'We should not be forced to change school policy because of mafia-style religious intimidation', says Patrick Christys

We must never allow Islamic ideology to dictate to us in this country what goes on in our schools. We have two very serious incidents taking place right now where mafia-style tactics are being used by elements of the Muslim community to try to enforce their will onto everybody else.

Firstly, remember this incident at Barclay Primary School in East London where activists shut down the school because a child was asked to stop wearing a Palestine flag to the school? That school might now have to close permanently and revert to online teaching because there have been threats to burn the school down.

There have been bomb threats to the school and individual staff. Racist phone calls have been made to the school, and written threats have been delivered. I mean it's extremism.

They say that banning parents from dressing their eight-year-old child up as the Palestinian flag is in some way Islamophobic and they will shut the school down and make threats to kill if they don't get their way. It's not normal.

That is not normal. We go now to the Michaela Academy run by Katherine Burblesinger, a renowned head teacher. That school is now in the High Court. Why?

Well, because they banned prayer rituals for every single religion. Mad. Every single religion. Saying that if multiculturalism was going to work, then everyone needed to make sacrifices for the sake of the whole community.

Shock horror, one Muslim pupil, in reality, I suspect it's almost definitely the parents, decided to bring this to the High Court, saying that it only really affects Muslim pupils because of the nature of their prayer, ie that they don't sit silently in a corner, pray amongst themselves, like say, a Christian might. That's their argument.

But it isn't just this court case though, is it? Because police had to be called after claims that bombs had been placed at the school. Glass bottles were thrown over the school railings.

A brick was put through a teacher's window and staff were quote 'fearing for their lives'. I mean, again, this is not normal is it?

Now apparently pupils were putting pressure on girls to wear headscarves and be quotes more observant. We saw incidents like Batley Grammar School where hordes of men turned up outside the school gates and threatened to kill a teacher who is now in permanent hiding because he allegedly offended elements of the Muslim community there.

There was a primary school in Birmingham that included aspects of LGBT education as part of an anti-bullying programme. This was back in 2019, I believe. Again a mob turned up. They even brought a mobile billboard with them at one point.

One parent articulates, better than I ever could, how there is a 'desire to shape our education system around the whims of an interpretation of the Islamic faith'.

We cannot have our education system dictated to us to suit one specific religion. We absolutely should not be changing our way of life to bend to the will of fundamentalists.

It should be the other way around, actually. Now there are between 57 and 49 Muslim countries in the world, depending on what measure you use to calculate that.

That is quite a lot of countries and there are options there, that's all I'm saying, if that's what you are wanting for you and your family. Now here in Britain, I want to make this as clear as I possibly can, we should be tolerant, respectful, kind, and welcoming, and I do think that we are.

But we should not be forced to change school policy because of mafia-style religious intimidation.