What the New York Times gets wrong about the ‘Trojan Horse Affair’

The New York Times has it in for Britain. And the latest beneficiaries are the Islamists condemned by a UK government inquiry into the activist takeover of schools. I am the most senior serving Muslim parliamentarian, and have been an MP in Birmingham for over twenty years. The NYT‘s ‘Trojan Horse Affair’ podcast portrays a city that is unrecognisable to me. It is an act of utter irresponsibility.

Hamza Syed and Brian Reed present eight programmes seeking to make the case that a 2014 letter ‘Operation Trojan Horse’ detailing an activist plan to influence local schools, was a hoax. Without proof the letter is genuine, it follows there was no plot, and indeed little or no problem. Trojan Horse can then be used as an example of the ‘securitisation’ of British Muslims (as trendy academics are prone to write). Boycotting the government’s counter-extremist Prevent policy is seen as the campaigners’ next step.