Are any Islamic schools being downgraded for failing to invite Christian priests or ministers to lead assemblies? Doubtful in the extreme. In the wake of the Trojan Horse takeover plot of British state schools, British authorities appear to have decided that the remedy is to further the Islamization of schools. They appear intent on rushing their nation toward civil strife and disintegration. “Christian school ‘downgraded for failing to invite an imam to lead assembly,'” by John Bingham, the Telegraph, October 19, 2014 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
A successful Christian school has been warned it is to be downgraded by inspectors and could even face closure after failing to invite a leader from another religion, such as an imam, to lead assemblies, it is claimed.
The small independent school in the Home Counties was told it is in breach of new rules intended to promote “British values” such as individual liberty and tolerance in the wake of the Trojan Horse scandal, involving infiltration by hard-line Muslim groups in Birmingham.
Details of the case are disclosed in a letter to the Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan, from the Christian Institute, which is providing legal support to the school.
The group warned that the new rules intended to combat extremism are already having “disturbing consequences” for religious schools and forcing Ofsted inspectors to act in a way which undermines their ethos.
It follows complaints from orthodox Jewish schools about recent inspections in which girls from strict traditional backgrounds were allegedly asked whether they were being taught enough about lesbianism, whether they had boyfriends and if they knew where babies came from.
Role of religion in schools under pressure after Trojan Horse scandal
14 Aug 2014In the latest case inspectors are understood to have warned the head that the school, which was previously rated as “good” that it would be downgraded to “adequate” for failing to meet standards requiring it to “actively promote” harmony between different faiths because it had failed to bring in representatives from other religions.
They warned that unless the school could demonstrate how it was going to meet the new requirements there would be a further full inspection which could ultimately lead to it being closed.
A Government consultation paper published in June, explaining the new rules, makes clear that even taking children on trips to different places of worship would not be enough to be judged compliant.
The Institute, which is already planning a legal challenge to the consultation, arguing that it was rushed through during the school holidays, fears that the new guidelines could be used to clamp down on the teaching of anything deemed politically incorrect on issues such as marriage.
“Worryingly, evidence is already emerging of how the new regulations are requiring Ofsted inspection teams to behave in ways which do not respect the religious ethos of faith schools,” Simon Calvert, deputy director of the Christian Institute, told Mrs Morgan.
“The new requirements are infringing the rights of children, parents, teachers and schools to hold and practise their religious beliefs.”
Listing recent cases involving criticism of Anglican, Roman Catholic and Jewish schools by Ofsted, he added: “The Christian Institute is currently working with an independent Christian School which has been marked down by Ofsted for not promoting other faiths.
“Astonishingly it was told it should invite representatives of other faith groups to lead assemblies and lessons, such as an Imam.
“The wording of the regulations inevitably results in these kind of outcomes.
“While we obviously support attempts to address the problem of radicalisation, the current regulations fail to do this.”…
pongidae rex says
Future historians will study with horror and amazement the complete socio-political collapse of Western Civilization in the early 21st Century. Even as one alive during this catastrophe, I am personally unable to come up with a coherent explanation for what is happening. Somehow the civil rights movement in the US in the late 20th century seems to have metastasized into a movement of obligatory self immolation by anyone with a European background.
Anon says
That’s a pretty close re-cap of the situation i.e. what “race” is Islam again?
David says
@Anon
It’s the “death race”
Mike R. says
Yes. Incredulous? Same here. The “catastrophe” that has befallen civilized western nations is a consequence of the west’s denial of a sovereign God to whom each person is and will be ultimately accountable.
“The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and of course in the United Nations.
Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn speech at Harvard
Laura says
There won’t be any historians left in 100 years from now, by then the whole world will be islamic. They will have erased European history as though it never existed and replaced it with islamic triumphalism.
Mirren10 says
”There won’t be any historians left in 100 years from now, by then the whole world will be islamic.”
What defeatist rubbish.
