{"id":395159,"date":"2019-02-04T22:36:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T21:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/islamic-school-stopping-girls-from-having-lunch-until-boys-have-eaten-theirs-rt-uk-news\/"},"modified":"2019-02-04T22:36:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T21:36:05","slug":"islamic-school-stopping-girls-from-having-lunch-until-boys-have-eaten-theirs-rt-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/islamic-school-stopping-girls-from-having-lunch-until-boys-have-eaten-theirs-rt-uk-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic school \u2018stopping girls from having lunch until boys have eaten theirs\u2019 \u2014 RT UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/thumbnail\/5c585315fc7e93381c8b456c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        A Muslim school in Birmingham, England, is still enforcing gender segregation by ordering girls not to eat their lunch until the boys have finished theirs, UK government school inspectors have told MPs.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Al-Hijrah school was instructed to end the unlawful practice by the Court of Appeal in 2017. However, Luke Tryl, director of corporate strategy at Ofsted, the government body charged with carrying out school inspections, says the West Midlands school is still contravening gender segregation rules.<\/p>\n<p>Tryl also <a href=\"http:\/\/data.parliament.uk\/writtenevidence\/committeeevidence.svc\/evidencedocument\/women-and-equalities-committee\/enforcing-the-equality-act-the-law-and-the-role-of-the-equality-and-human-rights-commission\/oral\/95720.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> the Parliamentary Women and Equalities Committee that the school continues to teach from <em>\u201cvery discriminatory texts&#8230; encouraging violence against women.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more-big\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/450066-man-arrested-muslim-schoolgirls-sterilized\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"read-more-big__container\"><br \/>\n        <span class=\"read-more-big__content\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__subtitle\">Also on rt.com<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__title\">\u2018Burn their ovaries out\u2019: Man arrested after calling for Muslim schoolgirls to be sterilized (VIDEO)<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__cover lazyload\" data-bgset=\"&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.01\/xxs\/5c507af8dda4c84c298b45aa.jpg 280w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.01\/xs\/5c507af8dda4c84c298b45aa.jpg 320w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.01\/thumbnail\/5c507af8dda4c84c298b45aa.jpg 460w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.01\/m\/5c507af8dda4c84c298b45aa.jpg 540w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.01\/l\/5c507af8dda4c84c298b45aa.jpg 768w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.01\/article\/5c507af8dda4c84c298b45aa.jpg 980w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.01\/xxl\/5c507af8dda4c84c298b45aa.jpg 1240w&#10;                        \" data-sizes=\"auto\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ofsted rated the school as <em>\u201cinadequate\u201d<\/em> in 2016, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/birminghams-al-hijrah-school-still-15764718?_ga=2.159637369.597173412.1549289469-613563983.1523884331\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Birmingham Mail<\/a>. Court of Appeal Judges ruled a year ago that Al-Hijrah, which is funded by the Birmingham City Council and is currently in <em>\u201cspecial measures\u201d<\/em> (meaning the school has let standards drop below an acceptable level and will be monitored for improvements over a period of time), was in contravention of the Equalities Act 2010, due to discrimination against its students.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the school in October 2018, Ofsted accused its leaders and managers of not taking <em>\u201ceffective action\u201d<\/em> to alleviate its special measures status.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Court of Appeal rightly said that schools needed a transition period where they were segregating and yet still we have not just Al-Hijrah, but we have countless other schools, mixed schools which are segregating on the basis of sex,\u201d<\/em> Mr Tryl told MPs<\/p>\n<p>Tryl added that while Ofsted can highlight segregation in its inspection reports, it was the responsibility of the Department for Education to enforce equality laws.<\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s education body reported in 2018 that British values were being <em>\u201cactively undermined\u201d<\/em> by Islamic extremists using schools as a means of <em>\u201cindoctrinating impressionable minds.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/450647-muslim-school-eating-lunch\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Muslim school in Birmingham, England, is still enforcing gender segregation by ordering girls not to eat their lunch until the boys have finished theirs, UK government school inspectors have told MPs. Al-Hijrah school was instructed to end the unlawful practice by the Court of Appeal in 2017. However, Luke Tryl, director of corporate strategy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":395160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-395159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}