A council’s failure to respond to a damning report on the Trojan Horse scandal has been labelled “astonishing” by the head of Ofsted. Sir Michael Wilshaw called for “greater urgency” from Birmingham City Council and the Department for Education (DfE). … Continue reading
The general secretary of teaching union NASUWT has claimed there has been no radicalisation or religious extremism in Birmingham’s Trojan Horse schools. Chris Keates, general secretary of the Rednal-based union, has dismissed the findings of two independent reports and has … Continue reading
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
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
“Want to wear the niqab? Prefer not to shake hands with the opposite sex? Then get out of our ‘tolerant’ Christian country” A Tory MP has threatened to pour petrol on the glowing embers of the Birmingham schools ‘Trojan Horse’ row … Continue reading
Robin Richardson argues that the report by Peter Clarke into the ‘Trojan Horse’ affair, embraced by the new education secretary, is in fact a grave disservice. Institute of Race Relations, 31 July 2014
Letter in today’s Guardian: The new secretary of state for education, Nicky Morgan, makes various pledges following the “Trojan horse” reports on Birmingham schools. Several of her pledges are valuable. The basis for them, however, is unsound. Peter Clarke’s report … 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
A new study into the effects of the “Trojan horse” scandal in Birmingham finds 90 per cent of the city’s Muslims feel community cohesion has been damaged by the way the affair was handled. It began with an anonymous letter … Continue reading
The Muslim Council of Britain has warned education authorities “not to be sidetracked by culture wars initiated by divisive commentators”, as it rejected many of the findings of a government-commissioned report that found a co-ordinated effort by extreme Muslims to … Continue reading