"Global Education"

The British Council aims to establish 4,600 "links" between schools in Britain and the Third World by 2012, in an attempt to educate children about other cultures. Apparently, "government schemes to promote global education" fund such initiatives.

Things aren't quite going to plan so far, however. It seems that certain pupils in Britain have come away from these lessons with the idea that Third World countries are failed states rife with poverty and corruption.

Could this be because teachers spend so much time telling them that Third Worlders are victims of Western evil, incapable of helping themselves without vast sums of our money?

The article doesn't speculate - but it does tell us that some of these accurate perceptions are simply racist and neocolonialist and must be altered by a "different way of thinking."

Presumably that would be a different way of thinking whereby these Third World countries must be given our help in every conceivable sense, but are immune from our criticism lest the magic "R" word be used.

Of course, many of these statements are also the confused ideas of children - but to the Leftist ideologue, there are no children, just mini-adults and potential future racists whose way of thinking must be altered at all costs.

From The Evening Standard:

School links between the UK and the developing world can leave children with “racist” views of other cultures, research has found.

British pupils believe that their peers there are covered in flies and all wear straw skirts as lessons focus too much on poverty, the study said.

Academics warned that badly trained teachers in subjects such as geography were fuelling “neocolonialist” views.

Growing numbers of state schools have formed partnerships around the world under government schemes to promote global education.

The British Council aims to establish 4,600 links by 2012.

Researchers asked English children about their Gambian peers.

The pupils said: “They don't wear much clothes, they wear straw. The boys wear skirts too.”

Other responses, reported in The Times Educational Supplement, included: “Gross things like flies go in their mouths. Because their mouths are brown and the flies think their mouths are made of mud.”

Dr Fran Martin, from Exeter University, who led the study, said: “There needs to be a different way of thinking to avoid partnerships having these neocolonialist or racist undertones.”

The way I look at it is that facts are facts. Ideology can hide reality up to a point, but not very well and certainly not forever.

If you teach British children about the Third World, they're going to learn about the Third World, no matter what spin is put on it.

To use the example from the article, either Gambia is a thriving, successful modern nation, or it is not.

Clearly, it is not, and the reasons for that are clear to all but die hard Leftists, and thus this brainwashing might have the opposite effect to that intended - it might wake up future generations to the fact that all cultures are not equal. At all.

Thoughts on Germany

As I continue to settle in here and get used to my new surroundings, I thought I would share some of my impressions and experiences so far.

First of all, since my last stay here (which came to an end about two and a half years ago), the number of "visible minorities" has increased dramatically. I am not in a major city and live in a fairly rural state in the north of the country, so this has come of something of a shock even to me.

But the trend is unmistakable. Even this small city could now compete with Berlin or Hamburg, proportionally, in the diversity and enrichment stakes.

It is interesting to compare the behaviour of these obviously unassimilable Third World immigrants with that of their German hosts. As my regular readers will know, I am not one to perpetuate a stereotype unless it contains a healthy dose of truth, and many of those we have about the Germans do.

Generally speaking, this is an orderly, efficient and well run country. It feels different to Britain, because the people here are not (or don't seem to be) at the stage where they let the state do everything for them - they try to enforce their values themselves.

For example; if you wait at a pelican crossing and the lights are red but there are obviously no oncoming vehicles, you will observe that German people still do not cross.

They wait until the lights change to green.

It can be fascinating to watch this; every instinct I have tells me to just hurry across whilst I have the chance - but I make myself wait, partly to observe, and partly because it is illegal to cross against the lights - and ordinary people, from pensioners to children, will call you on it without fear, whereas most modern British people would cast their eyes down, for fear of a beating or worse.

The point I am making here is that behaviour as well as such things as appearance can mark one out as a foreigner here without much difficulty.

As I arrived at the main railway station, a school party disembarked from the train in front of me and stepped on to my platform. All appeared to be German, except for three pupils who were either African immigrants or the descendants of such.

It really was a life lesson to watch these three individuals create complete havoc where there was none before. They walked differently from their classmates, spoke differently, shouted for no reason, pushed the boys, pulled the girls' hair, answered the teachers back, ran when they were told to walk - you name a problem, and they created it on behalf of the whole class, much to the (silent) chagrin of everyone in that section of the station.

It seems astounding that people as careful about the trivialities as the Germans can let such serious and far reaching transformations occur on their watch.

It was clear, observing this group, that these three boys would never fit into that class. That being said, how then can they fit into normal German society - without irrevocably damaging it?

Today, I and several other passersby were accosted by a large gang of African and Turkish/Arab "youths", to use the correct English code, for no reason at all other than being in the street and minding our business.

As heartwarming as it was to see true multiculturalism in action as the lowest of these 'communities' banded together to harass innocent people, no one seemed to appreciate the presence of these enrichers, and once they had left several people (mainly elderly) were not shy about saying as much.

I have noticed that people here tend to be slightly less brainwashed than in Britain when it comes to these issues - many will openly admit there are huge problems or at the very least that they see a downside to what officially must be worshipped.

This is balanced by the fact that events in the past mean their mind will only allow them to go to a certain point before the 'crimethink' kicks in; discussion of topics such as the catastrophically low birth rate among ethnic Germans or the fact that certain minorities are clearly never going to assimilate en masse are too controversial for polite society. The very idea that the Germans have a right to exist unmolested in their own land can be seen as provocative and taboo, when taken beyond a very cursory opening position.

I keep coming back to this conclusion; whilst many Germans seem more willing to identify the problem than their British counterparts, their history means no real solution can ever be forthcoming. No one wants to stick their head above the parapet, because the accusation of Nazism is not just a vicious/childish slur here - it carries much legal weight.

This discussion is all the more interesting because here it is Superwahljahr - election season. Whilst "conservative" Mrs Merkel is tipped to be re-elected, most state legislatures and the federal government are up against the public vote on 27th September.

This is taken quite seriously here - curiously the state seems to take charge of the furore, and rather than seeing private citizens put up signs and banners for their preferred candidate, every lamp post becomes adorned with party and candidate posters.

I left my building to go shopping this evening to find that the posters of the NPD, the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands, had all been torn down, cut up and thrown into the gutter.

This party stands accused of neo-Nazism, and whilst I certainly don't know enough about it to endorse it, the party leadership denies these claims.

It has slogans such as 'German jobs for German workers', is very much against mass immigration and the asylum racket, and its only remotely mainstream position seems to be pulling German troops out of Afghanistan (an issue on which it is united with the far-Left, along with hatred of Israel and the insistence of a "Holocaust" in Gaza).

In a country where democracy is taken quite seriously, it is a real shame that Leftist political violence and intimidation like this is tolerated.

All parties are entitled to a voice - the socialists, the greens, Die Linke, Mrs Merkel's CDU - so why not the NPD?

If they genuinely hold abhorrent views, defeat them with logic and reasoned argument, rather than thug tactics and tantrums.

But that really is too much to ask, isn't it?

If things keep going as they are, I fear it will be Germany which ends up in the gutter - and that is a conclusion I am loathe to reach.

***UPDATE*** 18th September 09.55

I have found some more articles on the NPD linked via their Wikipedia entry. Of particular interest is this article, which claims that a majority of Germans believe that the NPD is undemocratic and a threat to Germany's image (presumably it was some of these people who took the next logical, democratic step in ripping up their campaign posters).

Fair enough, but I wonder if the same people would say that about the Leftists who recently rioted in Hamburg, for example?

I sincerely hope so, because hypocrisy is an ugly thing - perhaps not quite so much as political violence and extremism, but almost.

A Comment from a British Muslim

On my post about the new drive to spread propaganda about Islamic science and inventions in British schools, Iftikhar Ahmad of The London School of Islamics left the following comment - and it deserves to be seen and read (it should be noted that the spelling mistakes in the text are those of this educational luminary himself):

The demand for Muslim schools comes from parents who want their children a safe environment with an Islamic ethos.Parents see Muslim schools where children can develop their Islamic Identity where they won't feel stigmatised for being Muslims and they can feel confident about their faith. Muslim schools are working to try to create a bridge between communities.

There is a belief among ethnic minority parens that the British schooling does not adequatly address their cultural needs. Failing to meet this need could result in feeling resentment among a group who already feel excluded. Setting up Muslim school is a defensive response.

State schools with monolingual teachers are not capable to teach English to bilingual Muslim children. Bilingual teachers are needed to teach English to such children along with their mother tongue. According to a number of studies, a child will not learn a second language if his first language is ignored.

