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Sky News has learned a Birmingham school facing claims of an Islamist takeover plot failed to protect children from extremism.

An Ofsted investigation said the school - which cannot be named for legal reasons - is inadequate, and strongly criticised the management of the school.

The report into this specific one school follows allegations of a so-called "Trojan Horse" takeover by Muslim hardliners at more than 20 school in the Midlands city.

It said the school's "work to keep students safe is inadequate".

The report went on: "Key safeguarding procedures are not followed. Too little is done to keep students safe from the risks associated with extremist views.

"Some staff, including senior leaders, are concerned about a special perceived unfairness and lack of transparency in the recruitment process and the breadth and balance of the curriculum.

"Some female members of staff complained... that at times they are spoken to in a manner which they find intimidating."

It found the school's "policies have been given scant consideration" and its "equalities policy is not fit for purpose".

Sky's Lisa Dowd said: "Well, because this school has been rated inadequate it is likely to go into special measures.

"That could see the leadership of the school and the governing body being dissolved and replaced.

"And we understand that this won't be the only school that is rated inadequate when Ofsted publishes its findings into the 21 schools later on this week."

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Officials now expect Ofsted, the education inspectorate, to put some of the city's schools into "special measures" - changing their leadership - after it ordered fresh inspections into 21 of them.

This process - one of four investigations - follows the publication of the so-called Trojan Horse document.

This was a letter, now widely assumed to be a forgery, claiming to detail a plot by Muslim conservatives to Islamicise secular state schools.

The Ofsted reports will be released soon, but probably not this week.

We know that 16 schools were given only brief inspections (so-called "section 8s" in the jargon) and five schools were given full-blown inspections ("section 5s").

The schools that received full inspections are expected to go into "special measures", meaning there will be a change in the school's leadership.

This will be most spectacular at Park View and Oldknow, academies that were rated as "outstanding" in 2012 and 2013 respectively.
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The other two schools taken over by the Park View Educational Trust will follow them. Park View has previously rejected the allegations of extremism that it faces.

Some schools who got a section 8 will also be given a hard time.

There might be further consequences when the Department for Education publishes its report on the issue.

For Ofsted, the issue in these schools is that they are socially conservative, perhaps too much so for schools that are not designated faith schools, and some have odd management practices.

The effect, Ofsted fears, is to create an atmosphere where extremism might flourish.

Newsnight has previously covered some examples of what that can look like.

The Ofsted results also support the notion that this is really about a clique of governors.

The leaders of four of the schools expected to go into special measures are good friends, who speak a lot via WhatsApp, the mobile messaging app.

The idea that there is no wider conspiracy has support: people working in counter-extremism in Birmingham also do not think there is an acute broader problem in the city.


So this chapter of the story may be closing.

But there is a big structural issue worth considering: why do so many of the parents support the schools so much?

The English school system's most important regulator is the attention of parents. Why, in this case, do they disagree with the authorities?


Partly, it is because some of these schools have been getting strong results. Partly, it is because there is fear of a witch-hunt - and the discourse around this reminds Muslims that they are not treated like people of other faiths.

Discussion of social conservatism among Jews or Catholics does not lead to talk of terrorism.

But it is also surely because Muslim parents do not have access to the same kind of state-funded faith education as parents of other creeds.

There are about 50 secondary schools in England whose catchment areas, weighted properly, are majority Muslim.

Of these, 17 are in Birmingham, 11 are in Bradford and six are in London's Tower Hamlets.

At none of the schools is the catchment above 90% Muslim. But parental choice means the Muslim intake of the schools sometimes runs a bit higher.

At the last school census, however, there were only eight officially designated Muslim state secondaries.

There are more than 300 Catholic secondaries.


So, for parents who want an education that reflects their own religion, an Islamicised comprehensive school might seem like a neat option.

With a growing Muslim population, this is an issue that will not go away.

Ofsted has no choice but to try to resecularise these schools. But one idea in the ether is that we should open more Muslim faith schools.

That would require a bold secretary of state, willing to defend the growth of faith schooling. It would also mean that schools would probably be more segregated by background.

There are also practical problems arising from the fact that there is no cardinal or archbishop who can oversee the schools.

But, on the other hand, once you accept that certain schools are Islamic schools, you can then think about constructing a governing body with proper representation and management processes to prevent the problems in Birmingham.

That outcome seems implausible.

