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UK: Five Islamic schools still open despite teaching jihad, 18 Islamic schools defy inspectors branding them unsafe

Oct 4, 2016 10:51 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

As if  the “national disaster” of up to one million children being assaulted by Muslim rape gangs in the UK wasn’t enough of a horror, now comes news of Muslim schools teaching jihadist doctrine, even long after they had been exposed as doing so:

Dozens of Islamic schools continue to operate despite inspectors finding that pupils are unsafe, exposed to extreme views or unaware of basic British values…. Even in the most extreme cases – where the Government has tried to shut a school – staff have been able to use legal challenges to keep it open.

Aside from indoctrinating jihadist views into the children, one of the schools was found to have cameras in the girls’ changing areas. In another, “a preacher was filmed making racist remarks about Hindus and ranting that ‘disbelievers are the worst creatures.’” (That’s from the Qur’an, 98:6.)

There are understood to be thousands more children educated in unregistered illegal faith schools across the UK.

Two years ago, former education secretary Michael Gove ordered the “Trojan Horse inquiry,” which was conducted by former counterterrorism chief Peter Clarke. 2,000 pages of interview transcripts were generated from “50 witnesses, including former head-teachers, teachers, council staff and school governors.” Of course, the inquiry was deemed “Islamophobic.” The investigation concluded a “sustained, coordinated agenda to impose segregationist attitudes and practices of a hardline, politicised strain of Sunni Islam” on children in “a number of Birmingham schools”, making them vulnerable to “radicalization.”

Less than two weeks ago, it was revealed that Islamic schools and mosques in Canada are filled with extremist literature. The authors of the study stated that what “worried them was not the presence of extremist literature, but that they found nothing but such writings in several mosque libraries and Islamic schools.”

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“Revealed – five schools STILL open despite extremist fears… and 18 private Islamic schools defy inspectors branding them unsafe”, by Lucy Osborne, UK Daily Mail, October 2, 2016:

Dozens of Islamic schools continue to operate despite inspectors finding that pupils are unsafe, exposed to extreme views or unaware of basic British values, a Mail investigation reveals today.

The findings suggest that a supposed Government crackdown on extremism in schools – following the Trojan Horse scandal – has failed to materialise.

Five Islamic schools have been allowed to stay open after inspections found they were failing to protect children from extremism or radicalisation.

Some 18 are still open despite Ofsted warning that pupils are ‘unsafe’ there.

These include one where children were given books about stoning to death, and another where 99 pupils were found to have gone missing and to be ‘at risk of exploitation’.

Even in the most extreme cases – where the Government has tried to shut a school – staff have been able to use legal challenges to keep it open. At least two failing Islamic schools are continuing to teach children while staff try to drag Ofsted through the courts over their damning reports.

The findings are based on research into the 105 Islamic schools in England, which are all registered – and therefore legal – independent schools, and should be monitored by Ofsted.

But there are understood to be thousands more children educated in unregistered illegal faith schools across the UK. In what MPs described as a ‘shocking scandal’, we can reveal that:

  • At least nine Islamic schools have stayed open despite having ‘limited or no’ music teaching, and 16 do not teach art properly;
  • Male and female staff were separated by a screen during meetings at one Islamic school;
  • Another school was found to be teaching children in buildings infested with pigeons, mice and rats;
  • Several treat boys and girls ‘unequally’ and allow sexist views to go unchallenged;
  • Pupils at one Islamic school said they did not know what Christmas was;
  • Several schools have been repeatedly rated inadequate with serious failings, but have been allowed to stay open.

A source close to Education Secretary Justine Greening last night said she is taking the Mail’s findings ‘very seriously’ and is ‘pressing her officials to see what changes can be made’. The Government pledged a crackdown on extremism in schools following the Trojan Horse scandal in 2014 – a campaign to introduce strict Muslim ideology in a string of Birmingham state schools.

Then education secretary Michael Gove vowed schools would be shut down if found not to be protecting pupils from the threat of extremism.

