“Islamophobia” is a propaganda term that Islamic supremacists and Leftists skillfully deploy in order to intimidate people into thinking that there is something wrong with opposing jihad terror and Sharia oppression. This is a prime example of how it works, making timid and cowed British officials too afraid to oppose the spread of the teaching of Sharia norms inimical to human rights in Birmingham schools.
“Fears of Islamophobia gave activists free rein in Birmingham schools,” by Helen Pidd, Patrick Wintour and Lyndsay Warner, The Guardian, July 18, 2014:
A group of fundamentalist “activists”, mostly men of Pakistani origin, infiltrated the management of at least 10 schools in Birmingham, sometimes breaking the law in order to introduce Muslim worship and sex segregation, according to a highly critical report.
Their activities were unimpeded by council officials who were fearful of allegations of Islamophobia, who forced ousted teachers to sign gagging clauses rather than treating their complaints seriously as whistleblowers, Ian Kershaw, the authority’s independent adviser, concluded.
Sir Albert Bore, leader of the city’s Labour-run council, apologised on Friday to the people of Birmingham “for the way the actions of a few, including some within the council, have undermined the great reputation of our city”.
But he refused to resign and blamed the previous Tory administration for turning a blind eye to what one report described as “coordinated, deliberate and sustained action to introduce an intolerant and aggressive Islamist ethos into some schools in the city”.
Kershaw found that there had indeed been a “determined effort to changed schools, often by unacceptable practices, in order to influence educational and religious provision for the students served”.
Some or all of tactics outlined in the Trojan horse plot were present in 10 schools, he said. But he noted that many of the “activists” who “bullied and harassed” headteachers were ultimately motivated by a “genuine and understandable desire” to improve standards for children from an ethnic-minority group long poorly served by education in the city.
However, he found “no evidence of a conspiracy to promote an anti-British agenda, violent extremism or radicalisation of schools in east Birmingham.”
This contrasts with a report leaked to the Guardian on Thursday night, commissioned by the former education secretary Michael Gove, in which the author, counter-terrorism police officer Peter Clarke, found there had been a “sustained and coordinated agenda to impose upon children in a number of Birmingham schools the segregationist attitudes and practices of a hardline and politicised strain of Sunni Islam”.
The independent Kershaw investigation was commissioned by Birmingham city council (BCC) as a result of concerns raised in a dossier leaked to the media this year. Known as the “Trojan horse” letter, it suggested a number of schools in the city had been “taken over” to ensure they were run on strict Islamic principles.
Yet many parents remain happy with the education their children receive at these criticised schools. Outside Park View on Friday, parents insisted their children received both a good education and were allowed to observe their religion. One mother of a year-9 pupil said: “My son gets to pray at school. That’s all I’m concerned about.” Another mother, Yasmin Bashir, said: “I’m very happy with the school. It’s nice, nice principles.”
Some children were “coerced” into Muslim worship, said Kershaw. One of his interviewees said that at Park View academy, which was put into special measures by Ofsted last month, a ball was confiscated from a boy who ignored the call to prayer in the playground.
Female pupils were also ordered to return from a tennis coaching programme “because the school policy … does not allow girls to have a male coach and take part in any activity with boys” and a netball tournament was cancelled because organisers were not able to guarantee there would be no men present.
At Golden Hillock school, one of Kershaw’s interviewees reported that a teacher told children not to listen to Christians because they were “all liars”; another allegedly told pupils they were “lucky to be Muslims and not ignorant like Christians and Jews”.
At Highfield junior and infant school, the governors wanted to introduce Arabic as the main foreign language, going against the wishes of parents. The same happened at Nansen primary, with Arabic replacing French.
After the school became an academy under Park View’s control in October 2012, Christmas and Diwali celebrations no longer took place, Kershaw reported.
Similarly, at Oldknow academy last December, children were told not to send Christmas cards and that it was “unbelievable that Christians believe in the Christmas story”. Kershaw reported that pupils were encouraged to chant “no, we don’t” when asked questions such as “Do we celebrate or believe in Christmas?”
At Saltley school, activists demanded that the kitchen serve exclusively halal food, despite the catering consultants warning that it would not be appropriate for other religions and would have cost implications. At a governors meeting on 31 January last year, one Saltley governor queried whether the word “sex” had to appear in the school’s Sex and Relationships policy.
