Never mind the Fundies, get the English

Posted by Guessedworker on Tuesday, 08 May 2007 22:34.

From the Daily Mail today:-

Schools with mainly white pupils will be forced to send their children to mix with other races and religions.

A legal duty for schools to promote community relations comes into force in September.

Government guidelines to help them comply could require staff to take children on visits to multi-ethnic schools, stage joint plays and sporting events or twin with other schools.

Ministers said some suburban teenagers had never met a Muslim or Hindu and needed more contact.

Ofsted, the schools watchdog, will be given the power to force schools to comply. Those who do not risk being consigned to a failing list.

Teachers’ leaders said the guidelines were heavy-handed and unnecessary.

The advice says schools should “give their pupils the opportunity to mix with and learn with” pupils from other ethnic, religious and class backgrounds.

Lessons in all subjects should help to teach children tolerance and break down prejudice.

Schools must encourage pupils to strike up e-mail friendships with children at schools with a different racial or religious mix. They should also consider inviting imams and vicars to talk.

... One in five schoolchildren is from an ethnic minority, official figures show. Two per cent of secondary schools and 5 per cent of primary schools in England have no ethnic minority pupils.

Alan Johnson brought in the requirement for schools to “promote community cohesion” after abandoning plans for admissions quotas for faith schools.

The Education Secretary wanted all faith schools to reserve a quarter of places for non-believers but changed the plans after opposition led by the Catholic Church.

Instead, he said schools should be required to demonstrate they are improving community relations.

So the prime-mover of this deeply unwelcome proposal is The Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP, who was appointed Secretary of State for Education and Skills in May 2006. Here is his ministerial team, among them Jim Knight, who seems to be connected with this particular proposal.

The political provenance of this initiative is the failed attempt to legislate powers for local councils to make new faith schools reserve a quarter of places for children outside the religion.

Johnson defended that attempt by declaring, “There must be a balance between preserving the special quality of faith schools and building greater community cohesion and understanding between different cultures. By opening up a proportion of places to children of different faiths where local communities wish this, we will help create a system where all faith schools play a full part in the education of local children.”

The principle involved in this seemed clear at the time, even if it was not directly enunciated by ministers for fear of inflaming Pakistan in the North. Islamic schools narrow their pupils’ understanding of the majority way of life. Experience of the Kufr and the Kufr’s faith might tell little Moslem mites not only something about the England in which they were domiciling, but about themselves, their teachers and even some of the Suraw.

Now, it was not a particularly good proposal. Natural balkanisation is better. And the Bishops took it as an attack by secular leftists on faith schools per se, which is certainly not what Johnson said. But the implicit focus seemed to me to be in the right place for once.

The new proposal, however, is quite different. Now we are not talking any more, even implicitly, about challenging Islamic fundamentalism. It’s the English instinct to separate that ministers find offensive. The old, self-hating leftist twitch is back.

Well, in my unending quest to be charitable to politicians I persuaded a certain John Standing (who, you will understand, is someone extremely well-known to me but, strangely, to no other living being) to e-mail Lucky Jim the Schools Minister and his Tory Shadow, Nick Gibb MP. Nothing too complicated. I don’t want to tax their limited intellectual resources:-

Letter One: the Marxist

Dear Mr Knight,

Can you confirm whether the Daily Mail story of today:-

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=453247&in_page_id=1770

... is accurate in its presentation of the educational guidelines coming into force in September, and apparently having the alarming effect of forcing schools to:-

“give their pupils the opportunity to mix with and learn with” pupils from other ethnic, religious and class backgrounds.”

The reason I describe this as alarming is because the emphasis seems to have changed from its original and, one would think, quite defensible one of introducing students of Islamic faith schools to Kufr faith and Kufr society. We are now back in the old culture war on the freedom of association of the English in their own homeland.

This suggests to me that you are more concerned about the failure of Multiculturalism than the future safety of British citizens from Islamic terrorism.

