Does anyone ever learn anything from their own struggles and experiences? Britons of colour know what it is to be denied equality, dignity, agency, the right to be, the right to define ourselves. We’ve been fighting for these human rights for centuries.
Today it is us Muslims who suffer the most atrocious discrimination and hatred in the UK and the EU. We feel the burn on our skins.
But some, apparently, can inflict the same pain on those they don’t know, yet detest.
Scores of self-righteous Muslim parents and their cheerleaders have gathered for eight weeks outside the school gates at Anderton Park primary school in Birmingham shouting at and intimidating teachers, children and other parents because the head teacher, Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson, has decided to include LGBT content in relevant classes.
Under our equality laws, race, disability, ethnicity and sexuality are protected categories.
Hewitt-Clarkson believes teachers have a duty to eliminate discrimination, tackle prejudice and foster good relations between different people: “You don’t just sit back and wait until a racist or homophobic thing happens to deal with it – you go out of your way to promote good relationships.” [Daily Mirror] Read more