At Adderley primary school, members of the governing body were said to have raised “so many petty problems”, such as requiring black-out curtains for an after-school fitness class, raising repeated requests and concerns over religious education and notallowing the school to celebrate Christmas and Easter.
After Gove’s surprise removal on Monday, the Department for Education seemed at a loss as to how to respond to the latest revelations. Gove’s replacement, Nicky Morgan, is expected to give a statement to the Commons next week when Clarke’s final report is officially published.
In the version seen by the Guardian, Clarke wants the responsibilities of the teacher who is designated child protection officer to include the Prevent anti-extremism strategy and calls for limits on the number of school governorships held by a single individual. He also wants a review of the process by which local authority-controlled schools are converted into autonomous academies.
In his report, Kershaw found that some headteachers and governors had broken the law by introducing Islamic assemblies without the correct authorisation. The main culprits were “men of Pakistani heritage”, he said, who “moved between schools as they tried to spread their agenda through the “unacceptable bullying and harassment of headteachers”.
The report identifies “serious governance issues that exist in a small number of schools in east Birmingham as a result of, at best, poor skills, and at worst, serious malpractice, by members of certain governing bodies.”
John C. Barile says
So much euphemistic language tossed about–it seems that truthfulness is unpalatable to chief educational officials; the same for political leadership.
John C. Barile says
Sickening.
Jovial Joe says
Islam likes to get them young (as we all know). This begins with babies fresh from the womb as the presiding cleric places a drop of honey on the child’s mouth while uttering the Shahada. First class brainwashing technique.
Criquette says
Fear of fearing izlum?
Sounds izlumophobic to me.
We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
One what ask what exactly the globo-socialists think they’re gonna get out of the Moslems. They’re thinking of Moslems in the voting booth, Moslems in their clasrooms, Moslems on their welfare rolls, Moslems receiving gubmint subsidies.
Remember that the late, great Osama bin-Laden threatened to nuke an American city if the vote went for Prez Dubya over the war coward John Kerry, who not coincidentally is now our Secretary of State negotiating with Bashar Assad, Mahmoud Abbas and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
That’s what they hope to get out of their alignment with Moslems: room for more bad politics.
Richard James says
Most leftists in Europe are trotskyists whether they admit it or not, in the case of the stupid ones it’s even a matter of whether they know it or not.
They’re not looking for anything as constructive as the picture you paint for the USA. Trotskyists practice “permanent revolution” and believe in the inevitability of a communist state. That is to say they believe any disruption of a non-communist society is permissible and will lead eventually to their “inevitable” communist “paradise”.
They imagine they can use the disruption, chaos and dissension that islam and muslims cause in our societies to eventually ride to power themselves – of course, come the communist Revolution all the muslims will see the error of Islam and become good trotskyist communists.
Utterly irrational of course. More an article of religious faith than anything supported by evidence. Although similar in irrationality to islam, Trotskyism has no history of success – if the Trots succeed in destroying a western county by enabling muslims into power, the muslims will turn on them and kill them as they have murdered their kuffaar accomplices everywhere. Trotskyists are usually just dangereously deluded. Muslims are inherently and actively evil.
There was once a decent and honourable Left in my country (Britain) that moved poor people forward through self-help, working men’s educational institutes, the teaching of literacy and numeracy to the poor and so on. It was taken over by Marxists a very long time ago, indeed well over a century ago.
John Magee says
What ever good there was in socialism and the unions it was derailed and suffered a catastrophic crash in the West after the Russian Revolution of 1917. What happened in back then in Britain to create so many self loathing upper class men during the 1930s epitomized by men like Philby, Maclean, Burgess, and Anthony Blunt from Cambridge University? They were, along with many other lesser know traitors from the past, and several well known ones today obsessed with the destruction of their own country and all the good it has stood for and accomplished over many centuries. Why? There is an evil self loathing and a wish for the destruction of European Civilization by some of Europe’s best and brightest I can’t understand it. If Islam wins this modern round of Jihad Europe is finished forever because these migrant Muslims, if they ever do become a majority in Europe, will eat up the left and spit their bodies out just like they did to the Communist students who helped dispose of the last Shah of Iran and brought the Ayatollah Khomeini back from exile in France and made him the undisputed Islamic ruler of Iran in the late 1970s.
