Teaching assistant sacked after objecting to showing graphic 9/11 footage to students taking school to tribunal
Have you heard about the one where a (Muslim) teaching assistant was sacked after raising an objection toshowing special needs students a video from youtube of people jumping from buildings on 9/11 - a video which was labeled as for adults only by Youtube’s filters?
I am not sure though whether it is a good idea for her to reject the settlement as UK law is often something that uses money to settle disagreements.
If the tribunal rules in her favour (saying that the school was at fault) but gives an award less than what they offered (without admitting fault or apologising), she may be in financial trouble.
When "Islamic Extremists" don't know how to read the Qur'an or pray...
Boko Haram leader "can't read Qur'an, nor perform Islamic prayers"
Tower Hamlets schoolgirl removed from family over "radicalisation"
There have been a few articles recently about a judge's ruling about the radicalisation of a 16 year old girl from Tower Hamlets by her family.
The articles suggest that material that she was exposed to included beheadings, and she had already attempted to go to Syria to become.
The Judge found the parents to be decietful and considered the radicalisation to be as bad as "sex abuse".
[Let's Talk Show] Extremism & Terrorism
A discussion on extremism, its definitions, extremist groups and current events in the UK and in the middle east.
Guests: Dr Jahangir & Brother Naseer Hafizi
Broadcast Date: 28 June 2015
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
Theresa May’s Humiliating Radio 4 Interview on ‘Extremism’
[soundcloud:https://soundcloud.com/user620279480/theresa-mays-humiliating-interview]
Above is an embarrassing interview Theresa May gave this morning on BBC Radio 4, about Prime Minister David Cameron’s new measures to counter what he calls “Extremism”, by giving more powers to the state to restrict the movement and speech of those who express opinions that are legal yet considered ‘radical’.
Theresa becomes visibly disturbed and discomforted when the interviewer, John Humphrys, poses the most elementary challenge: what does she mean by ‘extremists’?
She is unable to give a cogent response and instead recites the usual rhetoric about ‘British values’ and ‘tolerance’, in the light of the fear-stoking and empirically-discredited [1] “conveyor-belt theory” to terrorism, which the interviewer quickly dismisses as ‘woolly’. He highlights that in fact their measures seem to be a flagrant and arbitrary restriction on the free speech of those whose ideas they simply do not like (which they are unable to otherwise refute or challenge).
When backed into a corner she even mentions the Birmingham “Trojan Horse” fiasco, which has been proven to be a hoax by the recent Education select committee’s findings [2]. Perhaps more worryingly is her concern regarding the Trojan Hoax fiasco: “People were concerned at their attempts to change our minds.”
This is clearly worrying for many…
The full interview can be seen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02r8z20
Source: Islam21c.com
Notes:
[1] http://www.islam21c.com/politics/new-study-extremism-does-not-cause-ter…
[2] http://www.islam21c.com/politics/goves-trojan-horse-hoax-finally-expose…
Muslim schools/institutions is not where to look for extremism
It has now been a while that the politicised OFSTED has been looking to combat "Islamic extremism" in schools etc. They started off being critical of schools with 90+% muslim students not offering a "christian-style prayer" in the morning, and ended up alleging that a Christian church of England school was putting its students at risk of Islamic Extremism.
An issue that is often ignored is where does this extremism come from, where does it gain strength and who does it effect.
Many non Muslims consider extermism to be when Muslims go too deep into their religion. Its an understandable view for non Muslims because non Islamic books of scripture have been corrupted and there are extreme things in them.
But Islam is different.
How should Muslims respond when Islam is insulted?
Irfan Makki
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Crimes In The Name Of God
My views on the Woolwich atrocity are exactly the same as the vast majority of the UK population - they are that of utter shock and disgust. The thought that in this day and age people are STILL carrying out these crimes in the name of religion and their “God” is just beyond belief and to this day I still refuse to believe that any religion would sanction this.
I personally believe that this is used as an excuse in today’s society and a way of trying to justify what has been done and what people plan to do. I challenge anyone to read any religious scriptures and highlight where in those pages, it tells you to carry out these crimes in the name of God.
Editorial: What Have We Learnt From Woolwich?
Just when you thought terror and extremism in the name of religion in Britain had finally died down, it reared its ugly head in Woolwich, which shocked and disgusted the nation. Two crackpots committing a horrific murder happened to be Muslims and apparently did this barbaric act in the name of Islam.
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