A school run by a Muslim hardliner was citing sharia in its child protection policies, it emerged yesterday.
Ofsted inspectors found that Al-Aqsa school in Leicester operated on the basis that ‘Ulama’ – Islamic scholars – should be consulted in child abuse and welfare cases, as well as ‘relevant outside agencies’.
The school – founded by Ibrahim Hewitt, an Islamist fundamentalist who says homosexuals should be lashed – declared ‘sharia and the law of the land will be the prime arbiters in child protection concerns’.
This raised the prospect of a different level of protection for Muslim children, said critics. [Daily Mail] Read more