Mirren10 says
A few things here.
One, on a positive note, this has finally been outed, not swept under the carpet, and actually reported on by the Guardian, that most pernicious of lib/leftist rags !
However;
There is still the same mealy mouthed PC language being used, viz: ”A group of fundamentalist “activists”.
The implication here, of course, is to further the ‘liberal’ idiocy that this is some aberration, and is not, in fact, **normative** islam. Which it **is**, of course.
”sometimes breaking the law”. So, why are they not being **prosecuted** ?
”Their activities were unimpeded by council officials who were fearful of allegations of Islamophobia, who forced ousted teachers to sign gagging clauses rather than treating their complaints seriously as whistleblowers.”
Again, the sheer utter, disgraceful, **moral cowardice** of miserable little jobsworths, who should now be **prosecuted** for forcing teachers to sign ‘gagging clauses’ ( and those teachers who so signed should be ashamed of themselves) and not only prosecuted, but **fired**.
”Sir Albert Bore, leader of the city’s Labour-run council … refused to resign and blamed the previous Tory administration for turning a blind eye to what one report described as “coordinated, deliberate and sustained action to introduce an intolerant and aggressive Islamist ethos into some schools in the city”.
Oh, this is just so **typical** of bloody Labour. God knows I hold no brief for the pusillanimous Tories, but it was **Labour** that introduced the ‘hate speech’ legislation. which alone has caused this sort of scenario, where people are terrified to open their mouths for fear of losing their livelihoods and pensions ! And this arrogant pos Bore (well named) should also be **fired**. They all blame it on someone else. Gutless **wankers**.
”Some or all of tactics outlined in the Trojan horse plot were present in 10 schools, he said. (Kershaw: my interpolation, Mirren) But he noted that many of the “activists” who “bullied and harassed” headteachers were ultimately motivated by a “genuine and understandable desire” to improve standards for children from Some or all of tactics outlined in the Trojan horse plot were present in 10 schools, he said. But he noted that many of the “activists” who “bullied and harassed” headteachers were ultimately motivated by a “genuine and understandable desire” to improve standards for children from an ethnic-minority group long poorly served by education in the city”
Oh, God give me patience ! **Another** pusillanimous wanker ! So, it’s OK to **break the law** provided one’s motives are ‘genuine and understandable’ ??!! I hope Kershaw gets burgled, and the criminal uses as his defence, ”Your Lordship, my motive was genuine ( I wanted something I wasn’t prepared to work for) and surely, my Lord, you can understand I just wanted what everybody else has !
” to improve standards for children from an ethnic-minority group long poorly served by education in the city”
**More** mealy mouthed crap. Again, I certainly hold no brief for the woeful standards in State schools today (another reason I was eager to retire) but the standards in inner city, bog standard comprehensives are awful **across the board**, and affect all children, not just bloody mohammedans.
“no evidence of a conspiracy to promote an anti-British agenda, violent extremism or radicalisation of schools in east Birmingham.”
Just how blinkered and **stupid** can you be ? Is it not ‘anti-British’ ( and, incidentally, anti every decent civilised more), to teach children ”not to listen to Christians because they were “all liars”, to teach children they were “lucky to be Muslims and not ignorant like Christians and Jews” ? To not allow a school to celebrate Christmas and Easter ?
To segregate children in a State funded school, to not allow girls access to sports, because they are girls, to force children to pray, and to introduce Islamic assemblies without the correct authorisation, are all **against the law** !! These people must be prosecuted !
”Yet many parents remain happy with the education their children receive at these criticised schools.”
Deliberate obfuscation by the Guardian. The only parents ‘happy’ with this, are bloody supremacist mohammedans, who think all of the above, is ‘nice, very nice’, and don’t give a damn about anything except their foul religion and its foul tenets.
”The report identifies “serious governance issues that exist in a small number of schools in east Birmingham as a result of, at best, poor skills, and at worst, serious malpractice, by members of certain governing bodies.”
