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"[The tactics are] totally
invisible to the naked eye and allow us to operate under the radar. I
have detailed the plan we have in Birmingham and how well it has worked
and you will see how easy the whole process is to get the head teacher
out and our own person in. ... Whilst sometimes the practices we use may
not seem the correct way to do things you must remember this is a 'Jihad'
and as such using all means possible to win the war is acceptable."
— Quote from document leaked to the Sunday Times.
The Guardian -- an otherwise inveterate enforcer of British
multiculturalism -- quotes senior teachers and school officials in
Birmingham who say they recognize the tactics outlined in the document as
having been used by Islamic hardliners to try to gain influence in the
city's schools for over a decade.
British authorities are investigating the source of a document that
purportedly outlines a plot by Muslim fundamentalists to Islamize public
schools in England and Wales.
The four-page document describes a strategy—dubbed Operation Trojan
Horse—to oust non-Muslim head teachers and staff at state schools in
Muslim neighborhoods and replace them with individuals who will run the
schools according to strict Islamic principles.
A copy of the undated and unsigned document was sent to the Birmingham
City Council in November 2013, but its existence did not become publicly
known until March 2014, when it was leaked
to the London-based newspaper, the Sunday Times.
According to document, which can be read in full here,
the five-pronged strategy is to:
Step 1. "Identify schools based in Muslim areas that you want to
target... Start with the poorest performing schools first as they will be
easiest for you to influence and take over."
Step 2. "Identify any Salafi [radical Islamists] parents within
the school community. They are always the most committed to the faith and
are hardliners in that regard and once charged up they keep going for
longer... When the parents have been identified, we start to turn them
against the head teacher and leadership team. The only way to do this is
to tell each parent that the school is corrupting their children with sex
education, teaching about homosexuals, making their children pray
Christian prayers and [taking part in] mixed swimming and sports."
Step 3. The next step is to "parachute in" Muslim governors
"to drip-feed our ideal for a Muslim school."
Step 4. "Identify key staff to disrupt the school from within...
to eventually accuse the head of doing something wrong so that... the
head resigns, or is sacked. It is also important... to ensure you have an
English face amongst the group as this makes it much more
believable."
Step 5. "Instigate an anonymous... letter campaign [to be
circulated to MPs, press and ministers].... All these things will work
towards wearing the head down, removing his/her resolve and weakening
their mindset so they eventually just give up."
The document adds that the tactics to be used are:
"…totally invisible to the naked eye and allow us to operate
under the radar. I have detailed the plan we have in Birmingham and how
well it has worked and you will see how easy the whole process is to get
the head teacher out and our own person in."
"[We have] caused a great amount of organized disruption in
Birmingham and as a result we have our own academies and are on the way
to getting rid of more head teachers and taking over their schools."
"Whilst sometimes the practices we use may not seem the correct
way to do things you must remember this is a 'Jihad' and as such using
all means possible to win the war is acceptable."
The document—which claims responsibility for recent takeovers of four
schools and says it would be easy to do the same elsewhere—concludes:
"We have an obligation to our children to fulfil our roles and
ensure these schools are run on Islamic principles."
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The former
headmaster of Saltley School in Birmingham resigned following a plot by
Islamist fanatics to oust him. (Image source: Screenshot from BBC
video)
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Speculation is rife about the source of the document. The Sunday
Times believes the plot is the work of "disaffected
parents" belonging to the Salafist branch of Islam who want to
Islamize British society.
The Birmingham
Mail says the document was probably written by a jihadist in
Birmingham to an accomplice in Bradford because it contains the following
sentence: "Operation Trojan Horse has been very carefully thought
through and is tried and tested within Birmingham, implementing it in
Bradford will not be difficult for you."
In an editorial,
the Birmingham Mail also writes:
"The claim that Islamic fundamentalists are seeking to take over
the running of several city schools, imposing their primitive world-view,
will cause massive alarm. We make no judgment on the truth—or
otherwise—of these very serious allegations. But it is clear that they
need thorough investigation, that the inquiry must be transparent and
that appropriate action must be taken if the claims are proved."
By contrast, Tahir Alam—a Birmingham school governor and prominent
member of the Muslim Council of Britain who is mentioned in the leaked
document—told the Guardian
newspaper that the document was "a malicious fabrication and
completely untrue."
Even if ongoing police investigations eventually conclude that the
document is an elaborate hoax, what remains beyond dispute is that it
addresses genuine problems linked to the growing assertiveness of Islam
in the British school system.
