This week the Policy Exchange Think Tank published its findings into the ‘Trojan Horse Affair’. Readers may recall that in 2014 alarms started ringing when it came to light that state schools run by Islamic entities were secretly indoctrinating young minds to the way of the Islamists.
Tahir Alam, former chairman of the Park View Educational Trust which ran three schools in Birmingham, was alleged to have written a 72-page document for the Muslim Council of Britain in 2007 detailing a blueprint for the "Islamisation" of secular state schools.
In his foreward to the report, the Rt Hon Michael Gove MP reminds us of what Peter Clarke described as “a hard line and politicised strand of Sunni Islam” – motivated those involved in segregating boys and girls, exposing pupils to intolerant views, pressuring girls to wear headscarves, broadcasting the call to prayer across the playground, bullying headteachers and governors to leave their posts, and installing sympathetic replacements.
Khalid Mahmood MP in his foreward said, ‘when the Trojan Horse affair emerged into public view in the spring of 2014, as the MP for Perry Barr in Birmingham, I had an insider’s perspective on the unfolding drama. Numerous teachers, head teachers and governors confided in me at the time about their concerns. But they were prevented from speaking out, either due to gagging clauses in compromise agreements signed with Birmingham City Council (BCC), or for fear of reprisals from extremists’.
The report also discusses the alignment of the far-left, in particular the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), with the Islamist-led narrative that Trojan Horse was a state-sanctioned exercise in “Islamophobia”. In 2014, the SWP’s Socialist Worker characterised concerns about Birmingham schools as “blatant racism” and more recently, in February 2022, it encouraged its readers to listen to the NYT/Serial podcast, whilst claiming that the Trojan Horse affair had led to racist attacks.
Readers of KK will know that since at least 2014 I have raised the issue of Islamists and the Labour Party. It is my genuine belief that hard core Islamists have infiltrated the left in this country. I am also of the belief and have said so in the past on numerous occasions, that the Islamist agenda in the UK is far bigger and more strategic than many so called intellectuals, politicians and journalists dare to accept.
In an astonishing outburst, at least one Labour MP stated the obvious. Paulette Hamilton MP for Birmingham Erdington in 2015 spoke at an event titled “The Ballot or the Bullet? Does Your Vote Count?”, hosted by the Organisation of Black Unity at Birmingham City University. The BBC reported that at this event she stated:
“We have a Trojan horse in the council” and said “our Muslim brothers and
sisters” had “made a plan” to “ensure that their teachings and what have
you got into the system”. She added: “What then happened was many of the schools, inner-city schools in Birmingham, the Muslim families they filled schools, they then made sure they took over the governorships, as they took over the governorship, they made sure that the heads of those schools were people they wanted to represent their cause. What they then did with doing all of this was made sure that their religious views and their beliefs were taken through the education system, it was also then taken into politics”.
The Islamisation of our institutions is in full flow. Under the cloak of ‘Islamophobia’, those who dare to challenge them are declared racists. I say to Keir Starmer, your party has and will potentially become the very engine that will deliver this dream of the Islamists. It is not too late for people in power to see sense. To protect the nation and people of ALL faiths, including Muslims, it is necessary to defeat the Islamist ideology.
Courtesy: The Trojan Horse Affair - A report from Policy Exchange’s Understanding Islamism project by Dr Damon L. Perry and Dr Paul Stot (Published Dec 2022).