A **small** number of schools ?? Oh, I’ll bet this is just the tip of the iceberg ! And it’s not only Birmingham that should be being investigated, but every other stinking mohammedan enclave, where they have infiltrated themselves and infest Councils, and school governing bodies.
These people have **broken the law**. They need to be prosecuted to the full, and not only to the letter of the law, but the spirit of the law. These mohammedans must be shown that we will **not** tolerate this illegal, inhumane, and disgraceful, situation !!
dumbledoresarmy says
“A **small** number of schools ?? Oh, I’ll bet this is just the tip of the iceberg ”
Yep. I’d bet my bottom dollar that this – or something like it, allowing for local conditions – is happening everywhere in the UK – and something like it, everywhere in *Europe* – where the percentage of mohammedan kids in a school has reached at least ten percent.
Not to mention in schools in Islamised zones of Canada, Australia, the USA, etc etc etc.
I’ll *bet* that in state schools – primary and secondary – in the Islamised suburbs of Sydney, Muslims are working to “stack” the P & C (Aussie equivalent of American PTA) and angling to get mohammedans into positions as principals and vice-principals, so they can do what they want
*Wherever* mohammedans go, they gravitate to the levers of power and seek to get hold of them…and monopolise them, once they get them.
Deja Moo says
They actually did start looking at Muslim Enclaves – A few schools in Bradford (my home town) were found to be very similar to these schools. one had its entire board of governors replaced by the council, others were put into special measures.
Then the protected ones shouted “witch hunt” and it all went quiet again.
CdnCrusader says
this talk is all fine and dandy but I want to know ht is going to be done about it. Anything less than dismissal is a joke.
Jay Boo says
At least it is out in the open. There are many in the US who would still claim that could never happen in the US.
Sarah L Nield says
I don’t know what will be done. Maybe one or two low level more openly extreme leaders might fall on their swords, and there will be a big deal of them doing the right thing by handing their notice is, and then be shuffled on to another job with the local authorities out of sight, perhaps for more pay.
One thing that will be hammered home is that, it is not Muslim community that are guilty. Up the way in Rochdale grooming gangs made up exclusively of Muslim men deliberately targeted white native born troubled little girls for sexual abuse and rape because white girls are all whores. (Paraphrase).
But it isn’t all Muslims and if you say it is you are racist (when was Islam a race?) and you will be dismissed from your job no matter without recompense.
Meanwhile, there was that Christian couple turned down for fostering because a social worker asked them a loaded question about whether their faith could accept a child’s potential, future LGBT inclination.
And the woman who faced the sack for the terrible racist anti multicultural crime of wearing a tiny cross that might be noticed if she was looked at a certain angle.
(Note: over here, falling on one’s sword when it comes to politics means a junior taking the blame while the higher ups get away with it).
Jay Boo says
Islam teaches that it is proper for a husband to beat his wife.
While this is commonly accepted by feminists as a right of Islam, it has recently come to their attention that this rule also extends to wives # 2, 3, and 4 therefore they have decided they have no other choice than to take a stand and begin a petition drive to send out a non-binding but strongly worded request to CAIR seeking permission to have thoughts that are slightly less than 100 % favorable of Islamic teachings.
Richie says
What role if any does George Galloway have in propping up the islamofasicists in the UK- seeing his is one himself, and in the government
Sarah L Nield says
Good question. I used to have a lot of time for George Galloway, maybe because we did think alike on many subjects.
But I have realised in the last ten years he is only interested in George Galloway and the number of people who supported him have changed from Socialist, anti-capitalist, ant-war, pro-equality to openly extreme anti-Semitic western haters who write things like ‘Hitler let a few Jews live because we would know what they were like’ and ‘Israel is a cancer on society’.
He talks about democracy and being a parliamentarian yet applies Khrushchev Soviet tactics of banning and labelling people insane if bested in a disagreement.
A man who works for Russia Today and Press TV because no one else will allow him to spout his rubbish uninterrupted and is important in his own mind and maybe in the mind of his gentle, much younger wife who was brought up to believe men were the leaders and could not question him.
jewdog says
I believe I’ve read that the most common name for young boys in Britain is Mohammad. Since demography is destiny, I think Britain has a lot more “Islamophobia” phobia to look forward to, so get your rabies shot.
