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February 5, 2007

UK: Islamist School Still Teaching Hate

In June last year we mentioned the King Fahd Academy, in Acton, West London where 750 children are taught. At that time, the Telegraph reported that the school's textbooks, which came from Saudi Arabia, referred to Christians as "swine" and called Jews "apes" and "pigs".

In Spring 2006, Freedom House had published a document, entitled Saudi Arabia's Curriculum of Intolerance, which examined in detail the content of Saudi school textbooks. In Saudi Arabia itself, these are used to indoctrinate 5 million children in 25,000 schools. They are also employed in hundreds of schools in other countries, including the King Fahd Academy in Acton.

It appears that these textbooks have not been removed from the King Fahd Academy. The Telegraph and the Sun report on an employment tribunal mounted against the King Fahd Academy by a former teacher, Colin Cook, a convert to Islam.

57-year old Mr Cook, a father of three, was dismissed from the school in December, accused of "gross misconduct" in relation to school examinations. Cook is appealing against the school's action, and his assessment of the school, presented to Watford Employment Tribunal, is not good.

He claims that few teachers at the establishment spoke English, and most of the classes were conducted in Arabic.. He said of the academy: "It is clearly racist and very divisive. I understand now why the pupils express anti-Western views at school. It is deeply immoral to put such ideas into the heads of young children."

The books inculcated the idea that Jews were "repugnant" and that Christianity and Judaism were "worthless". Mr Cook claims that children looked up to Osama bin Laden as a "hero". He claimed he had heard children saying that they wished to "kill Americans".

Mr Cook had taught at the King Fahd Academy for 19 years. He says he was dismissed from his 35,000 per annum post after he had reported pupils cheating on examinations to the examination monitoring board, Edexcel. He is claiming 100,000 compensation, for unfair dismissal, racial discrimination and victimization.

Dr Sumaya Alyusuf, the academy's new woman principal, said in January that the school had dropped the Saudi curriculum, and claimed that the school's decision to sack Mr Cook had been right.

Despite the public disclosure last year that the curriculum at the academy was pejorative to Christians and Jews, the government monitoring body Ofsted reported last year that the school offered a "balanced education".

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In another story, reported on Friday by the BBC, a temporary teacher, Andrew McLuskey, was sacked from his post as a temporary teacher at a school in SLough, west of London.

Mr McLuskey was at Bayliss Court Secondary School, giving a Religious Education. Students at the school are predominantly Muslim. In this class, Mr McLuskey claimed that most suicide bombers were Muslim.

With the exception of Tamil Tigers who pioneered suicide attacks, it is a truth that virtually all suicide bombers are Muslim. But such truths hurt the Muslim pupils' feelings. Mr McLuskey was sacked. He claimed later: "I think I should've been given the chance to respond to the allegations and not in effect be ejected from a job without the chance to defend myself."

The school's deputy headmaster, Ray HInds, who is black, said: "I don't think it's important what I think. It's what the pupils think that were in the classroom at the time. And they were very upset."

One wonders if education is really about teaching facts any more. It appears dogma and political correctness are valued above discussing realities of the world.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at February 5, 2007 10:12 PM

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