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UK teacher orders boy to remove wristband honoring soldier murdered by jihadis, for fear of offending Muslims

Mar 13, 2014 9:49 am By Robert Spencer

WristbandandmomDhimmi Britannia continues to gallop toward surrender and ruin. Pamela Geller’s observation is apt: “Britain is in free fall. It isn’t just the government, which bans counter-jihadists and supporters of Israel like Robert Spencer and me while letting in the most bloodthirsty and hateful Muslim preachers; it’s also people like this teacher, who has so internalized the idea that anything that causes offense to Muslims must be done away with, no matter what it is. This is the mentality of a defeated people, a captive people, anxious to appease its overlords. This is the mentality of a nation in its death throes.”

“Teacher orders boy, 10, to remove Help for Heroes wristband worn in memory of Lee Rigby ‘because it might cause offence,'” by Mark Duell for the Daily Mail, March 12 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

A teacher allegedly ordered a 10-year-old boy to take off his Help for Heroes wristband because it could cause offence.

Tracy Tew was shocked when her son Charlie was put on a report card at Maldon Primary School in Essex after he refused to take off the charity rubber bracelet sold to honour injured soldiers.

Charlie wears the wristband – bought at the Colchester Military Festival – in honour of murdered solider Lee Rigby and service personnel in his family, including his great-granddad and uncle.

Mrs Tew, 38, a domestic service assistant at a hospital, said: ‘We are really proud of Charlie for sticking to his guns. He wanted to keep it on and he didn’t agree with the reasons why he shouldn’t.

The mother of two added: ‘When the teacher said she was worried it was going to offend people, I thought it was disgusting. Our family are up in arms because we are all military minded.

‘With what happened with Lee Rigby, Charlie really wanted to wear a wristband.’

Drummer Rigby, 25, was killed by two Islamic fanatics in Woolwich, south-east London, in May last year. Michael Adebolajo, 29, and Michael Adebowale, 22, were jailed for the murder last month.

Headteacher Tracy Thornton insisted wearing wristbands is against the school’s jewellery policy.

She said: ‘They are not allowed to wear jewellery, and that includes wristbands, for health and safety reasons because they could get caught.

‘I can’t comment on what one particular teacher said, but for the general perspective of the school, the children are not allowed to wear jewellery except small silver studs and watches, which have to be taken off for PE.’

Bryn Parry, co-founder and CEO of Help for Heroes, told MailOnline: ‘A school’s uniform policy is a matter for the principal and governors.

‘However, over 6million wristbands are proudly being worn in support of our wounded servicemen and women, including many wristbands on the frontline in Afghanistan.

‘We have not heard of a single health and safety incident connected to them, nor have we ever had a complaint that they are offensive.

‘We do also have a wonderful range of other items such as lapel badges for those who are keen to show their support for our wounded.’

Terry Sutton, Colchester president of the Royal British Legion – a separate charity to Help for Heroes – said he has never heard of anyone taking offence to wristbands backing military charities.

He said: ‘It’s hard to see how the band would cause offence, except, I suppose, to the radical Muslim community. I don’t think that will be a problem in Colchester and in its surrounding area.

‘Help for Heroes bands are something young people in particular have latched onto and it’s great, as a former serviceman, to see them showing their support.’

The school has around 400 pupils aged between four and 11. In its last Ofsted report in January 2013, it was rated as ‘good’ overall – an improvement from ‘satisfactory’ in the previous inspection.

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  1. revg says

    Mar 13, 2014 at 9:53 am

    Only if any muslims remove any articles of clothing that we find offensive.

  2. Paleologos says

    Mar 13, 2014 at 10:01 am

    Yep!

    Proof positive, coming almost on a daily basis now, that Mark Steyn’s grim predictions (“America Alone”), that the U.K. is probably lost, are true.

    Headteacher Tracy Thornton needs to sign up for the same frontal lobotomy that all the British Leaders need who allowed all the muslim vermin into their land.

    The “host” country of U.K. will, sadly fall victim to these muslim parasites unless a lot more leaders wake the f**k up.

    Hey Brits!

    … islam = nazism! … Get it?

    R/

    Paleologos

    • Defcon 4 says

      Mar 13, 2014 at 5:19 pm

      @Paleologos

      The US is being subverted, infiltrated and corrupted in the exact same way the UK was/is, it’s just taking longer. I no longer trust the enemedia (print, radio or television) to report the ugly truth about islam. America is going down the same
      dark road of islam0nazification that the UK and Fwance already have been on.

      • veggiedog says

        Mar 13, 2014 at 5:52 pm

        We cannot any media. Problem is the opportunists with their lying newsletters trying to profit on fear. So mainstream and other are suspect.

    • Mumia W says

      Mar 13, 2014 at 9:26 pm

      I don’t think another frontal lobotomy will do her any good 😉

  3. RichieRich says

    Mar 13, 2014 at 10:14 am

    Interestingly, on the home page of Maldon Primary School’s website, the “Newest updates” alert states that

    Maldon Primary welcomes the Maldon Islamic Cultural Association to assembly

    For a fawning description of the event, see this page of the school’s website.