Bilingual Muslim children need state funded Muslim schools with bilingual Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental periods. Muslims have the right to educate their children in an environment that suits their culture. This notion of "integration", actually means "assimilation", by which people generally really mean "be more like me". That is not multiculturalism. In Sydney, Muslims were refused to build a Muslim school, because of a protest by the residents. Yet a year later, permission was given for the building of a Catholic school and no protests from the residents. This clrearly shows the blatant hypocrisy, double standards and racism. Christians oppose Muslim schools in western countries yet build
their own religious schools.

British schooling and the British society is the home of institutional racism. The result is that Muslim children are unable to develop self-confidence and self-esteem, therefore, majority of them leave schools with low grades. Racism is deeply rooted in British society. Every native child is born with a gene or virus of racism, therefore, no law could change the attitudes of racism towards those who are different. It is not only the common man, even member of the royal family is involved in racism.

The father of a Pakistani office cadet who was called a "****" by Prince Harry has profoundly condemned his actions. He had felt proud when he met the Queen and the Prince of Wales at his son's passing out parade at Sandhurst in 2006 but now felt upset after learning about the Prince's comments. Queen Victoria invited an Imam from India to teach her Urdu language. He was highly respected by the Queen but other members of the royal family had no respect for him. He was forced to go back to India. His protrait is still in one of the royal places.

There are hundreds of state schools where Muslim pupils are in majority. In my opinion, all such schools may be designated as Muslim community schools with bilingual Muslim teachers. There is no place for a non-Muslim child or a teacher in a Muslim school.

Iftikhar Ahmad
London School of Islamics Trust

The idea that racism is behind the fact certain ethnic groups perform very badly in the British education system is tired, absurd and self-evidently false.

We know that it is false because certain other non-white groups perform much better not only than the groups apparently being dragged down by racism, but than white British children.

Both Indian and Chinese pupils tend to do far better than the national average in their exams.

That aside, I wanted Ahmad's comment to appear here so that people remember, for every moderate Muslim there is at least one like this.

One who thinks that British people are born with "a virus" which makes them hate other ethnic groups, despite the fact that a powerful cabal of British politicians and Establishment figures have gone out of their way to fill this country with such groups, whilst ignoring the obvious insanity of such actions.

Millions of ordinary British people either say nothing about this situation or actively urge their compatriots to celebrate it, whilst dismissing anyone who sticks their head above the parapet to question the wisdom of this or warn of the ill-effects, no matter how cautiously, of being a crank, a bigot, a Nazi, a racist.

Ahmad thinks that any British person who does not celebrate the fact their nation will cease to exist in its current form is evil.

Me, I think just the opposite, and I thank people such as Ahmad for crawling out of the woodwork and going some way towards proving the point I try to make on this blog daily.

Think about the logical conclusion of Ahmad's train of thought.

State schools which become majority Muslim must become de facto Islamic schools, which the British taxpayer will keep the privilege of funding.

We know the kinds of things which will then be taught in those schools, because in places it is already happening - as I demonstrated in this post about a Muslim school in Amsterdam, Holland:

Metsemakers says that they had to eat separately during breaking and that they weren't greeted in the same way as Muslim teachers. "Not with the world salem, peace, because non-Muslims can't know what peace is. Those who think differently are labeled unbelievers."

Metsemakers meanwhile called in the educational inspection. She was suspended a year and a half ago because she mentioned the customs of other religions in class. Metsemakers, whose annual contract was not extended last year says she drew a time-line on which she put the most important events of a number of religions.

At Christmas time she put up canal house with lights in class (Christmas ornaments) in order to tell about the festival regarding light, without specially talking about Christmas. She was prohibited from doing so. The worst thing, says Metsemakers, is that she was told to tell the children that Christianity will be done away with.

Several years ago several teachers left the school due to an 'exceptionally orthodox attitude of the administration'. An interim director was dismissed.

According to Metsemakers the administration has meanwhile managed to enforce an orthodox nature everywhere, though half of the team consist of non-Muslim teachers.

This is the kind of thing Ahmad wants the British public to pay for. Not only lies about pretty much everything that matters, but indoctrination camps which tell children the country to which many owe their lives if not their standard of living is an evil entity which is actually responsible for all their failings.

But the main worry for me is this; if we accept that a school with a majority of Muslim pupils becomes a Muslim school (and in a sense, whilst I don't like this, I do accept it, for it is logical), then what is next?

Muslim streets, Muslim suburbs, Muslim cities?

Will these entities (which again, already exist, albeit unofficially), although obviously entitled to all the benefits of being part of the United Kingdom, be able to make and enforce their own laws? All in the name of combating British Racism, naturally. We know how low Muslim self esteem can get when women aren't kept in check and any sense of British identity or symbol of British authority is allowed to remain, after all.

We are on a very slippery slope - and it increasingly seems the only thing at the bottom is a large grave which we dug ourselves.

Free Muslim Science Text Books Given to British Schools

From Tech Whack:

An educational foundation has announced plans to distribute free books to UK schools to highlight the scientific and cultural legacy of Muslim civilisation. 1001 Inventions is the brainchild of the Foundation for Science Technology and Civilisation (FSTC) – a network of academics dedicated to debunking the myth of the so-called “Dark Ages of Civilisation”.

Last month, atheism activist Richard Dawkins announced plans to distribute free DVDs to UK schools. Whilst FSTC does not consider it’s 1001 Inventions campaign a direct challenge to Dawkins, it does hope to encourage debate about the relationship between science, faith and culture.

FSTC has campaigned for school curriculums to acknowledge the scientific achievements of Muslim civilization for more than a decade. While the Dawkins campaign, supported by the British Humanist Association, positions science and religion as opposing forces, the 1001 Inventions project reminds us that for 1000 years the religious and the scientific were comfortable bedfellows and led to unprecedented openness to new ideas and social change.

The book that accompanies the project is entitled 1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World and highlights the thousand years of social, scientific and technical achievements that are currently under-recognised in schools’ textbooks. The project aspires to deliver at least 3000 copies of the book to UK schools by October 2009, and is seeking public support for the campaign through a sponsorship scheme (as has Dawkins).

Professor Salim Al-Hassani, chief editor of the book, explained: “The period between the 7th and 17th centuries, that has been erroneously labeled ‘The Dark Ages’ was in fact a time of exceptional scientific and cultural advancement in China, India and the Arab world. This is the period in history that gave us the first manned flight, huge advances in engineering, the development of robotics and the foundations of modern mathematics, chemistry and physics.

Many of these things will be pure lies and distortions, unsubstantiated claims that cannot possibly be proved, or simply overblown - but they will doubtless be taught as fact.

Some of the lies Obama told regarding Islamic science and inventions can be found here.

Redbridge Council Accused of Racism

An East London council has become embroiled in a row about racism after the term 'Pakistani' found itself abbreviated to 'Paki' in a spreadsheet about the origins of school pupils in the borough. The explanation of human error was not enough, and a subsequent investigation found that there was more than enough room to spell out the word 'Pakistani' (and I'm sure we all feel much better now - I will sleep easier tonight, certainly).

Some are now claiming that this reveals a wider culture of racism and derogatory terms used about Pakistanis:

A Conservative-run council was forced to apologise today following the discovery of an internal document which referred to Asian schoolchildren as 'Pakis'.

Staff at Redbridge Council in East London initially blamed a computer glitch for the offensive term, claiming the word Pakistani was automatically abbreviated on a sreadsheet detailing pupil's nationalities.

An investigation later found that there was room for the ethnic label to be spelled out in full and pupils were also referred to as 'Pankistani', 'Pak' and on three occasions 'Pakis'.

Now race watchdog the Equality and Human Rights Commission has launched a legal probe into the revelations, while anti-racism campaigners criticsed the use of the offensive term.

Kevin Blowe, of anti-racism organisation Newham Monitoring Project, told the
Guardian: 'The council must know that a generation of Asians in east London grew up in the Seventies with the threat of violence from ‘Paki-bashing’ and with its association with skinhead gang culture.'

He said the monitoring project had been set up in 1980 in response to the racist
murder of Asian teenager Akhtar Ali Baig in East Ham.

Mr Blowe added: 'It is almost impossible to believe that, nearly 30 years on, anyone would fail to understand how racially charged the word Paki is, or that it would ever be appropriate to use in council records, internal or not.'

The council, which has one BNP councillor, later admitted it was not an automatic abbreviation by the computer, but human error was to blame and said an investigation had been launched.

It said in a statement: 'Redbridge council fully accepts the use of this
abbreviated term is wholly unacceptable and inappropriate and would never condone
the use of such language.

