.... He said the claims made him “feel really angry”. Asked about reports in this newspaper that Asif Khan, Oldknow’s Arabic teacher, led nine- and 10-year-old children in anti-Christian chanting, he said: “As far as the staff are aware, nothing of the sort happened.”
Christmas had not been cancelled, Mr Rauf insisted, and as for Oldknow’s non-Muslim headteacher, Bhupinder Kondal, her absence was due merely to “sick leave, and I pray that she recovers quickly”.
Mr Rauf has since disappeared from our TV screens after this newspaper revealed last Sunday that he is in fact a key member of a group called “Educational Activists”, in which he discussed how to pursue an “Islamising agenda” in another school where he is a governor.
[A COMMENT] As a retired lecturer I can pass on my experience of Teaching Unions , both in schools and Colleges.....they have an agenda which is to help promote and protect minorities against the perceived values and principles of the host country.
They have been actively involved in pushing Islamic values and practices in inner city schools which have dominant Muslim demographics. They will actively undermine and frustrate any Govnt, initiatives to promote " Britishness " and " British values " seeing it as inherently " racist " and in direct conflict with their liberal / socialist approach to education.
[ANOTHER] The very fact there are muslim teachers in a secular school is the problem. Being a muslim 'means' they do not believe in the same things as a non muslim. Islam is totally incompatible with equality & democracy, it is as simple as that. [The Telegraph] Read more
