School branded as being Islamist based in Birmingham-UK

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Bori85
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School branded as being Islamist based in Birmingham-UK

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Unread post by Bori85 » Tue Jun 10, 2014 7:07 am

This school in Birmingham has come under scrutiny from the Education Dept of UK for having an Islamic agenda, and most probably the verdict is going to be shutting down this school. The Education Ministry wants "British Values" to be taught in all schools in Britain.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bi ... m-27775709

ghulam muhammed
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Re: School branded as being Islamist based in Birmingham-UK

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Unread post by ghulam muhammed » Mon Jun 23, 2014 5:38 pm

Reading, Writing and Allegations: Muslim School at Center of Debate

Park View, a public high school in a heavily Muslim part of Birmingham that was once judged one of the worst in Britain, now sends nearly eight out of 10 of its students into higher education. It is many times oversubscribed, and as recently as March, inspectors told the school it had again received top marks

But 10 days later, as headlines about the takeover plot of Birmingham schools spread, the inspectors were back again. This time, they came to a very different conclusion: The school was “inadequate,” they wrote in a report published this month. The children there were not prepared for life in multicultural Britain and were not protected from “extremism,” the report stated.

An anonymous letter containing the accusations is now widely believed to be a fake, and most of the allegations of a takeover plot that followed in the news media — forced prayers, gender-segregated classes and militant clerics preaching at school assemblies — have largely failed to stand up to scrutiny.

Hate crimes against Muslims have been rising. Last week, a Saudi researcher and language student was stabbed to death in a park in Colchester, north of London, with the police saying she may have been attacked because she wore traditional Islamic garb.

There was, the inspectors concluded, “a culture of fear and intimidation” in the schools.

But in Birmingham, where more than one in five inhabitants are Muslim, many residents said they are the ones being intimidated. They pointed to the response of the education secretary, Michael Gove, who said he wanted to “drain the swamp” of extremism and appointed a former counterterrorism chief to investigate. They noted that Prime Minister David Cameron has instructed all schools to start teaching “British values” in the fall. The message to the community is clear, said Hardeep Saini, executive principal of Park View: “Conservative Muslims are extremists, and their schools are un-British.”

When it comes to Muslims, said Chris Allen of Birmingham University, open suspicion now passes the test of respectability.

“It has become quite acceptable to blur the line between devout Muslims and extremists, and from there it’s only a short mental jump to militancy,” said Mr. Allen, author of “Islamophobia,” a book about anti-Muslim sentiment in Britain.

Untangling religiousness from extremism has proved especially tricky in a country that, unlike the United States, has never drawn a clear line between the state and religion: The queen is both head of state and head of the Anglican Church. Public schools, while nondenominational, traditionally offer the opportunity for collective Christian worship.

“Is there a plot?” Mr. Hussain asked. “Yes, the plot has always been to reverse the underperformance of Muslim children in this country and allow them to be both: Muslim and British.”

There is considerable evidence of success on both counts. On one recent afternoon, two girls were simulating a sword fight with plastic rulers, reciting Shakespeare in an English lesson on the first floor. Next door, classwork on Jewish, Christian and Muslim birthing ceremonies decorated the back wall.

In a senior-year advanced physics class down the hall, 22 out of the 29 students were girls. Zainab Din, 15, recently won fourth place in a science competition at the University of Birmingham. She wants to study physics or English. On her lapel is a pin that says “entrepreneur” because she has been selling poppies to commemorate World War I in a school pop-up shop.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/23/world ... il0=y&_r=0