**You** may be ready to roll over and bear your neck, or live like a pathetic dhimmi, but **I**, and millions more exactly like me, are **not**.
I will die before I will **ever** submit to this evil filth.
Your miserable, cowardly, defeatist post, does nothing but give encouragement to the monsters we are fighting against. If you have nothing encouraging to say, shut the f*** up.
Wellington says
Very well said, pongidae rex.
Ayatrollah says
Why would anyone expect any religious school to be required to “promote other faiths”. .? Would it not be enough to “expose” them to different cultures and religions, like in a humanities class?
This is a silly response to the “problems” in the UK with the culture clash.
Jay Boo says
The best way to introduce them to Islam is to have them type the URL —
http://www.jihadwatch.org
Jay Boo says
Houston, Texas Mayor issues subpoenas for pastors sermons but faces backlash.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/10/17/houston-to-pastors-forget-your-sermons-now-want-your-speeches/
eib says
Downgraded today, remembered for all time. This kind of humiliation is the course in every muslim state.
Islam is profane.
Laura says
And it’s being facilitated by left wing indigenous British people in positions of power! perhaps they think that when Jihad arrives, big time, that they will be spared?
Mirren10 says
”It follows complaints from orthodox Jewish schools about recent inspections in which girls from strict traditional backgrounds were allegedly asked whether they were being taught enough about lesbianism, whether they had boyfriends and if they knew where babies came from.”
Dear God.
Would these ‘inspectors’ have *dared* ask such questions of mohammedan girls, in a mohammedan school ?
You *bet* they wouldn’t.
Wellington says
You got that right, Mirren. You bet they wouldn’t, which makes them not only dopes but hypocrites as well.
citycat says
“such as an Imam” but not a Rabbi, Lama, Swami, priestess, etc
citycat says
The cowardly lying powers are letting our countries in to the dogs
citycat says
You don’t need a weatherman
Islam does not tolerate individual liberty
citycat says
Those question are part of Jihad, mental assault.
citycat says
Those mental assault questions did not exxist at one time, before Islam got a hold
Jerry says
To promote “Multiculturalism” and endengering proper understanding of Islam they will have to introduce classes in deceit, IED making, torture, mass murder, crucifixions, beheadings gang rape and the burning of churches synagogues and ashrams.
doug says
Try watching this to see the radical muslims of the world.
stacy says
Time to wake up citizens… we are on the same path… until people demand public schools stop teaching religion and stop promoting Islam and eliminate all references to religion of any sort, the slope will only become more slippery!
stevo k says
we didnt have any problems teaching religion for centuries before. but seems athiests also have an agenda…and indeed they have nicely created a vacuum for islam
Christopher says
Religion is an irrational absurdity which humanity is best without. If it wasn’t for Judaism and Christianity there would BE no Islam for Muhammad to plagiarise, so I don’t know where you get off on being all high-and-mighty above atheism. I’m agnostic personally, but consider atheism far more realistic than any religion.
Just so happens that we agree with you that Islam is a bigger problem than all the other religions combined. Probably all we agree on, but I guess for now that will do.
Mirren10 says
Do you really think mohammed wouldn’t have come up with islam if there had been no Christianity or Judaism ?
On what basis ?
Marx came up with Communism, Hitler came up with Nazism; neither of these evil ideologies came about through either Marx or Hitler plaigerising Christianity or Judaism.
Mohammed used what was to hand, in order to persuade the Jews and Christians to join him. If neither had existed, he would have fabricated something else.
CogitoErgoSum says
Christopher, you say, “Religion is an irrational absurdity which humanity is best without.” Can you provide any supporting information for this conclusion? Which civilization of the past (or present) do you think comes closest to having achieved this goal of having no religion (or mythology) and what did that civilization achieve that is superior to all other civilizations (aside from having no religion)?
Mirren10 says
CogitoErgoSum said:
”Which civilization of the past (or present) do you think comes closest to having achieved this goal of having no religion (or mythology) and what did that civilization achieve that is superior to all other civilizations (aside from having no religion)?”