But more than two years on, 30 of the 105 Muslim schools have not been inspected at all by Ofsted. Seven appear not to have been inspected in five years or more.

At Darul Uloom Islamic high school in Birmingham, inspectors found a large number of leaflets ‘containing highly concerning and extremist views’, such as ‘music, dancing and singing are acts of [the] devil and prohibited’. Serious safety concerns and a very narrow curriculum were also discovered.

But despite being officially struck off by the Department for Education, the school is refusing to close. It remains open five years after major concerns were first raised – when a preacher was filmed making racist remarks about Hindus and ranting that ‘disbelievers are the worst creatures’. A spokesman for the school said it disputes the Ofsted reports as well as the conduct of the inspectors, accusing them of racism.

Ofsted found Al Ameen primary school, in Birmingham, was not promoting British values. Year 6 pupils said they thought France was in Britain and none who spoke to inspectors knew what an MP was. Books promoting inequality of the sexes were found and when a pupil drew an explicitly violent picture, staff failed to acknowledge it as inappropriate.

Another Islamic school in Birmingham was found in March to have cameras in girls’ changing areas. Inspectors said pupils at Al Burhan grammar school were unsafe, ‘feel vulnerable and that their dignity as teenage girls is not fully respected’. Yet it continues to operate and was allowed to keep its ‘outstanding’ rating. A spokesman for the school said Ofsted’s concerns ‘were all swiftly addressed’.

In one Leicester school, pupils were found to have stereotyped views of women, but these went unchallenged. Inspectors noted that just one cup was being used for all students to drink from.

At Jameah girls’ academy nearby, pupils ‘expressed great discomfort at the thought of being educated in a mixed-gender, multicultural setting’.

In Tower Hamlets, East London, books promoting gender inequality and punishments including stoning to death were found at Jamiatul Ummah school.

Ad-Deen primary in Ilford, Essex – founded by Sajeel Shahid, who trained the ringleader of the 7/7 attacks – did not teach British values and failed to prevent children from going missing from education. It follows an Ofsted warning last year about the safety of children from Birmingham and Tower Hamlets who stopped attending school with little explanation.

At the Institute of Islamic Education in Dewsbury adult men who had not been vetted shared overnight accommodation with boarding pupils as young as 11. A recent inspection, however, found standards at the school have now been met.

Four failing schools are contesting Ofsted’s findings through costly court proceedings, claiming they have been the victims of a ‘witch hunt’ – two of which are continuing to operate despite an official ban.

A judge has refused to name one school that is challenging a highly critical Ofsted report in the High Court, provoking a backlash last week.

Tory MP Philip Hollobone last night said the Mail’s revelations were ‘a shocking scandal’, adding: ‘There is no point having Ofsted inquiries and investigations if their findings and recommendations are not implemented as soon as possible.’

An Ofsted spokesman said: ‘Inspectors report on independent schools and it is the Department for Education’s responsibility to cancel their registration.’

A DfE spokesman said: ‘Extremism has no place in our society and when we find schools promoting twisted ideologies or discrimination … we will take action, including closing the school or working with the police as necessary.’

At one repeatedly failing Islamic school, a pupil was expelled just for owning a disposable camera.

Aliyah Saleem has spoken out about her treatment at Jamia Al Hudaa girls’ school in Nottingham, saying she was not taught geography, history, art or music. Until she left the school in 2011, she ‘didn’t know about World War One or World War Two’.

‘The worst thing about the school was the national curriculum, it was restricted in every way possible,’ she said.

‘We were taught English and science but we were not taught about evolution or sex education. I had to teach myself evolution at 20.’

Miss Saleem, now in her twenties, was at the school from 2006 to 2011. She was ‘publicly expelled in front of the entire school’ for owning a disposable camera, thought to be a sign of ‘narcissism’…….

The last Ofsted inspection found the school does not promote balanced views or British values, and pupils can access ‘books that have been written by controversial authors, for example by one who is not allowed to enter this country’….

