The minister for Hizb ut Tahrir

David Burns

"Inspectors gave the schools plenty of notice"

Ofsted Note
"From January 2008, we will be shortening the notice period for subject and aspect survey inspections to one week for secondary schools. One week is usually enough notice as most subjects will be taught somewhere in the school each day. Primary schools notice will remain at two weeks. This takes into account that some subjects may not be taught each week and allows for flexibility."

Need I say more?

M. Rowley

The sad truth is that this government has been cosying up to Islamic extremism for many years, and the example you cite is but one of many.

May I suggest that another area which would be ripe for your investigatory skills is the whole 'PREVENT' agenda, which has would you believe, police forces accommodating some pretty unpleasant bed-fellows in the belief that if you get alongside radical Muslims, then perhaps they just might not try to kill us.

Stuart Seacole Smith

Deary deary me. The usual Balls up. I really do despair a bit about where all this is going:
- failure by an unacceptably large portion of muslims to integrate both in the UK, and across Western Europe, causing misery for both the muslim population, and wider society as a whole
- muslim bodies actively campaigning against desperately needed progress towards improving their integration, and even cynically targetting the very children who will need to lead the way in normalising relations between the muslim minorities and broader society, if this is ever to be achieved.

And this situation being coupled to a government that fails to acknowledge or act to tackle this dangerous dichotomy.

Actually, if you were to take each point made by Farah Ahmed and vigorously pursue a precisely opposite strategy you might just start to get things going in the right direction.

Something's got to give. I believe the Swiss minaret hoo-ha is an indicator of the broader unease, and even anger, that is beginning to fester across Western Europe over muslim (lack of) integration. Western governments remain noticeably out-of-step with what seems to be the majority of their electorates.

So what's going to give? I for one, really don't know.

Merlyn

The cozying up of our Home Office, AND the Foreign office to Muslim preferences is only about oil.
We are bankrupt, and about to be more so as more money is drained from us one way or another.
It is time to find alternate modes of energy production, [ what about green algae?]....
this is not about global warming... its about finding respect for ourselves as well as the planet... it works both ways!

Robert Slack

Surely we should ban ALL religious indoctrination in all schools; young children cannot make their own choices. It is disgraceful, utterly reprehensible, that we do it. The examples quoted may be amongst the worst, and there is little doubt that some versions of Islam are abhorrent, but we should regard all indoctrination of children is unacceptable (in a free society).

The comments about fairy tales made me laugh.

elainepriscilla

We must do something about this urgently before it goes too far. Religion should be taught in the home not at school. I went to a school with mixed religions and they divided us up in to different faiths and this divded the children up as well not learning from each other how to live together in peace..
When will the government get this right before it is too late.

Gobic

Andrew Gilligan says that Ofsted found no evidence of extremist teaching because they didn't look for it, but since he maintains that there was, it is up to him to provide the evidence, which he has failed to do. Quoting people and publications is one thing, showing actual e

Gobic

Andrew Gilligan says that Ofsted found no evidence of extremist teaching because they didn't look for it, but since he maintains that there was, it is up to him to provide the evidence, which he has failed to do. Quoting people and publications is one thing, showing actual evidence is another. And Ofsted inspectors are not as naive as he would have us believe, despite what went wrong in Haringey.

JK

Isn't the British govt made up of a nasty racist segregationist bunch who refuse to integrate into the EU?