools or don't they count?
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Trojan Horse: how The Guardian ignored and misrepresented evidence of Islamism in schools
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/an...sm-in-schools/ Why did this happen?
There’s a lot of bad journalism about Muslims in this country, but not all of it is at the tabloid “Islamic-only toilets” end of the market. On the subject of the hardline takeover of Birmingham schools, I think The Guardian may be Britain’s most dishonest newspaper. It’s a very good paper in some ways – but it has a complete blind spot about any story involving Islamists. Its coverage of Tower Hamlets has been spectacularly misleading. And the reporting on Trojan Horse by its education editor, Richard Adams, has been execrable. Mr Adams now pronounces the entire saga a “crude witch-hunt” based on “not much evidence of anything,” claiming that “most” of the allegations of “segregated classes, compulsory prayers and incendiary preachers at school assemblies … have crumbled under examination.” The evidence of “incendiary preachers at school assemblies” – Sheikh Shady al-Suleiman, an al-Qaeda sympathiser, at Park View School on November 28 2013 – in fact comes from one of the school’s official newsletters, still available on its own website (see photo above, from page 17 of this PDF). At another of the schools, Oldknow, an official Education Funding Agency report finds that the Arabic teacher, Asif Khan, led anti-Christian chanting in assemblies (though also records his denial). I too have been told about Mr Khan’s anti-Christian assembly by four separate sources, one of them on the record. There is other on-the-record testimony that Park View’s head, Mozz Hussain, preached “mind-blowing” anti-American assemblies. The evidence of “segregated classes” comes from both this EFA report and another one, into Park View, Nansen and Golden Hillock schools, leaked to me, which states that “teachers gave [students] seats in which to sit in class by gender to avoid having to mix” and that “students told us that they were required to sit in the places which they were given by teachers,” often with “boys sitting towards the front of the class and girls at the back or around the sides.” The relevant sections of the report are published on this blog. At Golden Hillock, according to the EFA, non-Muslim pupils “had to teach themselves” in one subject. At Nansen, there is compulsory Arabic (in a primary school!) and no teaching of the arts for one entire year group. Nansen’s deputy head, Razwan Faraz, is administrator of a group called “Educational Activists” which also includes key staff and governors from several of the other schools and which pursues, in Mr Faraz’s words, an “Islamising agenda” in Birmingham’s schools. Park View’s chair of governors, Tahir Alam, is co-author of a document which calls for the teaching of art, drama and dance to Muslims to be restricted and Muslim girls to be veiled in school. Non-Muslim heads at five schools in a tiny area of Birmingham have left their jobs in the last six months. The general secretary of the headteachers’ union, Russell Hobby, says the union has found “concerted efforts” by hardliners to infiltrate Birmingham schools, is working with 30 of its members in 12 schools and has “serious concerns” about six of them – the same six being placed into special measures. Another of the schools targeted, Adderley, has released an official statement confirming that its head, a moderate Muslim, and other heads have been subjected to “malicious and targeted campaigns to remove them.” Now I have no problem with taking a position on a story. I’ve taken a clear position on this one. By definition, all investigative journalism does that – whether it’s saying that Richard Nixon was a crook, or that News International hacked people’s phones. I accept, too, that different people can honestly hold different views. But whatever you say has to be true to the best of your knowledge and belief. It has to be backed up by evidence. And it has to take proper account of any evidence against what you are reporting. You have to be sure that it does not outweigh the evidence in favour. Over the last few months, I’ve carefully read all the “evidence against” that Mr Adams has produced in his exhaustive investigative researches. It appears to consist largely of making escorted trips to the schools concerned during which he spoke only to pupils and staff chosen by the management – an exercise summed up by one of the commenters under his own article as “Everyone was happy on our state guided tour of North Korea.” Another Guardian effort was the letter, splashed on by the paper, from what it described as 20 “educational experts” attacking Ofsted for changing its judgment on the schools since they were last inspected. “It is beyond belief,” said the experts, “that schools which were judged less than a year ago to be ‘outstanding’ are now widely reported as ‘inadequate,’ despite having the same curriculum, the same students, the same leadership team and the same governing body.” Beyond belief indeed: in fact, only two of the schools, Park View and Oldknow, were previously judged “oustanding,” and neither of them have the same leadership team as when previously inspected. As we have reported, Oldknow’s head, Bhupinder Kondal, was driven out earlier this year, and three of her five assistant or deputy heads have also left. At Park View, the executive head, Lindsey Clark, has retired, telling Ofsted that she was marginalised. Nor is it “less than a year” since these schools were previously inspected. Park View was previously inspected in January 2012 and Oldknow in January 2013. The letter’s signatories, incidentally, include Ibrahim Hewitt, who (as you wouldn’t know from The Guardian) has written a book calling for adulterers to be stoned to death and gays to be given a hundred lashes – and in his spare time chairs a charity, Interpal, branded a “specially