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October 1, 2006

UK: Muslim Extremist Becomes Schools Inspector

The Daily Mail reports that Israr Khan, a Muslim mathematics teacher, has now been appointed as a school inspector. A Muslim as a schools inspector is hardly news, except Khan (pictured) is no ordinary Muslim teacher. A decade ago, while employed at Washwood School in Birmingham, he heckled the annual Christmas carol service, reducing children to tears.

Ofsted is the government body which oversees the maintaining of standards in education, with school visits, reports and collating data. The Muslim teacher who disrupted the carol concert with his tirades against Christianity is now head teacher at an Islamic school.

With a bit of research, the incident which took place in December 1996 describe in shocking detail an example of Muslim extremism in action, before Britain officially accepted that Muslim extremism existed. The Daily Telegraph of December 19, 1996 stated that Khan had disrupted the final rehearsals for the Christmas concert, to condemn the Christian references in the carols and songs.

Some pupils were reduced to tears, a few walked out and others chanted in support when Israr Khan interrupted the multi-racial choir to demand in the name of Allah: "Who Is Your God?"

Jim Collins, headmaster of Washwood Heath Secondary School in inner-city Birmingham, promised an internal inquiry yesterday. But one parent insisted that Mr Khan should not be allowed to resume teaching duties unless he apologised for "a display of religious intolerance".

Derek Rouse, 45, whose daughter Cassie, 15, was in the choir, said: "It is double standards. If it was a child who had come out and said something like this they would have been expelled." His wife, Sally, said: "My daughter came home in tears. It shows a disregard for other religions.

The outburst took place as the children, after singing traditional songs, were in the process of singing: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."

The Telegraph stated that Khan, then a father of two children, had once worked as a model (!!!). More accounts from the press of the time are preserved by the "British Muslims Monthly Survey" (BMMS) by the University of Birmingham's ArtsWeb. Press accounts are found in BMMS December 1996 Vol. IV, No. 12, p 2 and BMMS January 1997 Vol. V, No. 1, p 6.

The Black Country Evening Mail of 18 December, 1996 stated:

Birmingham Provost, Very Rev Peter Berry, said: "I would have thought that the Muslim teacher would have understood that the children were simply sharing in our Christian culture, not turning their backs on their own. I suspect that what's happened is that this teacher wasn't prepared enough to accept the sound of young Muslims singing Christian hymns. There clearly hadn't been a debate at the school. The Muslims should have been told that they were simply sharing a Christian festival, not being asked to proclaim Jesus as their God. This is a tremendously sensitive issue and I’m sorry this outburst took place. With the right preparation, it wouldn't have happened."

According to the Times Educational Supplement, December 27, 1996: Ibrahim Hewitt, of the Association of Muslim Schools, commented: "Mr Khan is right in one sense, but the way he went about making his point was unwise. If parents are happy with what's going on, you have to accept that. But from a religious point of view, he was correct". Ibrahim Hewitt is himself no moderate - he wants Holocaust Memorial Day banned and is a leading player in Interpal, a charity which was recently exposed by the BBC as a financier of terror group Hamas.

The Birmingham Post, 23 December 1996, stated: Peter Brown, head of performing arts at Washwood School, denied that any pupils had been forced to take part, and explained that letters with reply slips had been sent out to all parents in advance, giving the option of non-participation in the concert. There was an Urdu translation on the back of the letter. After Mr Khan's interruption of the rehearsal, Mr Brown had explained that if any pupils did not wish to take part, for whatever reason, they had the right to opt out. Five decided not to participate, and the concert went ahead with over 160 taking part, in front of an audience of 250 people. Mr Brown said that he would have been happy to have changed the contents of the concert had he been approached by Mr Khan or any other Muslim teacher or pupil in advance.

The Birmingham Post, January 8, 1997 reported that:Mr Khan also returned to school at the beginning of term. The headteacher, Jim Collins, said: "The matter is still under investigation and will be dealt with according to the school's grievance and disciplinary procedure."

What is interesting is the way that an article in the Muslim News stated that reporting of the case demonstrated that "features of Islamophobia are present in reporting in the British press."

It is further interesting to note that one the pupils at the time was Rashid Rauf, according to the Mirror of August 15 this year. Rauf was one of the main suspects in the terror plot which aimed to detonate bombs on board planes bound for the United States.

A teacher said in August: "I'm not at all surprised that someone from the school has been implicated. There were some very influential radical elements there. Like all schools, there were some pupils there who were not too bright. They were gullible and very easily led. They were in awe of staff and pupils who they saw as superiors."

After the carol singing incident, Israr Khan did not apologise, nor did he resign. A year or so after the incident, he left Washwood School, telling staff he was going to set up an Islamic school. He did so, setting up the Islamic Hamd House Preparatory School in Small Heath, Birmingham. Earlier this year he became a governor of Anderton Park Primary School in Sparkbrook.

The Daily Mail quotes a teacher who was at the school when Khan was there. The teacher said of his appointment as a schools inspector: "Given the man's history, it's absolutely astonishing. It's just the cheek of the man that he's been able to reach that position. He always was an extremely clever man.'

"He gave me many insights into the Islamic cause and their hatred of the US and the Western World. He had a big support base among some of the Muslim parents. But there were some very influential, radical elements at Washwood Heath at that time and Israr Khan was very close to all that."

This is the state of Britain today. If a Christian teacher objected to a school function which celebrated aspects of Islamic faith, he would be hounded from his job and probably prosecuted. But an extremist Muslim who supports segregation and attacks Christian values receives no discipline and makes his way up the ranks.

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Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at October 1, 2006 11:02 AM

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