'The document also contains a variety of abbreviations and spelling mistakes and
was circulated in error.

'When this was realised, those present were asked to hand in the document so they could be destroyed.

'The author of the spreadsheet apologised.'

Keith Vaz, the Labour chairman of the Commons home affairs committee, said: 'It is important that councils are careful to avoid the use of offensive terms.'

Is this really an acceptable use of taxpayers' money and the time of public servants?

This story highlights a common double standard in the British media; it is never the importing and settling of large numbers of completely unassimilable people that is wrong, only any reaction to it (and yes, admittedly many such reactions are very unsavoury).

The bringing of large numbers of Pakistanis to this country has been an unmitigated disaster. In parts of the country there exist veritable colonies of unintegrated hostiles, even three or four generations after the initial immigrants came, only growing and getting worse.

We never get to hear how the British people who lived, and still live, in these places feel, or the problems which some of the Pakistanis brought and caused. We are only directed to feel guilty about how thuggish members of our own kind treated these bringers of enrichment and diversity - and if any mainstream source does admit such mass migrations were a disaster for Britain, it is always the fault of the racists in one way or another.

I, for one, am sick of it.

A lot offends me, as regulars may have gathered - but nothing more than the complete denigration of my country, identity, history and culture by those who have chosen to settle here in large numbers and their enablers.

Where is my voice?

At school, part of the GCSE English curriculum was (and doubtless still is, in one form or another) was learning about 'Voices of Diversity', an anthology of poems and short stories written by ethnic minority authors.

A couple of these were written by Pakistanis and Bangladeshis who grew up in east London in the Seventies and go into some detail about the culture of "Paki-bashing" described in this article.

We were all invited to share their plight; I do have some empathy, because I recognise these children and their families had not done anything wrong, per se. In many respects, those among them who suffered are too victims of the "one coffee-coloured universe" idealists who have caused so much misery here with their social engineering - by importing large numbers of culturally alien people in the first place.

The irony of this was that about 70% of the children in my class had parents who had fled London in the seventies or early eighties - because of the behaviour of some of the poor lambs we were asked to read about in these poems.

I was never directed to read a poem written by a British mother whose daughter was preyed upon by Pakistani pimps, who was raped and beaten and forced to convert to Islam, or whose son was stabbed by a Pakistani gang for being white in the wrong area.

There were no short stories describing the anguish of being old and trapped in an increasingly alien area, mosques springing up as pubs disappear, the script on the street signs unfamiliar, afraid to step out of your own front door because of the roaming gangs of 'youths'; none about what it is like to make a perfectly legitimate complaint to the council about noise or rubbish and be patronised and chastised about racism.

During one of these lessons, one child in the class told the teacher that he had shown this anthology to his parents, and they had questioned its motives; they had suffered as much as the immigrants, especially as the area began to reach 'critical mass' (whereby it becomes majority non-white and therefore the newcomers' territory) - the only difference was that their complaints were ignored.

The teacher nodded sympathetically and said that racism and different perceptions of it were still a huge problem - but this boy's parents had no idea what the immigrants had suffered.

But of course, she knew enough about these strangers to confine their grievances to the dustbin - they were only white, after all.

I recall watching a documentary about Nazi Germany's occupation of France, in which a man who had lived through it was asked what was the worse part.

He listed the obvious reasons - but said, in his opinion, the worst part was hearing your own children come home from school "spouting the lies of the conquerors".

I'll bet that child's parents, wherever they are now, have an inkling of what that is like.

More from the Cargo-Bike Imam

Yesterday I reported on the 'Cargo-Bike Imam', who is the creation of Moroccan comedian Najib Amhali and features on Dutch television.

Here is another clip, with thanks to Vlad Tepes:


This one sees the same Dutch children as before take their shoes off to sit in the cardboard mosque, before Amhali issues them with drawings of terrorist attacks and beheadings to colour in "and hang on their walls".

You'll notice something about those children - every single one of them is white. I don't know how these things work in The Netherlands, but in Britain the law requires pretty much all adverts and TV programmes to be 'representative' - i.e. have a liberal helping of ethnic minorities present.

Presumably only white children need to be brainwashed about Islam, however, or be propaganda tools in a campaign to help us forget the negatives and laugh off its critics.

This is undoubtedly supposed to be satire; the only problem is, it is simply not funny.

It is not funny because there are too many people in the elites of various European and Western countries who have taken Muslim terrorism lightly, to a ridiculous degree, whilst demonising anyone who does not - there's no need to joke about it.

It is also not funny because it is simply hypocrisy.

As a Dutch commenter pointed out yesterday, the parents who allow their children to be misused here are the same ones who have fled in the wake of real imams in their old neighbourhoods - ones who really do think that 9/11 is a cause for celebration.

Christian Teacher Sacked after Facing Abuse from Muslims

A teacher who worked at a predominantly Muslim school in Britain has told of the abuse he was forced to endure on a daily basis from pupils as young as eight - for being a Christian:

A teacher claims he has been sacked for reprimanding pupils who made racist remarks about his being a Christian.

Nicholas Kafouris said he lost his £30,000-a-year post because he would not tolerate the 'openly racist' behaviour of pupils as young as eight.

He said the predominantly Muslim youngsters openly praised Islamic extremists in class, and hailed the September 11 terrorists as 'heroes and martyrs'.

Greek-born Mr Kafouris, 40, taught for more than ten years at Bigland Green Primary in Tower Hamlets, East London, where according to the most recent Ofsted report 'almost all' the 465 pupils are from ethnic minorities and a vast proportion do not speak English as a first language.

He is taking the school, its headmistress and assistant head to an employment tribunal where he will claim he was forced out after highlighting the rise in racism among pupils.

In 2006, said Mr Kafouris, he brushed against a boy while giving him a book.

'He said rather brusquely to me, "Don't touch me, you're a Christian". I found this very offensive.'

Later that year, he said children aged eight and nine in his class praised the suicide bombers in the 9/11 attacks.

'In late November and December 2006, many various unacceptable and openly racist, anti-Semitic and anti-Christian remarks were being made by many and various children in Year 4,' he said.

'These included, "We want to be Islamic bombers when we grow up", "the Twin Towers bombers are heroes and martyrs", "we hate the Jews" and "we hate the Christians".'

And in January 2007, he claims some pupils 'expressed delight' that a child had died when a wall collapsed on him in London.

When asked why, he said one of the children replied: 'Because he's English.' The following month, during a religious education lesson about Jonah and the whale, he claims one of the pupils asked if Jonah was a Jew, before shouting: 'I hate the Jews, they're our enemies.'

Mr Kafouris says he completed 'Racist Incident Reporting Sheets' and notified headmistress Jill Hankey in writing about each incident.

But he claims his concerns were ignored because she wanted to maintain the school's 'good' Ofsted rating.

Mr Kafouris, who is unmarried and has no children, was also reprimanded for handling a discussion about religion with a child 'inappropriately', which he denies.

He says assistant head Margaret Coleman accused him of shouting at pupils and telling them Muslims had produced suicide bombers - claims he rejects.

'I believe after I complained to the head about the racist and religious discrimination incidents, I suffered victimisation,' he says.

'I also suffered less favourable treatment and incurred harassment by the head and assistant head.

'The two people above created an intimidating, hostile, degrading, threatening, humiliating and offensive environment for me at my work.'

Mr Kafouris says the way he was treated brought on stress and depression, and that he was forced to take time off work. He was finally dismissed because of his absence, on April 30 this year.

A spokesman for Tower Hamlets Council, on behalf of the school, said: 'The governing body stands by its decision and we believe all the correct procedures were followed.'

Read what Mr Kafouris has to say carefully; in many areas, this is the mindset which already holds sway.

If we're not very careful, it could well be the future for Britain.

Cultural Enrichment in British Schools

July 21, 2009

OGUNSOLA: SEX ASSAULT TEACHER BRANDS GIRLS IN HIS CHARGE A 'NIGHTMARE'

ILFORD, ESSEX; CARSHALTON, BANSTEAD, SURREY. A teacher today (Tues) denied molesting four teenagers at two schools and described the girls in his charge as 'a nightmare'. Keith Ogunsola, 44, said pupils at a Surrey school, where he is said to have assaulted two girls, were badly behaved and lacked motivation.

July 17, 2009

OGUNSOLA: SCIENCE MASTER GAVE SEX TALK DURING CHEMISTRY CLASS

BANSTEAD, SURREY A teacher accused of molesting four teenagers at two schools warned girl pupils their boyfriends were 'only after one thing', a court heard today (fri). Married dad Keith Ogunsola, 44, also quizzed the girls of 14 and 15 on whether they had performed sex acts, jurors heard.

