Muslim schools in the UK

Back in August 2007, I blogged about the King Fahd Academy in Acton, an Islamic school in West London, who admitted that the school uses textbooks which describe Jews as "apes" and Christians as "pigs". The school agreed to destroy these books howver it appears from today's Daily Mail that "Under public pressure the Academy eventually agreed to destroy 2,000 books but photocopied them first for future use, he told the tribunal."


Do read the whole article and remember that whilst this school is currently subject to Ofsted inspection, as of March 2007 the Telegraph was reporting that "More than half of private Muslim schools have not been inspected for five years, while some have not received a full inspection for a decade. An analysis of the 114 independent Islamic schools in England registered with the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) has found that Ofsted reports are available for only 53. Most of these involve recent visits, but two reports are for the 1997-98 academic year. Most of the other 61 schools, and their 6,000 pupils, were inspected five or more years ago but, because of a gap in the law, their reports have never been made public. The law has now been changed, but is not retrospective."

The report ended "An Ofsted official said: "Since the introduction of the Education Regulations 2003, there has been a cycle for the inspection of all -independent schools who are not members of the Independent Schools Council and covered by their inspectorate. "Ofsted has not yet completed the first full cycle of reported inspections, but it will be completed by the end of March 2008." If a school had no published report it had not yet had a full reported inspection, but would have one in the next year."

Of course this will not now be the case as this Labour Government announced this month that Muslim private schools would no longer be subject to Ofsted inspections but would instead be inspected by the Bridge Schools' Inspectorate which would be more "sensitive" in its inspections of Muslim schools.


This situation is not going to end well for this country.