SoRo: I'm reminded of this stark warning from Norwegian Imam Mullah Krekar in Dagbladet in 2006:
'We’re the ones who will change you. Just look at the development within Europe, where the number of Muslims is expanding like mosquitoes. Every Western woman in the EU is producing an average of 1.4 children. Every Muslim woman in the same countries is producing 3.5 children. Our way of thinking will prove more powerful than yours.'
Via The Daily Mail:
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Statistics from 2011 Census show more Muslim
children than Christian growing up in Birmingham
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Of 278,623 youngsters, 97,099 were registered
as Muslim compared with 93,828 as Christian
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A similar trend has emerged in the cities of
Bradford and Leicester
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Experts said more must be done to ensure that
society does not become polarised along religious lines
There are more Muslim
children than Christian growing up in Birmingham, figures show.
The latest statistics,
extracted from the 2011 Census, give an insight into the fast pace of
demographic change across Britain.
They pinpoint several parts
of the country where traditional religious beliefs are being eclipsed for the
first time.
In England’s second city of
Birmingham, of 278,623 youngsters, 97,099 were registered as Muslim compared
with 93,828 as Christian. The rest were of other faiths such as Hindu or
Jewish, or none.
A similar trend has emerged
in the cities of Bradford and Leicester, the towns of Luton, in Bedfordshire,
and Slough in Berkshire, as well as the London boroughs Newham, Redbridge and
Tower Hamlets, where nearly two-thirds of children are Islamic.
Last night experts said
more must be done to ensure that society does not become polarised along
religious lines.
Professor Ted Cantle, of
the ICoCo Foundation, which promotes community cohesion, said: ‘What we are
seeing are several trends running together. There is a long-term decline in
support for the established religions, notably Christianity; continuing
immigration from the Asian sub-continent; and higher fertility among the Muslim
population, which has a considerably lower age profile.
‘There is also deepening
segregation exacerbated by the loss of white population from cities and more
intensive concentration of black and minority ethnic groups as a result of
replacement.
‘This is the real problem,
as residential segregation is generally compounded by school and social
segregation.
‘Nothing surprises me about
the pace of demographic change. What does surprise me is that the Government
has no policy to combat segregation because it inevitably reduces understanding
and tolerance on both sides of the divide.’
The figures show that
Christianity is still the dominant religion in every local authority area in
England and Wales, even in the most culturally diverse towns and cities.
Of the 45.5million
participants, 27.9million subscribed to Christianity, compared with 1.8million
Muslims, the second largest grouping.
However, among dependent
children – defined as those aged up to 15, or between 16 and 18 and in
education and still living at home – the gap is narrower.
Of 12.1million youngsters,
6.1million were Christian and 1million were Muslim. And in some places, the
balance has now tipped towards Islam.
In Bradford, 52,135
children are Muslims (45 per cent) next to 47,144 Christians; in Leicester the
figures are 22,693 and 18,190 respectively.
The widest gap is in Tower
Hamlets where 62 per cent of children are Islamic, outnumbering Christians by
34,597 to 8,995.
Sughra Ahmed, president of
the Islamic Society of Britain, said: ‘Britain’s Muslims make up just 5 per
cent of the population but have a younger demographic profile than other
faiths, as these figures show. It matters to us all that this next generation
of young British Muslims develops a clear and confident sense of their British
identity alongside their Muslim faith. It’s important that schools teach all of
our children the values of respect and tolerance.
‘Britain is doing better at
this than many of our neighbours. A major new study this week showed that most
people think the children of immigrants are integrating well.
‘This is one of the most
tolerant countries in the world. It will continue to be so, provided we all
understand how that depends on respect for the beliefs of others too.’
The Damning
Verdict On Trojan Horse Schools: Shocking Ofsted Report Reveals Culture Of
Fear, Segregated Boys And Girls Even Christmas Banned At Schools Islamists
Plotted To Control
- Sir Michael Walshaw said a narrow faith-based ideology' was imposed
- Boys at one school were forced to change in store cupboards for modesty
- One primary spent £32,000 on a five-star trip to Saudi Arabia for Muslim pupils only
- Children were also told that Western women are 'white prostitutes'
- Governors and senior staff at schools have called the scandal a 'witch-hunt'
- Michael Gove has pledged that British values will be taught in all schools
By Laura Clark and Lucy Osborne
A campaign by hardline
Islamists to take control of state schools was laid bare yesterday.
Revealing the shocking
extent to which strict Muslim practices are being imposed on pupils and
teachers alike, the chief inspector of schools said the plotters used ‘fear and
intimidation’ against their opponents.
Sir Michael Wilshaw said
the aim of the ‘Trojan Horse’ campaign was to impose a ‘narrow faith-based
ideology’ on schools in Birmingham.
Shocking:
The damning report by Sir Michael Wilshaw heavily condemned the practices of
senior staff, including Monzoor Hussain, assistant headteacher at Park View
School, who ran assemblies on Ramadan
Music was banned at one primary, raffles and tombolas were axed
from fetes for being unIslamic and boys were forced to change for PE in a store
cupboard to preserve their modesty.
One primary spent £32,000 on a five-star trip to Saudi Arabia from
which non-Muslim pupils were barred.
Children as young as six at the same school were told that Western
women were ‘white prostitutes’.
Launching long-awaited reports on 21 schools, Sir Michael said the
widespread conspiracy had involved fundamentalists infiltrating governing
bodies.
