19 March 2014

Forced out by fanatics: Head teachers reveal how they've been bullied, smeared and driven from their jobs for resisting Islamic extremists

Erica Connor's eyes widen as she reads the four-page letter purportedly outlining a plot by Muslim fundamentalists to take over state education.

It brings back terrible memories for the former headmistress who won £400,000 in compensation after religious zealots forced her out of the primary school she loved in the English Home Counties.

‘It’s a letter that makes me realise nothing has changed in our schools,’ she tells us with a sad smile. ‘Muslim extremists used an identical strategy to get rid of me and nearly ruined my life.’

[A COMMENT] This is what happens when you bend over backwards to accommodate any kind of religious fanatics; they keep escalating their demands until everyone else is pushed out.

I'm glad to be from a country that bans publicly supported religious schools, but if we let people like this into our country, it would only be a matter of time before they found a way around any constitutional barriers. Religious fanaticism is like a disease. It needs to be stamped out, by whatever means necessary. [Daily Mail] Read more