'Operation Trojan Horse' - jihadi plot to take over UK schools

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-26482599

An alleged plot to oust some Birmingham head teachers and make their schools adhere to more Islamic principles is being investigated, it has emerged.

A letter detailing the plan, known as "Operation Trojan Horse", claims responsibility for leadership changes at four schools.
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The letter, which purports to outline "Operation Trojan Horse", has subsequently been sent to at least another 12 schools in the city - all believed to be vulnerable to takeover.

It states that parents could be encouraged to turn against the leadership team if they are told the school is "corrupting their children with sex education, teaching about homosexuals, making their children pray Christian prayers and [carrying out] mixed swimming and sport".
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Sinister stuff (edit: if true)
 
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*Sigh* that didn't take long - a thread on a news story on the BBC News front page about possible jihadi threat to children's education in this country's inner city areas turns swiftly into "ban all religion, Christianity hate" thread. How predictably boring on this forum.
 
MrMoonX said:
There's more c of E and catholic schools than any others, if you wanted to go to a Jewish school for example you'd have to move house, it's a monopoly when most state schools are c of e, it's ridiculous in America it's illegal to teach prayer in any public school, we should have the same. I hated being forced to pray and sing in school
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Who as a kid liked anything to do with school? It's the Church of England and Catholic schools that the middle-class parents tend to want their kids to go to. What does that tell you? They don't get any extra funding over state comprehensives or academies or free schools.
 
badcompany said:
I believe that religion should be for over 18's only that means.
  • no religious schools
  • no under 18's in places of worship
  • no religion taught in school
  • religion in own home is permissible as it would be impossible to stop.

Kids are easily influenced and we should protect then from religious beliefs until they are old enough to make an informed decision for themselves on the matter. Also stops children from being mutilated in the name of religion.

I would guess that if this happened within 2 or 3 generations religion would all but disappear.
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Yes because church attendances are positively booming thanks to the indoctrination schemes run at faith schools aren't they?
 
It's interesting that so many people here think there's something sinister about CofE and Catholic schools, like because there are so many of them it's a deliberate programme to indoctrinate the nation's youth. However if you look back in history, the reason why there are so many Christian schools in this country are because back in the days when only rich kids when to school, it was the Churches that decided that all children should be educated - to learn the joys of reading, 'riting, and 'rithmatic. Thus they set up the first schools available to poor kids in Britain.

On the subject of indoctrination, if you look at the successful indoctrination programmes run by cults or political extremist organisations, they typically involve isolation, depravation (of food, sunlight, stimulation etc), abuse and impairment of autonomy. I don't think that is remotely similar to a 30 minute assembly with a "broadly Christian" moral theme.
 
School trips to Saudi Arabia (apparently cost the taxpayer £47 grand :eek: ) and of course only Muslim pupils were allowed to go.
 
Meridian said:
But only because it's Islam. If a Christian Faith School preached that women should stay at home, that evolution was a fiction, and took tax-payer's money to organise a trip to (say) Bethlehem but only allowed Christians to go, how many of the people currently bleating about this would be condemning it? I should point out that a number of them are already doing one and two on that list at least. I agree some posters would, but most would be studiously avoiding the subject. Any school based on Faith is a stupid idea, and some of us predicted this would happen when the whole idea was started. But to condemn only the Muslim idiocies and not the idiocies of other faiths is bigotry. I'm happy to accept that it's not racism. Except when it is.
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We've had faith schools in this country since erm, we've had schools in this country. Let's not delude ourselves that this is a problem with anything other than a large extremist element in British Muslim communities and a lack of oversight of schools that was introduced with the tearing up of the 1944 Butler Education Act and introduction of Academies and Free Schools.

There are no significant problems with our Church of England schools, or Roman Catholic schools, or Jewish schools, or Hindu schools, or Sikh schools.
 
Trojan Horse report finds 'aggressive Islamist ethos' in schools: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-28349706

The government's report was compiled by retired senior police officer Peter Clarke, the former head of the Met Police's counter-terrorism unit. It is due to be published next week.

It says he found evidence of "sustained and co-ordinated agenda to impose upon children in a number of Birmingham schools the segregationist attitudes and practices of a hardline and politicised strain of Sunni Islam".

He also found evidence of a "co-ordinated, deliberate and sustained action to introduce an intolerant and aggressive Islamist ethos into some schools in the city".
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