IN THIS job one seldom has to wait long for some religious bozo to surface, thus enabling us to point and laugh.
But having three turn up in as many days is a tad unusual.
First we had mad Bryan Fischer, followed closely by dotty Prince Charles. Then today we were dealt a third lunatic in the form of Iftikhar Ahmed, who heads the London School of Islamics.
Iftikhar Ahmad
Ahmed has high hopes that the Con-Dem Government’s Academies Bill will lead to an explosion of new Muslim faith schools in the UK, and is convinced that if Muslims were allowed to attend Muslim-only schools certain unsavoury aspects of Muslim culture will be magicked away.
In an email I have just received from him, he declares:
There is no end to forced marriages and honour killings as long as bilingual Muslim children keep on attending state schools with monolingual non-Muslim teachers …
He fails to elaborate on this frankly astonishing statement, but adds:
Each and every Muslim child should be in a state funded Muslim school with bilingual Muslim teachers as role model during their developmental periods. There is no place for a non-Muslim child or a teacher in a Muslim school … In my opinion, all such schools may be designated as Muslim Academies.
He has more to say on his blog, where he expresses satisfaction that:
The British Government is planning to make it easier to schools to “opt out” from the Local Authorities.
This, he thinks, will be a good thing because:
Muslim children in state schools feel isolated and confused about who they are. This can cause dissatisfaction and lead them into criminality, and the lack of a true understanding of Islam can ultimately make them more susceptible to the teachings of fundamentalists like Christians during the middle ages and Jews in recent times in Palestine. Fundamentalism is nothing to do with Islam and Muslim; you are either a Muslim or a non-Muslim.
Ahmed is clearly a fool of the first water, but he did allow someone called Ab Razzaq to express an opposing view:
If they were taught only in English, the national language of their ADOPTED country, then they would be more integrated, less isolated and less confused. If parents won’t accept English as their language they should move to a country which speaks their chosen language.
Razzaq added:
In 2009, a report by the influential think-tank Civitas said there were concerns are that some private Muslim schools ‘are preparing children to live separate lives in Muslim enclaves’. It goes on to say that some of the schools it studied use an approach resulting from religious fundamentalism. The report also states the Bradford al-Mu’min primary school website promotes the view that ‘Western culture is evil’, and that playing chess is ‘like one who dips his hands in the blood of swine’. It is interesting to see that since the publication of this report, the school has taken down its website. It has removed itself from public scrutiny.
There is a dire need for the abolition of all state funded faith schools. Religion has no place in a modern, progressive society. People are not born Christians, Jews, or Muslims. They are made by the previous generation, keen to teach their dogma and control the minds of the children. Money should be spent on teaching integration and promoting inter-culturalism, not preserving the isolationist multi-cultural dogma that pervades society.
Below this comment, Ali Al-Garab posted a link to:
The truth and the right path for all Muslims living in the West.
Curiously, it leads to site called the Pedoprophet Forum which contains this picture on its front page:
Meanwhile, we are informed that a public meeting to protest the creation of more academies is to take place at Methodist Central Hall, Westminster, London, SW1H 9NH on Thursday June, at 6.30pm.
According to the Anti-Academies Alliance blog, Michael Gove has announced that over 1,000 schools have applied to become academies.
He has written to every ‘outstanding’ school before the Academies Bill has even been passed, and has told them that they don’t have to consult parents, teachers, local councillors or the local community. So a handful of people will be allowed to vote to become an Academy, and remove the school from any local accountability, whilst ignoring local opinion.
At a stroke the Academies Bill could take hundreds of the most successful schools out of local authority control. This would leave local authorities managing the schools with the most difficulties, with diminishing budgets.
In reality this means the end of the state education system as we know it.
In every city and town we need to start to resist these proposals.
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
June 11th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
So Iftikhar Ahmed thinks more Islamic schools will help better integrate muslim kids into British society? That’s bullshit and he knows it. They’ll become members the religious community he REALLY wants, excluding all others and breeding, breeding (and bombing and shariah). And we’re all going to pay for these bastards are we? At least the Westminster government can’t interfere with our schools here in Wales. Ab Razzaq, commenting on Ahmed’s blog, was spot on. I would simply put it like this, FIFO – Fit In, or Fuck Off. Sorry I can’t take credit for inventing this phrase, I think it might be Australian.
Chrsbol posted a comment a while back about how mohammedans go about asserting their “rights” in their adopted countries. It was a sliding scale depending on how big a proportion of a population muzzies represented, getting more vocal and violent as it increased. If there are more Islamic schools, expect more of this:
http://img.chan4chan.com/img/2.....997347.jpg
You can’t complain, you just voted for it…….
BTW Barry, to quote from your article, “an explosion of new Muslim faith schools.” I hope your choice of words isn’t prophetic.
June 11th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
I know I’ve said this before, but do you all realize that taxpayers are supporting the Association of Muslim Governors, who have one goal and one goal alone?
http://muslimgovernors.org/
http://www.justgiving.com/helpamg/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t.....941506.ece
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4KV-SjckLY
June 11th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
barriejohn
Your links. Very disturbing. Religion should play no part in public life. I doubt I’ll see that in my lifetime but I’ll carry on discriminating against religiots in my own small way. I was about to ask who would take control and get a handle on all this? Then I thought ouch, that sounds too much like our goose-stepping friends.
