Assed Baig analyses the hysteria around the supposed “Trojan Horse” plot by Islamists to take over Birmingham schools. He points out that Michael Gove’s background of Islamophobia (he is the author of the scaremongering anti-Islam book Celsius 7/7 and a member of the right-wing think-tanks Policy Exchange and the Henry Jackson Society) renders the education secretary incapable of examining the issues in an objective fashion.

Anadolu Agency, 25 April 2014