But remember that parents are the first line of defence for the school system. And, at the moment, lots of them do not think lines in the sand drawn in Whitehall about the role of religion in our schools are worth defending.
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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?

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But one idea in the ether is that we should open more Muslim faith schools.
Ah. I wondered where this was all leading.

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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The schools inspection system is "not fit for purpose" and greater local scrutiny is needed for free schools and academies, shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt has said.

It comes as 21 Birmingham schools are investigated after allegations of a takeover plot by hardline Muslims.

The Guardian says Ofsted is to rate one, Park View academy, as inadequate.

Separately, Education Secretary Michael Gove said free schools were "proving an enormous success".
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The school inspections follow claims hardliners were trying to take over some Birmingham schools, following the emergence of a so-called "Trojan Horse" letter - believed by some to be a hoax.

The document alleged there was a group of conservative Muslims attempting to usurp school governing bodies.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme Mr Hunt said there needed to be a "local director of school standards" rather than trying to oversee schools from Whitehall.

Free schools and academies are independent of local authority control, and receive direct funding from the Department for Education.


Later in a speech to the centre-right think tank, Policy Exchange, Mr Hunt said no school should be judged "as good or outstanding" by Ofsted unless it delivered a broad and balanced education.

Which means that catholic and c of e schools will consistently fail to be marked as good or outstanding.
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The Ofsted report into Park View is expected to say the secondary school failed to adequately warn its pupils about extremism - two years after the school was considered to be outstanding by the education watchdog.

"How you can go from outstanding to inadequate? And that's because the inspection criteria is not fit for purpose," Mr Hunt told the programme.
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This is not the first time in recent days that Labour has criticised the government over the fallout from the Birmingham schools allegations.

But the shadow education secretary, Tristram Hunt, is attempting to broaden the attack, focusing on the oversight of all free schools and academies in England.

It taps into a long-running political argument about the concept of free schools - and whether they can be kept in check centrally by the Department for Education rather than by local officials.

But the education secretary has robustly defended his sweeping changes to England's schools - changes which are central to his vision for education.

He will specifically address the question of oversight of schools in Birmingham when the Ofsted reports into the schools at the centre of the allegations are published next week.
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He also accused the government of "incompetence" over its handling of the alleged Trojan Horse plot, saying the education department had failed to act when concerns were raised in 2010.

He said: "He [Mr Gove] must come to the House of Commons on Monday and place on record why he refused to act on warnings, why he rejects the evidence of the need for local oversight of schools, and why he thinks that more of the same is the answer."
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In his own speech to the Policy Exchange, Mr Gove said claims that free schools and academies could go wrong "more quickly" were "the opposite of the truth".

"Academies and free schools are more accountable than local authority maintained schools", he said.

Mr Gove was also asked on Saturday if he was considering his position in light of the row with Home Secretary Theresa May on how best to counter the threat of extremism in schools, to which he replied "no".

The two ministers have clashed over the handling of the Birmingham allegations, with the Home Office publishing a letter accusing the education secretary of failing to act.

Earlier, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said she believed neither Mrs May nor Mr Gove had got to grips with the issue of extremism.

She said there had been a lack of co-ordination across government, with the Department for Communities and Local Government being marginalised.

Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood has been asked to investigate the row between the home secretary and the education secretary.

In a statement, the Department for Education said the Birmingham allegations were "very serious".

"It is absolutely vital these investigations are carried out impartially, without pre-judgment", it said.

As well as the Ofsted inspections, a report by retired police officer Peter Clarke will be completed this summer.
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There are few more cheering ways to start the day than the discovery that a couple of Tory Cabinet ministers are fighting like cats in a sack. It is especially piquant when one of the protagonists is Michael Gove, probably the most widely loathed Education Secretary in years. For much of last week, he was trading blows with the Home Secretary, Theresa May, about which of them is tougher on Islamic extremism. These two rivals for David Cameron's job have kissed and made up, in public at least, but the important thing to remember is this: they are both wrong.

The row started when someone, later revealed to be Gove, spoke to The Times and appeared to suggest that the Home Office wasn't taking a strong enough line on combating Islamism. The Home Office then took the extraordinary step of releasing a letter written by May, in which she demanded to know whether Gove's department had been warned in 2010 about a supposed "Trojan horse" plot by Islamists to infiltrate state schools in Birmingham. Tomorrow, the education watchdog Ofsted is due to publish reports prompted by the allegations, which surfaced in an anonymous letter; the letter's provenance is unknown and it has been dismissed in some quarters as a hoax. But reports on two of the schools in question have already been leaked. One suggests that students are not being protected from the "risks associated with extremist views"; the other that governors involve themselves inappropriately in the running of the school and staff feel intimidated by the school's leadership. Five schools are expected to receive Ofsted's lowest rating.

