Teachers at a state-run school in England distributed Islamist material to students saying that a wife was not permitted to refuse sex to her husband, according to evidence presented to a disciplinary committee.
The allegations are part of a disciplinary investigation into the ‘Trojan Horse Plot’ which rocked the English education system last year. It emerged that a cadre of hardline Islamists had infiltrated several state run schools in Birmingham with the explicit intention of imposing an Islamist agenda onto pupils and teaching them hardline interpretations of Islam.
Some 25 schools in Birmingham and others in cities around the country were investigated as being part of the conspiracy.
These latest allegations are levelled two teachers at Park View School in Birmingham, a school at the center of the scandal.
A teacher, identified only as ‘Witness A’ told the disciplinary panel about a handout a colleague had confiscated during a sexual education lessons which she believed had been used in teaching.
“Although I cannot remember the exact words I recall that the handout included phrases stating that a woman could not refuse her husband in marriage and that included that she could not say no to her husband having sex with her” she said in her witness statement.
“The handout included quotes from the Qur’an, I recall that the wording was very strong and the best way I can describe it now is that it was along the lines of ‘hell, fire and damnation’ for any woman who said no to her husband including in matters of sexual intercourse.”
After the handout was discovered the school held an emergency assembly to teach students about British law and consent.
Witness A also told the panel that while she was in charge of teaching sexual education, Akeel Ahmed and Inamulhaq Anwar had refused to teach boys about condom use “because within Islam you only have sex with your wife as a good Muslim that is what you do.”
It was also alleged that school prefects had been formed into ‘morality squads’ and ordered to monitor and report to staff romantic relationships between pupils, who then punished pupils.
The hearings will continue, with more scheduled for next week.
At the time the scandal first broke, those accused of being part of the conspiracy carried out a strategy of denial.
Yet last July a government investigation lead by former counter-terrorism head Peter Clarke concluded:
“There has been co-ordinated, deliberate and sustained action, carried out by a number of associated individuals, to introduce an intolerant and aggressive Islamic ethos into a few schools in Birmingham. This has been achieved by gaining influence on the governing bodies, installing sympathetic headteachers or senior members of staff, appointing like-minded people to key positions, and seeking to remove headteachers they do not feel to be sufficiently compliant.”
The report found that education authorities and Birmingham city council had been slow to act due to fears of being perceived as “islamophobic” or “racist”. Similar fears prevented authorities from acting in the Rotherham sexual abuse scandal, also in England, in which at least 1,400 girls were molested over a ten year period.
Now the full facts about the extent of the Trojan Horse plot are coming out, it is to be hoped that authorities will be more vigilant in ensuring that state run schools remaind free from Islamist influences.
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