designated global terrorist” by the US Treasury. (Interpal's ever-vigilant lawyers always insist we add that in the UK, the Charity Commission did not find against Interpal.) Then there are those well-known educational experts Massoud Shadjareh, a political activist who criticised the “demonisation” of Abu Hamza; Arzu Merali, who is expecting a new “Spanish Inquisition” against Muslims; Farooq Murad, head of the Islamist-dominated leadership of the Muslim Council of Britain and ex-chair of a charity, Muslim Aid, which has funded terrorist groups; and Salma Yaqoob, former leader of the Respect party and a pyschotherapist by profession. There are some signatories without Islamist sympathies and with actual educational credentials, but the main one, Professor Tim Brighouse, is perhaps a tiny bit tainted by the fact that he used to run Birmingham education authority at the time the Trojan Horse plot was grinding into gear in his schools. (There’s also a man, M G Khan, who, though The Guardian coyly neglects to mention this, is a governor of one of the schools being put into special measures!) The other problem with the argument that “Ofsted used to like us” is that it feels a little bit like, say, Lehman Brothers protesting that the Financial Services Authority didn’t raise any concerns in the years before it went bust. Regulators often miss the great scandals. That’s partly why they become scandals. Several of these inspections were conducted in the halcyon days when Ofsted gave schools 48 hours’ notice – easily long enough for them to put on a show, as they did for Mr Adams. In short, none of the “evidence against” the story presented by the schools or The Guardian carries anything like enough weight to overcome the mass of evidence in the story’s favour. I’d like to say it’s nice that the cynical old trade of news still has room for people like Richard Adams, prepared to think the best of everyone and take at face value whatever he’s told. But I think he’s done more than that – he’s ignored evidence, or misrepresented it as “crumbling” if it doesn’t fit his version of events. That’s not just bad journalism, but a betrayal of the liberal and progressive values The Guardian is supposed to fight for. |
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Depends on whether his vision of "British values" tallies with theirs, I s'pose.
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In Britain its One Rule for Muslims and Another for Everyone Else
DailyStormer.com How long do you think a white teacher would last in a British primary school if he were to tell his class of seven-year olds that all non-Christians were “filthy heathens”? Or if he referred to black people using the “n-word”? Or he accused all Muslims of being frustrated terrorists? Not very long, I expect. The story would be a national scandal, with politicians promising to root out this disgraceful attitude wherever they found it, with earnest, handwringing Guardian editorials about the prevalence of racism in modern Britain, and a soundbite from the Prime Minister himself on Channel 4 News reassuring viewers how personally repellant he found the whole appalling business. So how come for one particular minority the rules are different? How come, when a Birmingham teacher told his Local Education Authority that he had seen signs of an attempted Islamist takeover in local schools as early as 1993, his warnings were ignored and he ended up being dismissed for “gross misconduct”? How come when a headteacher advised the Department of Education of the Birmingham “Trojan Horse” plot in 2010, he too was ignored? How come, the very second it emerged that in certain Birmingham schools Western women were being described by teachers as “white prostitutes” and Westerners generally as “kuffar” the offending teachers weren’t sacked and the schools investigated with a view to closure? The injustice and cowardice and dishonesty of the cultural surrender here seems to me so obvious that I’m astonished it needs spelling out. But apparently it does. Here we are, after perhaps two decades’ worth of warnings and rumours that, courtesy of the UK taxpayer, British schoolchildren in parts of the country are being indoctrinated in the virtues of racial and religious hatred and of cultural apartheid. Yet only today have we reached the point where our authorities have come round to acknowledging the problem with the publication of Ofsted’s damning report on the way a number of Birmingham schools have been hijacked by Islamist extremists. Worse still, even now, there remains bitter division within the government over whether confronting the problem remains the right thing to do. Or whether it might be more culturally sensitive to look the other way, because after all, devout Muslims really are concerned about the decadence of the West, and it’s only proper that they should be permitted by the British state school system to treat their girls as second-class citizens, and teach them anti-Christmas chants, and stop boys from urinating standing up, because then they’ll learn from example what it is to live in tolerant country and we’ll all get along just fine, probably. Representing the first point of view in the Coalition cabinet is Education Secretary Michael Gove. Representing the latter point of view is Home Secretary Theresa May. This is the division responsible for their public spat over the last few days and I can certainly see why Gove refused to back down until absolutely forced to do so by David Cameron. Some points of principle are so important they deserve to take precedence over Coalition government unity or career safety – and this was most definitely one of them. read full article at source: http://www.dailystormer.com/in-brita...everyone-else/ |
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Muslim school books promote stoning; 6-year-olds taught Western women are white prostitutes
At how many schools in the U.S. (and Canada) are the same lessons being taught?