In essence, the spat between Gove and May comes down to a question about how individuals become extremists, and whether there is a linear progression from religious teaching in schools to radicalisation as young adults. But there is a bigger problem which neither minister acknowledges because they are complicit in creating it, along with virtually all their coalition colleagues. Building on the last Labour's government's mistakes, they have created a dog's breakfast of a state education system where different categories of schools operate under entirely different rules. We now have half a dozen different types of schools, including community schools, foundation and trust schools, "faith" academies and free schools, all receiving public money. Some of them have to follow the national curriculum; others merely have to teach a "broad and balanced curriculum". Some have governors appointed on secular lines, while different types of "faith" schools are allowed to appoint between a quarter and a majority of governors for religious reasons. In the case of "faith" academies and free schools, a religious test can be used in all teaching appointments, while teaching staff do not even have to be formally qualified.

Such variance strikes at the heart of a unified state system in which all children receive a broadly similar education, equipping them for the secular society which the UK has become. Instead, there is not just a mish-mash of different regimes but an open invitation to any group which wants to promote its own ideology at state expense. For the moment, the focus is on the role of Islam, but other religions are just as keen to get involved in state education. I am not a great fan of the shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt, but he is right on the money when he talks about "a worrying pattern of religious interference by governors, attempted hi-jacking of appointments, syllabus restrictions and cultural conformity".

Whatever Ofsted has to say this week, the bone-headed determination of the last Labour government and the present coalition to hand state education over to poorly qualified people, solely on the grounds of religion, has already produced one publicly funded disaster. At the Al-Madinah Muslim free school in Derby, part of the school is due to close shortly after being judged inadequate and chaotic by Ofsted. Women teachers complained about being forced to wear the hijab, while Ofsted found that "the basic systems and processes a school needs to operate well" were not in place. Outside the state sector, Ofsted has expressed concern about an Orthodox Jewish school in north London where some pupils at the boys' primary school reported that they had been slapped by teachers, while inspectors found that the children had a "very limited" understanding of other cultures. Then there is the independent Olive Tree Muslim primary school in Luton, which has been threatened with closure after Ofsted accused it of promoting Salafi extremist beliefs.

There is a paradox here. In my lifetime, religious observance has declined dramatically in this country. Yet the number of "faith" schools has gone in the opposite direction, encouraged by mainstream politicians who appear not to understand the importance of keeping religion out of the public sphere. "Faith" is only one aspect of personal identity, and an increasingly irrelevant one in modern Britain, so why give it such a privileged role in state education? We don't have Liberal Democrat or Arsenal supporters' schools and I can see no justification for pouring public money into religious ones.

This is the conversation David Cameron needs to have with his warring ministers, whose dispute is currently under investigation by the Cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood. But that would require the Prime Minister to acknowledge an incoherence at the heart of government policy. Ministers want to discourage religiously inspired extremism; they also aspire to give religion an ever-bigger role in public life. They can't do both; these problems will not go away as long as we have a fractured state education system which gives a ludicrously inflated role to religion
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Labour MP Liam Byrne is to call for an interfaith task force in Birmingham to defend the rights of Muslim families in the wake of the "Trojan Horse" row.

An Ofsted inspection was carried out after allegations emerged of a hardline Muslim plot in some Birmingham schools.

A report leaked to the Guardian concluded Park View Academy failed to adequately warn its pupils about extremism and would be downgraded from "outstanding" to "inadequate".

The school said Ofsted was prejudiced.

Tahir Alam, chairman of Park View, demanded a re-inspection - which Ofsted refused to do, saying the conclusions were "securely based on evidence".
'Second-class citizens'

Mr Byrne, MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill, said there would be an outcry if the kind of language being used about Islam was used about the Catholic faith.

He added that Education Secretary Michael Gove treated Muslim families as "second-class citizens" by branding them extreme.

Mr Byrne, who was a cabinet minister under Gordon Brown and is currently shadow minister for Universities, Science and Skills, said he had spoken to the Bishop of Birmingham, David Urquhart, about setting up the new group.

