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State schools isolate non-Muslims
Schools in Birmingham discriminate against non-Muslim students and restrict GCSE teaching to fit in with Islamic beliefs, according to official report

Park View school in Birmingham, one of the 25 schools under investigation for alleged infiltration by extremism
Andrew Gilligan

By Andrew Gilligan

9:56PM BST 18 Apr 2014

Schools in Birmingham are illegally segregating pupils, discriminating against non-Muslim students and restricting the GCSE syllabus to �comply with conservative Islamic teaching�, an official report leaked to The Telegraph discloses.

Department for Education inspectors said that girls in a school at the centre of the so-called �Trojan Horse� plot were forced to sit at the back of the class, some Christian pupils were left to �teach themselves� and an extremist preacher was invited to speak to children.

The report, into three schools in the city, follows weeks of controversy over the alleged plot to �Islamise� secular schools in Birmingham and will lead to calls for intervention. The report focuses on Park View School and its sister schools, Golden Hillock and Nansen, the only primary of the three. Inspectors found that Park View practised forced and discriminatory sex segregation and has �restricted� GCSE subjects �to comply with conservative Islamic teaching�.

Core elements of the GCSE syllabus were missed out as �un-Islamic� and an extremist preacher with known al-Qaeda sympathies and anti-Semitic views was invited to speak with children. At Golden Hillock, there was discrimination against non-Muslims, the report found. Its handful of Christian students �have to teach themselves� in one GCSE subject after the teacher �concentrated on the students who were doing the Islamic course�.

At Nansen, Year 6 children, aged 10 and 11, received no teaching at all in the arts, humanities or music.

The document, classified �official-sensitive�, describes the results of inspections of the schools last month by officials from the DfE. All three are supposedly non-faith schools run by the Park View Educational Trust.

Allegations that radical Muslims were seeking to �Islamise� secular schools in Birmingham first emerged publicly last month in a leaked letter, describing an operation purportedly named �Trojan Horse�.

The letter supposedly described how activists could stir up Muslim parents to oust secular headteachers. Park View and its chairman of governors, Tahir Alam, were named in the letter as being at the centre of the plot. Mr Alam and the school have furiously denied the claims as �fictitious�, �Islamophobic� and a �witch-hunt�.

However, the leaked report substantiates many of the claims made against the school. It accuses Park View of 20 separate breaches of the law, the schools� funding agreement with the DfE, and the Academy Schools Handbook.

The inspectors found that, contrary to its denials, Park View did practise forced and discriminatory gender segregation, with �boys sitting towards the front of the class and girls at the back or around the sides�.

The school has always claimed that any separation of the sexes was voluntary. However, the report says: �Students told us they were required to sit in the places which they were given by teachers.� This constituted �non-compliance with the Equality Act� and potentially �less favourable treatment for girls�. There was entirely separated teaching, in separate rooms, for some subjects, the report says.

The small number of Christian or non-Muslim pupils also suffered discrimination, the report says.

At Golden Hillock, five Christian students in Year 11 �have to teach themselves� in one GCSE subject, religious education, because the teacher gave all his or her time �to the students who are doing the Islamic course�.

Sheikh Shady al-Suleiman, an extremist preacher who �is known to extol... the stoning of morons, anti-Semitic views [and is] sympathetic to al-Qaeda�, was invited to address students at Park View, the inspectors found.

The core curriculum at the two secondary schools had been Islamised, with GCSE subjects �restricted to comply with conservative Islamic teaching�.

Children told the inspectors that in biology the teacher �briefly delivered the theory of evolution to comply with the syllabus�, but told students that �this is not what we believe�.

In biology, the inspectors also found that �topics such as body structure and the menstrual cycle were not covered in class, though pupils needed them for the GCSE exam . . . students told us that as Muslims they were not allowed to study matters such as reproduction with the opposite sex�. At Park View, a �madrassah curriculum� was followed in personal, health and social education, the report said.

Though all the schools are supposed to be secular, the inspectors said they were not sufficiently welcoming to those of other faiths or no faith, with students at Park View encouraged to �begin and end each lesson with a prayer� and loudspeakers used to �broadcast the call for prayer across the school�.

The report added that the respected non-Muslim headteacher was marginalised, and female staff at one of the schools were treated in a �rude and dismissive� way.

Teaching standards and children�s safety were placed at risk after the schools� management recruited close relatives, without adequate teaching experience or proper background checks, to key leadership posts.

At Golden Hillock, any discussion of sexual orientation or intimacy was banned, affecting �the broad and balanced teaching of many subjects, including art and English literature�, the inspectors found.

At Nansen, there were �no lessons in the humanities, arts or music� for one entire year, Year 6, and only �limited� teaching in Year 5. Arabic, however, was compulsory for all students � almost unheard of at a primary school.

