Today’s Sunday Times features an article entitled “‘Trojan Horse 2’ in London” which attempts to extend the Birmingham “Trojan Horse” witch-hunt to Tower Hamlets, where “Islamic fundamentalists” are supposedly engaged in a takeover of the borough’s schools. No actual evidence is offered … Continue reading
New evidence raises doubts about extremist plot to take over school By Dominic Kennedy, Greg Hurst and Ruth Gledhill A letter at the centre of an alleged jihadist plot to take over schools contains errors that suggest it is a … Continue reading
For anyone interested in the Islamophobic mind-set that inspired the “Trojan Horse” hysteria about an “Islamist takeover” of Birmingham schools, today’s Sunday Times is worth reading. It features a frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Islamist rant by one Jamie Martin, who worked as a special … Continue reading
Education bosses have played down claims that Bradford schools are to be the focus of new targeted inspections in the wake of the Trojan Horse row. There are reports that Whitehall officials are planning to carry out snap inspections at … Continue reading
More than 60 teachers in Newham have signed an open letter to Michael Gove, saying the Trojan Horse affair has increased Islamophobia in the borough. The letter, written by award-winning poet Michael Rosen and author Alan Gibbons, was also signed … Continue reading
The true “black flag of Islam” is not the banner that Isis would raise over Buckingham Palace but the cloth shrouding women — the first edict of any Islamist revolution…. The veil is not only radicalising women but their brothers … Continue reading
The Guardian has published two important statements on the witch-hunt against Birmingham schools launched by education secretary Michael Gove and Ofsted on the basis of the transparently fraudulent “Trojan horse” letter. The first explains the basis on which the Putting Birmingham School Kids First … Continue reading
We Need Clarity and Consistency in our Education Standards: British Muslims Respond to the Ofsted Reports of Schools in Birmingham The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) today noted its serious concern at the conduct and outcome of the Ofsted investigation … Continue reading
The Sunday Times – the newspaper responsible for presenting the transparently forged “Trojan horse” letter as genuine – has published an article by its political editor Tim Shipman based on a leaked report by the Education Funding Agency on the Oldknow … Continue reading
The chief inspector of schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw, is to censure half a dozen schools in Birmingham for failing to prepare pupils “for life in modern Britain”, when Ofsted publishes the results of its investigations into the Trojan Horse affair, … Continue reading