**Excellent** question, CES.
I would imagine Christopher’s ‘Shangri-la’ would have to be Communist Russia, or Communist China, or Communist North Vietnam. Or maybe North Korea ?
And we’ve all seen how that worked out. I believe, although I’m no expert, that Christianity flourished in underground Churches in Commie Russia, and I believe that’s the case in the PRC, also. Don’t know about North Vietnam, or North Korea, but I wouldn’t mind betting it is so.
The truth is, the majority of human beings need/want a spiritual dimension of some sort in their lives, and if it is denied them, as in Communist Russia, will find it in other, underground ways, even at the risk of their lives.
And, Christopher ? I am an agnostic, and I find the position of atheists, **irrational**. In what possible way can you **prove** the non-existence of some sort of Deity ? You can’t, any more than religious people can *prove* the existence of God.
In any case, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Sikhism, et al, are **benign**.
It is only islam which is **malignant**, and anti-human.
eib says
Your statement about religion being an irrational absurdity shows your profound ignorance of history. The historical doctrines of Christianity & writing of Athanasius, Sidonius Apollonaris, along with all the other patristic and Latin fathers are quite rational, as justifications for faith, all run deep. Why believe? Read Aquinas.
Wellington says
I’m not religious in the least but I submit to you, Christopher, that calling religion “an irrational absurdity,” is itself arguably an absurd statement. Religion represents one of three main ways man can explore existence, the other two being philosophy and science. All three disciplines use reason, but religion uses reason plus faith, philosophy uses reason alone and science uses reason plus tested observational methods. If you really do want to persist in thinking religion something absurd, I would direct you to Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica. Tackle it and then try and conclude that religion is irrational and absurd. Give it a shot.
Jay Boo says
@stevo k
Bill Maher criticized Islam.
He is an exception and not an example of typical atheist today.
In theory modern day atheists would criticize Islam at least as much as other religions but the big bold lie of Islam backed up with a butcher knife and team of character assassins has many of them acting like deer caught in the headlights of political correctness.
Instead, most of them lurch out at Christianity to fill the empty void in their cowardly vanity with smugness.
Jay Boo says
Don’t take my word for it, though.
Just Google Atheist websites for proof of what I state.
Coolio says
The school should connect with other genuine faiths like Hare Krishna. Bhaktivedanta Manor, George Harrison’s gift to the movement near London for example has a genuinely nice and educational schools outreach programme with dancing, dressing up, feasting, picnicking, cow protection display and bullock cart rides, festivals, seeing the deities, other activities and talks with questions welcomed.
tpellow says
This is how the Islamization of Nations is imposed in the West: via an Islamified state apparatus, which now penalizes Christians, and non-Muslims.
And this is being imposed when the Muslim population is a small percentage of total in West.
I suggest that this victimised UK Christian school should use the non- imposition of outside Islamic propaganda as a selling point in its school brochure.
And as ‘Jihadwatch’ rightly points out: there is no reciprocity in Islam.
“SERIOUSLY LACKING: the Reciprocity of Islam”
http://clashdaily.com/2014/10/seriously-lacking-reciprocity-islam/
el-cid says
The lesson to draw here is that, unless Islam is directly targeted for annihilation, the Islamic “scientists” will always find ways to subvert any regulations to carry out Jihad.
What is happening is the state is enlisted by Islam to destroy Christianity.
Deja vu.
deja vu says
Did you call?!
Seriously, no matter what happens neither State nor Islam can destroy Christ, so destroying faith in Him is an impossibility. Plenty of Christians will suffer and die, but no entity is able to destroy God, who alone is sovereign over all things. It is a fact that intense persecution always leads to a huge increase in the number of converts to Christianity. ‘The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church’, as Tertullian wrote in the 2nd century, is as true now as it was then. In fact, there have been more Christians martyred for their faith in the last 50 years than in the last 20 centuries.