OGUNSOLA: TEACHER FRENCH KISSED TEEN STUDENT IN OFFICE

BANSTEAD, SURREY; ILFORD, ESSEX; A teacher accused of molesting four teenagers at two schools French kissed a 14-year-old girl and told her to dump her boyfriend, a court heard. Married father Keith Ogunsola, 44, then asked the youngster 'aren't you supposed to be my Valentine?' jurors heard.


July 15, 2009

OGUNSOLA: HEADMASTER WARNED GROPING SCIENCE MASTER ABOUT HIS CONDUCT

CARSHALTON, SURREY; ILFORD, ESSEX. A teacher accused of molesting four teenage girls at two schools had been warned by a headmaster about his conduct with pupils, a court heard. Science master Keith Ogunsola, 44, is said to have sexually assaulted youngsters at schools in Carshalton, Surrey, and Ilford, Essex.

I am posting updates on this case for the simple reason that I cannot find a mention of it in the news anywhere.

Normally it is impossible to keep such cases out of the papers.

White Flight Segregating British Schools

An interesting yet unsurprising article from The Times:

White parents are pulling their children out of schools where they are outnumbered by ethnic-minority pupils, according to a report that shows increasing segregation in Britain.

The Institute of Community Cohesion (iCoCo) studied 13 areas, including Bristol, Bolton, Sunderland and Blackburn, and questioned parents.

Middle-class parents — who are usually white — were removing children from schools with growing populations of ethnic minorities because they didn’t want them to stand out, the authors of the report said.

“We heard strong evidence of ‘white flight’ in some areas,” the report said.

It concluded: “Despite the fact that most people we spoke to in focus groups wanted their children to have a mixed education, parental choice tended to push people to what they saw as the safe option, where children with similar backgrounds went.” The report also found that in areas where schools were monocultural, parents sent their child to the school dominated by pupils from their own ethnic background.

Nick Johnston, one of the authors and a policy director at the iCoCo, said that parents did not want their child to be odd ones out. “People don’t mind a diverse school but what they do mind is their kid being in a visible minority. This trend has increased in the last few years,” he said.In one school in Blackburn, once the number of non-white pupils rose above 60 per cent, white parents started saying that they did not want their children to feel different.

At another unnamed school, 85 per cent of the pupils were white British at the end of 2005. During the next two terms pupils from 15 to 20 Somali families joined.

Johnston suggested that councils should consider using lotteries to increase school diversity.

I have touched on some of the issues surrounding this before, and it hardly surprises me. Britain is not the only country in which this is happening, either.

Of course, the report deliberately overlooks much; when parents opt for the 'safe' choice, they mean that more literally than is suggested.

For example, parents are likely to be far more concerned about their children being physically attacked, coerced into gangs, sexually harassed or dealt drugs to than picking up a few words of Bengali or a different taste in cuisine. Of course, publishing that doesn't quite fit the 'it's all the fault of evil white racists who continue to resist diversity' line.

But, to admit that would mean that 'diversity' has failed.

The report's solutions are fairly standard; what's needed is a lottery system - not less diversity, or an objective look at why majority non-Western schools tend to be violent holding pens.

Clearly, white parents are not fit to make their own decisions - diversity will be forced upon them, at any cost.

Increasingly, natives seem to be the only ones paying.

School Trip to Zimbabwe Planned - to 'Improve English'

From the Metro:

Children as young as ten are set to head to Zimbabwe... to improve their English.

The party of primary school pupils and teachers will spend a week visiting schools near the capital of Harare – despite the on-going troubles in the southern African state.

President Robert Mugabe has repeatedly blamed Britain for many of his country's economic woes. Inflation is rampant, there is an Aids crisis and crime is spiralling.

But despite this, the eight children, from three schools in Liverpool, are due to spend a week lodging at a boarding school in Marondera, about an hour away from Harare.

Head teacher Ruth Frain said the exchange trip was also a chance to learn from the hosts' approaches to ICT, recycling and literacy.

'We want to look at what we can learn from them, then use it when we teach English,' she said.

'It will be life-changing. We want to mix with other cultures and build understanding, and the only way to do that is by experiencing it.'

The trip, due in November and funded by the British Council, would only take place if it was safe, she said.

Today, the Foreign Office warned the situation in Zimbabwe remained tense: 'It could deteriorate further without warning.'

Teacher Linked to 'Drugs, Guns & Criminals'

From The Star:

A TEACHER at a school in Sheffield was also a trusted assistant in a criminal underworld of drug dealing, laundered money, and guns, a court heard.

Armed police swooped on a garage in Norwood, Sheffield, and found Imran Mohammed - a 23-year-old teacher at Yewlands School in Parson Cross - inside with two sawn-off shotguns.

On searching the premises, described at Sheffield Crown Court as a drug factory, they also uncovered more than £500,000 in cash and various appliances which were found to contain traces of heroin.

Mohammed was arrested along with Shamraze Khan Bashir, 28, of Norwood Road, Norwood, who has pleaded guilty to money laundering, being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs, possessing a firearm without a licence, and shortening a shotgun.

Mohammed denies the same charges and is on trial.

Richard Sheldon, prosecuting, told jurors Mohammed's very presence in Bashir's garage that day showed he was a "trusted assistant" of Bashir.

He added: "No-one would be allowed so close to such activities if they were not party to them. Criminals do not welcome observers - they risk detection by any form of publicity or outside knowledge of their activities."

The jury heard Mohammed, of Goddard Hall Road, Fir Vale, arrived at Bashir's house at around 6.15pm on November 10 last year.

He parked his car on a nearby street rather than on the drive or outside the house - evidence, Mr Sheldon said, of him trying to avoid being seen.

Around 10 minutes later a policeman walked past the garage and heard the sound of sawing coming from inside. Armed police arrived on the scene around 20 minutes later and, on entering the garage, found the two men. One of the guns had its barrel removed, while the other had the stock removed.

A pair of gardening gloves were found to contain skin flakes which matched Mohammed's DNA, along with metal fragments from both of the guns.

The hooded sweatshirt he was wearing that night also contained metal fragments.

On searching the garage officers found £531,805 in cash stuffed in Tesco carrier bags in a cupboard, along with £9,350 in counterfeit cash.

A hydraulic press was found to contain traces of heroin, and traces of the Class A drug were also found on a knife in the garage and on a vacuum cleaner.

Mr Sheldon said all the findings pointed towards the garage being used as a "drug factory".

The trial continues.

Surge in School Sex Attacks

The Times has an interesting article and series of statistics which document the huge rise in rapes and other sex attacks in British schools.

Scotland Yard fear 'gang culture' might be to blame - basically politically correct code for saying that this is a phenomenon found largely in areas which enjoy a larger than average amount of diversity and cultural enrichment.

Obviously, to come out and say that might be racist - and it might harm the recruitment campaign to get teachers into inner city schools, some of which will be 100% non-white or non-English-speaking.

Here is the report - just a few days after a study in France found sex crimes were being committed by younger and younger children:

THE spectre of a hidden epidemic of sex crimes inside Britain’s classrooms has emerged after Scotland Yard revealed there have been nearly 900 rapes or serious sex attacks in schools.

The figures - the first of their kind produced - show that 65 victims were raped in secondary and primary schools in London in the past five years. A further 826 were the target of other sexual assaults.

Last year, the number of alleged rapes rose 60% on the previous year to 32. The statistics suggest the vast majority of victims were schoolchildren under the age of 16. As many as one in three were under 11.

The disclosure came as the senior detective in charge of investigating the school sex attacks said that in some cases, police did not press charges against boys accused of having sex with girls under 13 for fear of “criminalising” them.

In response to fears about a violent crimewave in schools, the Met has dispatched 100 extra officers to patrol schools throughout the capital.

It is also examining links between the rise in the number of sex attacks on girls at school and the growth in gang culture.

Disclosing the figures, Commander Mark Simmons, head of the Met’s violent crime directorate, said the force was urgently trying to assess the cause of the problem, which mainly involves attacks on girls.

“Sexual assaults and rapes are always serious offences. When you start talking about young people, and particularly young people in what should be a place of safety, then that becomes even more serious.

“But we need to be wary of making parents hugely concerned by the headline numbers. We are talking about just up to 200 in the last year across the whole of London schools.”

Simmons said that a small minority of the cases involved consensual sex where a technical crime had been committed but police had decided not to prosecute.

He said that in such cases, it was not considered to be in the public interest to take boys of 13 or 14 to court.

