Isla Mac

Trans people of course deserve same protections against discrimination as other groups, but we must be clear that doesn't extend to the right to self-identify into services & spaces reserved for those of the opposite sex. Boundaries are kind and appropriate for everyone here.

This is Amanda Spielman, Ofsted’s Chief Inspector, stating the facts without apology. At Al-Hijrah School in Birmingham, a state-funded “community” school, bankrolled by British taxpayers, inspectors discovered library books teaching that a husband can beat his wife (provided he doesn’t leave marks, naturally) and that a wife has no right whatsoever to refuse sex to her husband. These weren’t hidden pamphlets; they were presented as legitimate religious guidance, normalising domestic violence and marital rape for children to read and absorb. The school enforced strict gender segregation from age nine, boys and girls in separate classrooms, corridors, playgrounds, even lunchtimes, ruled unlawful sex discrimination by the Court of Appeal. Ofsted placed it in special measures for being inadequate and unsafe, the government took it over, and it closed in 2019. The problem? This is no outlier. It’s part of a recurring pattern in taxpayer-supported Islamic schools: Trojan Horse echoes, where imported ideologies erode British norms under the banner of faith and multiculturalism. Boys are taught entitlement and dominance; girls submission and obedience. All while the establishment pretends it’s just “cultural diversity” and shies away from calling it what it is, indoctrination that clashes head-on with equality, consent, and basic human dignity. too many are “afraid” to confront these issues when they stem from religious or cultural beliefs. But fear doesn’t make the facts disappear. We fund schools that prepare children for modern Britain, not for a parallel world where women are property and violence is sanctioned correction. England isn’t a laboratory for foreign doctrines that degrade our women and undermine our values. We owe nothing to ideologies that treat half the population as lesser. Our schools exist for English children, for native British futures not for sectarian enclaves that groom the next generation against everything we stand for. These texts weren’t contraband; they were stocked openly, framed as proper Islamic guidance, drilling into young minds that domestic violence is permissible correction and marital rape is a wife’s duty. But don’t mistake closure for victory. The pattern repeats across these taxpayer-backed Islamic setups: rigid segregation breeding entitlement in boys and submission in girls; materials normalising violence against women under religious cover; all while the system pretends it’s harmless “faith schooling” in “multicultural Britain”. Similar issues surface time and again, books advocating wife-beating as discipline, obedience as non-negotiable, women as property. It’s not education; it’s grooming for a worldview that treats half the population as lesser, clashes violently with British equality and consent, and prepares children for a parallel society, not ours. We don’t owe imported doctrines that degrade women a single inch of ground. England was forged for the English, for our traditions of fairness, mutual respect, rule of law that protects every native daughter and son equally. Not for enclaves that import attitudes straight from the dark ages and call it heritage. From everything we stand for, our sovereignty, our women’s dignity, our children’s right to grow up free of foreign-imposed hierarchies. we carry on without apology. No more pretending tolerance means tolerating intolerance.