The Muslim Council of Britain has warned education authorities "not to be sidetracked by culture wars initiated by divisive commentators", as it rejected many of the findings of a government-commissioned report that found a co-ordinated effort by extreme Muslims to take over some Birmingham schools.
The MCB said the report, written by Peter Clarke, the former Met counter-terror chief, was guilty of "conflating conservative Muslim practices to a supposed ideology and agenda to Islamise secular schools".
[A COMMENT] What actually is The Muslim Council of Britain? What is it for? Who are their members? Are they elected?
What interests do they represent, and why do they command front page Guardian headlines?
[ANOTHER] What I want to know is when is The Guardian going to give the same sort of coverage to the grossly bullied teachers. They were given pretty good airplay on Radio 4. They even sounded like typical Guardian readers.
But their stories of horror - of gross bullying by Islamist governors trying to instill a hate regime - made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end.
Instead of giving some coverage to these bullied people, it was young women teachers who were given the R4 airplay of bullying, The Guardian is instead choosing to give several uncritical articles to the Islamist hate machine.
[ANOTHER] Yes. And apart from interviewing teachers who were bullied, it would additionally be fair to interview those concerned Muslim parents who first sounded the alarm. They have also been bullied in their 'community' for daring to stand up to the zealots. Why the Guardian insists on taking the part of the bullies every single time is quite beyond me.
[ANOTHER] Islam has no place in UK institutions and dare I say in the eyes of most British people no place in modern Britain. To what extent does a tolerant society tolerate an intolerant faction of that society? If the Muslim leaders do not condemn this it means they approve and it means they are incredibly damaging. [The Guardian] Read more
