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March 20, 2014
Erica Connor’s eyes widen as she reads the four-page letter purportedly outlining a plot by Muslim fundamentalists to take over state education.
It brings back terrible memories for the former headmistress who won £400,000 in compensation after religious zealots forced her out of the primary school she loved in the English Home Counties.
‘It’s a letter that makes me realise nothing has changed in our schools,’ she tells us with a sad smile. ‘Muslim extremists used an identical strategy to get rid of me and nearly ruined my life.’
At the height of the vicious campaign to oust petite, impeccably dressed Erica as head of New Monument school in Woking, Surrey, she faced vile abuse from school governors and was smeared as a racist hater of Islam in a parents’ petition.
She was even advised by police to carry a personal alarm in case she was physically attacked. One evening, she only narrowly escaped a skirmish with youths who surrounded her threateningly in the playground at the school, which is a few yards from the first mosque to be built in Britain, in 1889, called Shah Jahan or ‘King of the World’.
Erica has added her own concerns about the Islamisation of state schools in Britain to those of dozens of teachers, classroom assistants and school staff to whom we have talked following widespread reports of the letter in the media.
The document — entitled Operation Trojan Horse — originates in Birmingham and was leaked anonymously to a Sunday newspaper.
It purports to outline a strategy of identifying schools in Muslim neighbourhoods, ridding them of non-Muslim heads and parachuting in strictly Islamic teachers and removing those who are not, as well as frightening Muslim parents into believing Western education is dangerous for their children.
The letter says that Birmingham, Bradford and Manchester — cities with fast-growing Muslim populations — should lead the strategy: ‘We have an obligation to our children to fulfil our roles and ensure these schools are run on Islamic principles.’
It declares that hard-line Muslim parents should be identified and turned against head-teachers who are ‘non-believers’.
‘The way to do this is to tell each parent that the school is corrupting their children with sex education, teaching about homosexuals, making their children pray Christian prayers and [taking part in] mixed swimming and sport.
‘If you can get them to be very vocal in the playground as they drop off or pick up their children, that will stir up other parents.’
The provenance of the document is unknown and it is impossible to say if it is authentic. Nevertheless, Birmingham City Council and the Department for Education are taking it sufficiently seriously to have launched an investigation and have passed on the contents to West Midlands Police.
The letter has been dismissed as a hoax by Tahir Alam — a Birmingham school governor, and prominent member of the Muslim Council Of Britain, named in it — who sees it as a ‘dirty trick to feed anti-Muslim sentiment’.
Others have suggested that the document was written by worried teachers opposed to Islamisation as ‘a cry for help to get the council’s attention’ — believing it was the only way to have legitimate fears taken seriously.
Whatever the truth, the leaked document crystallised genuine concern within the teaching profession that Islamic hardliners are targeting schools.
It must be stressed that the overwhelming majority of Muslims want schools that offer their children the best chance possible to advance as valued members of British society.
But the teachers we have spoken to say radicals are routinely infiltrating governing bodies and senior posts in multi-faith or non-denominational schools in order to take control of them.
They tell of demands for strict dress codes, including long sleeves and wearing of the hijab for women teachers and girl pupils, and calls that Christmas celebrations, Easter eggs and any reference to Christianity in morning assemblies should be banned.
At one Midlands’ primary school — and, reportedly, many others — the boys’ lavatories have been turned into washrooms so they can clean their faces, hands and bodies before Islamic prayers during the school day.
Papers relating to the court hearing of a teacher battling against strict Muslim governors to keep her job show that some children at her South of England school were barred from listening to any Western music — even the staff playing the piano.
A moderate Muslim former headmistress told us how she was driven out of her job by a ‘well-organised and sinister’ group of extremists operating in Birmingham — where Operation Trojan Horse is said to have been conceived.
Noshaba Hussain revealed that she was ousted from her position at the city’s Springfield Primary School following a campaign against her by a ‘sinister group of extremist Muslims’.
