It’s time liberals showed some spine and stopped pandering to zealots

It’s time liberals showed some spine and stopped pandering to zealots

We live in a free country — of course teachers should be allowed to show contentious cartoons

The first thing I did when I noticed the protests erupting outside Batley Grammar School was to check the calendar. It told me that it was 2021 — more than 500 years after the scientific revolution and 400 since the Enlightenment. And yet here was a teacher going into hiding for sharing a religious cartoon with his class, protesters demanding that he be sacked on the basis of theology. I couldn’t help thinking of Galileo in front of the Inquisition.

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Sharing the identity of a teacher who showed pupils cartoon of cult idol Muhammad could result in police action

Sharing the identity of a teacher who showed pupils an “offensive” cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad could result in police action, a watchdog has warned.

Protests were held outside Batley Grammar School, where the staff member was suspended after complaints.

Baroness Kishwer Falkner said making a teacher fear for their safety was “simply unacceptable”.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission chair said the school “ought to be trusted” to take action.

Diversity.

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We must stop capitulating to this intolerance

The Batley Grammar scandal reveals the depths of liberal cowardice.

A group of religious conservatives has managed to shut down a school for two days running, exact a grovelling apology from its headteacher, and have a teacher suspended. The teacher’s name has been circulated online, both by protesters and a local religious charity, forcing him into police protection.

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Student petition supports Teacher ‘who showed Prophet Mohammed cartoons’ – forced to flee home over death threats

A petition started by students of the teacher suspended by Batley Grammar School has been signed by thousands of people today – at a rate of one per second – as it was revealed he was forced to flee his home because of death threats.

The ‘burly Yorkshire lad’ in his 20s, who has not been named, is getting support from police after he allegedly showed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed as the headteacher today kept 980 children at home after 50 Muslim protesters from outside the area turned up for a second day.

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Minister ‘disturbed’ by school protest over Prophet Mohammed cartoon, says teachers should not be ‘intimidated’

The UK communities secretary has raised his concerns over a demonstration that took place at a school in West Yorkshire, after a teacher allegedly showed a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed during a religious studies lesson.

Speaking on Friday, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick told Sky News that the Department for Education had been in touch with the school and the local council, and an investigation into the teacher’s conduct was the right way to proceed.

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Religion class teacher ‘warned pupils he would show Muhammad cartoon in class on blasphemy’ – sparking fury from Muslim parents and earning him a suspension

A teacher suspended after allegedly showing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad during a religious education lesson is said to have accepted that pupils would tell their parents about it before displaying the images.

Dozens of furious Muslim parents protested outside the historic Batley Grammar School in West Yorkshire today, which had to delay its opening and told pupils to stay at home amid chaotic scenes at the gates.

More here – Headmaster apologises, police called as parents protest at UK school after teacher shows Prophet Mohammed cartoon

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ISIS slag Shamima Begum wants to buy a foot-long meatball Sub if she’s allowed back in UK

Isis bride Shamima Begum revealed that she wants a foot-long meatball Subway if she is allowed to return to the UK.

The 21-year-old was stripped of her British citizenship on national security grounds shortly after she was found in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019, four years after she fled there with two other east London schoolgirls to join the so-called Islamic State group.

Speaking in a documentary about her life in the camp, Begum described wanting to kill herself because of the grief at losing her three children and pleaded with Britain to give her a ‘second chance’.

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Sahayb Abu, member of London terrorist family, convicted of planning IS-inspired sword attack

A former prisoner has been convicted of planning an Islamic State-inspired sword attack.

Sahayb Abu, 27, was found guilty by a jury of preparing an act of terrorism and will be sentenced on 9 April.

Muhamed Abu, his 32-year-old brother, was acquitted of failing to warn police about the plan.

Sahayb’s preparations included buying a sword, a knife, balaclavas, fingerless gloves, and a combat vest, and paying extra to have the sword sharpened.

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Failed asylum seeker says it wasn’t him who raped and chopped up woman because he is gay

A failed asylum seeker who chopped up a woman he met and had sex with, told police he was gay as he tried to put them off the scent, a court heard today.

Azam Mangori was ruthless in the way he tried to cover his tracks after he had lured drunken Lorraine Cox back to his room above a kebab shop in Exeter city centre last August Bank Holiday Monday, jurors were told.

Lorraine Cox, 32, disappeared after the night out with friends and her whereabouts were a mystery prompting a missing persons inquiry by police.

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Man accused of terror plot said he wanted to ‘hunt down’ gay people in UK, court hears

Sahayb Abu. Probably a white supremacist.

An alleged terror plotter said he wanted to “hunt down” gay people in the UK, a court has heard.

Sahayb Abu, 27, denies planning an atrocity and told the Old Bailey he was just “flexing his muscles” in a pro-Isis chat group.

The court heard that in a message posted to a private group on the encrypted Telegram app, Mr Abu wrote that he had “panic attacks” when he saw gay people, adding: “I need to hunt them down.”

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Shamima should be put on trial in Syria

We should support the Syrian Democratic Forces to bring jihadists to justice.

A dark cloud hangs over the Al Roj camp where Shamima Begum is being held in north-eastern Syria. She is said to be ‘angry and upset’ at the decision of the Supreme Court not to allow her to return to the UK to contest the loss of her citizenship. This bleak picture stands in stark contrast to the feelings of the vast majority of the British public, who will be raising a toast to the Supreme Court and thanking it for putting their interests ahead of an ISIS terrorist.

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