num_pages: 296
description: In 2014 an investigation into an alleged plot to Islamify several state schools in Birmingham began. Known as the Trojan Horse affair this caused a previously highly successful school to be vilified. Holmwood an expert witness in the professional misconduct cases brought against the teachers and OToole who researches the governments counter-extremism agenda challenge the accepted narrative and draw on the potential parallel with the Hillsborough disaster to suggest a similar false narrative has taken hold of public debate. This important book highlights the major injustice inflicted on the teachers and shows how this affair was used to criticise multiculturalism and justify the expansion of a broad and intrusive counter extremism agenda.
language: English
title: Countering Extremism in British Schools?: The Truth about the Birmingham Trojan Horse Affair
publisher: Policy Press