Not being the ideology of Islam’s greatest fan, I tend to not come out on the side of Muslim dominated causes, although I do support ex Muslims, heterodox Muslims and those who wish to see this ideology reformed and civilised. This is because despite despising Islam as an ideology, I’m knowledgable enough to recognise that there are many individuals in Islamic communities who want nothing to do with the depraved craziness that dominates Islamic theology, or want to stop that craziness.
Occasionally though, just as a broken analogue clock tells the correct time twice per day, my own interests, in this case my interests in the subject of parental rights, coincide with that of a group of Muslims. I speak here of the case of the Birmingham Primary School, a school with a majority of Muslim pupils, that managed through protest to stop a programme of LGBT propaganda being directed towards their children. The parents vigorously objected, in the most part peacefully I might add, to the introduction of a comprehensive LGBT propaganda programme called ‘No Outsiders’ into the school. The headteacher to introduced this propaganda , Andrew Moffat MBE, has a bit of an obsession with LGBT equality issues. He had previously been forced out of another school a while back by a campaign comprising both Christians and Muslims against Moffat and his penchant for LGBT propaganda.
I must admit that although I do not share the religious motivations for the objections to the No Outsiders programme at Parkfield Community School, I do however share the concerns voiced by some of the Parkfield parents that too much of the ‘No Outsiders’ programme was age inappropriate, Many of us, some with religious beliefs and some without, are quite happy for relatively uncontroversial stuff such as the nature of bodily changes at puberty to be taught at age 10 to 11. Others, including myself also believe that lessons pertaining to the existence of gay and bisexual people could be helpful to those in their mid teens struggling with questions about their sexuality. However where I an others of similar view start to worry is when you have a situation where 5 to 10 year olds are being overtly propagandised with age inappropriate material and concepts. A five or six year old does not need to be taught that some children have two mummies or two daddies, it’s irrelevant and to teach children of such tender age that people can ‘change their genders’ is not just irrelevant,it is downright false, anti scientific, and also dangerous. Overall, sexuality is an adult thing that requires an adult mind to deal with and to comprehend, children no matter how intellectually precocious, do not have the mental advancement to deal with sexuality and especially gender issues. Therefore it is both unfair on the children and wrong in principle to expect them to be able to properly grasp and understand matters of sexuality and gender, the No Outsiders programme really is a case of too much too young.
Whilst I am glad to see the No Outsiders project chased out of Parkfield school there are aspects of this case that bother me. Most notably this case highlights a monstrous double standard that it is operation when it comes to how the local government and national government have dealt with it. There has been a significant amount of objection by parents to the government’s policy of forcing schools, both religious and secular, to promote LGBT themes even when parents are vehemently opposed to such propaganda being pushed in their children’s schools. The ‘No Outsiders’ and similar pro LGBT programmes have been imposed on schools by diktat and in most cases parents have been refused the right to withdraw from these programmes. Parents from Jewish and Christian schools as well as those from a secular background who are concerned about the content of these LGBT propaganda programmes have basically been told to ‘f**k off’ by both local and central government. They have been slandered with ‘snarl’ words such as ‘homophobe’, ‘bigot’ and worse, merely for wanting to retain the right to teach their children controversial things in the best way for them as they see it and not have the state take that right away from them. However, when it comes to Muslim parents objecting to LGBT propaganda, the state does not scream abuse at the parents but instead cave into the parents demands. The unequal way that the Parkfield case has been handled, with the Muslim parents being indulged whilst Christian, Jewish and secular parents have been vilified, is very very noticeable. The Parkfield case has shown up a massive and destructive double standard in operation in Britain today that is now too obvious to ignore any more. We now have a situation where the Islamic religion of special needs and demands, gets something, the right to withdraw their children from controversial and potentially damaging propaganda, that is being forcefully denied to parents of other faiths and none.
Why should a group of Muslim parents get their, in this case reasonable, request for this LGBT propaganda to be stopped whilst others get insulted, verbally abused, threatened and coerced into accepting that which parents may find objectionable? To allow Muslim parents something that is denied to others, the right of parental choice, is the very definition of inequality. My worry is that having tasted victory in the Parkfield case other Islamic groups will engage in similar campaigns, probably successful ones ultimately, to stop LGBT propaganda in other schools. This will probably be happening at the same time as Christian, Jewish and secular parents will be told most forcefully by schools that they have no rights at all to withdraw their children from Relationship and Sex Education lessons that are at best age inappropriate and at worst, in the case of the gender area, pseudoscientific bunk.
It is a bad move to grant privileges to one group and deny these privileges to others. This is not a personal issue like access to religiously suitable food or even the wearing of discrete religious symbols. These are personal freedom issues. The Parkfield scandal relates to one group, the SJW/LGBT one dictating to parents what they can and cannot do say or think and how they choose to educate their children. This shows a monstrously authoritarian attitude by the SJW/LGBT side. All that will happen if this path of granting rights to Muslims that are unavailable to others is taken is that there will be more communal division with the majority who are not Muslim being discriminated against.
All parents, both religious and secular, should have the right to withdraw their children from lessons, like those proposed for Parkfield, that are little more than trendy intersectional propaganda. My hope is that parents from across the board and from a variety of backgrounds and belief systems who object to this sort of SJW brainwashing take inspiration from the success of the Parkfield parents and ask the government the following question: ‘If the government can be sensitive to the objections of Muslims to inappropriate LGBT propaganda, then why in the world cannot this same courtesy be shown to others?’ The local authority that administers the Parkfield school caved into protest when it is Muslims who are doing the protesting in a way that they would not if the objections were coming from Christians, Jews or those who are secular. The council have handed extra rights to one group whilst denying them to others and that should make any Briton no matter what their race or faith very angry indeed.
