{"id":3909,"date":"2014-04-16T06:46:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T06:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/?p=3909"},"modified":"2014-04-15T16:54:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T16:54:12","slug":"islamic-take-over-of-uk-schools-being-investigated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2014\/04\/16\/islamic-take-over-of-uk-schools-being-investigated\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic take-over of UK schools being investigated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government are continuing to look into the Islamification of certain schools in the Birmingham area as I <a title=\"\u2018Islamic takeover plot\u2019 in Birmingham schools investigated\" href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2014\/03\/12\/islamic-takeover-plot-in-birmingham-schools-investigated\/\">reported <\/a>(from the BBC) before. Here, the anti-terrorism unit has got involved. This is close to my teaching and secular heart (from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-birmingham-27031941\">BBC again<\/a>):<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trojan Horse probe headed by ex-Met chief Peter Clarke<\/h3>\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A former counter-terrorism unit head has been picked to oversee an inquiry into 25 schools in Birmingham over allegations of a hard-line Islamist takeover plot.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Park View School\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/73778000\/jpg\/_73778131_pvs243.jpg\" width=\"374\" height=\"211\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Peter Clarke, the ex-head of the Metropolitan Police unit, has been appointed by the Department for Education (DfE) to review the evidence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Birmingham City Council said it had more than 200 reports over its inquiry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anonymous claims were made in a letter sent to local authorities last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The so-called &#8220;Operation Trojan Horse&#8221; letter was apparently written by someone in Birmingham to a contact in Bradford.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Explaining the appointment of Mr Clarke as education commissioner, Education Secretary Michael Gove said: &#8220;I have already asked Ofsted to inspect a number of schools of concern and these investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;But wider, more comprehensive action is needed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;These allegations need either to be substantiated and firm action taken, or to be shown to be baseless.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We cannot allow uncertainty for parents or pupils to persist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The schools being looked at include primaries, secondaries and academies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DfE said Mr Clarke would work closely with the city council, which has appointed former head teacher Ian Kershaw as its chief advisor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RELATED POSTS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"\u2018Islamic takeover plot\u2019 in Birmingham schools investigated\" href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2014\/03\/12\/islamic-takeover-plot-in-birmingham-schools-investigated\/\">\u2018Islamic takeover plot\u2019 in Birmingham schools investigated<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Education and religion: Invention or not, tactics in alleged Birmingham school plot are familiar\" href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2014\/03\/15\/education-and-religion-invention-or-not-tactics-in-alleged-birmingham-school-plot-are-familiar\/\">Education and religion: Invention or not, tactics in alleged Birmingham school plot are familiar<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Scaramanga takes on Accelerated Christian Education. And wins.\" href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2014\/02\/19\/scaramanga-takes-on-accelerated-christian-education-and-wins\/\">Scaramanga takes on Accelerated Christian Education. And wins.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government are continuing to look into the Islamification of certain schools in the Birmingham area as I reported (from the BBC) before. Here, the anti-terrorism unit has got involved. This is close to my teaching and secular heart (from the BBC again):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,1054,251,1072],"tags":[1022,366,288,1753,638],"class_list":["post-3909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-featured","category-islam","category-secularism-2","tag-academies","tag-education-2","tag-free-schools","tag-islam","tag-secularism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3910,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions\/3910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}