Against our ethos
From Dr Sumaya Alyusuf Sir: I find Rod Liddle's article (Not all faith schools are the same', 10 February) deeply offensive in every way. This school has never taught any child of any age that Christians are pigs and Jewish people are apes. The current public furore is about a footnote attached to a small section of a book, which has been taken out of context. This book has, in any event, only been used as a secondary resource for one class in the school, and the actual passage has never been taught in this school. The text itself is based on a pre-Islamic story which in essence says that 'those who transgress on the Sabbath' will be punished by God. As a result of the public anger, these books have been removed from the school.
The ethos of this school is and always has been to develop interfaith and cross-cultural understanding. We openly welcome a second inspection of the Academy in order to clear our name. In the meantime, our children are getting abused in the streets around their school for something which they have never been taught and which goes against the whole ethos of the school they attend.
Surnaya Alyusuf King Fahad Academy, London W3
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