“What is the public interest in criminalising a 13-year-old for engaging in consensual behaviour with another person of that age?

“Do we want to criminalise them? Do we want to put them on the sex offenders’ register for ever? Or do we want to work on their education, their understanding of the health issues? Is that more appropriate?

“I can’t think of a case where we have prosecuted for consensual sex between two 13-year-olds. I can’t think how that would be appropriate.”

Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, said the figures were disturbing. “It is even more alarming because it is happening in schools were people ought to be safe and invulnerable.”

The Met figures, which cover attacks in schools and their environs, show that the number of alleged rapes more than doubled from 15 in 2004 to 32 for the year ending in April.

The number of reported sexual offences grew from 180 in 2004 to 278 last year. Of these, 195 were classified after investigation as sex crimes - up from 169 in 2007.

Until the Met released its figures this weekend, there has only been anecdotal evidence hinting at the scale of the problem. In 1998 the Old Bailey heard evidence from a 10-year-old girl who claimed she had been gang-raped by a group of her classmates.

The youngster said she had been dragged into a school lavatory and raped by her laughing assailants. Her five alleged attackers, all 11 or under, were cleared by the jury.

Teacher Raped By 15 Year Old to Sue School

An indictment of all that is wrong with modern Britain, courtesy of the Mail.

We live in a country where teachers are not safe from rape and sexual assault in their own classrooms. One teacher who was the victim of a rape carried out by a 15 year old pupil five years ago is now taking a stand - suing the school for failing to protect her.

There had been a previous incident of sexual assault on a cleaner at the school which was all but ignored:

A teacher who was brutally assaulted by a 15-year-old pupil accused the school where the attack took place of 'putting her in the way of a rapist'.

The 32-year-old, who cannot be identified, said Westminster City School should have warned her that it was unsafe for her to be in her classroom alone after lessons.

The woman was attacked by powerfully-built Dwayne Best [court drawing of Best above] as she marked books after school - within a week of starting her job in September, 2004.

Best is serving a life sentence after being convicted at the Old Bailey.

Miss X sued the governing body of the school over her 'truly horrifying' ordeal. She has reached a secret settlement in the damages action.

Her counsel, Neil Block QC, told Mr Justice Foskett at London's High Court that her allegations of negligence against the school were on the basis that there had been a previous less serious sexual assault on a cleaner.

Best also had the 'most appalling' documented history in and out of school, displaying a belligerent and aggressive attitude.

Speaking after the case, Miss X said she had decided to bring a civil case because she thought the school should be held to account for their failings.

'They really failed. They let me down and I do hold them responsible for putting me in the way of a rapist.'

'I take my own safety very seriously and I always have. I don't put myself in those kind of positions.

'Somebody else put me in the way of a rapist, that infuriates me intensely. Everybody has the right, not only to not be raped, but to make decisions about their own safety.'

Miss X said that Best's school records showed a 'degenerative' pattern of behaviour that the school should have picked up on.

'It was really bad management. If you have pupils who are in need of structure and behavioural management then you have in place policies and structures for teachers to use.'

Best's continually disruptive behaviour meant he should have been excluded, she said.

'If they had done right by me, I wouldn't have been there, and if they had done right by him, he was entitled to be properly managed, he wouldn't have been there.

'It's very sad that nobody valued my life enough to take one or two simple steps, that's one of the most depressing aspects of the case.'

Miss X said she hoped that her case would make schools go back and look again at their policies and risk assessments to make sure they are doing what they can to keep their staff safe.

Miss X has not returned to teaching since the attack.

She said: 'Being raped and losing my job was like being bereaved. I lost a thing I loved doing. It was devastating. I lost myself.'

Racist Teacher Denied Compensation Claim

From the Daily Mail:

A black teacher who was poisoned with whiteboard cleaning fluid by one of her own pupils today lost a fight for £700,000 in damages - and was branded a racist by a top judge.

Shaiira Alexis, 52, had told London's High Court her life would never be the same again after she unwittingly drank from a tampered water bottle.

But yesterday a judge rejected her bid for compensation, and condemned the teacher, who had to be treated at hospital following the incident, for her behaviour in calling the pupil a 'white prostitute'.

Judge Roger ter Haar QC said he did not condone the 'disgraceful behaviour' of the pupil.

But he accused the teacher of 'humiliating' the girl, named only as Faye.

Turning down her bid for compensation, he criticised Miss Alexis, of Bermondsey, South London, for her own behaviour and described her as 'heavy-handed'.

'Not only had she humiliated Faye by using racist language, she had done so in front of the whole class - a class with which she seems have had a difficult relationship in any event,' he said.

'This language was used to an academic under-achiever whose sense of inferiority from under-achievement was likely to have been already increased by Miss Alexis's heavy-handed approach to trying to get the best out of her pupils.'

Miss Alexis, who came to Britain from Grenada in eight years ago, downed the poison in February 2005 after the girl sneaked into her classroom at Brampton Manor School, in Newham, and contaminated her drinking water bottle.

Giving evidence earlier this year she told how within seconds of taking two or three mouthfuls of water she left 'intense burning' in her throat and lips.

After repeatedly vomiting, she was treated at hospital and returned home later that day.

She returned to school but lost her job in August 2006 because of her sickness record.

She had sought compensation from Newham Borough Council to cover lost earnings and pension entitlements, claiming that while the physical effects of the 'poisoning' were relatively short-lived, the psychiatric impact ruined her prospects of promotion to headteacher or at least a departmental head.

Lawyers for Miss Alexis said the school had put pupils and teachers at risk when a teacher entrusted the girl pupil with classroom keys.

But, dismissing her case Judge ter Haar, who had heard evidence from the girl, ruled the council blameless.

He said that, although the girl may not have been a 'model student', there could be no excuse for Ms Alexis calling her a white prostitute as she put on makeup in class.

'I have no doubt that this happened. ..the significance of this cannot be understated,' he said.

'It is clear that, in this multi-racial school, it was rightly quite out of the question for any teacher, or student, to be allowed to act or speak in a racist manner without immediate and unequivocal condemnation.'

He said Faye had never revealed the true extent of her resentment for Miss Alexis and no one had any cause to suspect that she would react by attempting to poison her teacher.

The judge added that although Miss Alexis was an 'intelligent, able, articulate and ambitious' woman, her promotion prospects were not as good as she thought they were.

'It is apparent that, before the incident, she was already experiencing difficulties in her relationships both with other members of staff and with some pupils,' he said.

Before moving to Britain Miss Alexis was PR officer for Grenada's New National Party.

Due to the shortage of teachers in core subjects in London, the London Borough of Newham sponsored her to obtain a working visa.

After arriving at Brampton Manor she enrolled on a Graduate Teachers Programme, wrote a novel and embarked on a Masters Degree course in Education at Cambridge University.

Multi-cultural comprehensive school, Brampton Manor has 1,450 pupils and serves an area affected by widespread social deprivation in East Ham, with some of its pupils suffering serious personality problems.

However, in its latest OFSTED report, the school was praised as a 'good and improving school with some outstanding aspects'.

Muslim Classroom Assistant Driven out By Angry Parents

A very unusual case; angry parents have driven a female classroom assistant out of a private Muslim girls' school in Lancashire in the belief that she was secretly a man.

28 year old Shifa Patel even underwent humiliating medical examinations to prove she is in fact a woman, but to no avail.

The Mail has more:

Shifa Patel, a 28-year-old secretary, was accused of hiding her masculinity beneath a traditional headscarf and robes.

The hate campaign started when photographs of a short-haired Miss Patel wearing a shirt and trousers were spotted on Facebook. They were copied and emailed to dozens of concerned parents as 'proof' that Miss Patel was a man.

In a bid to defuse the rumours, she underwent a humiliating medical examination to prove that she was in fact a woman. But parents refused to believe the results and the headteacher resorted to writing to all parents assuring them the secretary wasn't a man. Miss Patel was finally forced to quit after a mob of parents gathered at the Al-Islah Muslim Girls School in Blackburn and demanded governors sack her immediately.

Police were called to the school last Monday and had to disperse the more than a dozen parents at the gates.

Last night a distraught Miss Patel said: 'I have irrefutable medical evidence that I'm a woman. The people who have done this to have hurt me so badly. I will never forgive those who did this to me and spread these lies.'

Miss Patel said she wore a hijab, a headscarf which shows the face, and a jhaba, a full-length robe, while working at the school.

