The Telegraph reports on the ongoing investigations in to whether Islamic radicals attempted to islamify Birmingham schools. The Office For Standards In Education (OFSTED) is investigating claims that teachers who voiced opposition to the alleged plans where passed over for promotion in favour of more compliant colleagues. Other allegations include pupils being suspended for holding hands and girls being treated as second class citizens with some teachers favouring boys over them. If true this is deeply worrying.
For the article please visit http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10790441/Guide-to-school-Islamisation-by-ringleader-of-Trojan-Horse-plot.html
K Morris - Poet 
I guess that to appease people and not create waves the schools will slowly fall into the Islamic way of being. Canada has the right idea, when the government was approached by Islamic leaders demanding that Canadian schools teach their way they were told to go and build their own schools. I have no problem with what people believe Kevin, it’s only when they try to push their beliefs onto others that I become annoyed. I don’t think that Britain will ever be the same again.
Cheers
Laurie.
No religious influences should be allowed in any school…children are far too vulnerable to suggestion and it’s just plain wrong. I don’t care what religious background it is…same applies. Radicals or not. As for radicals…they should be thrown out the damn country. There is a marked difference between religious tolerance and plain stupidity.
Thanks for your comment. Many religious radicals of every skin colour are born in the UK and are British citizens. As such there is nowhere to send them. I am an agnostic but believe in the right of parents to educate their children in a religious setting if they so wish, however that education must take place within the law. Any advocacy of men being superior to women or expounding of the view that other religions (or non-believers) should be harmed is, therefore already rightly prohibited. I attended a religious school and the ethos was one of tolerance so I know that religion does not automatically equal bigotry. Best, Kevin
Fair point…had immigration not been so lax in the first place this may not be so now…however, it was and therefore it is.
I still stand by what I have said regarding schools…sure if parents wish to send their children to a religious school than that is a different matter and tolerance for a family’s beliefs are therefore granted, but to force such ideals into general public schools where people of differing cultures and beliefs send their children is wrong.
A neutral stance to religion must be taken and therefore no religious education given…such things are for the churches, mosques, etc. or wherever families take their children to be indoctrinated and as you stated, private religious schools if that is their choice.
It is not the responsibility of general public schools to teach religions and children should be otherwise protected from all such influences, radical or not.