Is Theresa May serious? She wants to know why nobody acted on Islamic supremacist attempts to take over British schools even when these plots became known? Nobody acted because of people like…Theresa May. Everyone was afraid to act because they were afraid that if they did, they would be labeled “Islamophobic” by a British political class that demonizes and even bans from the country those who speak out against jihad terror. When Britain collapses into civil war or capitulates totally to Sharia, the blame will be squarely on the shoulders of Theresa May and her allies and comrades.
“Home Secretary Theresa May at war with Michael Gove as she sends him open letter calling for tougher rules to deal with Islamic extremism in schools after Trojan Horse plot,” by Richard Spillett, Daily Mail, June 4, 2014:
Home Secretary Theresa May has launched a thinly-veiled attack on Education Secretary Michael Gove over his handling of the Trojan Horse schools scandal.
In a letter to her cabinet colleague, Mrs May called for tougher rules to tackle Islamic extremism in schools and asked why action was not taken sooner.
A total of 21 schools in Birmingham have been inspected since allegations that Muslim hardliners were attempting to seize control of school boards in the city.
After police, Ofsted and Department of Education launched investigations, a letter emerged in which Mrs May appeared to question Mr Gove’s response.
She wrote: ‘Is it true that Birmingham City Council was warned about these allegations in 2008? Is it true that the Department for Education was warned in 2010? If so, why did nobody act?
‘I am aware that several investigations are still ongoing and those investigations are yet to conclude. But it is clear to me that we will need to take clear action to improve the quality of staffing and governance if we are to prevent extremism in schools.’
A government task force on tackling extremism last year recommended a voluntary code of conduct to prevent children being exposed to ‘intolerant or extremist views’ in religious schools.
But Mrs May said the Birmingham allegations showed the potential need for a mandatory code and urged Mr Gove to include that option in his plans.
Mrs May wrote: ‘[Since] December there have been serious allegations of extremism in some Birmingham schools and accusations about the inability of local and central government to tackle the problem effectively.
‘In this context, I am not convinced that a voluntary code is sufficient and I believe it would be sensible to include the option of developing a mandatory code in your consultation document.’
Mrs May said the Birmingham allegations ‘raise serious questions about the quality of school governance and oversight arrangements in the maintained sector, not just the supplementary schools that would be signatories to this code of practice’.
Mrs May and Mr Gove moved to damp down speculation over a row within the Cabinet today, issuing a joint statement.
WHAT IS THE TROJAN HORSE PLOT?The so-called Trojan Horse plot first came to light earlier this year.
Department for Education inspectors were ordered into Park View School in Birmingham along with its sister schools, Golden Hillock and Nansen, after a letter dubbed ‘Trojan Horse’ was uncovered.
It is alleged girls at the school were forced to sit at the back of the classroom and non-Muslim pupils forced to ‘teach themselves’.
The letter, which some have claimed is fake, prompted separate investigations by both the Department for Education (DfE) and Ofsted in to the school and several others in the area.
The DfE has also appointed its own education commissioner, the former head of the Metropolitan Police’s counter-terrorism unit Peter Clarke for the investigation.
The National Association of Head Teachers said it had ‘serious concerns’ about attempts to ‘alter the character’ of at least six schools – warning the ‘plot’ was spreading across the country.
It said: ‘The Department for Education and the Home Office take the problems in Birmingham schools and all issues relating to extremism very seriously.
‘Michael Gove and Theresa May are working together to ensure we get to the bottom of what has happened in Birmingham and take the necessary steps to fix it.’
And a source close to the Education Secretary said: ‘Michael Gove thinks Theresa May is a superb Home Secretary.
‘We will continue to work well with the Home Office and other Government departments to combat extremism in all its forms.’
Of the 21 schools inspected over the alleged Trojan Horse plot by hardline Muslims to seize control of classrooms, three have so far been given a clean bill of health by Ofsted.
Ninestiles School, an Academy in Acocks Green, Small Heath School, and Washwood Heath Academy are the first to publish the results of their inspections, after Mr Gove sent Ofsted in.
Park View school has been the focus of the most damning allegations after whistleblowing teachers claimed the school was in the hands of a group of extremists who infiltrated the governing body.
But Park View trust, which runs the school and three others in the city, has denied any wrong-doing.
Trust chairman Tahir Alam, who was accused of being part of the plot, has called the allegations ‘a witch-hunt’.
The school said leaked Ofsted findings were causing ‘unwarranted and unnecessary concern’ for children and parents.
