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Post by fretslider on May 9, 2015 3:37:42 GMT -5
The scene which greeted staff arriving at Anderton Park School in Birmingham before morning assembly was chilling. A dead dog had been left outside — not just left but, with medieval brutality, strung up on the railings at the entrance and displayed like something you might see in a horror film. We now know it was not simply a random act of sadistic animal cruelty; Anderton, whose catchment area covers Sparkhill, a predominantly Muslim neighbourhood, was chosen deliberately. The school had received an anonymous call the previous day warning headteacher Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson about what was going to happen.
The motive?
It was spelt out in a death threat sent to her on social media at around the same time, in which someone had written: ‘Any headteacher who teaches my children it’s alright to be gay will be at the end of my shotgun.’ Of 700 pupils at Anderton, 99.8 per cent are from minority ethnic backgrounds, the majority of them Muslim. Many believe there is little doubt where the threat originated from.
Meanwhile, a petition organised by hardline Muslims, objecting to a new anti-homophobic bullying programme at Anderton, has been circulating outside the school. The vendetta against Mrs Hewitt-Clarkson has been going on for at least two months, the period in which these sinister incidents occurred. Details only emerged last weekend when Mrs Hewitt-Clarkson, 44, addressed the annual conference of the National Association of Headteachers in Liverpool.
She spoke about the climate of ‘fear and intimidation still prevalent’ in Birmingham in the wake of the Trojan Horse scandal, which exposed attempts by militant Muslims to infiltrate state schools to impose an Islamic agenda. No one has stood up to the extremists more courageously — or been more vociferous in opposing them — than Mrs Hewitt-Clarkson. Many — including the newly re-elected Labour MP for Birmingham Perry Barr, Khalid Mahmood, himself a Muslim — believe this is one of the main reasons why she and other heads in Birmingham are now being targeted.
Almost from the first day she was appointed in 2012, Mrs Hewitt-Clarkson has fought a running battle with a small but significant minority of hardline governors and parents who tried to undermine her and the ethos of Anderton Park (some Muslim children, for example, were discouraged by their parents from playing with white pupils).
It was supposed to be the dawn of a new era for education in Birmingham. But Mrs Hewitt-Clarkson’s experience proves otherwise. ‘Trojan Horse has not gone away,’ she told the Liverpool conference. ‘Those of us who were involved knew it was the tip of the iceberg. We still have dead animals hung on gates of schools, dismembered cats on playgrounds. ‘We have petitions outside schools, objecting to teachers teaching against homophobia.’ She said she has reported the ‘Facebook death threat’ to police but did not disclose where any of the other incidents she referred to in her speech took place.
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3074305/A-dead-dog-school-railings-headteacher-receiving-death-threats-return-classroom-Islamic-zealots.html#ixzz3Zd22YLKt
The motive?
It was spelt out in a death threat sent to her on social media at around the same time, in which someone had written: ‘Any headteacher who teaches my children it’s alright to be gay will be at the end of my shotgun.’ Of 700 pupils at Anderton, 99.8 per cent are from minority ethnic backgrounds, the majority of them Muslim. Many believe there is little doubt where the threat originated from.
Meanwhile, a petition organised by hardline Muslims, objecting to a new anti-homophobic bullying programme at Anderton, has been circulating outside the school. The vendetta against Mrs Hewitt-Clarkson has been going on for at least two months, the period in which these sinister incidents occurred. Details only emerged last weekend when Mrs Hewitt-Clarkson, 44, addressed the annual conference of the National Association of Headteachers in Liverpool.
She spoke about the climate of ‘fear and intimidation still prevalent’ in Birmingham in the wake of the Trojan Horse scandal, which exposed attempts by militant Muslims to infiltrate state schools to impose an Islamic agenda. No one has stood up to the extremists more courageously — or been more vociferous in opposing them — than Mrs Hewitt-Clarkson. Many — including the newly re-elected Labour MP for Birmingham Perry Barr, Khalid Mahmood, himself a Muslim — believe this is one of the main reasons why she and other heads in Birmingham are now being targeted.
Almost from the first day she was appointed in 2012, Mrs Hewitt-Clarkson has fought a running battle with a small but significant minority of hardline governors and parents who tried to undermine her and the ethos of Anderton Park (some Muslim children, for example, were discouraged by their parents from playing with white pupils).
It was supposed to be the dawn of a new era for education in Birmingham. But Mrs Hewitt-Clarkson’s experience proves otherwise. ‘Trojan Horse has not gone away,’ she told the Liverpool conference. ‘Those of us who were involved knew it was the tip of the iceberg. We still have dead animals hung on gates of schools, dismembered cats on playgrounds. ‘We have petitions outside schools, objecting to teachers teaching against homophobia.’ She said she has reported the ‘Facebook death threat’ to police but did not disclose where any of the other incidents she referred to in her speech took place.
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3074305/A-dead-dog-school-railings-headteacher-receiving-death-threats-return-classroom-Islamic-zealots.html#ixzz3Zd22YLKt