The enemy has always existed, and delights to lead mankind astray, but he is a vanquished foe and will not prevail. He might seem to win the odd skirmish but he will not win the war. These are indeed testing times when mankind will be confronted with raw evil and will be sifted to see which way he will choose.
Jay Boo says
In the US, public school administrators go to extreme measures to take out Judeo/Christian teachings.
It is done under separation of church and state guidelines.
If Leftists administrators fail to show the same resolve toward Islam they could be branded as hypocrites.
Unfortunately, being called a hypocrites doesn’t seem to bother Leftists.
Jayell says
Sorry, haven’t had time to read the rest of your correspondents, but I’ve read this story in the UK press. To say I’m incandescent would be an understatement. We could argue about the rights and wrongs of a CHURCH school having the ‘opposition’ in on its daily life (especially where the ‘opposition’ is by its own word malevolent), but are we to expect that local muslim schools will invite the local vicar in to chat to their clients? And even if they do, how will he/she be treated and what will be the ‘follow-up’? This is all PATHETIC!!!
Eunice Well says
The Brits all seem to have mad-cow disease when it comes to recognizing the dangerous traits of Muslims.
Kim says
do muslim Schools need to invite Christian chaplains or some rep from the Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Shinto or Jewish community?
Walter Sieruk says
A real Christian School will follow the teachings of the Bible and thus never invite and Islamic teacher such as an Imam to speak at a school that is truly Christian. For the Bible is very clear in its instructions. For the Bible teaches that Christians are to “have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them.” Ephesians 5:11. The question might be asked “Just who or what is part of the world or “works of darkness ?” The answer in explained in the Bible in Isaiah 8:20. Which teaches “To the word of the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” [K.J.V.] So if a religious teacher or a religion has teaching that are in contradiction to the Word, the Bible then that religious teacher or religion is part of the world of the powers of darkness. With this explain it should be known in in many ways Islam concerning the doctrines of the Bible is a religion of denial. Just to mention two examples of this are about the t real nature of Jesus. First, Islam denies that Jesus is the Son of God. That is that Jesus is the Son of God. Being the Son of God Who the Father. This denial of Islam that Jesus is the Son of God is in great contradiction to the Bible . As seen in Matthew 3:16,17. 16:18. John 3:16,17,36. First John 2:22,23. 5:20. Second, Islam is in denial that Jesus is God the Son. This denial of Islam is in strong contradiction to the Bible which teaches that ,indeed, Jesus is God the Son. As shown in Hebrews 1:6-8. With emphasis on verse 8. In conclusion, any genuine Christian school will never invite an imam or for that matter a mullah to speak. For those Muslim clerics speak not according the Bible but have many teaches that is in contrast to the doctrines of the Bible. Even though these Islamic clerics might fake ,at first , that they believe the Bible in order to have people start to listen to their half-truths and falsehoods they are still false teachers of a false religion, Proverbs 14:12. John 14:6. who are part of the forces and power of darkness and real Christian leader have no business letting those tools of Satan speak at a Christian school.
Ralph says
God told the World what the Muslim’s would be and if you read Genesis 16: 7 through 12 you can see for your self the Destiny that God Gave This Bunch of Barbarians…
Mark says
Truely sickening how dhimmified and treasonous our UNFIT for purpose our leaders are in their IGNORANCE and COWARDICE.
That they require someone from a religion, who worships a ‘thing’ that all through their islamic MAINSTREAM teaching books, quran, hadith and sira, shows itself to have the CHARACTER and NATURE OF SATAN, to lead a worship service in a christian school.
In short the british government now requires worship of satan in a christian school under one of satans priests, an imam.
abad says
Islam will never be on a par with Christianity nor any other religion on this rock.
Islam is evil, brainwashing, manipulative, and demands you to seek validation for a deity and prophet that never existed (one has to wonder why Muhammad is never mentioned in any secular writings during the 6th and 7th centuries CE). All in the names of “tolerance” and “inclusion” for a group that does not want to be tolerated nor included but instead stand above everyone else.