For example, the Guardian—an
otherwise inveterate enforcer of British multiculturalism—quotes senior
teachers and school officials in Birmingham who say they recognize the
tactics outlined in the document as having been used by Islamic
hardliners to try to gain influence in the city's schools for over a
decade.
Other accounts (here
and here)
reveal how British teachers have been bullied, smeared and driven from
their jobs for resisting Islamic extremists. They tell of demands for
strict dress codes, including long sleeves and wearing of the hijab for
women teachers and girl pupils, and calls that Christmas celebrations,
Easter eggs and any reference to Christianity should be banned.
An investigation
by The Telegraph newspaper documents how an organized group of
Muslim teachers, education consultants, school governors and activists is
dedicated to furthering what one of them describes as an "Islamizing
agenda" in Birmingham public schools.
Social media messages leaked to The Telegraph show how Muslim
activists participating in a closed discussion group called
"Educational Activists" describe their goals and tactics. In a
typical entry—dated February 5, 2014—one member, Nasim Awan, an Islamic
bookshop owner, political activist and former chair of the city's
Springfield Neighborhood Forum, boasts:
"A battle was fought and won tonight at a large inner city
primary school where the governors voted by 8-7 in favor of collective
worship that is wholly or mainly of an Islamic character, thereby
overturning five years of 'children pray in their own way and language!'
The governing body is now polarized on faith grounds."
Other messages
from different members include Islamic supremacist or anti-Semitic
rhetoric. "JEWS have intentionally developed some websites to spread
wrong information about the Koran," says one. Another message, sent
from the mobile number of the deputy head of Carlton Bolling School in
Bradford, Akhmed Hussain, says: "Al-Islam will prevail over all
other ways of life. Look at how [the] Muslim population is increasing in
the UK."
Still another
message leaked to The Telegraph shows that educational
excellence is not the main priority for the so-called educational
activists. Awan writes: "First agenda item [for the new head
teacher] is to apply for a determination," an official procedure to
establish Islamic forms of worship at the school.
But Razwan Faraz, a deputy head teacher in Birmingham, advises Awan to
pursue a more tactical approach:
"She [Shanaz Khan, a new Muslim head teacher at Small Heath, a
secular state secondary school in Birmingham] is a very astute lady. She
knows her game," Faraz writes. "Please don't pressurize her to
start the Islamizing agenda first. That will be a lot easier when she is
respected as leader. She has to establish herself with minimum
controversy for the first six months, and lead the people to believe in
her before they believe in her policies."
Soeren Kern is a
Senior Fellow at the New York-based Gatestone Institute.
He is also Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo
de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on Facebook and on
Twitter.
Ukraine:
End of the American World Order?
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Putin shows that what Western
elders call "international law" only exists if Western powers
are strong enough to enforce it. He shows they are not.
Rogue leaders around the world
are watching and drawing their own conclusions.
If massing troops on the borders
of Ukraine and annexing Crimea are signs of "weakness," by its
evident impotence, America appears even weaker.
In a result known in advance, on March 16, the residents of Crimea,
who include vast numbers of retired Russian army officers, voted
overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine and join Russia.
Reactions in the Western World were also known in advance. The U.S.
government and European leaders said they would not recognize the vote,
and they did not recognize it -- or the subsequent annexation.
Angela Merkel suggested that Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, had
"lost
touch with reality." U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry accused
Putin of behaving as if it were the "nineteenth
century". Barack Obama criticized Putin for "violating
international law" and announced toothless sanctions on a few of
his friends and one company.
But the sanctions imposed on Russia by the European Union and Western
European countries are empty gestures. Putin knows this and treats them
as a laughing matter.
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Russian
President Vladimir Putin treats sanctions against his country as a
laughing matter. (Image source: Video still from "Ich,
Putin")
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The decision to suspend Russia from the G8 is essentially a sign of
powerlessness. Sergei Lavrov said the decision was "not
a big problem" for his country. An American columnist aptly said
that suspending Russia from the G8 was "like
suspending a vegan from a steakhouse".
Putin knows that Europe presently needs Russia more than Russia needs
Europe
He did not go "too far": he went as far as he could. He
evidently never stopped believing that the countries that were part of
the Soviet Union had to remain under Russia's influence and that their
integration into the European Union and NATO would be a mortal danger to
Russia's survival.
He shows that what Western leaders call "international law"
only exists if Western powers are strong enough, politically and
militarily, to enforce it. He shows they are not.
If he thinks that it is necessary and possible for Russia to intervene
in the Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine, he will do it. If he thinks
that it is neither necessary nor possible, he will not do it.
