'Muslim Plot' To Take Over Schools Investigated

Originally Posted by Mr Angry

"Birmingham City Council officials investigating an alleged plot by Muslim hardliners to take control of schools say they have seen no evidence of links to extremism, BBC News has learned."

Latest development.

Birmingham City Council, which ignored complaints of Islamification for months, has now investigated an allegation that nobody made, concluded that there's no evidence of something nobody said there was any evidence of, and is frantically briefing every journalist in sight that there's nothing to see here, move along please ...

If they think it's going to go away that easily, they're even more stupid than they have so far appeared.

[Gary L]

Birmingham City Council really are a bunch of stupid berks when it comes to anything.

[Mr Angry]

Good old BBC, eh?

The BBC really, really wants to believe that there's no problems in Birmingham because such problems don't sit well with its multicultural agenda. It's not surprising that they have jumped on this "investigation" by Birmingham without asking any of the awkward questions that should be second nature for any journalist.

The man to read as this story unfolds is Andrew Gilligan, coincidentally the man the BBC hung out to dry over the dodgy dossier affair. He reports regularly in the Telegraph.

[Mr Angry]

Originally Posted by Chris

The man to read as this story unfolds is Andrew Gilligan, coincidentally the man the BBC hung out to dry over the dodgy dossier affair. He reports regularly in the Telegraph.

"....coincidentally <snip>". I like your style.

I don't think the BBC are wrong to report this. It seems to be the case they haven't found any links with extremism and fair enough, report on that. It's the only substantive part of the leak with the rest being that they expect a 'firestorm' when the report is released.

That said I agree with Pierre in that this wasn't expected to be an issue with 'extremism' as opposed to people trying to take over a school with a religious agenda.

How the BBC is selectively reporting the Trojan Horse plot, by Andrew Gilligan:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/an...an-horse-plot/

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The concluding paragraph from Gilligan's report sums it up pretty well:


"...the Beeb's record on the story has been mixed. It has done some real reporting on it – that is, making the effort, like us, to gather actual evidence of its own. But on other occasions it’s been too ready to take at face value the obviously self-serving denials of obviously interested parties – such as governors of the schools concerned, or in this case Birmingham City Council."

[nomadking]

How is "no links to extremism" any better? If anything, it's worse, as it highlights that this sort of thing is everyday and routine and not just a limited number of people doing it.

[Mr Angry]

According to others he's quite adept at selective reporting himself it would seem.

The truth about Andrew Gilligan.

Originally Posted by Mr Angry

According to others he's quite adept at selective reporting himself it would seem.

The truth about Andrew Gilligan.

I would take anything said by a journalist inclined to defend Lutfur Rahman with a very, very large pinch of salt.

[Mr Angry]

Originally Posted by Chris

I would take anything said by a journalist inclined to defend Lutfur Rahman with a very, very large pinch of salt.

I'm merely making the point "each to their own", Chris.

It used to be Reds under the bed..then it was the IRA..and now it's Islamists.

Originally Posted by Mr Angry

I'm merely making the point "each to their own", Chris.

I know, and I'm merely pointing out the risks of false equivalence.

[Mr Angry]

Fair point. Right enough, Lutfur Rahman is still alive.

[Ignitionnet]

A Guardian journalist was chaperoned around the school for a day and reports all is fine, so that's that.