The alleged ringleader of the Trojan Horse plot wrote a detailed blueprint for the radical “Islamisation” of secular state schools which closely resembles what appears to be happening in Birmingham.
Tahir Alam, chairman of governors at Park View school in the city, called for “girls [to] be covered except for their hands and faces”, advocated gender segregation in some school activities, and attacked a “multicultural approach” to collective worship.
[A COMMENT] In Mr Alam's view dangerous activities include such things as “potentially harmful forms of music”, schools must not teach any art involving “three-dimensional imagery of humans”, and should ban any play “associated with celebrating aspects of other religions”. But inviting hate preachers into schools and allowing them to preach brainwashing mumbo jumbo and lead the children in anti western chanting is perfectly ok.
How was this individual with such narrow minded, intolerant and offensive views ever allowed to get within a hundred miles of a school, let alone run a group of academies? Ofsted are taking their time getting shot of this nasty piece of work, why is that I wonder? [The Telegraph] Read more
