Report claims ‘aggressive Islamist agenda’ pursued in ‘Trojan horse’ schools

The Department of Education has published a damning report today which suggests there was an ‘aggressive Islamist agenda’ pursued in a number of the ‘Trojan horse’ schools in Birmingham.

Peter Clarke, a former counter-terror chief, published the report, which found evidence of a coordinated plan to impose strict Islamic teaching on pupils.

Michael Gove, the former Education Secretary commissioned the report. His successor, Nicky Morgan has presented the results of the investigation to the House of Commons:

The report details evidence of a ‘coordinated, deliberate and sustained action to introduce an intolerant and aggressive Islamist ethos into some schools in the city’.

'Left unchecked, it would confine schoolchildren within an intolerant, inward-looking monoculture that would severely inhibit their participation in the life of modern Britain’, the report said.