(Birmingham) Governors, deputy and acting headteachers, trustees and parents were involved in a pattern of behaviour "moving between schools" in Birmingham, an inquiry into alleged 'Trojan Horse' schools has found.
In a 151-page report for Birmingham City Council, it concluded: "The evidence shows individuals have been seeking to promote and encourage Islamic principles in the schools with which they are involved, by seeking to introduce Islamic collective worship, or raising objections to elements of the school curriculum that are viewed as anti-Islamic.
The council report was followed yesterday by the Government one which came to the same conclusion, they both found:
In a 151-page report for Birmingham City Council, it concluded: "The evidence shows individuals have been seeking to promote and encourage Islamic principles in the schools with which they are involved, by seeking to introduce Islamic collective worship, or raising objections to elements of the school curriculum that are viewed as anti-Islamic.
The council report was followed yesterday by the Government one which came to the same conclusion, they both found:
- Pupils branded “kaffir” – a racial slur – if they failed to attend prayers
- Children told that women who refused to have sex with their husbands would be sent to hell
- Non-Muslim children excluded from school trips supposedly designed to teach foreign languages, which were really religious pilgrimages. These ten-day school holidays to Saudi Arabia, open only to Muslim children. The trips were subsidised with public money at £400 per pupil on the grounds they were “a foreign language holiday”
- Christmas “cancelled” at two city schools, Nansen and Oldknow
- The removal of sex education and discussions around sexual orientation from lessons at Park View Educational Trust schools
- On lesson worksheets at Park View, it was written that the Angel Gabriel would condemn women who refused to have sex with her husbands to an eternity of hell
- Staff also claimed creationism was taught as fact in science lessons and in assemblies at Park View
- Women in Park View Educational Trust schools said they saw no point in applying for leadership posts or promotion because they knew they would not be appointed
- Parents were contacted if girls at Park View were seen speaking to a boy
- At Golden Hillock, the inquiry was told that boys and girls sat separately for assemblies. Staff stated that senior leaders checked classrooms and removed Islamic display materials before the Department for Education visited
- Park View staff used a WhatsApp social media discussion group to discuss school policies. Razwan Faraz, the vice-principal at Nansen, posted a link to a news article about gay marriage, saying: “These animals are going out full force. As teachers we must be aware and counter their satanic ways”
