"Students' understanding of the arts, different cultures and other beliefs are limited." That's one of the complaints about Birmingham schools made by Ofsted in their leaked report. It sounds like a relatively mild criticism.
Not so. What the Trojan Horse scandal has revealed is that leaders of the Muslim community in Birmingham have been creating a Wahhabi-inspired counterculture in secular, not faith, schools.
Put simply, the interpretation of Islam that's sweeping through the Muslim world, thanks to Saudi money, seeks to deprive children of any exposure to the arts, which it condemns as idolatrous. Even listening to music is haram, forbidden.
[A COMMENT] How much longer do we have to put up with this crap. Every single day, another story about the disastrous effect on our country due to the mass immigration of Muslims. ....The Islamization of our country gathers pace with each passing day. If we do not stand up NOW and say ENOUGH, our country will be finished.
[ANOTHER] All this should have been reported in the MSM, and the DoE and Ofsted could have intervened years ago.
But nooo - that would have been racist, and offensive to the religion of peace!
So in the name of holy diversity and multi culti, all those in power and authority - and the hack pack who would rather accuse normal British people of racism - have looked the other way and have sacrificed our children on the altar of PC.
[ANOTHER] Very true words - "secular state schools in Birmingham are not part of Muslim culture, and their ghettoisation under the years of Labour government is a scandal". Scandal indeed. We do not have integration but segregation. Labour have pandered to this.
They've allowed illegal practices to happen in the name of some weird notion of political correctness. Some parts of Birmingham resemble streets in India. We do not have a community but lots of little "communities" with so-called "community leaders". Immigration should be about enhancing people not creating ghettos with their own social control and exclusion demands. [The Telegraph] Read more