If I am wrong perhaps you would explain how.

Your faithfully,

John Standing,
Brighton

Letter Two: the free marketeer

Dear Mr Gibb,

Can you confirm whether the Daily Mail story of today:-

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=453247&in_page_id=1770

... is accurate in its presentation of the educational guidelines coming into force in September, and apparently having the alarming effect of forcing schools to:-

“give their pupils the opportunity to mix with and learn with” pupils from other ethnic, religious and class backgrounds.”

The reason I describe this as alarming is because the emphasis seems to have changed from its original and, one would think, quite defensible one of introducing students of Islamic faith schools to Kufr faith and Kufr society. We are now back in the old culture war on the freedom of association of the English in their own homeland.

This suggests to me that the government is more concerned about the failure of Multiculturalism than the future safety of British citizens from Islamic terrorism. If not, it is certainly aiming at the wrong target.

What is your Party’s response to these guidelines? I assume no Conservative can approve of coercive methods of social engineering? What actions have you taken in Parliament to oppose them?

Your faithfully,

John Standing,
Brighton

I’ll let you know if either deigns to reply. But in my experience they tend to be extremely cagey and come back with trick questions to find out if I am asking trick questions.

Really, as if.

Tags: Education

Comments:

Posted by second class citizen on Wed, 09 May 2007 04:02 | #

Nice work, gw.

Sometimes I wonder if exposure to the “wonders” of diversity are actually more of a benefit to our cause than a hindrance. Usually it’s only the people in the borderlands who have a real concept of what it’s actually like at the frontiers of race replacement.

Of course, requiring this of private education would be a major setback. I think if I was to design a school, I would definitely want to organize a bus trip a year so that the kids could experience diversity up close and personal. For example, downtown Detroit.

It would be just like going on safari!

Before that, or after (not sure which would be more effective), we might take a trip to one of the government or Semitically founded multicultural centers to see the big lie for themselves. Of course, the children would be instructed to hush now and play along. (Perhaps there could be a game to see who could come up with the most logical fallacies, lies and omissions). It would certainly be powerful after being exposed to various crime statistics and personal anecdotes from some of our last holdouts in these areas, about being mugged, raped, watching murders, etc etc.

Another trip on the road tour of hypocrisy could include a stop past the gated communities and mansions of the politicians and funding sources to see first hand the “for thee but not for me” lifestyle choices.

Posted by Al Ross on Wed, 09 May 2007 04:47 | #

Recently, Wintermute, in a classic post on Conservatism, wrote about academia being “thrown to the wolves”.

The once-great Edinburgh University, famed for its pioneering work in medicine, qualifies for WM’s description and has now sunk to a subterranean academic level where it houses CERES (Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland) run by a Subcon dusky damsel called Rowena Arshad. She wrote a letter to The Herald complaining that there werent enough ‘minority’ MSPs elected in last week’s voting.

This Arshad item has, through judicious use of hard-pressed, White taxpayers’ money devised a ‘racism terminology’ test for the racist Scottish people of the nation she infests and it can be mocked and jeered here:

http://www.education.ed.ac.uk/ceres/Terminology/Vocabularytest.html

Also, she assisted in the production of that ‘ne plus ultra’ of immigrant empowerment, the Anti-Racist toolkit.

http://www.antiracisttoolkit.org

Posted by Al Ross on Wed, 09 May 2007 06:14 | #

Erratum.

http://www.antiracisttoolkit.org.uk/

Posted by Al Ross on Wed, 09 May 2007 07:31 | #

The wacky world of Marxist social inversion is pefectly personified by Alan Johnson, an Education Secretary who managed to sit through an English secondary education and emerge with no educational qualifications whatsoever.

All philosophers who find
Some favourite system to their mind
In every point to make it fit
Will force all nature to submit.

