Sadly I have not one but two schools who are engaging in outrageous pro-Islamic propaganda to bring to you today. I’m indebted to several Tweeps for publicising these cases and their handles will be mentioned below.

These cases are not recent and happened 1 year ago and 14 months ago respectively and occurred in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire and in Bournemouth in Dorset. What is worse is that one of these schools is a Church of England school where parents should be able to expect that such propaganda would be resisted and another is an independent Prep school.

The first case of pro-Islamic propaganda happened at Moordown St John’s Church of England Primary School where Year 2 children, aged 6 and 7, were not only fed who knows what dishonest guff about Islam, but were also encouraged to bow down in the manner of Islamic prayer. I have to ask myself did the parents actually approve of this, or were they, as sometimes happens, misinformed by the school about the nature of the trip and what would go on during it? I can’t imagine there would be many Christian parents who would be happy with having their children bow down to a bloodthirsty deity like Allah whose followers are murdering Christians left, right and centre.

You can see for yourselves from the pictures that I have grabbed off of Moordown St John’s school website that what has happened on this trip has gone way beyond teaching children what the Islamic belief system is all about. This trip has crossed the line into outright indoctrination.

The second case comes from the independent school sector where you would expect parents to be much more engaged in their children’s education than those whose children attend state schools. After all if you are paying for your child’s education out of your own pocket you are more likely to be the sort of parent who takes a keen interest in what they are being taught. Again this particular case raises the question about how much the parents were told about the nature and content of this trip. It also shows that this sort of grossly abusive and dishonest Islamopandering is not only confined to the state schools sector. The images put up on the website of the Richard Pate Preparatory school in Cheltenham are deeply disturbing, especially for those of us who believe in women’s equality. The sight of little children, and especially little female children being brainwashed into accepting the idea that the Islamic garments of misogyny are socially acceptable angers me, and will probably anger others. Here are some of the pictures put up by Richard Pate school taken on this propaganda trip.

Editor’s Note:  The pictures referred to have been removed due to a claim that copyright has been breached.  As a matter of courtesy I have removed the images.

Both these cases show that Islamopandering and the pushing of pro-Islam propaganda in a schools is a really ingrained problem and one not confined to state schools and government employed teachers which are aligned with leftist ideas of multiculturalism, it’s in all schools.

There is another aspect of this case that worries me, and also emphasises why it is really important for all parents to be active parents and that is that it appears to have taken over a year for information about these two incidents to be noticed and disseminated on social media. There is no point in being angry about these propaganda incidents a long time after they have happened, the damage has already been done to these children, they’ve already been fed the lie that ‘Islam is a religion of peace’. It is vital that parents who are concerned about such propaganda act quickly, much quickly than they’ve acted so far. Preferably they need to act as early as possible and ideally before these propaganda trips happen in order to prevent them from happening.

For far too long teaching staff have been allowed by parents to act completely independently and without reference to parents when it comes to pro-Islam propaganda. This needs to stop. If we are to protect our children from the dangerous lies that teachers want to feed them about Islam then swift action in concert with other concerned parents is the key. Those of us who believe in freedom of religion and who know about the true nature of Islam, know also that Islam is fundamentally opposed to freedom of belief. I see no value in teaching children a dishonest and sugar-coated view of Islam and I’m afraid that this is what has gone on in these two cases.

By all means teach children about Islam, but tell them the truth about it, not this false and fluffy version of it. Parents need to realise that when it comes to religious education they still have rights and they should not let teachers bully them into surrendering those rights. Since 1944 parents have the right to withdraw their children from religious education lessons and it’s about time that more parents exercised those rights.

Appendix I

You may wish to politely express your displeasure at these schools for their actions in putting these children in harms way by organising these mosque visits. If you do then you will find the contact details for each of these schools below. As I have previously advised in these cases, please keep your communications with both the schools and the teachers legal, decent, honest and truthful. Sometimes you can get a better response from some of these education wallahs by speaking softly than by shouting. Many of these education types live in a world of their own and often do not have any idea whatsoever about how much their actions anger and frustrate the rest of us.

Here is the website for the Moordown St John’s Church of England school in Bournemouth and more specifically the offending page that shows the mosque trip

http://www.st-johns.bournemouth.sch.uk/y2-visit-to-a-mosque/

If you want to contact the school then here are the contact details. It would be good if the staff at the school could return after the Bank Holiday to a very full inbox stuffed with well written objections to this sort of Islamopandering.

Head Teacher: Mr P. Herbert
Moordown St John’s Primary School
Vicarage Road, Bournemouth, BH9 2SA
Tel: 01202 527683
Email: msjoffice@st-johns.bournemouth.sch.uk

Here is the website for the John Pate School in Cheltenham. Again this link takes you directly to the page showing the brainwashing mosque trip.

http://www.richardpate.co.uk/gallery/201501mosque/indexmedium.html

The contact details for the John Pate school are:

The Richard Pate School
Southern Road
Leckhampton
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL53 9RP

Email

Headmaster: hm@richardpate.co.uk

General enquiries:   office@richardpate.co.uk

Phone

Tel: 01242 522086

Headmaster

Mr. Robert MacDonald, M.Ed., B.A.

You might also in the case of this independent school wish to contact the chair of governors with your opinion. If so here is the address and other contact details

Mr. Chris Mourton
Chairman, Richard Pate School Committee
c/o The Richard Pate School
Southern Road
Leckhampton
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL53 9RP    

Other related links from Fahrenheit211 about being an active parent in order to counter Islamic propaganda in your child’s school. Please note that other stories on F211 about Islamic propaganda in schools can be found by using the search box and entering the words ‘education’, ‘propaganda’, ‘islamic propaganda’ either singularly or as part of a list of words.

‘Active Parent’ stories

https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2016/03/04/another-reason-for-british-parents-to-start-to-become-active-parents/

https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2016/02/16/be-an-active-parent-and-protect-your-children-from-islamic-propaganda/

https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2016/03/17/two-more-reasons-why-parents-need-to-be-more-involved-in-their-childrens-education/

https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2016/03/08/british-parents-cannot-and-must-not-trust-those-who-teach-their-children/

Appendix II

These two stories have been circulated by many today but I’d like to particularly thank @verbotenideen and @Kervanderv among others for bringing this matter to my attention