A Muslim pupil lost her High Court battle against a prayer ban in her school. Good.
This is a rare victory for common sense and integration. It is arrogant and wrong to expect a school to change its rules, to work around you and your faith.
Now Katharine Birbalsingh, the founder and head teacher of the Michaela Community School, took on the mob and won.
Ofsted rates it as an outstanding school. It gets kids into top universities, it is strict but it gets results. And crucially, parents sent their children to that school knowing that there was no official prayer room.
Patrick Christys reacts to the Michaela Community School winning a High Court ruling over their prayer ban
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Then one pupil decided to kick up a stink, saying that their right to religious freedom was being offended and ended up in the High Court.
But it wasn't just that pupil. An organised militia of hardliners from outside the school tried to intimidate the school into bending to their religious wishes.
Now, earlier this year, I went to the Michaela Community School and I spoke to headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh. Integration is not about coming to a country and trying to change that country's way of life, or making a country pander to your own religious norms.
And this is why it's common sense, if this country is going to come together, it can't just keep pandering to the loudest people.
Half of the pupils in that school apparently are Muslim. So what about the other half? Who would have their education impacted as a result of all of this?
Today the judge ruled that the prayer ban was lawful. It is a huge victory, for common sense, is a huge victory for integration, and it's a huge victory for Britain.
