The Free Speech Union (FSU) has come to the defence of a Christian primary school teacher who was sacked and banned from working with children after telling a Muslim student that “Britain remains to be a Christian state”.
According to The Telegraph, trouble began when the unnamed teacher told off students using the sinks within the boys’ toilets to scrub their feet.
The school in query is religiously unaffiliated and has a casual ban on praying within the playground. Feet washing in sinks is similarly prohibited, nevertheless there may be a special prayer room where such observances can proceed.
The teacher, who doesn’t want to be named, allegedly reminded a student he was breaching the ban and that if anyone was unhappy with the foundations, there was an Islamic school a mile away that may be more suitable.
He also identified that as a rustic with a state church headed by the King, Britain is a minimum of technically a Christian country.
After the incident, the teacher attempted to show the yr six class in regards to the British value of tolerance. He is alleged to have identified that Islam is a minority religion in Britain.
The teacher was suspended in March last yr prior to being sacked and was told the next April that he was being referred to the safeguarding board and the Metropolitan police.
While the police investigation into an alleged hate crime went nowhere, the teacher was initially banned from working with children on account of the alleged emotional harm attributable to his comments about Islam. The ban was successfully overturned at appeal. The teacher is now suing his local authority.
Lord Young, Director of the FSU, which is supporting the teacher, said, “This teacher lost his job and almost ended up being barred from the occupation for all times simply because he identified to a category of Muslim schoolchildren that the national religion of England is Anglicanism.
“Things have reached a fairly pass on this country if a teacher could be branded a safeguarding risk because he says something that’s incontestably true. If he’d claimed that Islam is the official religion of England, regardless that that’s not true, I doubt he would have gotten into any trouble.”
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