FUNDAMENTALISM
Extremist's school plot – Blue printer identified
London: An alleged plot to takeover some of Britain’s schools by Islamist extremists has been reportedly master-minded by a ringleader who had drafted a guide document on the process, a media report has said, reports PTI.
Tahir Alam, chairman of governors at Park View school in Birmingham, is allegedly the man behind a blueprint for the so-called “Trojan Horse” plot for the radical “Islamisation” of secular state schools.
He called for “girls [to] be covered except for their hands and faces”, advocated gender segregation in some school activities, and attacked a “multicultural approach” to collective worship, ‘The Sunday Telegraph’ reported.
In his 72-page document, published by the Muslim Council of Britain in 2007, Alam and co-author Muhammad Abdul Bari attacked many state schools for not being “receptive of legitimate and reasonable requests made by Muslim parents and pupils in relation to their faith-based aspirations and concerns”.
They described how Muslim governors could be activated to press the “views and aspirations of Muslim parents and the local community” on reluctant schools.
Birmingham has a large Muslim Population – nearly 22 per cent, according to the 2011 census.
The “Trojan Horse” plot had come to light recently and involves the alleged takeover of secular state schools and the removal of secular head teachers in Birmingham by radical Muslim staff and governors.
WHEN MILITANT BECAME ROBBER
NEW DELHI: A former Sikh militant and elder brother of a convict in Punjab chief minister Beant Singh’s assassination was arrested for robbing a diamond merchant, police said Friday. Avtar Singh, 47, was a member of a robber s’ gang who used to target jewelers in Delhi. They had robbed jewellery worth Rs 2 crore from a Mumbai – based diamond merchant in central Delhi.
London: An alleged plot to takeover some of Britain’s schools by Islamist extremists has been reportedly master-minded by a ringleader who had drafted a guide document on the process, a media report has said, reports PTI.
Tahir Alam, chairman of governors at Park View school in Birmingham, is allegedly the man behind a blueprint for the so-called “Trojan Horse” plot for the radical “Islamisation” of secular state schools.
He called for “girls [to] be covered except for their hands and faces”, advocated gender segregation in some school activities, and attacked a “multicultural approach” to collective worship, ‘The Sunday Telegraph’ reported.
In his 72-page document, published by the Muslim Council of Britain in 2007, Alam and co-author Muhammad Abdul Bari attacked many state schools for not being “receptive of legitimate and reasonable requests made by Muslim parents and pupils in relation to their faith-based aspirations and concerns”.
They described how Muslim governors could be activated to press the “views and aspirations of Muslim parents and the local community” on reluctant schools.
Birmingham has a large Muslim Population – nearly 22 per cent, according to the 2011 census.
The “Trojan Horse” plot had come to light recently and involves the alleged takeover of secular state schools and the removal of secular head teachers in Birmingham by radical Muslim staff and governors.
WHEN MILITANT BECAME ROBBER
NEW DELHI: A former Sikh militant and elder brother of a convict in Punjab chief minister Beant Singh’s assassination was arrested for robbing a diamond merchant, police said Friday. Avtar Singh, 47, was a member of a robber s’ gang who used to target jewelers in Delhi. They had robbed jewellery worth Rs 2 crore from a Mumbai – based diamond merchant in central Delhi.
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