Last night, Fatima Patel quit as the school's acting headmistress in protest at the secretary's treatment. She said: 'When some parents approached me I told them I will take the Koran in my hand and swear to tell the truth. But they were more concerned about obtaining a GP's certificate for Shifa. What does that say about some people?

'Some of the parents have been very supportive. It is very disconcerting that this has happened during children's exam time. This incident has affected me and Shifa and it will take a lot to get her confidence back. We must add that some parents have come and supported us.'

Sergeant John Rigby of Lancashire Constabulary said: 'Police were called to the school after reports that people were trying to damage school doors. When we arrived a group of ten to 15 people were outside the school. I must point out neither the school nor the mosque was raided.

'This is an entirely internal school matter and police were simply there to calm the situation down.'

Here is more information about the school itself:

The £1,000-a-year independent school, which opened in 1995 in a mosque complex has 160 girls aged 11 to 17. It claims to 'nurture the intellectual, emotional, social and spiritual growth of Muslim children with the hope of producing confident, competent individuals who can go out into British society and contribute positively without compromising their beliefs and practices'.

At its last inspection in 2007 it was criticised by Ofsted for its lack of a science laboratory and for failings in teaching the curriculum. Inspectors said however that the standard of teaching was generally good and educational achievement was satisfactory.

Now, I'm fairly sure that had this happened at a Christian school, it would have been covered far more widely than it actually has been; but more than that, the parents would have been told that this is a totally unacceptably way to behave and possibly arrested under hate speech legislation.

Muslim parents get understanding and the simpering of the likes of Sergeant Rigby, desperate to point out that trying to kick down the school doors and drive out a member of staff is not a criminal offence but mere horseplay.

Is this the future of our country?

Islam in Europe

Another day, four more stories about the march of Islam in Europe.

1) Norway

Today it was revealed that 40% of schools in Oslo have a majority of children born to foreign parents. This is up from 34% last year.

The figures presented in the link seem to suggest that most Norwegian pupils at such schools wish to leave.

Is this surprising? Yesterday Pyjamas Media ran a story about Vahl Grade School in downtown Oslo. A female employee, a Pakistani Muslim, had been pressuring young girls (of around six or seven years old) to wear the hijab.

The girls she encouraged to cover themselves were ethnic Norwegians, who make up just 5% of pupils at this particular school:

She flattered the girls who didn’t wear hijab by telling them how pretty they would be if they only put on hijabs, and said that she could give them hijabs as gifts. The woman works for SFO (Skolefritidsordning or “School Free Time Arrangement”), which provides volunteers to take care of kids before and after school hours, and also works as a classroom assistant. In March she got the head of SFO to write the following note to the parents of two non-Muslim girls:

“Can X get a hijab from SFO on Tuesday, March 31, 2009?” The letter is dated March 30 and signed by the head of Norwegian SFO. HRS has the original letter. We also have a photograph of posters from the school building announcing prayer times for the children.

An employee at Vahl School explains the spread of hijabs at the school to HRS in this way:

“In first grade, about half of the Muslim girls show up in hijab. By the time they’re in third grade, pretty much all of the Muslim girls are in hijab,” says this person who wishes to remain anonymous.

So this woman, entrusted to care for young children, abused her position to try to impose her own backward values on them. What did her employer have to say?

The assistant principal at the school, Grete Wahlmann, obviously doesn’t understand what kind of force and pressure on children these matters can involve or, for that matter, what values hijab represents. She told the Adressa.no website: “This was just a small gesture from SFO. There were two little girls who wanted to dress up in pretty, colorful, and glittering hijabs, and therefore SFO asked if it was okay with the parents for them to give them to the girls.”

There we have it. Just taking advantage of the nature of young girls to impose alien cultural values on them. Move along, nothing to see here.

2) Greece

A while ago I wrote about the rioting of Muslims in Greece, incensed over a policeman's alleged desecration of a copy of the Koran.

This led to vandalism and a failed attempt to petrol bomb the Agios Panteleimonas police station in central Athens.

The crux of the issue was thus:

"We want the officer or officers involved to be prosecuted, and the government to issue an apology," protester Manala Mohammed, a Syrian national, told The Associated Press. "We want people to show us respect."

We now have a classic case of blackmail ongoing in Greece; if an apology is not forthcoming and the policeman is not sacked or put on trial, then 'communities' might lose control of their members.

"How can you control enraged 20-year-old Afghans who will hit the streets seeking to die in the name of Allah?" asked Naim al-Ghandour, president of the Muslim Union of Greece.

"This is creating hate in a country that did not have the reputation in the Arab and Muslim world of being an enemy," Mr. al-Ghandour said.

Mohammad Ateeq, the Iraqi immigrant at the center of the controversy, lodged a suit on charges of damage to property and religious disrespect.

He claims that the unidentified policeman insulted him, tore his copy of the Koran and proceeded to step on it.

"Greece is not Denmark," said Ahmed Muawiya, a member of the Greek Immigrant Forum, seeking to dispel fears of another conflagration like one that followed the 2006 global riots over Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad.

"But offending Islam is not a game, and this must not be viewed as just an immigrant issue," Mr. Muawiya said.

No, it's not a game - people end up dead. We know.

It doesn't look like the Greeks will get much spiritual leadership regarding the invasion and subjugation of their country, however:

Greece has been struggling for more than a decade with the illegal entry of mostly Muslim immigrants from the Arab world, North Africa and Central Asia.

An estimated 400,000 Muslims - including both legal and illegal immigrants - in the greater Athens area alone pray in 130 makeshift shrines in the absence of an official mosque in the Greek capital.

The church has donated a large plot of land for the creation of a Muslim cemetery and supports the creation of Greece's first mosque. It offers daily food handouts in central Athens, irrespective of creed.

3) United Kingdom

A software company in Scotland is creating a new game for the X Box called 'Rendition'.

In it, the player will control a Guantanamo Bay detainee who is trying to shoot his way out of the prison.

The company decided that this wasn't controversial enough, however; they called upon the expertise of Mozzam Begg, a British resident and former inmate at the US base in Cuba. As well as advising on the layout of the prison, he could also become a star as the game's central character which players will control.

The director of the company, the well known Scotsman Zarrar Chishti, said:

"We have had a lot of hate mail about this, mainly from America, saying things like, 'Don't dare put out a game that shows them killing our soldiers. But only mercenaries will be killed.

We are expecting an extreme reaction to the game in the US. But we think it will sell well in the Middle East."

4) Sweden

The majority of imams in Sweden wish for a Swedish education. Some of them believe that holding their sermons in Swedish will fight alienation and aid integration. There is also the issue of Saudi imams being offered to Swedish mosques free of charge, a practice which must be stopped to fight the spread of wahabism.

However, a report commissioned by the Swedish government suggested that this would be a very bad idea - because it is better that extremists control religious education than the Swedish state, which might attempt to 'steer' imams towards certain interpretations of Islam:

There is great skepticism and a belief that the State would take over the religious part of imam training and thus "steer" Islam's religious content.

Turkey is the country that sends most imams in Sweden, 47%. This is done through the religion Ministry, Diyanet, which sends imams to countries with large Turkish diasporas.

A Muslim Microcosm in Britain

Four stories came in quick succession yesterday, all of them with something to say about the current place of Islam and Muslims in British society.

There is a disturbing note, however - when it comes to standing up to Muslim extremists, the only people who seem to have any fire are other Muslims.

1) The BBC have agreed to pay £30,000 in damages to the Muslim Council of Britain and apologise on air after a panellist on the programme 'Question Time' said the organisation did not do enough to condemn the killing of British troops.

From the Mail:

The Corporation caved in after a panellist on the Question Time TV programme accused the country's most influential Muslim organisation of failing to condemn attacks on soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The broadcaster was threatened with legal action over comments by former Daily Telegraph editor Charles Moore during a debate about Islamic protests which marred a soldiers' homecoming parade in Luton.

Mr Moore blamed the MCB's leadership for its apparent reluctance to condemn the killing and kidnapping of British soldiers overseas. He went on to claim that it thought it was a 'good thing' to kill troops.

Faced with the threat of a writ, the BBC made an offer of 'amends' and an apology on the Question Time website. But this has been rejected and the MCB is demanding an apology on air.

The Corporation's decision to pay out will raise eyebrows in Whitehall, where ministers have refused to settle a similar defamation claim over a letter written by Communities Secretary Hazel Blears.

Here is Mr Moore's comment compared to that of Hazel Blears, who refused to pay or apologise and has received no further correspondence:

Moore is absolutely correct, of course, and the BBC should be ashamed of this cowardly act funded by the taxpayer.

