A panel heard that 30-year-old Aqib Khan, who taught at Harborne Academy in Birmingham, made other controversial and offensive comments, including a bizarre claim where he argued that having "a baby over 30 was worse than a cousin marriage and that the child will most likely have disabilities.”
The Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) found that Khan, an English teacher, undermined "fundamental British values" of "individual liberty and mutual respect.” The TRA also said that the teacher, who started teaching in 2020, was already being assessed over actions between May 2021 and March 2023.
The agency’s panel found proven comments, including material from a Microsoft Teams group chat involving students, and determined that Khan’s actions amounted to both unacceptable professional conduct and conduct that may bring the profession into disrepute.
Aside from comments about cousin marriage, Khan made more controversial statements, such as claims that “by 2050 the whole of UK, France, and Germany will look like Birmingham” and “the number of Muslims went up 44% in 10 years."
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Interesting to see how long the confrontation with this fairly standard Islamic thought will continue - for he is certainly right about the demographics of Europe. Last I read France had 1.8 growth for non-Muslim citizens, and 8.1 for Muslims.
ReplyDeleteAbout a quarter of France is under Sharia already Wolfie.
DeleteWhere did you get the 8.1 statistic? According to PEW, it's 2.9 compared to 1.8, and predicted to fall.
DeleteI find people from the CNR community, who know all about being tarred with a demagogue's brush, jumping on the anti-Muslin bandwagon and fear-mongering particularly distasteful.
Expansion of Muslim populations does not equivocate to the imposition and execution of Sharia Law. Racists who weaponise secularist arguments must be challenged.
ReplyDeleteThe many decent, non-fundamentalist Muslims are not in control of migrant Muslims. Those who are willing to give their lives to attend a Caliphate naturally rise to the top.
ReplyDeleteSecularists frequently mock Christianity, making jokes about Jesus. Try doing that about Allah or even Mohammad in a majority Muslim areas of the UK or EU.
Devout Muslims have a vision of the future and they work towards it. The world has to be brought into submission to Allah, and both peaceful demography and violent conquest are the prescribed means of achieving it.
Sharia, it seems to me has a sway over only a minority of Muslims in both the UK and France.
DeleteThe reason Christianity can be mocked is that it no longer has the political power to burn those who poke fun at it.
Christianity has been civilised by society. It didn't civilise society.
But I know from when we featured the Danish anti-theocratic cartoons, many on the Left got themselves upset yet had no qualms with Christianity being mocked.
The world would be a much better place without fundamentalists of any ideological hue trying to convert others to what they believe.
The American Baptist movement discovered just how protected they were in a secular environment and how at risk they were when religious fanatics called the shots.
There should only be the Law of the Land and that's it. No religious laws should be tolerated in any society. Like Hitchens said, "Don't make me play with your toys, don't tell me your toys can tell me what to do".
ReplyDeleteSharia Law, Canon law, any religious law can exist within a society but should not breach the one law for all principle. Religious law should have the same status as the rules of a golf club. If you are in the club you can agree to the rules but consent is paramount. Those not in the club should be totally free from the club rules.
DeleteSociety and the state should be mutually reinforcing integrating forces, otherwise they will find it difficult to function.
Multiculturalism for sure operating under one societal law - but not cultural relativism.
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DeleteI dont agree that religious laws can be likened to club rules. Clubs rules are aimed at aiding the club objectives by requiring everyone to adhere to club decorum and disciplinary rules. Religious laws are the same but they are also intended to justify indoctrination and coercion and other abusive practices. The fact that exceptions are made in human rights law on religious grounds means human rights can be breached by religions -but there are no exceptions made to allow club rules to breach human rights.
Christy,
DeleteI don't agree that religious laws can be likened to club rules.
I don't agree either. This is why I made the point that they should be.
A religious opinion should have no more standing in society than a sporting one.
Unfortunately, there are some who want to give religious opinion protection.
My religious ideas, like your political ideas, should be open to scrutiny and ridicule not shielded from it.
I agree - consent is the the crucial principle. If you don't like the rules anymore, you should be free to exit the club/party/religion.
ReplyDeleteThat is not part of Islam. Apostasy merits the death sentence. And as for unbelievers, they are not compelled to convert, provided they pay the unbeliever's protection tax (jizra).
