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UK: State schools discriminate against non-Muslim students

Apr 19, 2014 5:06 pm By Robert Spencer

Park View SchoolThe school scandal in Britain just keeps growing. Now it has come out that “schools in Birmingham are illegally segregating pupils, discriminating against non-Muslim students and restricting the GCSE syllabus to ‘comply with conservative Islamic teaching.'” And why not? When the entire government is in full appeasement mode, appealing abjectly to Islamic supremacists and making every accommodation for them, is it any wonder that these schools would adopt such practices? In Subjugated Britannia today, this is the zeitgeist.

“State schools isolate non-Muslims,” by Andrew Gilligan, the Telegraph, April 18 (thanks to David):

Schools in Birmingham are illegally segregating pupils, discriminating against non-Muslim students and restricting the GCSE syllabus to “comply with conservative Islamic teaching”, an official report leaked to The Telegraph discloses.

Department for Education inspectors said that girls in a school at the centre of the so-called “Trojan Horse” plot were forced to sit at the back of the class, some Christian pupils were left to “teach themselves” and an extremist preacher was invited to speak to children.

The report, into three schools in the city, follows weeks of controversy over the alleged plot to “Islamise” secular schools in Birmingham and will lead to calls for intervention. The report focuses on Park View School and its sister schools, Golden Hillock and Nansen, the only primary of the three. Inspectors found that Park View practised forced and discriminatory sex segregation and has “restricted” GCSE subjects “to comply with conservative Islamic teaching”.

Core elements of the GCSE syllabus were missed out as “un-Islamic” and an extremist preacher with known al-Qaeda sympathies and anti-Semitic views was invited to speak with children. At Golden Hillock, there was discrimination against non-Muslims, the report found. Its handful of Christian students “have to teach themselves” in one GCSE subject after the teacher “concentrated on the students who were doing the Islamic course”.

At Nansen, Year 6 children, aged 10 and 11, received no teaching at all in the arts, humanities or music.

The document, classified “official-sensitive”, describes the results of inspections of the schools last month by officials from the DfE. All three are supposedly non-faith schools run by the Park View Educational Trust.

Allegations that radical Muslims were seeking to “Islamise” secular schools in Birmingham first emerged publicly last month in a leaked letter, describing an operation purportedly named “Trojan Horse”.

The letter supposedly described how activists could stir up Muslim parents to oust secular headteachers. Park View and its chairman of governors, Tahir Alam, were named in the letter as being at the centre of the plot. Mr Alam and the school have furiously denied the claims as “fictitious”, “Islamophobic” and a “witch-hunt”.

However, the leaked report substantiates many of the claims made against the school. It accuses Park View of 20 separate breaches of the law, the schools’ funding agreement with the DfE, and the Academy Schools Handbook.

The inspectors found that, contrary to its denials, Park View did practise forced and discriminatory gender segregation, with “boys sitting towards the front of the class and girls at the back or around the sides”.

The school has always claimed that any separation of the sexes was voluntary. However, the report says: “Students told us they were required to sit in the places which they were given by teachers.” This constituted “non-compliance with the Equality Act” and potentially “less favourable treatment for girls”. There was entirely separated teaching, in separate rooms, for some subjects, the report says.

The small number of Christian or non-Muslim pupils also suffered discrimination, the report says.

At Golden Hillock, five Christian students in Year 11 “have to teach themselves” in one GCSE subject, religious education, because the teacher gave all his or her time “to the students who are doing the Islamic course”.

Sheikh Shady al-Suleiman, an extremist preacher who “is known to extol… the stoning of homosexuals, anti-Semitic views [and is] sympathetic to al-Qaeda”, was invited to address students at Park View, the inspectors found.

The core curriculum at the two secondary schools had been Islamised, with GCSE subjects “restricted to comply with conservative Islamic teaching”.

Children told the inspectors that in biology the teacher “briefly delivered the theory of evolution to comply with the syllabus”, but told students that “this is not what we believe”.