via ‘Hellfire’ Muslim teachers at ‘Trojan Horse’ school warned six-year-olds about ‘white prostitutes’ | Mail Online. Pupils as young as six were taught to treat Western women as ‘white prostitutes’ by a school at the centre of the ‘Trojan Horse’ Islamist plot. The shocking disclosure comes ahead of two bombshell reports into claims Muslim radicals conspired to infiltrate governing bodies of Birmingham schools. A leaked copy of one report says teachers at Oldknow Academy told school inspectors they were alarmed by the use of terms such as ‘white prostitute’ and ‘hellfire’ in school assemblies, and that non-Muslim teachers were banned from being present. A report by the Education Funding Agency says: ‘We were told by teachers that non-Muslim teaching staff are no longer allowed to take Friday assemblies. In separate interviews, staff told us that in Friday assemblies, occasionally words have been used such as “white prostitute” and “hellfire” which they felt were inappropriate for young children.’ …a source said that teachers and pupils at Oldknow have referred to Christians as ‘kaffirs’, a derogatory Arabic term meaning infidels. The source said that as part of the Islamic takeover, urinals from the boy’s toilets were removed, in accordance with Muslim custom which frowns on those who stand up to urinate. More than 95 per cent of Oldknow’s pupils are Muslim. It holds Islamic prayers every Friday, teaches Arabic and organises trips to Mecca. The school, which has just under 900 pupils, is said to have been taken over by extremists with an ‘Islamising agenda.’ Former head teacher Matthew Scarrott reportedly left because he opposed the change. At Park View, it is alleged that pupils were told homosexuality is evil, given lists of Christian teachers and told to try to convert them and that staff preach ‘mind-blowing’ anti-Western propaganda in assemblies. Elsewhere in the U.K., Books ‘promoting stoning’ found at Olive Tree Primary School A Muslim school found to have books suggesting stoning and lashing as appropriate punishments says it is the victim of “hostility”. Ofsted said some of the library books at Olive Tree Primary School in Luton contained fundamentalist views which had “no place in British society”. The education watchdog deemed Olive Tree Primary School in Bury Park Road “inadequate” following a visit in May. Inspectors said pupils’ “contact with different cultures, faiths and traditions is too limited to promote tolerance and respect for the views, lifestyles and customs of other people”. Senior leaders do not ensure “balanced views of the world” and some books in the school promote stoning and lashing as appropriate punishments, the report added. “There are too few books about the world’s major religions other than Islam,” it said. The report’s findings come on the same day the head of Ofsted Sir Michael Wilshaw delivered his findings on claims of hardline Muslim takeovers at Birmingham schools with five of the schools being placed in special measures. read full article at source: http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/...hool-takeover/ |
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Thumb alert. I agree to a certain extent. If the parents are happy with both the content of the lessons and the manner in which they're taught then if they're only being taught to muslim kids, who are we to argue? Let them continue to keep their culture and beliefs and let them continue resisting multiculturalism if that's what they want to do. Sooner or later, politicians have to realise that you can't force multiculturalism on people if many of the people don't want it. You can hit the red thumbs all you like, but surely you must admire the quality which makes a group of people stand up for their culture and beliefs and refuse to have their children taught things that they disagree with, no matter how much we personally disagree with the views and beliefs being taught.
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bolding 1 Well, hang on. Haven't we had this already, only it was *us* losing out? (and by *us* I'm temporarily pretending that I'm a christian for the sake of this post.) We've had hot cross buns banned in schools, halal and kosher meat secretly served in schools when many parents would have objected, we've had the banning of Christmas cards, we've had all manner of butthurt aimed at the christian faith and never did the wailing reach this scale. bolding 2 But really, if you want your children to learn something, you'll teach it yourself. They can screech all they like about this extremism in muslim schools lark, but what's to stop parents teaching extremism at home?
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It's already supposed to be tense in Tower Hamlets because of the recent election and allegations of fiddling without this on top. Thing is, I seem to remember a story from quite some time ago - a state, non-muslim school in Birmingham was supposed to have claimed a ridiculous amount of money for speakers to call muslim kids to prayer - the butthurt rose not from the fact that these speakers were being used in a non-muslim school but the fact that they'd scammed the books and claimed more than they cost. So they knew back then that there was some risk of "extremism" and presumably there was an investigation at the time into the books and whatnot - so why all the fuss no....never mind. England lost 2-1 to Italy last night.
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That reminds me of a story from back in 2007 which does make one wonder if the "Trojan Horse" plot was - at least, in one Northern city - galloping even then.
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