Nothing surprising in what these children were saying: we have seen adult Muslims saying similar things many, many times over the years here at Jihad Watch. Nor is there anything very surprising in the fact that in Absurd Britannia today it is this teacher who suffers for reporting this, while the students aren’t disciplined in any way — nor is there any scrutiny of what is going on in their communities that led them to make these statements.
“Christian teacher ‘forced out’ after complaining Muslim pupils praised 9/11 hijackers ‘as heroes,'” by Lucy Ballinger for the Daily Mail, February 8:
A Christian teacher told today how he lost his job after complaining that Muslim pupils as young as eight hailed the September 11 hijackers as ‘heroes’.
Nicholas Kafouris said he was forced from his £30,000-a-year post because he would not tolerate the ‘racist’ and ‘anti-Semitic’ behaviour of children.
He said the predominantly Muslim youngsters openly praised Islamic extremists in class, and hailed the terrorists of the 2001 atrocities as ‘martyrs’.
Mr Kafouris, 40, told how one pupil said to him, ‘Don’t touch me, you’re a Christian‘, when the teacher accidentally brushed against him with his arm.
Others said, ‘We want to be Islamic bombers when we grow up‘, and ‘the Christians and Jews are our enemies, you too because you’re a Christian‘, he added.
Mr Kafouris, who had taught at Bigland Green Primary School, in Tower Hamlets, East London, for 12 years, said there was a change in attitude of pupils at the school – where the majority of pupils are Muslim – after the World Trade Center attacks….
Mr Kafouris, a Greek Cypriot, said pupils told him, ‘We hate the Christians’ and, ‘We hate the Jews‘, despite his attempts to stop them….
He had filled out a ‘Racist Incident Reporting Sheet’ but claimed the headteacher Jill Hankey dismissed his concerns….
‘Some children were expressing delight at the death and killing of people of other cultures and religions: In the last week of November 2006 a child was talking about stabbing another child and I told him this was dangerous talk and that a lawyer had recently been stabbed by teenagers; his reply was:, “I’m glad that man died”, ‘Why?’ I asked. “Because he’s a Christian and English and we’re Muslim”.’
During a religious education lesson about Jonah and the whale, he claims one of the pupils asked if Jonah was a Jew, before shouting: ‘I hate the Jews, they’re our enemies.’
Mr Kafouris said he again tried to speak to the headteacher about it.
He said: ‘The head’s response was hostile and offensive again. The very first thing she said to me was: “Oh you again! You’re the only teacher that reports these things! Nobody else does!”.
‘Four times she repeated: “It’s because of your lack of discipline that they’re saying these things”.’…
Now there’s a new one: lack of class discipline creates Islamic jihad doctrine, Islamic supremacism, and Islamic antisemitism. Expect a brand new white paper from the Nixon Center forthwith!