In biology, the inspectors also found that “topics such as body structure and the menstrual cycle were not covered in class, though pupils needed them for the GCSE exam . . . students told us that as Muslims they were not allowed to study matters such as reproduction with the opposite sex”. At Park View, a “madrassah curriculum” was followed in personal, health and social education, the report said.

Though all the schools are supposed to be secular, the inspectors said they were not sufficiently welcoming to those of other faiths or no faith, with students at Park View encouraged to “begin and end each lesson with a prayer” and loudspeakers used to “broadcast the call for prayer across the school”.

The report added that the respected non-Muslim headteacher was marginalised, and female staff at one of the schools were treated in a “rude and dismissive” way.

Teaching standards and children’s safety were placed at risk after the schools’ management recruited close relatives, without adequate teaching experience or proper background checks, to key leadership posts.

At Golden Hillock, any discussion of sexual orientation or intimacy was banned, affecting “the broad and balanced teaching of many subjects, including art and English literature”, the inspectors found.

At Nansen, there were “no lessons in the humanities, arts or music” for one entire year, Year 6, and only “limited” teaching in Year 5. Arabic, however, was compulsory for all students — almost unheard of at a primary school.

Female staff at the schools were discriminated against, the report says. “One of the senior leaders [at Nansen] interviewed reported that she had never met a governor or been invited to a governing body meeting, although the male senior leader with similar responsibilities was invited to every meeting”.

At Golden Hillock, three members of staff told inspectors that governors were “rude to women and dismissive of their input” and that some governors “will not shake the hands of female senior leaders”.

The report makes clear that Park View’s most senior female leader, the non-Muslim executive headteacher, Lindsey Clark, had been reduced to a figurehead, marginalised to the extent that she “was unaware of the names of some of the more recent appointments to the senior leadership team” at her own school. Last week, Mrs Clark retired.

All three schools were in reality run by Mr Alam, who had an “inappropriate day-to-day role in the running of the schools” and who received undeclared four-figure payments from them as a “consultant”, the report states.

At Nansen the deputy headteacher, Razwan Faraz, “was appointed deputy only three years after [achieving] qualified teacher status”, the report says. No references from outside the schools were taken up for him.

As The Telegraph revealed last month, Mr Faraz, the brother of a convicted terrorist, is the administrator of a group of teachers, governors and school consultants called Educational Activists which pursues what he calls an “Islamising agenda” in Birmingham schools.

Mr Alam, a leading activist in the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), has a number of hardline views. In evidence for the MCB to the UN’s high commissioner for human rights in 2008, he said he would “caution against advocating that desegregation [in schools] should be actively pursued” and stressed the “obligatory nature” of the hijab for Muslim women and girls.

The disclosures came as Tristram Hunt, the shadow education secretary, prepared to make a strong attack on “divisive” attempts to impose religious values on secular schools….

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  1. Salah says

    Apr 19, 2014 at 5:13 pm

    “And why not? When the entire government is in full appeasement mode, …”

    The entire government must be brought to justice for high treason and, if convicted, EXECUTED.
    Only the PEOPLE can do that. They did it in Egypt, the West MUST do the same.

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-end-of-muslim-brotherhood.html

    • Defcon 4 says

      Apr 20, 2014 at 3:24 pm

      Your habit of bringing up Egypt as if it’s some bastion of freedom and liberty in the Mid-East is disconcerting and doesn’t jive w/what the Coptic Christians I’ve met have to say about muslimes there nor does the public lionization of Jew haters like Nasser.

  2. Rob says

    Apr 19, 2014 at 5:17 pm

    You wait and you ask: ‘When is Britain going to reach a ‘bridge too far?’
    Thank goodness for UKIP. Coming soon to a polling booth near you!