June 11th, 2010 at 11:01 pm
One way I think people could combat this, is to refuse to employ people from these Muslim schools. I am sure there are many ways that they could be excluded legally.
June 11th, 2010 at 11:05 pm
Mike
Their CV would “bomb” them out. Any small employer could get away with it but if you have thousands on your books it would start to look obvious.
June 11th, 2010 at 11:06 pm
Remember the expression “mutually assured destruction” because that is where we are heading. Allowing the religious to indoctrinate children is devisive, does nothing for social cohesion and will further distance the opposing sides -exactly what the muzzies want.
The country is going to be a very nasty place very soon.
June 11th, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Angela_K
You paint a depressing picture but I too share your view.
I think muzzie extremists will provoke a backlash eventually.
I know a lot of muslims through my business who are fully paid-up members of the human race. When it comes, and it will come, I fear for the pragmatists and other non-muslim South Asians.
June 11th, 2010 at 11:27 pm
Broadsword: An increasing number of Africans are Muslim now, as well.
June 11th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
Dear Mr Ahmed,
What a truly splendid idea! There are already other whole countries in which Muslim children receive nothing but Muslim education, worldviews and culture and we all know that they are free of forced marriages, honour killings and other forms of Koran-commanded bloodshed. Plus, it is a well-known fact that all non-Muslim kids in state schools are perfectly satisfied with everything and go on to live lives free of crime simply because the teachers speak their first language. In fact, why stop at schools? Some Muslim women who want to keep fit might feel very confused seeing Western women in revealing workout gear which could directly cause them to think about filthy acts of adultery. How about state-funded aerobics classes in which exercises are performed in burkas? (‘Does My Bomb Look Big In This?’)
Yours,
The ‘Anjem Choudary 4 PM’ club.
June 11th, 2010 at 11:41 pm
Yup, it will become I fear a time of atheist brit or muslim brit? at the “roadblock” up the road from the pub. Thing is, have you seen the weapons used by militant atheists ? Killing reason, and piecing logic only work on a mind.
June 11th, 2010 at 11:44 pm
barriejohn
We all know that muzzieness is a social system that doesn’t work. If you suppress women the cultural, economic and industrial output of your country suffers. Africans can’t blame their former colonial masters for their troubles anymore. If they want Afghanistan in Africa, they can arrive in Somalia as assylum seekers, not in the UK.
June 11th, 2010 at 11:50 pm
When you saw Humans, Elves and Dwarves allied against Mordor, did you ever wonder who the enemy was?
June 12th, 2010 at 1:02 am
I got that email too. I get one periodically from that guy, always saying much the same thing. Funny that he bothers saying it to people who will just shrug and laugh and delete.
June 12th, 2010 at 11:08 am
I seem to remember that David Cameron said, before being elected, that he was in favor of more faith schools. Unfortunately, it’s not only Prince Charles who’s as thick as ten bricks.
June 12th, 2010 at 12:54 pm
I think that Ahmad’s problem may be that the offspring of today’s Muslims are integrating rather too well. As has been said elswhere, you now need to isolate youngsters exceptionally well in order to get religion to stick and this appears to be what Ahmad would like to be able to do. The fact that they will probably emerge socially dysfunctional and unemployable does not seem to concern him, it should concern our government though.
June 12th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
From Sweden.
muslims want to kill Sweden artists so FUCK them.
If muslims kill Sweden artists, is it self defense to kill muslims?
Help to cure muslim children from islam and send them this info,
When “prophet” mohammed was 50 year old he marry a 9 year old child so he was a fucking pedophile and a slave owner so fuck him.
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June 12th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
You gotta hear this unbelieveable wall of sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....8;index=12
On topic: If muslims were satisfied with their disrespect of women, and their other tent dwelling philosophies, why did they move? And why are they trying to change our progressive cultures into the shitholes they fled? If Islam was a functional viable idea for society, those assholes would still be living where they were born. I guess it’s true, no matter where you run, you have to take yourself. And when you arrive you are still the same asshole you were when you left.
Freethinkers know, however, that muslims aren’t the only turd in the “asshole basket”. We are surrounded by idiots, and what makes them dangerous is their vote.
NeoWolfe
June 12th, 2010 at 9:32 pm
From this week’s Private Eye:
NUMBER CRUNCHING
1,114 Number of schools in England expressing interest in becoming academies, which education secretary Michael Gove describes as “overwhelming”
20,000 Number of schools in England not interested in becoming academies following Michael Gove’s invitation
June 13th, 2010 at 9:29 am
Successive goverments have tinkered with the education system then copped the blame when it all goes wrong. I suppose this latest Academy approach will absolve the current administration of any blame when we see failed schools.
July 9th, 2010 at 5:35 am
http://www.phpbber.com/phpbb/v.....forum=emob
This leads to truth about Islam and education of Muslim students.
BTW Iftikar of the London School of Islamics has been banned for making ridiculous and offensive posts.