Birmingham City Council report Operation Trojan Horse

1 birmingham city council report

1.1 criticism of birmingham city council
1.2 extremism
1.3 criticism of report

birmingham city council report

the report commissioned birmingham city council , compiled former head teacher, ian kershaw, concluded school governors , teachers had tried promote , enforce radical islamic values , found evidence of extremism in 13 schools. said manipulative governors had been determined introduce unacceptable practices , deny students broad , balanced education. found evidence 5 steps destabilise school s leadership, outlined in original trojan horse letter, present in large number of schools considered part of investigation. said evidence pointed group of british male governors , teachers, predominantly of pakistani heritage .

the investigation, however, did not find evidence of conspiracy promote violent extremism or radicalisation values.

criticism of birmingham city council

mr kershaw stated council had been slow respond allegations in letter , said there culture within of not wanting address difficult issues , problems school governance risk of incurring accusations of racism or islamophobia. report said extremism went unchallenged council prioritised community cohesion on doing right .

extremism

the report found attempts made introduce sharia law in schools. there posters in schools warning children if didn t pray, go hell . girls taught not refuse sex husbands, , punished angels dusk dawn if did. teachers taught children @ park view academy muslim women must wear hijab , tie hair.

in incident referred counter-terrorism police, teacher told pupils @ golden hillock school not listen christians liars . teacher told children lucky muslims , not ignorant christians , jews.

at nansen school, islamic religious assemblies introduced , christmas , diwali celebrations cancelled. study of french replaced arabic. @ oldknow academy, children asked whether believed in christmas , encouraged chant no don t in response. pupils told @ assembly not send christmas cards , mary not mother of jesus.

kershaw revealed mps @ commons select committee on education in september 2014 @ 1 school “a film violent extremism” shown children.

criticism of report

russell hobby, general secretary of national association of head teachers said organisation not endorse report. said conclusions did not reflect full reality in schools, , discrepancies between , governmental report regrettable , unhelpful . said birmingham city council had limited process , terms of reference in way excludes critical evidence , had employed narrow definition of extremism , governmental report had reached different set of conclusions accessing different evidence base.