    Deputy head, Mrs Tyler says

    she looks forward to exploring the Qur’an in more detail to further her own understanding of the religion.

    She may be surprised what she finds!

    • RichieRich says

      Mar 13, 2014 at 10:17 am

      Sorry, the second link is incorrect. Here’s the right one!

  4. Chatillon says

    Mar 13, 2014 at 10:34 am

    This is a clear demonstration of just why participation in local politics and community organizations, e.g. PTAs, school trusteeships, town councils, etc. is so vitally important.

    An effective counter-jihad can only come from the ground level. It can never come from the already compromised levels of government.

    • veggiedog says

      Mar 13, 2014 at 10:39 am

      You are right, but do realize that you might stand alone, but the fight has to start somewhere.

      • Defcon 4 says

        Mar 13, 2014 at 5:23 pm

        When criticism of islam is outlawed (under whatever euphemism our corrupt politcos call it), armed resistance might be the only answer.

        • kikorikid says

          Mar 15, 2014 at 10:36 pm

          when they say be shariah compliant or die, where is the choice?

  5. veggiedog says

    Mar 13, 2014 at 10:38 am

    The world seems to be going insane bending over backwards. Is there hope for us to defeat the patterns that are being laid? I truly hope the world wakes up no matter what their leaders might say or do.

    Not sure if anyone has talked to new college grads or college students. I have found in one the understanding that Islam is not a good thing for them, but they have mixed understanding of the true realities of the world to come if it continues on it’s present course.

  6. Peter says

    Mar 13, 2014 at 11:10 am

    And why would or should Muslims be offended if the British judge, in his infinite PC and multicultural wisdom, clearly stated that the murderers (jihadists) acted contrary to their Islamic faith?

    • RG says

      Mar 13, 2014 at 11:52 am

      Good for you, Charlie! Stick to your guns! We need more young people like you who won’t bow down to the multi-cultural elitist dhimmis!!!!

  7. Salah says

    Mar 13, 2014 at 11:44 am

    “The school has around 400 pupils aged between four and 11.”

    Let them all wear similar wristbands!

  8. Mo says

    Mar 13, 2014 at 12:26 pm

    Beyond belief.

  9. Davegreybeard says

    Mar 13, 2014 at 2:06 pm

    And finally, in all of England there was one brave little boy who defied the Islamist beast and the fawning jackals that enabled it.

  10. Davegreybeard says

    Mar 13, 2014 at 2:15 pm

    “Prudence … will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
    Thomas Jefferson

    And it may come to pass that the last best hope of a free man is the rifle.

    • veggiedog says

      Mar 13, 2014 at 3:39 pm

      ““Prudence … will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
      Thomas Jefferson

      And it may come to pass that the last best hope of a free man is the rifle.”

      Indeed, we are closer to this than many want to believe, they do not even see it.

      • Defcon 4 says

        Mar 13, 2014 at 5:28 pm

        @Veggiedog

        I agree w/the both of you. No totalitarian, supremacist, fascist creed has ever been defeated by academic debate — because the rebuttal of the fascist trumps all reason (viz. violence and/or imprisonment).

    • kikorikid says

      Mar 15, 2014 at 10:42 pm

      and YAMAMOTO said,
      “We will never invade the United States because there is
      a rifleman behind every blade of grass.”

  11. pongidae rex says

    Mar 13, 2014 at 3:01 pm

    Multi-culturalism is the stealth path to totalitarianism. The only way a government can maintain order while admitting massive immigration of a hostile, supremacist ideology is to remove freedom of speech and freedom of assembly in order to avoid to prevent the native population from ‘provoking’ fanatic immigrants. The ultimate outcome is that immigrant fanatics and the government form a coalation of oppression against the native population. Europe has already gone far down this road too ruin. The USA under the Obama debacle is firmly pursuing it.

    • veggiedog says

      Mar 13, 2014 at 3:37 pm

      The world is more and more tied to a global economy these days, while i do not doubt what you write, what is the benefit? If it is to ultimately rule that country, well do we see martial law being enacted to that end?

      • Defcon 4 says

        Mar 13, 2014 at 5:58 pm

        @veggiedog

        I was wondering that myself. What is the zero’s endgame?
        The power of an islamic vizier? A worldwide caliphate?
        Dictatorship?

        • veggiedog says

          Mar 13, 2014 at 6:08 pm

          Islam has little to offer a global economy. Sure there is oil but that is not enough, it is about power. Who would get the spoils? Oil will not last forever, Islam or the followers think it will. What will Israel do to prevent an Islamic world? What would Russia, China, the sane in the US, the European countries that have now seen just what happens? Are the followers of Islam finally digging their own graves? I have questions, not answers.

        • voegelinian says

          Mar 13, 2014 at 10:27 pm

          While Muslims indulge in the Four Pillars of P — Pillage, Plunder, Piracy and Parasitism — routinely and endemically, their fanaticism and goals are not merely about worldly power: they are fanatically obsessed with eschatology. To reduce their fanaticism to something crass is to make a miscalculation of our enemy.

