A hardline Muslim teacher who caused a furore by denouncing pupils for celebrating Christmas has been made a Government schools inspector.
Israr Khan’s Ofsted appointment was described by a former colleague as ‘absolutely astonishing’.
Mr Khan, now headmaster of an Islamic school, launched into his tirade during a concert rehearsal at Washwood Heath Secondary School in Birmingham in 1996 after the choir including around 40 Muslim youngsters, had sung a number of popular Christmas songs, including carols.
He leapt from his seat, yelling: “Who is your God? Why are you saying Jesus and Jesus Christ? God is not your God – it is Allah.”
As children in the audience began booing and clapping, a number of choir members – both white and Asian – walked out, some in tears.
Mr Khan, a maths teacher, was asked to work from home pending an investigation but there was no disciplinary action.
It has been claimed that Washwood Heath school was then a ‘hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism’. Rashid Rauf – the airline terror bomb suspect whose extradition is currently being sought from Pakistan – was a pupil there at that time.
Mr Khan left Washwood Heath a year later to found the independent Islamic Hamd House Preparatory School in Small Heath, Birmingham, where he is headmaster.
Earlier this year, he was appointed as a governor of Anderton Park Primary School, in Sparkbrook, Birmingham.
A former Washwood Heath colleague laughed openly when told of Mr Khan’s role as an Ofsted inspector where he has the responsibility for passing or failing schools.
He said: “Given the man’s history, it’s absolutely astonishing. It’s just the cheek of the man that he’s been able to reach that position. He always was an extremely clever man.
“He gave me many insights into the Islamic cause and their hatred of the US and the Western World. He had a big support base among some of the Muslim parents.
“But there were some very influential, radical elements at Washwood Heath at that time and Israr Khan was very close to all that.”
There’s more, which you can read here.
Hat tip: LGF
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He leapt from his seat, yelling: “Who is your God? Why are you saying Jesus and Jesus Christ? God is not your God – it is Allah.”
There is no god, but God.
When you have connections and skill at deception, what need you for divine intervention? It is already inshallah after all. The defense of a civilization against internal saboteurs is very important. After all, you may have the highest walls since Babylon, but what does that matter when an enemy saboteur opens the gate after having won your confidence and trust? Britain’s defense is full of holes. Would we be in the same situation had Bush not gone to Iraq? Not many people ponder that, at least those on the Left.
You get what you pay for, Mike.
I know Christians who would react exactly the same way as this headmaster did at that carol service if the situation was reversed.
Really, ravana. I am sure that these Christians that you “know” would be the first to demand the imposition of religious law and the beheading of infidels. Right. You need to get out more.
Ravana, you’ve got to keep in mind that this outburst occurred in a state run school in what is officially a Christian nation — and a nation in which he (or his parents) arrived as guests knowing it to be a Christian nation. Under those circumstances, there is no excuse whatsoever for his outburst. This is even more the case considering that he was attending a Christmas concert. I have to say, I’ve known many, many deeply devout Christians, including many to whom proselytizing is an important part of their faith, and I’ve never known them to use anger or public spectacle as a way of getting their point across.
He wasn’t attempting to get his point across, he felt violated at seeing such heresy and needed to speak Truth to Power. Why would he attempt to convert people when in his view, they either aren’t eligible for conversion in Allah’s mercy or that they were already going to convert? or converted, as the case was, when he yelled at Muslims. How could real Muslims think of any other religion in a good light, that is intolerable.