When Georgia moved closer to the European Union and NATO, Putin waited
for the right time to act, and he acted. In 2008, South Ossetia and
Abkhazia were detached from Georgia by Russian military intervention.
He knew that Russia could not afford to lose Sevastopol, its only warm
water harbor. By annexing Crimea, he annexed Sevastopol.
He apparently considers that he has in front of him a weak and
declining America. And the general demeanor of the present U.S.
administration tends to prove him right. The United States seem in full
retreat. U.S. military
budgets continue to fall. For the last five years, Barack Obama spoke
of "ending" the wars in which the U.S. was involved, and he
depends on Russia's cooperation for further negotiations with Iran, for
dismantling chemical weapons in Syria, and for withdrawing U.S. troops
from Afghanistan. Putin doubtlessly thinks that Obama will not enter into
an open conflict with Russia. Sanctions imposed on Russia by the United
States are insignificant, and Putin has every reason to think they will
not increase.
Putin evidently considers Europe even weaker than America. The way
European leaders speak and act shows that he is not wrong. For decades,
Western European countries relied on U.S. defense umbrella; none of them
today has an army capable of doing more than extremely limited
operations. Their foreign policy positions converge with the Obama
administration positions. They all have deep economic and financial links
with Russia and cannot break these links. The UK needs the Russian
capital invested
in the City of London. France cannot cancel its Russian
warship contract without having to close its shipyards in Saint
Nazaire, and without being confronted with major social conflicts. Germany
could not survive long without Russian oil and natural gas. Overall,
Russia provides thirty percent of the natural gas consumed in Western
Europe. Putin apparently thinks that Europe will not enter into an open
conflict with Russia.
The political part of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement will not
change the situation in Crimea or Ukraine. The European Union has pledged
$15 billion to Ukraine (but help hinges on an IMF deal). Ukraine must
repay $13 billion to creditors before the end of 2014. As it will remain
dependent on energy supplies from Russia, one week ago Russia said that
Ukraine must pay off $2 billion it owes for gas. Ukraine is on the verge
of bankruptcy. The current situation could lead Ukraine to full
bankruptcy.
Putin has massed troops on the borders of Eastern Ukraine. He will
probably decide to wait until the situation worsens and the impotence of
the United States and Europe becomes even more obvious. He could annex
Crimea without firing a single bullet. He doubtlessly thinks that he will
later be able to do the same with the rest of Ukraine.
Either the West will stand up to Putin, and it will have to do it
fast, or Putin will win. Obviously, Europe will not stand up. Polls
indicate that Americans are turning sharply toward isolationism.
Showing his view of the situation, Obama recently said that Russia is
nothing but a "regional power", acting "out
of weakness". Russia covers ten time zones and has borders with
Europe, the Muslim Middle East, China, North Korea, and Alaska. If
massing troops on the borders of Ukraine and annexing Crimea are signs of
"weakness," by its evident impotence, America appears even
weaker.
Several plebiscites have been held since 2006 in Transnistria, a strip
of land between Ukraine and Moldova, and each of them has indicated a willingness
to join Russia.
Estonia includes a large Russian minority, and Russian leaders in
Moscow speak of the need to "protect"
the Russian population of Estonia.
Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Ryabkov recently
stated that the position of Russia vis-à-vis negotiations on a nuclear
Iran could "change".
Rogue leaders around the world are watching and drawing their own
conclusions.
Khamenei sees no reason to stop saying that America is the "Great
Satan" and that Israel has to be wiped off
the map. China sees no reason to hide its intention to occupy
the Senkaku / Diyaoyu Islands. Last week, North Korea's Kim Jong Un fired
six missiles into the sea of Japan. Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela
reaffirmed its alliance with Russia and positioned
Russian missiles in Caracas.
U.S. allies are anxious.
The West tried to attract Ukraine. But their present leaders did not
take into account how Russia could react if Ukraine were seduced. They did
not take into account that Ukraine is a special territory: for
Russians, it is the land of Kievan Rus, the cradle of Russian history.
Ukraine is paying the price of their irresponsible attitude. The rest
of the world can also quickly pay the price.
The world order built after the Second World War was shaped by
America. For almost five decades, its goal was to contain Soviet
expansion. In the late 1980s, the Soviet empire collapsed, and another
phase began: an arrangement in which America would keep the peace and
assure the survival of liberty.
America has apparently abrogated that responsibility.
If we do not see the Ukraine as a warning signal, we could quickly
discover that life could now easily enter the state of nature in Hobbes's
Leviathan: nasty, brutish and short.
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