A deputy head teacher who said that gay people should be eradicated has lost his latest attempt to get his job back.
Razwan Faraz’s claim for unfair dismissal has been thrown out by an employment judge. Mr Faraz had alleged that he was the victim of religious discrimination when he was sacked for making homophobic comments.
Mr Faraz, 38, worked at the multi-faith Nansen Primary School, which became embroiled in the Trojan horse scandal when an alleged plot by a group of conservative Muslims to take over several Birmingham schools and impose an Islamist ethos was laid out in an anonymous letter
Nansen Primary was placed in special measures alongside four other schools in 2014. It has since been removed from special measures by Ofsted but Mr Faraz lost his job in 2015 over comments he made in a Whatsapp group called “Park View Brotherhood” in which he also described gay people as “animals”.
.... During the disciplinary hearing Mr Faraz said that his views had changed and that the outburst had been an expression of his faith. A tribunal panel found that his comments “were a significant factor in causing the school to be brought into disrepute”.
He also lost on appeal and a judgment published last month said that his comments were “demonstrably homophobic” and described him as “evasive” and “not a credible witness”. [The Times (£)] Read more
