.... But it turns out to be Ed Balls, just as much as Cameron, who's been playing politics and failing to check the facts. The issue is not the situation with the schools now. It's the situation at the time the public money was paid. It turns out that the schools' chief Hizb ut Tahrir trustee, Yusra Hamilton, only resigned last month, in response to my story, long after the Government grant came in.
…. who remains a trustee to this day, refuses to deny that she was a Hizb member and has written in a Hizb journal condemning the "corrupt western concepts of materialism and freedom." [telegraph.co.uk] Read more
The Hizb School Row Is Far From Over .... I don’t know what is going on in OFSTED. It is possible, as Gilligan suggests, that there has been entryism into OFSTED – who knows. But it is equally possible that OFSTED just doesn’t take seriously the possibility that a fascist group is trying to work the system, to get public funds, and to further their campaign for sectarian politics of the worst sort. [Harry’s Place] Read more
UK: Hizb ut-Tahrir in schools dispute A month ago I reported that Hizb ut-Tahrir was receiving gov't subsidies in order to run a nursery and two schools in the UK.One commentator on my blog claimed that those allegations were untrue, and that the school did not teach a Hizb ut-Tahrir ideology. [Islam in Europe] Read more
Public funds must not be used to propagate an Islamic state .... The Government has failed to refute our central allegation, that public money has gone to an organisation with extremist views that run counter to our democratic values. This is part of a wider failure by this government to recognise the seriousness of the threat posed by Hizb-ut-Tahrir.
…. I, too, have seen a curriculum from the school. It has also been reviewed by several former Hizb-ut-Tahrir members. They confirm that it propagates, in detail, every particular of the group's vision of an Islamic state. [telegraph.co.uk] Read more