        • kikorikid says

          Mar 15, 2014 at 10:53 pm

          BHO’s endgame?

          12th Caliphate/Supreme Leader.
          It is schizoid. Two totalitarian ideologies, both
          being led by special “Vanguards”. Obama is in bed with both
          and he will find they are demanding Mistresses.
          He will favor one, eventually, and the other will show him the fury of a woman scorned.

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 16, 2014 at 6:41 pm

          I consider it *all* crass, Voegelinian; there is very little that is truly spiritual in Islam.

          But you are quite right. Pious Muslims are not just driven by ideas of worldly dominance.

          To believe that they are is to fall for the Marxist view of society, that everyone is motivated by material concerns, and that everything else is just a smokescreen that no one really believes in.

          But Mohammedans wouldn’t be so eager to kill themselves while murdering others if they didn’t take their concepts of Islamic supremacy beyond the grave.

    • john bull says

      Mar 14, 2014 at 11:22 am

      Excellent comment and, unfortunately, totally accurate.

      • veggiedog says

        Mar 14, 2014 at 11:25 am

        and in the US to take away the 2nd amendment rights, because if a people cannot bare arms they cannot stop a corrupt government.

  12. Mirren10 says

    Mar 13, 2014 at 4:44 pm

    I’ve just sent an icily polite email to the headdhimmi at Maldon Primary School, telling her exactly what I think of this disgraceful decision. I shall follow it up with a proper letter.

    On their webpage, if you click on the ‘events’, you will see that the school has just been presented with a koran from an islamic association.

    I included in my email, some of the choicer quotes from it, and suggested that since it had been presented to the school, Thornton and her staff might actually **read** the thing, and ponder on the fact that this book mandates hatred, murder, and the destruction of Jews and Christians.

    I also pointed out that the teacher who ordered the little boy to remove the band, stating it ‘might cause offence’, was stepping over the boundaries of her position, that clearly the only people she was worried might ‘take offence’, were mohammedans, and that she had no right to enforce her own stupidly PC notions on someone else.

    Thornton has tried to weasel out of the controversy by stating it is school policy, for ‘elf n’ safety’ reasons; however she also states wristwatches are allowed, but must be removed for PE. I asked, why then, since the wristband is exactly similar to a wristwatch, the same rule was not applied.

    If anyone here feels inclined to send these wretched dhimmis an email, here is the link:

    http://www.maldon-primary.ik.org/p_Maldon_District_Islamic_Association.ikml

    Just click on the left hand side, where it says enquiries.

    A little side note: the Battle of Maldon, against the Vikings, resulted in defeat for the Saxons, and was, I think, the **first** instance of the Danegeld being paid by the Saxons to the Vikings … no change there, then …

  13. Dallas says

    Mar 14, 2014 at 12:33 am

    We will force the next generations to pay the price for our own dishonesty, hypocrisy and cowardice.

  14. gravenimage says

    Mar 16, 2014 at 2:45 am

    it’s also people like this teacher, who has so internalized the idea that anything that causes offense to Muslims must be done away with, no matter what it is.
    ……………………..

    And note what this teacher is actually acknowledging—that Muslims will be “offended” by a show of support to a *murder victim of Jihad terrorism*.

    In other words, this “tiny minority of extremists” is, as is obvious even to such a cringing dhimmi as this, not so tiny after all.

    Young Charlie Tew—and his mother—are braver than any of these tools. If there is still hope for Britain, it lies with just these sorts of “ordinary” patriots.

  15. Mirren10 says

    Mar 16, 2014 at 7:08 am

    ”And note what this teacher is actually acknowledging—that Muslims will be “offended” by a show of support to a *murder victim of Jihad terrorism*.

    In other words, this “tiny minority of extremists” is, as is obvious even to such a cringing dhimmi as this, not so tiny after all.”

    **Excellent** point, which I failed to elaborate on, in my email; however, I’ve underlined the point you made in my proper letter.

  16. TooLate says

    Mar 16, 2014 at 9:54 pm

    ‘Help for Heroes bands are something young people in particular have latched onto and it’s great, as a former serviceman, to see them showing their support.’

    The should support their servicemen, there is no shame in that. To teach the children to live is unwise, very unwise. What happened to the 80’s Brits? The kickass, take no crap Brits? The UK government has sold it’s people for 30 pieces of silver and a couple of barrels of oil…. hope it was worth it.

    Once they took away the guns, and the people willingly complied, the death knell was sounded. Something really radical has to happen to snap these people out of their slumber. I hope it happens, soon.

  17. Sum Dum Goy says

    Mar 16, 2014 at 10:19 pm

    At the time of the Barbary wars,there were over a million white european slaves in the Ottoman empire.Who cares if the muslems are offended.The betrayal is deep,get some history and get them out of europe.Boys have testicles no matter what they teach in schools these days.Muslems are the biggest rapists in europe,boys need to grow up.No matter what the teachers lie about.Don’t buy it.

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