Along with fellow Birmingham Labour MP, Shabana Mahmood, Mr Byrne said he would release a letter later on Sunday, or on Monday, calling for the task force to be established.

He stressed that it must be "faith-led" and would be "first and foremost about showing solidarity with Muslim parents and defending their rights".

Mr Byrne told BBC News: "The freedom and right of Muslim parents to bring up their own children in the faith is under attack because of the way this debate has been orchestrated by Michael Gove."

Mr Gove wants parents with children at Park View academy, the secondary school at the centre of the affair, to be consulted on whether it becomes a designated faith school.

Ofsted's report into 21 Birmingham schools involved in the "Trojan Horse" row is to be published Monday.
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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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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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Michael Gove, the education secretary, has seized on a finding by Ofsted that a "culture of fear and intimidation" existed in some Birmingham schools by announcing that the government will require all 20,000 primary and secondary schools to "promote British values".

These values will include the primacy of British civil and criminal law, religious tolerance and opposition to gender segregation. Gove also suggested girls wearing the burqa would struggle to find their voice, and must not feel silenced in the classroom.

In what is being described by ministers as a decisive shift away from moral relativism in the classroom, the education secretary took action after a landmark series of reports by the schools inspectorate into 21 Birmingham secular schools found an atmosphere of intimidation, a narrow, faith-based ideology, manipulation of staff appointments and inappropriate use of school funds.

Ofsted found 10 of the schools needed improvement relating to the "Trojan horse" allegations, five were placed in special measures and the rest were cleared. Several school governors face being barred from holding office.

Gove told MPs: "The overwhelming majority of British Muslim parents want their children to grow up in schools that open doors rather than close minds. It is on their behalf that we have to act."

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Plans for schools to promote "British values" are likely to have the "overwhelming support" of people in the UK, the prime minister has said
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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.

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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.

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Some parents and teachers in Birmingham have claimed that Islamophobia was behind the damning Ofsted reports into a number of the city's schools.

A public meeting was held last night after five schools were placed in Special Measures.

Parents and teachers were heard to say:

At the end of the day I just think it's a continuation of attack on the Muslims - I'm not very happy with that.

We feel we're being targeted. We feel all that we're doing - every day we wake up and do what's best for your children.

It's definitely making us feel intimidated and vilified.

The Ofsted rulings followed the so-called 'Trojan Horse' allegations, which claim schools were being radicalised by hardline Muslims.
h ttp://w ww.itv.com/news/central/update/2014-06-12/parents-and-teachers-blame-islamophobia-for-ofsted-reports/

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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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By branding religious conservatism 'extremism' in Birmingham, ministers are making it clear that different rules apply to Muslims

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‘The absurdity of the inspectors’ findings is clearest in the case of Gracelands, whose staff were taken to task for failing to ensure its 2- to 4-year-olds were protected against ‘extreme and radical behaviour'.' Illustration: Matt Kenyon

The harassment of minorities on the basis of forged documents has a grim history. So the official onslaught on mainly Muslim state schools in Birmingham, triggered by what has all the hallmarks of a fabricated letter outlining a supposed Islamist plot to take them over, should be cause for deep alarm.

Instead, the architect of the clampdown, education secretary Michael Gove, has been hailed by the bulk of the press for standing up to "extremism". Inspectors have now turned their attention to an alleged Islamic takeover of schools in Bradford, and a local MP has demanded action to halt the "Islamist infiltration" of east London politics.

All this is music to the ears of the neoconservative Gove, who regards political Islam as a totalitarian "enemy within" and has gone to war with the home secretary, Theresa May, over who can claim to be toughest on Muslim "extremism". Four separate inquiries, including by the former head of counter-terrorism at Scotland Yard, have been set in train.

Now the schools inspector Ofsted, transparently under political direction, has done what was expected of it. Five schools have been put in special measures, four lined up for takeover and 11 others taken to task – mostly for not teaching children enough about the threat of extremism.

But this extremism turns out to be a different beast from the one first trailed in lurid accusations a few months back. It is nothing to do with terrorism, or even the elastic boo-word of Islamism. The target is religious conservatism – or even just plain religiousness.

But for Gove – and now David Cameron – "nonviolent extremism" must be targeted as much as its violent counterpart. For those unclear what extremism might mean exactly, the government last year defined it as "opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect".

That clearly wouldn't apply to those involved with the targeted Birmingham schools – who, like most British Muslims, are more likely to identify with Britain than the rest of the population. But some are religious conservatives who Gove equates with "extremists" – convinced there is a "conveyor belt" from Muslim piety to terror.

