Fiyaz Mughal

The Batley protestors don’t represent me

(Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

The protestors outside Batley Grammar School could be heard shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ — God is great. It’s a term I often use when I need spiritual strength, a basic prayer. But this time, the prayer was being used as a war cry by those who seemed to think that re-affirming their Muslim identity would help them sack a teacher in a school.

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