Operation Trojan Horse

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55palfers

5,892 posts

163 months

Tuesday 2nd December 2014
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SR7492 said:
A bit misleading if you read the article.

£1m wasn't spent on the school, this is the cost of the school in Pakistan - how much of the UK schools funds towards this school in Pakistan is not known (could be nothing, could be thousands)

To be honest, I'd be more worried about the below:

'14 members of staff were without contracts, seven were still working there even though their contracts had expired and 29 had not had Criminal Record Bureau checks'
The school was / is £900,000 adrift on its accounts


carinaman

21,214 posts

171 months

Wednesday 1st April 2015
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Gove and May's SPAD Fiona Cunningham were bickering over this issue. Gove has now done an article for The Spectator about Christians being looked down upon and 'Sky Pixies'. I've yet to read it so don't know if the article is a vote chasing piece.

BlackLabel

13,251 posts

122 months

Thursday 2nd April 2015
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carinaman said:
Gove and May's SPAD Fiona Cunningham were bickering over this issue. Gove has now done an article for The Spectator about Christians being looked down upon and 'Sky Pixies'. I've yet to read it so don't know if the article is a vote chasing piece.
Can't find it on the Spectator website (assume it goes up tomorrow) but the Telegraph has some excerpts. It's all very bizarre.

Telegraph said:
Christians in Britain are being cowed into hiding their faith for fear of being viewed as a “bigots” and “accessories to child abuse” or simply fools obsessed with “genuflection before a sky pixie”, according to Michael Gove.

The Coalition Chief Whip said such is the antipathy to religion that prayer is now viewed with greater suspicion than smoking crack while those who publicly profess faith are assumed to believe in “bronze age absurdities”.
Telegraph said:
In what could be one of the most frank admissions ever made by a politician during an election campaign, Mr Gove conceded: “I am selfish, lazy, greedy, hypocritical, confused, self-deceiving, impatient and weak.

“And that’s just on a good day.
Telegraph said:
He went on: “To call yourself a Christian in contemporary Britain is to invite pity, condescension or cool dismissal.

“In a culture that prizes sophistication, non-judgmentalism, irony and detachment, it is to declare yourself intolerant, naive, superstitious and backward.”

He added: “If we’re Roman Catholic we’re accessories to child abuse, if we’re Anglo-Catholics we’re homophobic bigots curiously attached to velvet and lace, if we’re liberal Anglicans we’re pointless hand-wringing conscience-hawkers, and if we’re evangelicals we’re creepy obsessives who are uncomfortable with anyone enjoying anything more louche than a slice of Battenberg.
Full article


Pesty

42,655 posts

255 months

Thursday 2nd April 2015
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wow.

is he having some kind of breakdown?

Cupramax

10,469 posts

251 months

Thursday 2nd April 2015
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Pesty said:
wow.

is he having some kind of epiphany!
More like biggrin

Pesty

42,655 posts

255 months

Thursday 2nd April 2015
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epiphany, epiphany they've all got it in for me?

carinaman

21,214 posts

171 months

Thursday 2nd April 2015
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His wife was on This Week about a month ago about her sniping newspaper column and ribbing Miliband over his two kitchens. I wonder if she wrote it?

It's Easter. Didn't wavy Dave do much the same last year, stating 'We have a Christian heritage'? Then when some Christian clergy wanted to visit his constituency office to discuss foodbanks weren't they turned away by the police?

It's Easter. There's an election in just over a month.

I mentioned there being a fifth column of NeoCon Christians within the Tory party in the PCC thread after dudleybloke's post about PCC Adam Simmonds brought him to my attention.

hidetheelephants

23,739 posts

192 months

Thursday 2nd April 2015
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He's right though; in the UK politicians publicly declaring their religious beliefs(if not Muslimbiggrin) are viewed with the same suspicion as politicians who do not declare in the US. Tony Blair would be a good example of how not to do it.

Asterix

24,438 posts

227 months

Thursday 2nd April 2015
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hidetheelephants said:
He's right though; in the UK politicians publicly declaring their religious beliefs(if not Muslimbiggrin) are viewed with the same suspicion as politicians who do not declare in the US. Tony Blair would be a good example of how not to do it.
Tony Blair is an example of how to not do a lot of things. Breathing for starters.

spadriver

1,488 posts

170 months

Thursday 2nd April 2015
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What a pissboiler of a thread! I notice the usual appeasement group are nowhere to be seen! Its all so typical of the nationality involved, looking out /lying to cover thier backs.! Bit harsh? Take Rotherham as an example of the depths these people will sink too.
Oh I hope that Labour get in in May, they will sort it all out.
The UKoP is completely and utterly fked.The message You are guests in this country and you HAVE to respect it, needs to be said loud and clear.Otherwise the streets will become open sewers as they are in thier home country.

V8 Fettler

7,019 posts

131 months

Thursday 2nd April 2015
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Has Gove used the phrase "genuflection before the sky pixies"? There is hope for him!

carinaman

21,214 posts

171 months

Thursday 2nd April 2015
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Thanks BlackLabel. Perhaps I should have started another thread on it, mentioning the 'Show Up' campaign? PCC Adam Simmonds, Theresa May saying how important 'faith' is to her on Desert Island Discs....

Mr_B

10,480 posts

242 months

Saturday 4th April 2015
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I see Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on QT the other night saying religious schools should all be banned. Nearly fell out my chair at the shock of agreeing with her.
In other news, it was nice to hear the Muslim Council of Britain declare all the findings of the report as just 'conservative Islam' .

Pesty

42,655 posts

255 months

Saturday 4th April 2015
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Mr_B said:
I see Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on QT the other night saying religious schools should all be banned. Nearly fell out my chair at the shock of agreeing with her.
In other news, it was nice to hear the Muslim Council of Britain declare all the findings of the report as just 'conservative Islam' .
The big question is why does that racist get paid for appearing in the bbc.

" I don't like white men, I want them to be a lost species in a hundred years"

Would anybody get work for the bbc is they said i don't like black men and want them to die out?

As for the Muslim council comments

That's exactly what the people of Derby said. If you recall the issues there of teachers being made to cover up, none muslims being bullied, girls at the back. When local to news interview Derby locals every single one of them said Whats the problem? That's how it should be.





Edited by Pesty on Saturday 4th April 10:41

BlackLabel

13,251 posts

122 months

Thursday 15th October 2015
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Teachers encouraging marital rape.

"Trojan horse teachers 'gave pupils handout saying wives cannot refuse sex'

Disciplinary hearing told that three staff in one of Birmingham schools allegedly infiltrated by religious extremists handed document to male students"

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/14/t...

dudleybloke

19,717 posts

185 months

Thursday 15th October 2015
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Any news on the missing million or so that got diverted to Pakistan?
Surely it must be a criminal offence of some magnitude.

BlackLabel

13,251 posts

122 months

Monday 12th December 2016
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Birmingham risks a repeat of the Trojan Horse scandal because of its “awful schools”, according to Ofsted boss Sir Michael Wilshaw. In his last interview before stepping down as chief inspector of schools, he also lambasted the city’s “appalling children’s services” and said Birmingham had been his biggest worry during his five years in the role.

article said:
But Sir Michael told the Sunday Times that the authority was “the equivalent of the 19th century rotten borough”.

He went on: “If the government does not act in Birmingham in terms of corporate governance, I am concerned we will see a return to Trojan Horse issues at some stage.

BlackLabel

13,251 posts

122 months

Monday 17th July 2017
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The Al-Hijrah School in Birmingham is in the news again.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mus...