It came as 20 educationalists said the snap inspections called after the claims had ‘tarnished’ Ofsted’s reputation.
In a letter to the Guardian, a group of experts including Sir Tim Brighouse, a former chief education officer, said: ‘First-hand accounts of the Ofsted inspections that have emerged are disturbing.
‘They suggest that inspectors were poorly prepared and had an agenda that calls into question Ofsted’s claim to be objective and professional in its appraisal of standards in schools serving predominately Muslim pupils.
‘It is beyond belief 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.’
Indeed.
Salah says
‘We will continue to work well with the Home Office and other Government departments to combat extremism in all its forms.’
Here’s the kind of funny islamic stories children should be learning in schools!
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/04/muhammad-and-donkey.html
Artie Galvin says
Isn’t this “May” woman the one who sent you and Pamela Geller the letters that denied you both entry into England? Wow, she really is in the dark when it comes to what is going on in her own country. Sort of sounds like the same manure that we hear from BO when he says ” I didn’t know this until I saw it on the news”. You know, our political leaders really should be held legally accountable for the damage they do to a country while they are in power. They might take their jobs a bit more seriously.
mariam rove says
I think she is the one who banned Pamela and Robert. M
Stuart Smith says
Yes she was / is the one who stopped Pamela and Robert, I wrote and complained at that when it happened, meeting her early next month July to complain about that again and other things.
Charli Main says
In, increasingly large areas of British cities, the Muslim population is around 99%. This has been achieved by Muslims systematically forcing other ethnic groups out. Naturally enough, school populations in these Muslim dominated areas are also Muslim, as are the school boards, teachers and governors.
So, why the big surprise, when Muslim culture and religion is prioritised in these schools. These schools are effectively not in Britain but in Islamistan.
Charli Main says
Agreed 100%. Muslims can´t wait to run away from whatever Islamic shithole they are living in and as soon as they arrive in a new country they demand the right to turn it into an exact copy of the Islamic shithole they ran away from.
PJG says
Not really. They are not looking ahead very far. They are too busy devouring the fruits of British labour, skill and enterprise to think of what they are turning the place into.
BC says
Unfortunately for Muslim teachers it is their job, as it is every Muslim’s job to strive tirelesssly to spread Islam with all his/her strength. Muslims are not loyal to the country in which they reside but to the Umma. That is why there should not be any religiously based schools. Every child should get the same basic education as they do in USA for example. Religious instruction should be outside school time.
The UK is making a grievous error in permitting the various faiths to have their own schools. Unfortunately they have set a precedent in the past with Catholic, Church of Englsnd and Jewish schools so they cannot refuse the Muslims. The law must be changed.
paddy mac says
I agree…it indicates how successive UK governments (and wider society) have failed to address and act on how the muslim population has established and consolidated its existence within our borders and its attempts to impose alien values on its own and non-muslim communities unfortunate enough to live within the sphere of extremist elements and canalso explain ‘white flight’. This has continued almost uninterrupted. This failure on the part of local/national government to act might be largely explained by a post-world war sentiment that proclaims any ‘anti’ view regarding, say, race or crede will automatically label you as a right-wing nut or, even worse, a nazi. So muslim communities in parts of the larger urban areas of England continue the ghettoisation and islamification of these areas unmolested. How do we counter this? Simple…legislation, e.g. ban the wearing of head scarves by employees in all government buildings and students schools.
It is worth noting that the wider immigrant population of varying nationalities, races and credes in the UK, whilst having its misgivings about being in a minority and the difficulties fitting in, do not seem to harbour contingency plans on the destruction of our society and the West in general. Quite the opposite, really, they seem to rather like.
RG says
‘We will continue to work well with the Home Office and other Government departments to combat extremism in all its forms.’
I have a real problem with this kind of rhetoric. Namely, whenever those who are in authority tend to bundle the islamic atrocities and improprieties into a catch-all type of grievance, they muddy up the waters so badly that islam inevitably comes out smelling like a rose and Christianity is always inevitably the evil miscreant form of tyranny. But then, God forbid that anybody should actually infer that islam itself is actually the vile system of domination and slavery that it is!!!
David says
Authorities all around the world are in denial Muslims want to replace our system with their system, despite the fact Muslims themselves will say it when they get angry!
Michael Copeland says
“the ideology of extremism and terrorism is the problem; legitimate religious belief emphatically is not”,
Theresa May, “Prevent” strategy foreword.