Kepha says
I wonder if the frequency of “Muhammad” as a name given to a boy really shows shows as much dominance as its made out to be.
I have been in churches where biblical names were preferred, and I myself gave both of my sons biblical names. But, one issue with this practice is that there are so many from which to choose! Add to this, what of the plethora of religiously neutral names out there?
For example:
Boys named:
Abraham 10
Bertrand 5
Benjamin 16
Carl 11
Charles 24
David 30
Donald 9
Edward 17
Erwin 13
Frederick 22
George 28
Harold 15
Hezekiah 5
Isaac 8
John 20
Muhammad 45
Mhammad easily wins, but all the other names greatly outnumber.
Richard James says
Yes, muslims are a bit like comic-strip mexicans naming their sons Jesus Maria and their daughters Maria Jesus. Of course naming your children after Jesus and Mary is a fine thing
The Muz however like to name ALL their sons after the Most Imperfect Man, the child-molesting murderous bandit Mo.
John Magee says
Having “Maria” as a middle name for boys is also a common practice in Roman Catholic Austria, Bavaria in Southern Germany, and in Bohemia (The Czech Republic) as well as other areas in Catholic Central Europe. The Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer is an example.
jewdog says
Thanks, Kepha. Now I feel better, although I wonder if all those Muhammads will become so obese from stuffing themselves on the public dole that they’ll grow more chins than a Hong Kong telephone directory.
John Magee says
From the Islamic point of view this period of time in history is the perfect storm. Muslim’s have unrestricted migration into any Western nation of their choice, they have the left as their ally, political correctness and multiculturalism have paralyzed the West and has led to unbelievable outrages like the one in the story above. There is almost nothing our government’s can do ,or worse, are willing to do in order to stop our being intimidated by a, so far, large minority of Muslims in our midst. Even when a country realizes too late it has a bad case of “terminal Islamitus” their leaders and politicians sit by and watch it happen. We are doomed unless we become extremist’s ourselves and if we do our governments will come down on us like a ton of bricks and destroy us like insects. We are the enemy if we have the temerity to tell the truth while Muslim extremist’s in mosques in our cities make their plans to destroy Western Civilization by taking advantage of our freedoms. These are strange times to live in watching Western Civilization destroy itself.
Jan Fourowls says
So what are we doing about it to use our words for anything but preaching to the choir here?
Here’s another of my comment series unlikely to be posted today —
Your [http://wamc.org/post/mass-us-senator-markey-weighs-ukraine-and-gaza] failure to “approve” the comment below would only prove that you’re part of the TTHT (Taqiyya Trojan Horse Tactics) brigade.
Consistent with the subtext of his remarks here, Senator Edward Markey, Democrat from Massachusetts, also and not coincidentally on the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Foreign Relations, is co-sponsoring S. 2219 with New York Democrat Congressman Hakeem Jeffries sponsoring H.R. 3878. See https://www.facebook.com/ConcernedAmericansAgainstTheTakeoverOfAmerica/posts/529458160496134. Senator Markey by his remarks about the plane shot down over the Ukraine and about Gaza utterly fails to disclose: (1) the likelihood that Ukrainian Muslim terrorists (with the most to gain from the chaos, and also being unwelcome to non-Muslim “separatists” who know from experience about Islamic terror tactics and are fighting in self-defense against the Muslim terrorists) misused stolen Russian equipment to shoot down the plane, or (2) the ongoing deception and violence of Hamas as a terrorist organization by its 1988 charter (never abrogated), currently requiring its own soldier-citizens in Gaza under Hamas threat to be human shields to Israel’s cross-fire in self-defense after Hamas initiated aggression. Senator Markey is a hypocrite and oligarch who like POTUS betrays the American people in foreign press commentary as well as in Washington, D.C.
As I get informally, behind-the-scenes censored more and more on the internet, I am emailing all my personal contacts and lists with messages like the following:
“Hope you’re having a beautiful Saturday! Thinking of you, wishing only good to all you love.
