The lead reviewer into antisemitism in British schools has previously been accused of singling out Muslim schools by suggesting they could potentially threaten Britain’s coherence as a nation, it has emerged.
Sir David Bell, who led the antisemitism review published this week, made the remarks in 2005 when he was the head of Ofsted, Britain’s schools regulator.
Meanwhile Iqbal Sacranie, then the secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said: “With only 3 percent of Muslim children attending Muslim faith schools, it is astonishing that they have been singled out in this way, especially when considering the fact that state-funded Muslim schools and many independents are now outperforming the state sector.”
Sacranie criticised Bell’s remarks, saying "we consider it highly irresponsible to suggest that the growth of Muslim faith schools poses a threat to ‘our coherence as a nation’.
New age caste system. Antisemitism is worse than all other forms of discrimination, but islamophobia is encouraged by the ruling class.
We have to know who our masters are, after all.
mehh, should be no such thing as religious schools of any denomination.
There should be no faith based schools, end of. Japan had it right when they ruled forced participation in religious activities to be classed as child abuse.
We all know what he really means
How come there are Christian faith-based schools then? Who’s going to help those kids integrate into a broadly secular society?