  3. john spielman says

    Apr 19, 2014 at 6:03 pm

    I pray the UK will awaken to the dander of Islam before it is to late and the nonmuslim population is exterminated or enslaved as per the commands of demon possessed pedomohammed

    • raylanfear says

      Apr 19, 2014 at 9:14 pm

      The real question is will America wake up. London is doomed. http://wp.me/p2GpDB-cF

  4. BlueRaven says

    Apr 19, 2014 at 7:04 pm

    No matter how much solid evidence about any topic you put forward to a Muslim, his/her typical response is always as here by a garden variety Muslims: “Mr Alam and the school have furiously denied the claims as “fictitious”, “Islamophobic” and a “witch-hunt”

    Happy to read the clowns are not always getting away as much as they like to.

  5. raylanfear says

    Apr 19, 2014 at 9:11 pm

    The Saudi influence, donate to schools and universities and political campaigns to influence the spread of Islam and Sharia Law. Sad, it is working in America higher institutions. Islam and Mosques need to be stopped in America. http://wp.me/p2GpDB-cF

    • kikorikid says

      Apr 20, 2014 at 3:27 pm

      Under “functions of the Mosque” you can
      always find “battalion”. A place for the
      mujahid to rest.

  6. Askar says

    Apr 20, 2014 at 1:36 am

    There is no way this is limited to Birmingstan. The only thing that is going to really put an end to it is if native/REAL Britons act the same way Muslims would if millions of Britons started colonizing their countries. I know people are going to say its not “nice” but it is a million times nicer than the result that is going to come about when just 30% of Europe is Muslim.

    • tpellow says

      Apr 20, 2014 at 6:02 am

      Yes; and we know that instead, the U.K main political parties are pandering to Islamic demands, in the hope of gaining Muslim votes in the General Election, 2015.

  7. tpellow says

    Apr 20, 2014 at 5:58 am

    “Private school chief linked to Islam Trojan Horse plot says:
    Stone all adulterers to death.
    “Fees at the school where boys and girls are segregated are £1,800.
    “School chairman claims fornication should be punished with 100 lashes.
    “Ibrahim Hewitt runs the controversial Leicester school with his wife Adeba.”
    By TOM WORDEN and ABUL TAHER.

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2608662/Private-school-chief-linked-Islam-Trojan-Horse-plot-says-Stone-adulterers-death.html#ixzz2zQ2VLCod

  8. tpellow says

    Apr 20, 2014 at 7:58 am

    It’s something, but an inadequate analysis from ‘Telegraph'(£):-

    ‘Telegraph’ (£):-

    “We must confront the challenge of Islamism.
    Just as troubling as the suggestion of an Islamist conspiracy in Birmingham schools is the refusal of the local non-Islamic establishment to do anything about it.”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10775651/We-must-confront-the-challenge-of-Islamism.html

  9. Ishkabibul says

    Apr 20, 2014 at 9:42 am

    What is happening to England ?they are allowing islam and sharia law to impose their will -the islamists are not following the law of the land -in Australia we have immigrants who become Australian citizens and -swear allegiance to their new country -of course that is very questionable as we know their allegiance is to islam -do they become English citizens or do they just come and colonise-no swearing in ?that is disgusting that -segregaton is being allowed -but they are also allowing changes to their laws and allowing some -sharia-the rest of the world is looking on in horror as England will be islamized in a few years -all with out a whimper .

  10. Defcon 4 says

    Apr 20, 2014 at 3:22 pm

    Kinda sounds like any institution of “higher” learning in the United States of 0bamastan these days.

    • kikorikid says

      Apr 20, 2014 at 3:41 pm

      D4, Yes. It does sound familiar. It should
      sound familiar. MSA, Muslim Students Association)
      is on every(90%) campus, paid for by Saudi Arabia and
      Qatar thru the Muslim Brotherhood. MSA,ISNA, CAIR and
      about three hundred other organization were found
      to be conspirators (unindicted) to provide money
      to HAMAS thru the Muslim Brotherhood. Dallas, 07-08.
      Holyland Foundation…

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