This email forwards information and a guide to action for anybody who might be similarly moved under rapidly escalating Islamist geopolitical encroachments and new risks to Americans by stealth jihad. We now face a new potential to have our Constitutional freedoms eroded internally through elected officials following the overtly demoralizing terrorism of 9/11, Fort Hood and the Boston Marathon Bombing. (The fact that some legislation tracking websites publish a small likelihood of this anti-freedom legislation passing could be designed to lull us into inaction. In a “taqiyya” world, nothing said or printed can be taken at face value, only what is done or not done.)
There’s a lot of information in the forwarded email. In summary without the provided context, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries sponsoring H.R. 3878 is a Democrat, New Yorker and Muslim.
His co-sponsor in the Senate for S. 2219, Senator Edward Markey, is a Democrat and Liberal from Massachusetts, also and not coincidentally on the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Foreign Relations.
It continues to go increasingly wrong in the UK where Muslims and their apologists who are politically prominent citizens twist more and more control of government into alignment with principles of Sharia law instead of the rule of Western civilization’s law. In America we still have the Constitution which the UK lacks, and which our forebears fought the British to obtain. Congressman Hakeem Jeffries’ bill, aided and abetted by traitorous Senator Markey, is an end-run around the Constitution that many bloggers I read see as a “line in the sand” we should not allow our nation to cross.
I hope and pray Americans will not believe falsely “it cannot happen here” and by inaction not even let their elected leaders know we object as a patriotic people.
And now I’m going to go enjoy the rest of my Saturday while I’m still free to do so!”
Beagle says
I believe the Runnymede Trust (UK) cooked up the amazingly successful deception of “Islamophobia” in 1997 or thereabouts. Their first criterion for Islamophobia, iirc, is believing Islam is “monolithic, a static bloc, resistant to change.”
Oddly enough that perfectly describes the obdurate (but not only) Sunni-Salafi-Wahhabi view on bida, or trying to innovate Islam in any way. I am sure Dougie Hooper is jetting to Riyadh right now to shut down that rampant Saudi Islamophobia.
ECAW says
“Their activities were unimpeded by council officials who were fearful of allegations of Islamophobia”
Had to laugh. Where would the allegations of “Islamophobia” have come from? Why, more than anywhere from the Guardian. Further details here:
http://ecawblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/the-guardian-doing-the-right-thing-eventually-2/
Coastliner says
The main concern should be the children involved. Literally hundreds (if not thousands) of them will have gone through years of exposure to this poisonous indoctrination. It will be very hard to undo the damage inflicted on these young people by the evil creatures who want to propagate such medieval lunacy. Any adult individual who could seriously believe the drivel these monsters espouse must surely have some kind of mental affliction.
John Magee says
“Evil creatures who want to propagate such medieval lunacy”. Sadly this is the mindset of most of the post World War II generation toward Christianity not Islam. These are the children of the veterans of WW II who are now in positions of national leadership and control our educations systems. What happened after the War to create this perverted and self loathing attitude ? I was born in 1948 and by 1968, as we all know, many from my generation had become tools of the left and hated not only patriotism but the religion of their parents and ancestors and took to the streets and wanted a revolution. Today many of them seem to gleefully push for the collapse of Western Civilization. Why? They surely have enough common sense left to realize that by allowing Islam a powerful foothold in our Western countries this will spell their doom and create a world for their children worse than any hypocrisy and brutality the Church allowed in our Middle Ages. The was the same Middle Ages which also created our great cathedrals and the first universities in Europe. Great thinkers from the Middle Ages in Europe laid the groundwork for the Italian Renaissance which changed the Western World. Do the multiculturalists really believe Europe, America, Canada, and Australia will somehow evolve into to something better if Muslims ever grow in large enough numbers to completely control our societies within a few generations? Have they become that delusional? Apparently so.
Sumit Basu says
What is the phobia specialist’s term for phobia for IP? Is It IPphobia? or perhaps IP^2?
RICHTHOFEN says
Anglophobia, Christianophobia, Caucasianophobia and Heterophobia have grasped Britain by the throat, by command of the EUSSR to their Quisling puppets in Britain’s effete, emasculated and subjugated so-called, unelected, ‘government’ – Britain is little more than a caliphate, occupied by an alien cult of medieval violence and hatred
abad says
The UK needs to get its act together, round up these Muhammadans and deport them ALL back to Riyadh.