So the inspectors had no problem finding the evidence required and what they claimed was a "culture of fear and intimidation", even if the evidence was thin on the ground. Teachers and parents say the fear and intimidation was rather spread by inspectors, who turned their findings on their head in 10 days.

They came up with a string of allegations, most based on hearsay, contested or exaggerated out of recognition according to teachers and parents. Christmas had been cancelled, it was said, music banned, an extremist preacher had addressed pupils, girls and boys were segregated, western women had been described as "white prostitutes".

The only prostitute mentioned turned out to be in a homily of the Prophet Muhammad's about a woman who saved a thirsty dog, Christmas events abounded in the censured schools, music was taught and gender segregation took place in PE, as in many other schools – while single sex schools are common across the country.

But the absurdity of the inspectors' findings is clearest in the case of Gracelands nursery school, whose staff were taken to task for failing to ensure its 2- to 4-year-olds were protected against "extreme and radical behaviour".

That's not to say, of course, that there's nothing behind the allegations, which have clearly been fed by former and current staff – or that there aren't legitimate grievances. These are not faith schools and some have clearly pushed the schools' religious boundaries.

It's just that they have nothing to do with extremism or terrorism, and could have easily been dealt with in a routine system of accountability. Instead, schools which had delivered outstanding results for deprived communities are now smeared and destabilised – and their pupils with them.

There's a powerful case for secular education. But it doesn't exist in Britain's schools, which are awash with religion. And unless the same rules apply to all, the result is naked discrimination. But has Gove sent inspectors to root out anti-abortionism and homophobia in Catholic or evangelical-sponsored schools, or cultural isolation in mainly white schools where racism is rife?

Not at all. Nor has he investigated the influence in schools of far-right extremists. Instead, he's effectively ordered two Birmingham schools serving overwhelmingly Muslim populations, Oldknow and Golden Hillock, to hold a "daily, broadly Christian act of worship" (excused in other such schools).

Of course, Gove's drive to break up and part-privatise the English school system has cut away the local accountability which could have checked some of the problems in Birmingham, which are now being used to line them up for a real takeover by his pet academy chains.

But the campaign to bring to heel Birmingham's schools and humiliate the Muslim community in the process is a wider threat in a country where war-fuelled Islamophobia is already rampant. Dog-whistling to Ukip bigotry might seem a cute electoral trick.

However, it risks driving Muslims from participation in public life, pushing Muslim pupils out of the state sector and boosting the extremism the government claims to be battling. Gove's assault on Muslim schools in Birmingham isn't about British values: it's a poisonous campaign of discrimination and intimidation.
ht tp://w ww.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/11/michael-gove-assault-on-schools-naked-discrimination

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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Schools in Bradford are fighting alleged Trojan Horse style plots after two teachers left their jobs while a third fears being 'driven' out as David Cameron vows to clear the classrooms of 'Islamism'.

The plot involves ousting moderate headteachers from schools, and is also feared to have taken place in Birmingham, Manchester and parts of east London.

Faisal Khan, a former member of George Galloway's Respect party was accused of being behind the alleged plot in Bradford, where one of the heads described herself as the victim of an 'attempted coup'.

At another secondary school in Bradford the local council dismissed every governor as it tried to tackle the issue.

News of events in Bradford comes after the National Association of Head Teachers said it had ‘serious concerns’ about attempts to ‘alter the character’ of at least six schools in Birmingham, and warned efforts to infiltrate classrooms were likely to be affecting other major towns and cities.



According to the Sunday Telegraph Mr Khan, who was formerly a councillor with Respect but who now sits independently, was seen in a video clip revealing how he and his colleagues have been working to change headteacher at Bradford schools.

'We have to do that for every single school… we have to be there, on governing bodies, because that’s what it’s all about… It’s time we took these schools back,' he reportedly said.


However, Mr Khan has maintained that his desire to remove head teachers was to improve standards, and said he was not seeking to 'Islamise' schools.

His group, the Bradford Muslim Education Forum (BMEF) has links to alleged plotters who have sought to bring in more conservative Islamic practices at Birmingham schools.

The group has run events in Bradford involving alleged Birmingham plotter Tahir Alam, who heads the governing body at the city's Park View school, where it is claimed pupils freely praise terrorism, are segregated by gender, and are taught women must obey their husbands.