We in our democracies see Sharia imposed on those in the club, Islam. That's up to those who wish to be in the club, so not a problem for us.
But where Islam rules a State, Sharia becomes the law of the land. That is a problem for its citizens who are not Muslims.
When France becomes a majority Muslim nation-state, all its citizens will be under Sharia Law. And before that expect Sharia Law to be increasingly imposed in majority Muslim areas.
Wolfie, millions across the globe have left Islam or don't observe it. France is an interesting case because Frankie, who often comments here, paints a picture of all his Muslim buddies smoking the weed and engaging sex workers.
DeleteBut it is a problem for we in our democracies if people have any religious law imposed on them. Otherwise we can hardly claim that consent is the the crucial principle. Your comment so not a problem for us effectively jettisons any idea of consent.
Not all countries where Muslims have super majorities are under Sharia law. Indonesia, where perhaps more Muslims are congregated than anywhere else, rejects Sharia law and ends up being attacked by the theocratic fascists because of it.
If Christian nationalism becomes the majority in the US, that will pose a problem for non Christians.
I don't want any religious interference in my life. I regard them as all the same if they get their hands on political power. What good can a group like the Taliban bring to any society? The problem of course is that the Taliban can get the political power and their Christian counterparts cannot . . . yet.
While Israel has a long history of war crime and atrocity would it be as terrible as it is today were the religious right not so embedded down in government?
Not all people of faith are prepared to be as tolerant of others as yourself Wolfie . . . on ocasion!
Anthony,
ReplyDeleteWolfie, millions across the globe have left Islam or don't observe it. France is an interesting case because Frankie, who often comments here, paints a picture of all his Muslim buddies smoking the weed and engaging sex workers.
That's what I seen for my own eyes...
I guess that is why they say Evangelical Christians don't recognise each other in the strip club
DeleteI've Indonesian Sunni friends who love a beer/vino. Takes all types I suppose.
DeleteI would be appalled by a Christian Nationalist state. Thankfully, there is next to no chance of that happening. Most of my Evangelical brethren agree, not just Baptists like me. CN is a fad amongst some, a small but vocal/literary minority.
ReplyDeleteIslam however has a much more established record. Both from its inception and for most of its history it has only tolerated non-Muslim minorities as second class citizens, when it has not forced a choice of conversion or death.
Even today 'infidels' are persecuted in many Muslim lands. Pakistan, for example. Even in nations where the Muslims have not an absolute majority, murder of Christians is a regular occurrence. Nigeria, for example.
I do of course welcome the many tolerant and decent Muslims who do not adhere to the tenets of Muhammad and his early successors. They make poor Muslims, but excellent neighbours.
Christian imperialism had a problem that Islam does not. The foundation documents of Christianity do not encourage the spread and maintenance of the faith by force. The resort to force can only be defended by an appeal to the authority of the Church, not the Scriptures.
The Roman Catholic Church has that dogma, and it carried over in part to the early Reformation. Thankfully, the on-going Reformation, the return to the Scriptures alone as our authority, has sunk that error except in a small intellectual segment.
Wolfie, always good to have your input.
DeleteWhile I am glad that you find Christian nationalism repugnant, perhaps if you were to read or listen to Bradley Onish, a former Christian Nationalist activist and now professor of theology, you might reevaluate the threat it poses in particular its New Apostolic Reformation body. It's influence on government and judiciary is not regarded as inconsequential. It is also traced pretty well in a body of work ranging from Michelle Goldberg from two decades ago to the more recent of output of Katherine Stewart.
Islamicism more than Islam is a toxic phenomenon. Just as we don't blame Christianity for the stance of Christian Nationalism we should not blame Islam for the stance of Islamicism.
Unless Christianity denounces and rejects the Old Testament then its critique of the text within Islam is easily dismissed. The OT is in my view a hate tome that justifies, genocide, rape, child massacre ad infinitum. In recent months we heard the Israeli war criminal Netanyahu relying on it for his call to genocide.
Relying exclusively on scripture is a Calvinist/Luther type thing if I am not mistaken. You are much more tuned into the history of that than I would be. But to my mind, both of them confirm the view that there is no hatred like Christian love.