Thus does the UK government decide IN ADVANCE what is to be exempted from attention, resulting in all their pretzel contortionism about violent extremism etc.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/97976/prevent-strategy-review.pdf
William says
‘We will continue to work well with the Home Office and other Government departments to combat extremism in all its forms.’
Does “combat extremism in all its forms” also include combating a zeal for learning maths, science, English, poetry, etc? Such behavior could be view as forms of extremism. Why do politicians make such stupid statements? Sorry for asking. I know why! It is why the TSA strip-search wheelchair-bound 80 year old great grandmothers at airports.
BC says
You are being a supercilious fathead. Everybody knows what kind of ‘extremism’ is being referred to.
Michael Copeland says
Of course, the UK must protect itself from “unacceptable behaviour”:
http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/5865-the-unacceptable-behaviour-of-robert-spencer
http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/5877-unacceptable-behaviour-and-the-home-office
Paleologos says
The oblivious U.K. …
See “America Alone” by Mark Steyn, who sadly surmises the U.K. is probably doomed.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/america-alone-mark-steyn/1100265161?ean=9781596985278
We may not be far behind.
http://www.redstate.com/diary/candicelanier/2013/01/07/jihad-in-u-s-schools-anti-christian-revisionist-history-curriculum-backed-by-cair-and-muslim-brotherhood/
R/
Paleologos
KrazyKafir says
I do believe the headline was changed to remove the question “Why did nobody act?” Funny, that.
el-cid says
She has either awakening from denial or she is a liar. In any case, we should be enthusiastic about this change of direction in public discourse in the UK. Just a year ago they treated Tommy Robinson like a pariah for simply saying the truth and banned Spencer and Geller.
Now, it appears one can actually talk about the problem.
Something has changed for the better. Let’s celebrate even these small victories.
Lawrence says
All this misses the point. In this regard the posters are a bit too self congratulatory in expressions of consternation at this point, the negligent are too far in it to be forgiven so easily, and the silent who knew better are too disgraceful to hear from.
Any investigation of these complaints show they go back twenty years. That means 1994 at a minimum. o this has been going on for a long, long time.
I have no problem acknowledging I am a fool. I worry when other people do not admit the same thing.
joeb says
Robert,
You’ll be delighted to hear that Theresa May is being touted as the next Conservative Party leader after David Cameron. But this is academic, really, as Labour (socialists) will win the next election. This will make things even worse as the surrender and accommodation accelerate.
awake says
Somebody hand her a mirror.
PRCS says
I don’t know how difficult it would be for English voters to change the rules, but shouldn’t their public education system be non-denominational?
And make parochial schools be paid for by parents; in addition to the tax monies they pay for non-denominational public schools?
Out of curiosity how are parochial schools set up there, and who pays for them?
Mirren10 says
And this is *not* just about *schools*.
I am convinced there is a mohammedan fifth column in just about every area of our government; the police, the army, the *cabinet*.
We have Trojan Horses everywhere.
sheik yer mami says
Birmingham ‘Trojan Horse’ plot ‘started 20 years ago’
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-26883618
BC says
This is not the first time that a head teacher has been forced out of a position because of religiously motivated parents and boards of governors. When there is a substantial proportion of Muslim kids in a school the parents start demanding more Islamic practices be observed. So much for integration and
multiculturalism,
BC says
You ask the question ‘why’. Because everybody is scared of being called and Islamophobe or racist, that is why. The same reason why the police ignored Islamic men grooming and sexually exploiting young non Muslim girls.
Howver the Muslims are digging their own graves bit by bit. With every crime and atrocity they commit, and every nice young man who goes off to join the jihad, the public gets more and more aware of what is going on. How their culture and nationhood is being eroded
Nina says
Everywhere they go they form their own community and they want to take over. We had 1 East African Muslim family in our school, the school celebrated Christmas then it was fine, another family came and another, less then 4 years it was about 20. Most of this people bring their culture with them and religion comes first before anything. The head teacher left I think she was so stress, the teachers are leaving, the middle class English parents take there kids to different schools, the school was one of the best in this area now it is different. I personally think the problem is not only the immigrants but also the Middle class British, they never say anything, they never complain, if one school gets bad they move to different part of the city and rent a flat then they put their kids nice school in their new area and that is “cheating” anyway, after few years the same thing goes then they move again. What they need to do is stop moving around they need to protect their schools, their country and their community, they need to stop blaming the problem to the authorities because the authorities are not always there watching. Poor Theresa May, Why blame her? it is not her fault.