Female staff at the schools were discriminated against, the report says. �One of the senior leaders [at Nansen] interviewed reported that she had never met a governor or been invited to a governing body meeting, although the male senior leader with similar responsibilities was invited to every meeting�.

At Golden Hillock, three members of staff told inspectors that governors were �rude to women and dismissive of their input� and that some governors �will not shake the hands of female senior leaders�.

The report makes clear that Park View�s most senior female leader, the non-Muslim executive headteacher, Lindsey Clark, had been reduced to a figurehead, marginalised to the extent that she �was unaware of the names of some of the more recent appointments to the senior leadership team� at her own school. Last week, Mrs Clark retired.

All three schools were in reality run by Mr Alam, who had an �inappropriate day-to-day role in the running of the schools� and who received undeclared four-figure payments from them as a �consultant�, the report states.

At Nansen the deputy headteacher, Razwan Faraz, �was appointed deputy only three years after [achieving] qualified teacher status�, the report says. No references from outside the schools were taken up for him.

As The Telegraph revealed last month, Mr Faraz, the brother of a convicted terrorist, is the administrator of a group of teachers, governors and school consultants called Educational Activists which pursues what he calls an �Islamising agenda� in Birmingham schools.

Mr Alam, a leading activist in the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), has a number of hardline views. In evidence for the MCB to the UN�s high commissioner for human rights in 2008, he said he would �caution against advocating that desegregation [in schools] should be actively pursued� and stressed the �obligatory nature� of the hijab for Muslim women and girls.

The disclosures came as Tristram Hunt, the shadow education secretary, prepared to make a strong attack on �divisive� attempts to impose religious values on secular schools.

Speaking at the NASUWT union conference in Birmingham, he was due to say: �We cannot have narrow, religious motives which seek to divide and isolate dictating state schooling. We cannot have headteachers forced out, teachers undermined, curricula rewritten and cultural or gender-based segregation.

�Indeed, it is more important than ever in a modern, multi-cultural city like this one that schooling serves to unite, not fracture communities.�

A spokesman for Park View Educational Trust said: �This is a confidential draft report which the trust is entitled to respond to within a given timescale and it should not have been made public. We are extremely disappointed that our entitlement to confidentiality has been breached and we will not comment any further.�

This has been the plan all along they want to take over our country, this is racism but you can bet your bottom dollar the wont be taken to court as all muslims have a "get out of jail " card thanks to our government.
If we dont do anything soon YOU will have to fight or leave this country, but look on the bright side your enemy will be easy to spot and easier to find.

the militant secularists and most conliblab 'intelligentsia', chattering classes, may well regret their long campaign to trash Christianity and its fundamental values and influence on society( Cameron's slippery attempt at presenting himself as serious Christian now, pathetic,... after his lies and 'social agenda' policy moves)..... church bells and dreaming spires please come back and save us
..... this is happening all over Europe and in Catholic countries they demand that crosses be removed from classroom walls...which ofcourse suits the secularists 100%...but at what long term price? .... they will find that Islam does not 'turn the other cheek' ...poetic justice

thomas davison · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 9:44 am Post subject:

Islamic school hardliners 'confiscated Easter eggs from pupils' as head of Ofsted takes charge of inquiry into 'Muslim Trojan Horse plot'

Schools being investigated over plot to introduce radical Islamic teaching
Birmingham schools allegedly targeted by Muslim hardliners
'Morality squads' of older students allegedly smashed pupil's Easter eggs
Mother of student claims talk of Christmas and non-Muslim festivals 'banned'
Ofsted expected to place five schools in special measures after failings found
Sir Michael Wilshaw, Chief Inspector, will now take charge of the probe
Tahir Alam, governor allegedly at centre of plot, could be removed from post

By Chris Pleasance and Laura Clark, Education Correspondent

Published: 09:55, 21 April 2014 | Updated: 10:30, 21 April 2014

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Pupils who took Easter eggs to class allegedly had them confiscated by 'Muslim morality squads' patrolling a school at the centre of a probe into claims Islamic hardliners are attempting to infiltrate and run secular state schools.

A mother of one of the pupils, who did not wish to be named for fear of reprisals, claimed groups of pupils were confiscating toys and chocolate from younger children and accused teachers of turning a blind eye to it.

