07 June 2011

Islamic radicals are in schools, government report says

.... The Prevent strategy also reports that a minority of independent faith schools have been “actively promoting views that are contrary to British values, such as intolerance of other cultures and gender inequality” and have “allowed extremist views to be expressed by staff, visitors or pupils.”

Ofsted found that eight out of 51 independent faith schools surveyed were found to be displaying teaching materials that had a bias in favour of one particular religious group. [telegraph.co.uk] Read more