Park View has denied the allegations, and said the idea it supports terrorism is ‘abhorrent’.

Mr Alam's contact details were reportedly distributed at a BMEF meeting against teaching sex education in schools, and another meeting was run in conjunction with the al-Hijrah Training Academy - which he also runs.


The Bradford Muslim Education Forum has run events involving alleged Birmingham plotter Tahir Alam, who heads the governing body at the city's Park View school.

Speakers at BMEF meetings have also included Razwan Faraz, the deputy head of Nansen Primary School in Birmingham, which has been visited by Ofsted inspectors investigating the alleged plots, Nansen's chairman of governors Shahid Akmal, and Achmad da Costa - the chairman of governors at Oldknow Academy - where a successful non-Muslim head was allegedly driven from her post.

BMEF head Mr Khan is chairman of governors at Carlton Bolling College in Bradford, a secular school where many pupils are Muslim. He had been on the governing body at Laisterdyke Business and Enterprise College until every member was sacked by Bradford council following fears over poor performance and a 'dysfunctional' relationships between the governors and management.

Staff at both schools claimed Mr Khan was behind attacks aimed at driving out headteachers.
WHO IS FAISAL KHAN?

Faisal Khan was elected to serve on Bradford city council in May 2012 when he stood for George Galloway's Respect party, vowing to put educational accountability high on his agenda and lift Bradford schools up the national league tables.

However, in August 2013 he and four other councillors resigned the Respect party whip, claiming Galloway had accused them of attempting to sabotage the party.

The row was sparked when Mr Galloway, Respect MP for Bradford West, revealed he was considering running for Mayor of London in 2016, prompting the councillors to suggest he should quit as MP were he to do so.

Mr Khan now sits as councillor for the Bradford Moor ward as an independent, and serves on the council's Children's Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee.

Last January former Carlton Bolling head Chris Robinson left the role in the middle of the school year, despite having recently been announced as runner-up in the secondary head teacher of the year category in the Pearson National Teaching Awards.

Ms Robinson has not commented on the Trojan Horse claims but after moving to another school in Rotherham gave a presentation about her tenure at Carlton Bolling, saying in the talk on February 21 last year that people had been working against her.

She went on to say how important it was to remain 'absolutely focused, even when dementors attempt a coup,' referencing evil characters from the Harry Potter books.

Mr Khan has insisted he had not driven out Ms Robinson, and said she had taken another job.

He added that he had clashed with her over a contract for the school's human resources services, and said she had not got three quotes for the work, as laid out in Department for Education rules.

Mr Khan reportedly admitted being involved in removing Jackie Nellis, who was head before Ms Robinson and was head when the school received an 'outstanding' Ofsted rating.

He said she had not delivered good enough GCSE results at the school.

Mr Khan was also accused of attempting to undermine current Laisterdyke head teacher Jen McIntosh, with one source at the school saying tactics used were similar to those used in Trojan Horse plots as governors were questioning decisions and results.

Mr Khan denied any 'Islamist' takeover but said he had argued with Ms McIntosh as she had not hired enough permanent staff.


He said the governors had been removed for holding the head to account.

'This is the head teacher removing the governing body, not the other way round. It’s more like a Trojan donkey than a Trojan horse,' he said.

Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to erase extremism from schools, saying his is concerned about the alleged plots.

'I don't want to see Islamist entryism into our schools. That is a very worrying development,' he told the Sunday Times.

'We will not have extremism, entryism, Islamism in our schools.'

Russell Hobby, NAHT general secretary, said some teachers were being appointed because of their Muslim faith rather than their skills.

Lindsey Clark, former head of Park View, resigned this month after being reduced to a 'figurehead' with no real control over her school, a Department for Education probe found
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Lindsey Clark, former head of Park View, resigned this month after being reduced to a 'figurehead' with no real control over her school, a Department for Education probe found

There was also evidence of ‘pressure’ being brought to bear on heads to adopt ‘certain philosophies and approaches’.

Speaking ahead of the union’s annual conference in Birmingham, he said: ‘We ourselves have concerns about what has been going on in and around half a dozen of those schools.

‘There have been things going on inside our schools which would make some of us feel uncomfortable.’

Meanwhile, it has been claimed that dozens of teachers pushed out of schools by an alleged Islamist takeover plot are too afraid to speak out because of gagging orders.

Birmingham MP Khalid Mahmood said at least ten teachers told him they were made to sign agreements offering cash in return for their silence.