The revelation comes as Ofsted announced Chief Inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw will personally oversee inspections into a number of Birmingham schools allegedly targeted in an attempt to bring hardline Islamic teaching into classrooms in a 'Trojan Horse' plot.
Park View school is at the centre of allegations that hardline Islamic teaching was being introduced. In a 2008 picture boys and girls are clearly segregated during an assembly. The school previously claimed any segregation was voluntary, but an Ofsted inspection said it was enforced by teachers
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Park View school is at the centre of allegations that hardline Islamic teaching was being introduced. In a 2008 picture boys and girls are clearly segregated during an assembly. The school previously claimed any segregation was voluntary, but an Ofsted inspection said it was enforced by teachers

According to the Daily Express, the mother said: 'Older boys are going round in these morality squads telling off girls if they do not wear veils.

'My daughter tried to bring in an Easter egg for a friend and one boy grabbed it and smashed it against a wall.

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'All talk of Christmas and other non-Muslim festivals is banned. The teachers turn a blind eye to it.'
If schools are placed into special measure by Ofsted, it raises the prospect that governor Tahir Alam, the alleged ringleader of the 'Trojan Horse' plot, could be removed from his post
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If schools are placed into special measure by Ofsted, it raises the prospect that governor Tahir Alam, the alleged ringleader of the 'Trojan Horse' plot, could be removed from his post

A spokesman Birmingham City Council refused to comment on the allegations, but indicated that if bullying had taken place, disciplining pupils was a matter for individual schools.

The allegations came as Ofsted confirmed that Sir Michael Wilshaw will be sent to head its probe into 18 schools in the city.

An Ofsted spokesperson said: 'Her Majesty's Chief Inspector will visit Birmingham next week to meet inspectors directly involved in the series of inspections of local schools.

'Sir Michael has made clear that he is taking a personal lead in agreeing the individual reports and ensuring that they fully address concerns that have been raised.

'We will be reporting our overall findings directly to the Secretary of State early next month.'

Ofsted refused to say why Sir Michael has been appointed, saying they do not comment on reports before they are completed.

Ofsted is due to publish its findings next month, but leaked details suggest five schools will be placed in specials measures.

A sixth school was found to be failing but is already in special measures, it was claimed.

If confirmed, the verdicts are expected to lead to the removal of Tahir Alam, the alleged ringleader of the Trojan Horse plot.

Mr Alam, an activist on the Muslim Council of Britain, is chairman of governors at Park View and chairman of the Park View Educational Trust, which runs Nansen and Golden Hillock.

He is a governor at another school, Highfield. He has denied any involvement in a plot, describing the claims as a �witch-hunt� and �fabrication�.

Nine schools said to require improvement including Adderley Primary, where a letter to parents confirmed the school had been the victim of a �malicious and targeted� attempt to oust senior staff.

Of 17 schools inspected by Ofsted so far in connection with the alleged plot, only one is said to have been given a clean bill of health.

A probe by the Department for Education has reportedly found evidence of pupils being illegally segregated, with girls forced to sit at the back and sides of class.

It was claimed that an extremist preacher with known Al Qaeda sympathies was invited to speak to pupils and the content of some GCSE subjects made to �comply with conservative Islamic teaching�.

In another development, a Birmingham teachers� leader said staff at several schools had reported concerns about governors becoming too involved �in the day-to-day management� of schools.

Roger King, of the National Union of Teachers, said the claims did not necessarily involve Muslim governors.

He accused Ofsted inspectors of asking �leading� questions and using heavy-handed tactics when asking staff and pupils about influences on their schools.

Nine other schools were found to be 'requiring improvement' by inspectors, and only one school was given a clean bill of health with a final report still incomplete.
Lindsey Clark, former head of Park View, resigned this month after being reduced to a 'figurehead' with no real control over her school, a Department for Education probe found
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Lindsey Clark, former head of Park View, resigned this month after being reduced to a 'figurehead' with no real control over her school, a Department for Education probe found

More schools are expected to be visited after Easter. Ofsted was sent in after a letter surfaced that purported to detail how heads and governors could be overthrown and replaced with hardliners, in operations named �Trojan Horse�.

The authenticity of the letter is unclear but the Department for Education�s investigation is said to substantiate several allegations against schools implicated in the so-called plot.

It reportedly found evidence at Park View of �boys sitting toward the front of the class and girls at the back and around the sides�.

Rather than seating arrangements being voluntary, pupils were �required to sit in the places which they were given by teachers�.

It was also claimed that Sheikh Shady Al Suleiman, an extremist preacher who has called for the stoning of morons, was invited to address pupils.

At Golden Hillock, five Christian GCSE students �have to teach themselves� GCSE religious studies because all of the teacher�s time was given �to the students who are doing the Islamic course�.

Inspectors also reportedly found that in both schools, GCSE subjects such as biology had been �restricted to comply with conservative Islamic teaching�.

A spokesman for the NUT said an urgent debate on the issue was being scheduled for its conference later today, but refused to comment any further.

The only way to stop this is to close all Islamic schools down and if they dont like it they can leave the country any time they like