2) This story is very interesting. Yesterday in Luton, a large group of Muslims gathered to confront 12 or so extremists from the same sect which had denounced British troops returning from Iraq back in March.

The large group were described as 'moderates', and appeared to be ordinary Muslims who had just left a mosque after Friday prayers.

As the extremists set up their stall, a crowd surrounded them shouting 'out, out, out' and 'we don't want you here'.

Scuffles then broke out between the two groups as the extremists shouted 'get back to your synagogue'.

As police officers struggled to hold the two groups apart, a Muslim man was heard to say to officers: 'we came to drive them off the streets because you won't'.

Although on the surface this seems a very positive development, I'm not so sure. The only reason the moderates were angry is because they are bearing the brunt of the backlash for the message of the 'extremists'. Soon after the demo against the troops, an Islamic community centre was firebombed.

You rarely hear 'moderate' Muslims denounce the many negative actions carried out in the name of Islam. Therefore I must wonder, are the 'moderates' upset because of the message of the 'extremists', or the fact that it was causing some Britons to stir in their slumber?

3) A Muslim woman has been jailed for seven years for treating her three daughters-in-law like 'slaves' and 'dogs'.

From the Mail:

Naseebah Bibi, 63, would not let the women leave the family home in Blackburn, Lancashire, without her permission.

One of her victims told detectives she was forced to work on an industrial sewing machine day and night for 13 years.

Bibi, of Pringle Street, was convicted by a jury at Preston Crown Court last month of falsely imprisoning Nagina Akhtar between 1993 and 2006, Tazeem Akhtar from 2001 to 2003 and Nisbah Akhtar between 2005 and 2007.

All three women were brought to the UK following arranged marriages to Bibi's three sons but were subjected to beatings and abuse from her after they arrived.

Sentencing her, Judge Robert Brown said it was evident that her victims were 'traumatised by you both physically and psychologically and spent long periods living in fear'. The daughters-in-law had high expectations of a happy family life in England when they married their first cousins in Pakistan but instead they were cruelly abused and allowed no contact with the outside world.

One of the victims, Nagina, told the police that she was ordered to spend her time sewing as soon as she arrived in Blackburn in 1993 following her marriage to Bibi's son Fahim and was also told she could not have a higher education.

She carried on sewing up to a fortnight before the caesarean birth of one of her three children and was back on the machine within a month.

When the sewing work ran out she was made to do household chores, cooking and cleaning.

She said Bibi struck her with a brush handle and slapped her across the face whenever she disobeyed her.

Sisters Nisbah and Tazeem also gave evidence to the jury that their lives were 'made hell'. They too were slapped across the face, hit with a brush handle and struck with shoes when they answered back to Bibi.

4) A teacher has been sacked after allegedly giving two boys a detention because they would not kneel and pray to Allah during an RE lesson.

An investigation by the school found that there was absolutely no truth to the allegation. The teacher was suspended after outraged parents complained, and the investigation has just been concluded.

The school refuses to say why, if the allegation is untrue, the teacher was sacked:

The school suspended the teacher last July after receiving complaints and a lengthy disciplinary process was carried out.

A statement released on behalf of the school by Cheshire East Council said: 'It can be confirmed that following a long and rigorous disciplinary process, a member of staff at Alsager School has been dismissed from her post.

'The member of staff was suspended in July 2008 following parental complaints and newspaper reports relating to an RE lesson.

'In reaching this decision, the governing body wish to make very clear that they were completely satisfied that at no point did that member of staff make children pray to Allah or put boys in detention for refusing to do so.

'The RE lesson in question contains an element of role play which complies with acceptable practice.'

Headmistress Forced out by Muslims Speaks out

Today's Daily Mail carries a special report into the circumstances surrounding New Monument School in Woking and the orchestrated efforts of Muslim governors to drive out its dedicated Headmistress, Erica Connor, and make it an Islamic faith school.

I reported on this extraordinary case here after Mrs Connor was awarded a £450,000 payout for her ordeal, and because her employers and the local council were too afraid of being called racist to stand up for her.

This case is a testament to the dangers which occur when one group is allowed to function under their own laws, customs and rules with compunction by a state too weak and lacking in self confidence to assert itself, its authority or its traditional values.

Mrs Connor, her non-Muslim pupils and those Muslims who wished for a decent, secular education were abandoned by the very forces which should protect them; the forces which tell us that any form of cultural supremacy or arrogance is wrong.

Looking at this case, it would seem that only applies to the native culture and values of Great Britain. At the vanguard of this campaign against Mrs Connor stood Paul Martin (pictured above), a British convert to Islam who felt his adopted values and beliefs trumped not only his birthright as a free-born subject of the Crown, but those of the 20% non-Muslim pupils at New Monument School and any Muslims who wished to have a secular education and be part of British society.

The article is quite long, but I have reproduced it here in full; it is a very interesting, though disheartening, read, summing up so many of the issues we face in this country today, and just how much unscrupulous people can get away with by hiding behind their religion or ethnicity.

'Rising up from the centre of the Surrey commuter town of Woking stands the magnificent Shah Jahan mosque. It was founded in 1889 by Dr Gottlieb Leitner, a Jew who converted to Anglicanism.

He wanted the mosque to be part of an Oriental Institute, promoting a greater understanding between religions.

What irony. One hundred and twenty years later, two officials from Shah Jahan pursued a 'hidden agenda' forcibly to transform a local, secular primary school into an Islamic faith school.

Their aggressive campaign of 'anti-Christian' lobbying and unfounded allegations of racism and Islamophobia managed to destroy what had been a model school. Its inspirational headmistress was reduced to a nervous wreck, to the extent that she has now left education altogether.

Last week in the High Court, Surrey County Council was ordered to pay headmistress Erica Connor more than £400,000 compensation for having failed to support her. It is only now the full background to her case can be revealed.

Using statements of evidence and interviews, it is possible to piece together the extraordinary story of the downfall of New Monument school.

If there is one overriding lesson, it is that officialdom, anxious to maintain political correctness, will often kowtow to radical Islam - even if it does not reflect the wishes of the wider Muslim community.

New Monument is a maintained community school - state-run, with no religious affiliation. Mrs Connor arrived in 1994 and became headmistress four years later. Some 80 per cent of her pupils were Muslim, many with parents illiterate in English. Half were on the special needs register.

But under Mrs Connor the school showed the second most improved SATs results in the country. In 2001, she was invited to Downing Street in recognition of this.

However, these achievements began to unravel in February 2003 when Paul Martin was appointed as a governor - even though he did not have any children at the school.

Mr Martin, 57, who ran a clothes shop in the town, is a white Muslim convert (as is his Austrian-born wife) and, at the time, headed the education committee at the mosque.

Within months he proposed that Sofia Syed, another Muslim, join the school's board. Mumtaz Saleem, 41, was also recruited as a Local Education Authority (LEA) nominated governor.

Martin and Saleem and, to a much lesser extent, Syed, were to be the architects of the disaster which followed.

At his first governors' meeting, Mr Martin demanded they begin with a non-denominational prayer to the Almighty. Ominously, even at this early stage, he said he sensed 'tension between the school and the community'. This was news to everyone else at the meeting. But the storm really broke the following February.

It was then Mr Martin wrote to the headmistress alleging that a Muslim teacher and governor called Rosie Mir had said to him: 'I tell the children to throw the Koran away.'

He claimed she said that the holy book should be read only when the children were older and could understand it. He also alleged she said pupils were told they must leave their culture at home and become 'nice little English children'.

Mr Martin went on to make an equally explosive allegation against another female staff member. He said Stephanie Roche had asked: 'Why do they (children) have to go to the mosque? They can't even read English. It's so pointless.'

In response to these claims, Mrs Connor, wrote to Mr Martin and told him both women denied his allegations ' vehemently'. She added that she also consulted the imam of the Shah Jahan mosque, saying: 'He was astonished and perplexed by your suggestion that there was any ill-feeling between the school and the mosque.'

Mrs Connor took the precaution of informing the LEA's director of education, warning that the situation was becoming 'extremely difficult'.

Tellingly, for the first time, she also used the phrase 'hidden agenda' in connection with Mr Martin's behaviour. She said she heard from parents that proposals had been mooted for New Monument to become an Islamic school.

As an indication of her professionalism, she said she did not have a problem being head teacher of a faith school if the community wanted that.

The LEA remained silent. But Mr Martin made himself busy, complaining to the authority that he felt 'traumatised' and bullied by the other governors. He said he suffered from 'loss of sleep, profuse sweating, loss of concentration, poor performance at work' and disruption in his family life. Furthermore, he was not convinced that the school was doing all it could 'to proactively avoid anti-Muslim feeling within the school'.