Other than that I hope you are well and that your health is holding up. Your experience with Covid was a difficult one and your advice was both solid and deeply compassionate.
Oh wolfie, you'd be in a lonely minority if your Brethren had a snifter of power.. and it would be absolutely no different than the Muhammad fundies.
ReplyDeleteI think that is the nature of religious faith. Many of those who hold it feel they can insist on those who do not behaving in accordance with its prescripts. If religious belief could become a personal thing whereby it keeps its nose out of what others are doing, it would have a greater influence, I think. As the meme says - If your god forbids you watching Dr Who, fine. If he forbids me watching Dr Who he can go and play with the buses.
DeleteThanks, Anthony. The stents are a complete success.
ReplyDelete‘you might reevaluate the threat it poses in particular its New Apostolic Reformation body.’
Yes, I should have included that in my comments on CN. They are a particular threat, not an quaint intellectual subset but a powerfully influential bunch of spiritual manipulators. Their attraction is their claim to be apostles who operate with power to heal and to enable their followers to get Health & Wealth from God. They have a lot of gullible followers. Charismatic crazies.
They may well give a marginal gain to Trump's vote. But he will not implement a CN government. It would require a much more radical shift for that to come, and I don't see any likelihood of that. Any revolution in America will be a secular one on both sides.
Christian morality is now separated from the theocracy of Israel that operated under the Old Covenant (Mosaic Covenant). The New Covenant Scripture has no laws for the enforcement of religion. The Church is separate from the State. Its laws apply only to its members.
That is not to say Christians disapprove how God ordered society in the OT. God is the rightful sovereign over all, and His dealings with sinful mankind are perfectly right. But we are not called to enforce true religion on anyone in this NC age.
Islam, however, has no change of administration in its Quran nor the Hadiths and Sura. They all apply at all times. Apostasy is to be punished by death, for example. Both the Sunni and Shiite agree on this. And the resort to conquest by Jihad is mandated where it is both possible and cannot be accomplished peacefully.
So you will be with us for a while yet Wolfie! Good to hear. The pearly gates can wait a while longer for you!!
DeleteThe thing about Trump is that he will implement what is good for Trump, not for the Christians, not for the Israelis, not for the Americans.
Apart from the newest manifestation of the one immutable god changing the rules of the other immutable god - the sheer absurdity in that - but unless Christians renounce and denounce the murderous Old Testament their abjuring of Islamic texts will ring hollow and self-serving.
There is A Morning Thought on Facebook this morning which makes a useful point in this respect.
'As the meme says - If your god forbids you watching Dr Who, fine. If he forbids me watching Dr Who he can go and play with the buses.'
ReplyDelete...
Most Evangelicals like myself would agree that we have no right to enforce religious beliefs on others. We are concerned that the opposite is being pushed – where children are being indoctrinated in schools with Trans and Gay ideology, for example.
Religious imposition would be where an issue is solely a religious concern, yet imposed on those not holding to those views.
The Abortion issue is not a religious one, rather a part of the wider moral issues that every society has to determine. Both atheists and theists have a moral position on the right to life of human beings. The abortion question is about whether the unborn are human beings with a right to life, or not human, or human but with no right to life.
Likewise, marriage has to be defined in all societies, religious or not. The age of consent; the boundaries of consanguinity; polyamory or not; divorce, etc. Religious belief will inform some societies in their legislation, but others on what they think might be good for the nation.
I don't think most evangelicals are like yourself Wolfie - they show little sign of tolerance.
DeleteBut are kids being indoctrinated in school or taught that there are such things as trans and gay people? I would have a concern were kids been taught in a biology class that human evolution never happened.
Abortion is very much for the most part a religious issue. Very few atheists or humanists pushing to ban it yet they are no less moral than religious people and in many cases might even be more moral.
People should be entitled to a religious opinion. I think it is a very dangerous society that outlaws religious belief. And people can vote in accordance with their religious belief. But a secular society can accommodate that religious belief without demanding that everybody hold to it. Optimum outcome for a society around issues like abortion is to allow it for those who seek it and to protect those who do not seek it. Nobody forced to have a child. Nobody forced to abort.