(Thomas Love Peacock)

Posted by Kenelm Digby on Wed, 09 May 2007 13:23 | #

Cast your mind back thirty years to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Afghanistan was a Soviet client state before that time, with a puppet dictator, but there was one casus belli that really provoked the wrath of the Pathans and sparked off the war with the USSR, which the soviets lost and started the process of the unravelling of the Soviet, Marxist empire:
It was this, Russian-backed authorities in Afghanistan insisted that all girl children of junior and high school age had to be shipped over to the then USSR to be ‘re-educated’ in specialised boarding schools - no doubt destroy the hold that Islam had over them and to force through ‘sexual equality’.
he Afghans were wise to this and the fighting commenced.

Isn’t what is being planned in England an attenuated version of the same idea?

Posted by Bud White on Wed, 09 May 2007 14:21 | #

“I would definitely want to organize a bus trip a year so that the kids could experience diversity up close and personal. For example, downtown Detroit.”—second class citizen

Here’s what that bus trip would acually look like. tee hee

http://niggermania.com/tom/park/ghettoland/ghettoland.htm

Posted by Guessedworker on Wed, 09 May 2007 14:46 | #

Fred,

On Arshad’s CERES website there is this message:-

CERES is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED). Until March 2005, CERES staff were funded to 2.5 days per week. However due to a new funding arrangement the CERES staff time has been substantially changed.

From April 2006, the Director (Rowena Arshad) will work for one day a week. The Project Administrator (Edna Sommerville) will open the office for external enquiries four mornings a week (Monday – Thursday 9am – 12.30pm). The Associate staff will work according to project requirements.

The front page says that CERES is part-funded by SEED, so it seems that funding has been cut by 60%, and no other funding arrangements have been put in place.

Posted by Seneca on Wed, 09 May 2007 17:29 | #

<sigh> When I was businessing around Wuppertal in Germany a few months ago, I met a very bright engineer in one of my associate’s companies, an entrepreneurial chap who spoke perfect German and was raising his two young sons and daughter there.

I thought he was just another of those preternaturally driven German engineers one runs into during these business trips, until the fellow took me to lunch and started spouting off about his favorite footballer clubs and his run-ins with those crazy but boisterous Man United hooligans from his salad days. And also, about the fine engineering education he’d gained in the English public school system many moons ago—which he felt his kids would never have, what with England committed to becoming a full-fledged outpost of the Global South. He’d emigrated permanently and I guess his “Anglo-Saxon” kids had become so in the literal sense—as in, living in the ancestral home of the Angles and Saxons themselves. Poor guy, and poor England—once a proud outpost of Western Civilization, now reduced by abject liberalism to a dumping ground for the Global South. (Germany, it had seemed from his description, had managed to see enough of the light to hold back the tides that Blair and Co. have unleashed in full force upon the UK.)

I thought this madness was chiefly a feature of the USA and Canada, but it seems Britain has been similarly overtaken by the Diversity foolishness. When I was last there, it seemed that every other young British woman was preparing to marry an Afro-Caribbean fellow and convert to Islam, while every other British White fellow was getting prepared to emigrate. Unbelievable, what’s happened in this once-proud nation.

Posted by ROBERT CROSS on Wed, 09 May 2007 18:56 | #

I suppose that the time honoured question is ,will the muslims be going to church ,to reciprocate the tedious hours that our children spend at the mosque watching a tribesman clear out his nasal tract and the mucous from his lungs, i am waiting for the inevitable religious prohibition that is sure to come from the “religion of peace”

Posted by Al Ross on Thu, 10 May 2007 05:28 | #

GW, I am glad to hear that Rowena Arshad’s activities are have been subject to financial cut-backs.

When I emailed her my trenchant opinion of her activities I was careful to point out that I was aware of her Subcon heritage and mindful of valuable cultural differences.

For example, I informed her that one of the major differences between British Democracy and Indian Democracy is that in UK we are allowed to kiss but not to shit in public, whereas in India they are allowed to shit but not to kiss in public.