“In a statement, OCR said it has apologised to Abbey, adding that its initial conclusion was incorrect and ‘too harsh.'”
Good. But notice that this harshness and overzealousness only ever goes one way: toward Sharia. Britain is so paralyzed by fear of accusations of “racism” and “Islamophobia” that it is losing its culture, its traditions, its national character, its national integrity. On its epitaph as a free nation, write: “At least they didn’t think I was ‘Islamophobic.'”
“Vegetarian GCSE student 16, is disqualified for ‘obscene racial comments’ because she criticised halal meat in Religious Studies exam,” by Shari Miller, Mailonline, August 18, 2019:
A GCSE pupil was disqualified after examiners mistook her vegetarian views on Halal meat for Islamophobia.
Abigail Ward, 16, who attends Gildredge House school in Eastbourne, East Sussex, was told by exam board OCR that she had made ‘obscene racial comments’ while answering her Religious Studies exam in June.
On the subject of halal butchers, the student had written, ‘…which I find absolutely disgusting.’
In an appeal, her school explained that her comment was in relation to her vegetarian beliefs, not her opinions on Muslims.
Her mother, Layla Ward, said the examiner has been ‘over-zealous, over-righteous’.
Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph, the 36-year-old said the family were shocked by the decision to disqualify her daughter, and the exam board has since been overturned the decision.
She said: ‘Abbey is an animal lover and a very strict vegetarian.
‘It made me angry … when asked a question in the exam, you can’t even express your feelings.
‘It’s great that it has been overturned, but it should never have happened.’
In a statement, OCR said it has apologised to Abbey, adding that its initial conclusion was incorrect and ‘too harsh’….