Speaking at a seminar on the subject of segregation, Nick Johnson of the Commission for Racial Equality asked: “If a Muslim child is educated in a school where the vast majority of other children are also Muslim, how can we expect him to work, live and interact with people from other cultures when he leaves school? This is a ticking time-bomb waiting to explode.”
See also Daily Express, 27 April 2007
Which of course ignores the findings of a recent study by Dr Andrew Holden who stated: “The greater degree of racial tolerance in an overwhelmingly Asian/Muslim populated school again calls into question the common sense assumption that mixed schools represent the most tolerant environments.”