A memorandum was duly produced by an LEA official, in which the following observation was made about Martin: 'He takes everything literally and ... one wonders if he does not have a hidden agenda. He is very active in the local mosque and has the potential to do harm to the school's reputation.'

On June 9, 2004, another governors' meeting took place. Again, Mr Martin and Mr Saleem harangued the headmistress on the need for a closer relationship between Islam and the school.

Eventually, Mrs Connor walked out, 'clearly upset' by the aggressive questioning.

Afterwards, one of the governors wrote complaining to the chair of governors, Mark Tackley-Goodman, about Mr Saleem's hostile attitude and his 'highly insulting' observation that parents who sent their children to New Monument had a 'lack of values'.

But Mr Martin was also back on the attack. He sent the chairman an email saying: 'I have been a Muslim for nearly 25 years and I have never had any personal experience of Islamophobia. I am sorry to say that that has changed since I have been a governor.'

Unsurprisingly, Mr Tackley-Goodman lost patience at this accusation. He emailed an LEA official to complain about Mr Martin and Mr Saleem, adding: 'I believe the time is well overdue for the LEA to step in and investigate.'

But the LEA was not prepared to defend its staff. In fact, one of the senior LEA officials expressed the view that Mr Martin was 'quite reasonable' and not a trouble-maker adding:'He has clearly stated to me that he is not after a single faith school.' A bland reassurance was sent to the headmistress and an LEA officer later met her to discuss the situation.

Mrs Connor told the officer that parents were reporting meetings in the community that were organised to, in her words, 'get me out'. She was also upset by an extraordinary ' cultural awareness' training session that had been organised by Mrs Syed for the school's staff.

The session trainers produced a special diagram setting out ideal Islamic attitudes in contrast to perceived English values - which contained things such as drinking, drug-taking and extra-marital affairs.

Once again, the chairman of governors asked the LEA to step in. This time the authority agreed to conduct a review.

It coincided with another 'stormy' governors' meeting. Again, Martin and Saleem focused on faith.

Such was the atmosphere, that the Muslim teacher Ms Mir said Mr Martin's allegations had made her ' emotionally ill' and had driven her to question-her choice of career. In November-the LEA review delivered its report, having conducted 58 interviews, including one with the imam of the mosque.

It found there was 'no evidence of deliberate racism or religious bias within the governing body or the school staff'. It added: 'The head teacher has established a strong and enthusiastic team of staff who are committed to doing their best for pupils.'

But the strain caused by Martin and Saleem's provocative behaviour was beginning to tell. The clerk to the governors quit.

In her resignation letter she said: 'The last few meetings have been monopolised by Paul Martin and Mumtaz [Saleem] ... An inordinate amount of time (was) spent on discussions concerning the mosque/school relationship.'

An educational training consultant who attended a governors' meeting observed 'bullying' of the majority took place. She, too, noted that the term 'hidden agenda' was now being widely used in relation to 'a campaign-by certain governors to get a single faith Islamic school on the New Monument site'.

Mr Tackley-Goodman, the chairman of the governors, went on the counter-attack yet again. In early 2005 he wrote to the LEA saying: 'The LEA are now casting those who have tried to resolve the anti-Christian and anti-secular antics of a small group of individuals, as the parties at fault.'

In May, mediation between the warring factions took place. Two days later the governing body voted to remove Mr Martin. Mrs Connor, the head, said that after that meeting Mr Saleem shouted at her that they were going to get her. If she thought she would 'get away with this' she was wrong.

As part of routine changes among the governors, Mr Tackley-Goodman stepped aside as chairman, though he continued to play an active role on the board.

A week later an LEA official reported a conversation he had with the new chairman, a moderate Muslim called Mr Shah, who reported that the militant governors 'did not represent any community and had been removed from their respective roles/interest in the mosque'.

Mr Shah could not understand why Mr Martin was pursuing a single faith school when that was not the wish of the wider community.

Yet still tensions were rising. June 14 was to prove a disastrous day for the school. There was another explosive meeting, during which Mr Tackley-Goodman claimed to have been threatened by Mr Saleem. He said Saleem also made a 'scandalous allegation of racism' against the headmistress.

The same day, Mr Martin delivered his coup de grace - a complaint to the LEA that the school was, to use that dread phrase, institutionally racist.

Among his criticisms was that while the cover of a school document showed seven children, only one of whom was brown-skinned.

That afternoon, outside the school gates, rumours circulated of the existence of a petition of no confidence in the headmistress. Graffiti offensive to Mrs Connor was daubed on school walls.

That same evening, senior LEA officers were advised by the grandly-titled County Council Complaints Management and the Equalities Coordinator that they should launch an independent investigation into the complaints against the school and its headmistress. If not, they faced 'the risk of a referral to the Commission of Racial Equality'.

The following day the rumoured petition appeared. It was headed with the words: 'We the undersigned, parents of children at New Monument School, no longer have confidence in Erica Connor to educate our children in a way that respects and values our faith, culture and heritage.'

Attached to the petition were two pages describing the headmistress as 'racist and Islamophobic'. She had, the petition alleged, transferred resources from 'brown Muslim children to white special needs children'. Scandalously, the document also drew attention to her part- Jewish background.

Presiding over the High Court case, Deputy Judge John Leighton Williams would later observe this petition was 'a highly offensive document, itself racist'. Yet here it was, being distributed in the playground and to local homes. Mrs Connor said some parents told her they had been intimidated into signing it, and apologised to her.

But by now there was real fear among school staff. Police issued them with personal attack alarms and advised them not to stay at school after 3pm. On one occasion, Mrs Connor said she had been surrounded by youths after leaving the school, but an ex-pupil intervened to help her. She said the experience was 'very threatening'.

So, again, what did the LEA do? It wrote a letter to parents and staff which the judge later described as 'not clearly and unequivocally supportive of the staff and Mrs Connor'.

Mrs Connor was now not only fearful for her safety, but deeply demoralised. She told staff her life was 'falling apart' while the LEA stood idly by. One LEA-appointed consultant warned the authority the staff as a body were 'deeply offended to be called racist.' The consultant added: 'There is a real atmosphere of fear and suspicion ... Everyone is careful of what they say and who they speak to. This seems to be permeating into the classroom.'

Yet astonishingly, far from supporting the headmistress and her loyal staff, the authority assured Mr Martin they were setting up an investigation into his concerns. Two people would conduct it, one of them from a Muslim background, as he had demanded.

Mr Tackley-Goodman tried one last time to get the LEA engaged.

He told the authority: 'The school has time and time again been held up as a model of racial and cultural integration and I would like to believe the LEA will now take positive action to reinforce these messages in the community.

'Unfortunately I fear that so-called political correctness will prevent a fair-minded and balanced approach.'

How right he was. The LEA was then put under further pressure.

A 'joint communication' purportedly from 'Woking Asian/Muslim organisations' suggested in schools where there is 'not a majority, but a significant Muslim presence' there should be changes. These included an act of collective Islamic worship, recruitment of Islamic teachers, 'adjustment of the National Curriculum', facilities for Friday prayers and a staff dress code.

The final straw came when the LEA report into allegations of racism was delivered.

Investigators admitted they could not 'find sufficient evidence to uphold the complaint of racism by the school or the local authority'.

But it added: 'We believe the headmistress, along with some other governors, indirectly displayed Islamophobia through ignorance and fear of losing control.'

Indirect Islamophobia? Delivering his verdict last week, Judge Williams was scathing. He said: 'I have to say that many of the views they (the investigators) have expressed are not views I would have reached on the evidence before me.'

At the time, Mrs Connor was simply 'horrified' - and 28 of her staff signed a letter to the LEA damning the report. They said they felt 'let down' by the authority.

On September 21, 2005, the deputy head teacher was certified unfit for work due to stress. Six days later Mrs Connor followed suit. Neither has been back to New Monument. Mrs Connor has not taught again.

With the school in disarray, Ofsted was forced to intervene, placing it under special measures and appointing an interim head teacher and deputy. Academic standards slipped. The school's subsequent Ofsted report stated, thanks to plunging morale among teachers, 'standards are low and pupils' achievement inadequate'.

Mr Martin still lives in the area, but is no longer involved with the school. He declined to speak to the Mail. Mr Saleem has moved out of the area and could not be contacted. Nor could Mrs Syed.

Their legacy, though, is only too apparent. New Monument, once a beacon for community cohesion and educational excellence, has been sacrificed on the altar of religious bigotry.'