Mr Mahmood said: ‘A lot of people are still not speaking, even in private, because they are frightened of what may happen. They think if they come forward they will lose their pay-off or pensions and are worried they will then not be able to teach.’

Noshaba Hussain, a moderate Muslim former headmistress of Springfield Primary, was forced out of her job by a ‘well-organised and sinister’ group of extremists more than 20 years ago.

The 69-year-old told the Mail she was made to sign a confidentiality agreement, or ‘gag’, that threatened to withdraw her pay-off of a few months’ salary if she spoke to the press.

She claimed false rumours were spread about her by the Muslim governing body until she was sacked by Birmingham education chiefs for what was described as a ‘loss of faith and trust in the head by the governing body’.

‘It was all done through my union,’ she said. ‘I was told if I spoke to the press about what happened to me I would have to return the money.’

A source from one of the schools affected said: ‘A lot of teachers who leave are being bullied and harassed. The threat of taking away a reference can be worse than a monetary threat as they are worried their career will be affected.’
htt p://w ww.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2619893/Now-schools-Bradford-fighting-Trojan-Horse-style-plots-two-headteachers-left-jobs-one-fears-driven-David-Cameron-vows-clear-classrooms-Islamism.html
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The British city of Birmingham is bracing for a possible Muslim backlash as five of its schools were put under "special measures" over extremist threats.

West Midlands police, Birmingham City Council and the Department for Education (DfE) have recently held several high-level "gold command" meetings in the wake of investigations into "Operation Trojan Horse", an alleged plot to inculcate extremist Islamist views in school curriculum.





According to the Sunday Times, there has been anger in Muslim areas of Bradford, Luton and the Tower Hamlets borough in east London where a further five schools are being investigated.


UK schools inspectorate Ofsted began inspections after claims that radical Islamists were trying to take over schools in Birmingham, which has nearly 22 per cent Muslim population according to the 2011 census, under the so-called "Operation Trojan Horse."

Meanwhile, British Prime Minister David Cameron reiterated his call for British values to be taught in schools with the historic Magna Carta charter to be placed at its heart.

In 2015 it will be 800 years since King John signed the Magna Carta, the document which first established the king was subject to the law.

Cameron said he wanted all pupils to take lessons on the charter to mark the anniversary.

"The remaining copies may have faded. But its principles shine as brightly as ever, and they paved the way for the democracy, the equality, the respect and the laws that make Britain, Britain," he said.

Writing in the Mail on Sunday he added that in recent years, the UK had send out a "worrying" message: "That if you don't want to believe in democracy, that's fine; that if equality isn't your bag, don't worry about it; that if you're completely intolerant of others, we will still tolerate you.

"This has not just led to division, it has also allowed extremism - of both the violent and non-violent kind - to flourish."

Michael Wilshaw, chief inspector of Ofsted, had found in his report that "a culture of fear and intimidation has taken grip" at some Birmingham schools.

But critics have accused the education watchdog and the government of a "witch hunt".
ht tp://w ww.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/fears-of-backlash-in-uk-over-action-against-birmingham-schools-114061500345_1.html

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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The alleged Islamic extremism seen in the Birmingham schools affair is the same as that practised by Boko Haram, the Nigerian terrorist network, Tony Blair has said.

The Trojan Horse 'plot' to bring hardline practices into Birmingham classrooms is part of a global extremist movement stretching from Britain to Africa to the Far East, the former Prime Minister claimed.

Six Birmingham schools are in special measures after the education watchdog found they had fallen into the hands of bullying governors who had sought to narrow the curriculum and exclude non-Muslim pupils.

Inspectors told how raffles and tombolas at one primary school been banned from a recent school fête because they were considered “un-Islamic” as they promoted gambling.

It was also revealed that the academy's Christmas special assembly was cancelled and a termly assembly staged by a Christian charity had been scrapped. The terms “white prostitute” had been used in assemblies.


Sheikh Shady Al-Suleiman – an al-Qaeda sympathiser – had spoken at Park View secondary academy, and the theory of evolution was dismissed by teachers as “not what we believe.” There was evidence boys and girls were segregated in class.

Mr Blair said the alleged plot was part of a movement that included extremists in Pakistan and Boko Haram, the Nigerian terrorist group.

The group is responsible for the kidnapping of hundreds of schools girls in Nigeria two months ago and dozens of deadly attacks on churches and predominently Christian villages.