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  1. Walter Sieruk says

    Oct 4, 2016 at 11:36 am

    There are Muslim mind control places where Muslim males are thoroughly indoctrinated into the strong but blind and unquestioning faith in Koran with all non-watered down; hard core Islam with its militant jihad. Those places, “schools,” are called madrasas. Now even in the UK of all nations ! How demonic In those Islamic mind programming centers young Muslim male are ingrain in the mindset Koranic dogma of the use of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam. As the Koran instructs. As in, for example, in 2:191. 9:5, 123. 47:4. Many of those who of such center are so much damaged that they are literally dangerous to self and others. As seen many times in jihad suicide, homicide bombing/attacks. For the Koran instructs in 9:111. “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Furthermore, those mind programming places also ingrain the outlandish absurd Koranic doctrine of a sex-filled paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for the Muslim male who dies fighting for the cause of Islam in the jihad. Such a strange doctrine of a houris filled- place in found in the Koran in 44:54. 55:56. 78:31. Moreover, such Islamic mind programming centers are further explained about by the scholar Don Richardson in his book SECRETS OF THE KORAN which on pages 69,70. Informs the reader that “The world needs to be warned. At least forty million Muslim youth in the Muslim worlds’ religious schools, called madrasa, are avidly memorizing the entire Koran … These schools become breeding grounds for potential terrorists. When male students, isolated from family and friends in madrasa, reach puberty and their hormones are active, there are no girls to date. Instead, Muslim clerics easily shift to focusing the male student’s attention on Koranic verse that promises sex in heaven with dark-eyed houris. Students can only fantasize about martyrdom followed by the sexual release Muhammad promised. This is an unspeakably cruel brainwashing technique, and the Koran is its perfect guidebook.”

  2. Jay Boo says

    Oct 4, 2016 at 12:12 pm

    BBC cautions against those preaching xenophobia and Islamophobia in particular.

  3. Kunal says

    Oct 4, 2016 at 12:19 pm

    God bless those little souls

  4. BARBARA BROOKS says

    Oct 4, 2016 at 1:07 pm

    Not only do these schools need to be shut down, but the teachers and parents of the students need to be punished as well. If they are foreigners, they should be deported.
    However, legislation of faith schools needs to be pursued carefully, as laws can be applied against other faith groups as well. For example, an Orthodox Jewish or traditional Christian school could be shut down for teaching that mothers should ideally stay home with their children or for teaching traditional sexual morality or that males should lead in the church or synagogue. Certainly schools should teach that women are equals in secular spheres, but how the religions run their religious services is not the concern of the state unless they are concealing fraud, molestations or promoting violence. Religious people are usually going to have strict codes of conduct for behavior in religious services, for child rearing and for sexual behavior. The state’s duty is to see that none of this leads to promotion of violence, fraud or interference with marital choice or deciding to leave the religion, not to promote a secular ideology. Religious people have been harassed for teaching that homosexuality is immoral, for example. Islam deserves special scrutiny because it calls for the state to control religion and to impose a religious state in which non-Muslims are inferiors, but the wrong laws could further harassment of Christians and Jews.

  5. Angemon says

    Oct 4, 2016 at 1:59 pm

    These include one where children were given books about stoning to death

    An islamic school teaching islamic orthodoxy? Shocker…

  6. Bob says

    Oct 5, 2016 at 6:59 am

    To close these schools down would be politically incorrect, and therefore unacceptable. PC has handcuffed our politicos and police!

  7. Risto Kantonen says

    Oct 5, 2016 at 6:24 pm

    Muslims do not care about laws, the only “law” they consider to be valid is sharia. They will instead just exploit the legal system to advance their cause: islamisation. The further this is allowed, the more these areas will slip towards becoming no-go zones.

  8. dan shine says

    Oct 5, 2016 at 11:40 pm

    the brits deserve what they get. They are stupid to think they can change a muslims mind. They have been indoctrinated with hate since they were babies. there’s only one way this can end!!!!!!!

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