Centre
of scandal: Park View School was downgraded from 'outstanding' to 'inadequate'
Governors had ‘exerted
inappropriate influence’ on schools leading to enforced segregation of boys and
girls in some classes and a narrowing of the curriculum.
The Ofsted reports – and a
separate set of Department for Education investigations – make many other
revelations including that teachers attempted to vet the script of a nativity
play.
The reports were issued as:
- Education Secretary Michael Gove pledged to ensure British values are actively promoted in all schools;
- Governors and heads condemned in the reports face being stripped of their roles;
- Fresh claims surfaced that the infiltration of schools is spreading to other regions;
- Schools criticised in the reports threatened legal action, claiming the verdicts were politically motivated;
Involved:
The Golden Hillock School and Nansen Primary School were both branded
'inadequate' as a result of the inspections
Change
needed: Governors at Satley School were accused of 'refusing to accept that the
school is in a state of crisis' while governors at Oldknow Academy used the
school's budget to subsidise a trip to Saudi Arabia
Sir Michael revealed that
Mr Gove had blocked his request for the right to carry out snap inspection.
Ofsted’s three-month
inquiry resulted in five schools being put into special measures, with a sixth
having its ‘failing’ verdict reaffirmed.
Eleven other schools were
found to ‘require improvement’ while one was rated good and a further three
outstanding.
In an advice note to Mr
Gove, Sir Michael warned that in some schools, heads had been forced out by
bullying governors.
Opposed:
Tahir Alam - alleged ring-leader in the so-called plot to enforce a hardline
agenda at the schools - has described the allegations as 'a witch-hunt'
The practices of Shahid
Akmal, the Chairman of governors at Nansen, and Waseem Yaqub, Chair of
Governors at the Al-Hijrah school, have also been questioned by the
report.
One head was so worried
about the consequences of whistle-blowing he or she insisted on meeting
inspectors in a supermarket car park.
‘Some headteachers reported
that there has been an organised campaign to target certain schools in
Birmingham in order to alter their character and ethos,’ Sir Michael said.
‘A culture of fear and
intimidation has developed in some of the schools since their previous
inspection.
‘Staff and some head
teachers variously described feeling “intimidated”, “undermined” or “bullied”
by governors, and sometimes by senior staff, into making changes they did not
support.’
Some governors were ‘trying
to impose and promote a narrow faith-based ideology in what are non-faith
schools’.
Sir Michael suggested the
governors were part of a network, noting that ‘some of these governors serve on
several schools’.
Headteachers had
‘identified governors who are highly influential across several of the schools
that were inspected’. Claims of a co-ordinated campaign initially surfaced in
the letter that triggered the Ofsted and Government investigations, which
purported to describe a ‘Trojan Horse’ operation to infiltrate governing bodies
and push through a strict Islamic agenda.
Sir Michael last night
piled further pressure on Mr Gove over his handling of the extremism threat
with the disclosure that he asked for the ability to carry out snap inspections
two years ago but was blocked by the Education Secretary.
The claim, in a BBC
Newsnight interview, came hours after Mr Gove announced a wide-ranging inquiry
into the way his department dealt with warnings of extremist influence on schools
in a bid to calm a damaging Cabinet row over the issue.
Russell Hobby, of teaching
union NAHT, said: ‘We should take comfort in the willingness of staff to resist
intimidation and put their careers on the line to protect their students.
‘The reports reveal
weaknesses in oversight, governance and support. They show that staff with
concerns did not know where to turn.’
It's a witch-hunt, say school chiefs
Governors at three schools
rated inadequate have hit back at Ofsted’s findings, claiming they were a
product of an ‘Islamophobic witch-hunt’.
Speaking on behalf of Park
View Trust, vice-chairman David Hughes said that its three schools – Park View
Academy, Golden Hillock and Nansen Primary – were wrongly rated inadequate and
had no links to extremism.
He said the schools
‘wholeheartedly’ rejected Ofsted’s findings and said they would launch a legal
challenge. Lee Donaghey, assistant principal at Park View, insisted the schools
were free from strict Islamic practices.
David Hughes, the vice chair of Park View Education Trust at the centre of the scandal furiously rejected Ofsted's findings and vowed to fight the decision to put his schools in special measures
‘It is simply not true that
the school does not do enough to protect our pupils from the risks of
extremism,’ he said.
Under
pressure: Razwan Faraz the deputy head at Nansen
‘This
is a normal state school like thousands of others across Britain, 98 per cent
of our pupils just happen to be Muslims – British Muslims.’
In a letter to Ofsted chief
Sir Michael Wilshaw, the trust said criticism of Park View was ‘laced with
Islamophobic sentiment’ and asked for a re-inspection of the schools ‘under a
climate that is far removed from the fallacious insinuations of radical and
extremist plots that have provided the context for the current set of
inspections’.
Trust chairman Tahir Alam –
alleged ring-leader in the so-called plot to enforce a hardline agenda at the
schools – has described the allegations as ‘a witch-hunt’.
But a group of female
pupils at Park View backed Ofsted’s findings, saying yesterday: ‘Our school
deserves this... for the things that it has done.
‘Our school is too extreme
but not in a terrorist way. They are strict with us and they use religion as an
excuse. Basically they don’t let boys and girls mix.
‘If they see you talking to
a boy they will call your parents or come to your house, which they did to a
lot of people.’
The teenage girls, who
didn’t want to be identified, told Sky News that pupils were afraid to speak
out about the school.
Park
View school is at the centre of allegations that hardline Islamic teaching was
being introduced. In a 2008 picture boys and girls are clearly segregated
during an assembly
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