Speaking from Abu Dhabi in the Middle East, the former Prime Minister said: “There is a very fundamental problem that we face, that may have originated in this region but has now spread across the world.

“That problem is extremism based on a warped and abusive view of the religion. It is a problem here in the region. It is a problem in countries like Pakistan, it’s a problem in the Far East. We can see from Nigeria and Boko Haram it’s a problem in African countries and it’s a problem in our own society as we can see from Birmingham schools.”

He added: “We have to assert the strong values of religious respect and tolerance for difference.

“Any politics that is based on a view that ‘This is my religion and if you don’t agree you are my enemy’, that is the ideology we have to attack and root out.”
ht tp://w ww.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10900955/Trojan-Horse-plot-driven-by-same-warped-Islamic-extremism-as-Boko-Harams-says-Tony-Blair.html
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Warnings over an alleged Islamic takeover of schools in Birmingham were first made four years ago, a head teacher has claimed.

The Department for Education was told in 2010 that Muslim governors were attempting to dictate the direction of secular state schools, said Tim Boyes, head of Queensbridge School.

The warnings were made long before before details of the “Trojan Horse” plot were passed to Birmingham City Council, it was claimed.

Mr Boyes described a "bloodless coup" at one school and "an alliance to destabilise the head" at another, BBC News reported.

Over the last two decades tensions “have exploded and as a result head teachers have had nervous breakdowns, they've lost their jobs, schools have been really torn apart”, he said.


He claimed the warnings had been passed onto the DfE around four years ago.

The comments prompted claims from Labour that the Coalition “refused to listen” to warnings.

Tristram Hunt, the Shadow Education Secretary, said: “This is gross negligence on the part of ministers.”

But the DfE said the meeting with Mr Boyes was a "general policy discussion".

"There is absolutely no place for extremism in schools and this government has taken a number of significant steps to combat it,” a spokesman said.

"This meeting took place at the same time as the department was enhancing our due diligence and counter-extremism capability to make schools more aware of risks and to protect children.”

The comments follow a series of exposés by The Telegraph which disclosed how a “Trojan Horse” plot in Birmingham had put schools under pressure illegally to segregate classrooms and change teaching to reflect radical Islamic beliefs.

Ofsted is expected to publish reports into 21 Birmingham schools in coming weeks.

Mr Boyes – whose school is not being inspected by Ofsted – told the BBC that he gave the department a presentation about the same threat in 2010.

"Back in 2010, I had a whole series of colleagues, other head teachers, who were reporting concerns about governance and things that weren't going well in their schools,” he said.

Slides from the presentation described "staff and governors in an alliance to destabilise the head" at one secondary school, he said.

At another secondary school it was claimed there was a plot to remove the head teacher, Mr Boyes claimed.

"Two governors with disproportionate impact… want to remove the head to have a Muslim head... [they are] working to undermine him. A known explicit intention the head lives with."
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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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The study, funded by the Department for Education and Skills, looked into 'emotive and controversial' history teaching in primary and secondary schools.

It found some teachers are dropping courses covering the Holocaust at the earliest opportunity over fears Muslim pupils might express anti-Semitic and anti-Israel reactions in class.

The researchers gave the example of a secondary school in an unnamed northern city, which dropped the Holocaust as a subject for GCSE coursework.

The report said teachers feared confronting 'anti-Semitic sentiment and Holocaust denial among some Muslim pupils'.

It added: "In another department, the Holocaust was taught despite anti-Semitic sentiment among some pupils.

"But the same department deliberately avoided teaching the Crusades at Key Stage 3 (11- to 14-year-olds) because their balanced treatment of the topic would have challenged what was taught in some local mosques."

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The Sunday Express has identified two schools where well-known *figures in Hizb ut-Tahrir were or are *governors.

Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT) is a non- violent political body that campaigns for a worldwide Islamic state.

In 2007 Mr Cameron, then Opposition leader, told MPs he regarded the group as “extremist” and that it “tried to radicalise young people”.

Last year the Prime Minister, who plans to use the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, 12 months from today, to reassert British values as a Magna Carta for modern Britain, again spoke out against the group but it remains a lawful organisation.

However, there are new concerns about its influence on the school *system in some parts of Britain. One school in Tower Hamlets, east London, Kobi Nazrul Primary School, has just been the subject of an urgent Ofsted inspection due to poor Sats results last year and a breakdown of relations between school governors and the local authority.
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