Monday, February 08, 2010

Christian teacher sues over 'racist' pupils aged eight

Thanks to Damien for sending this to me.

From the Daily Mail:
Nicholas Kafouris

Race claim: Nicholas Kafouris arriving at the tribunal hearing

A Christian teacher yesterday claimed he was forced out of his job after complaining that Muslim pupils as young as eight hailed the September 11 hijackers as heroes.

Nicholas Kafouris, 52, is suing his former school for racial discrimination.

He told a tribunal that he had to leave his £30,000-a-year post because he would not tolerate the 'racist' and 'anti-Semitic' behaviour of Year 4 pupils.

The predominantly Muslim youngsters openly praised Islamic extremists in class and described the September 11 terrorists as 'heroes and martyrs'.

One pupil said: 'Don't touch me, you're a Christian' when he brushed against him.

Others said: 'We want to be Islamic bombers when we grow up', and 'The Christians and Jews are our enemies - you too because you're a Christian'.

Mr Kafouris, a Greek Cypriot, taught for 12 years at Bigland Green Primary School in Tower Hamlets, East London.

According to Ofsted 'almost all' its 465 pupils are from ethnic minorities and a vast proportion do not speak English as a first language.

The teacher claims racial discrimination by the school, its headmistress and her assistant head after they failed to take action about the comments made by pupils to him.

14 comments:

christian soldier said...

good on him-sue the b_ _ _ _ _ _s---the Bible says nothing about suing an enemy ...
C-CS

Damien said...

Pastorius,

You're Welcome! I knew that you would think this was important. Although I think you pointed out in your email response that this is not about race, and I agree with you there. Still it is shocking. As I pointed out in my original email, "Almost needless to say, if a black teacher complained about white christian kids in his class room shouting racial slurs at him and praising lynchings and the KKK, an outcome like this, wouldn't be very likely." Despite the fact that this has more to do with religion than race, in a way its still sort of along those lines, don't you think?

Pastorius said...

Yeah, I actually had written it in the post as well, but for some reason Blogger put my writing in white instead of black, so you couldn't see it.

I changed it. You can see it now.

Damien said...

Pastorius,

Thanks, I can see that, now. I was wondering why there was a big blank spot after the text from the Daily Mail article.

revereridesagain said...

I remember hearing stories like that on talk radio right after 9/11 -- teachers from NYC, especially the Bay Ridge (aka "Beruit") area, saying the Muslim kids actually told the teachers they had come to the US not to become Americans but to kill Americans.

Damien said...

Revere Rides Again,

I'd hate to be one of those teachers, and I bet that you would as well. This is disturbing. I wouldn't even want my own children to attend a school with other children like that. Would you?

Pastorius said...

I don't remember hearing stories like that, but then again, I wasn't that plugged in until about a year later.

I was wondering if we had this kind of problem here in the U.S. I guess we do.

Damien said...

Pastorius,

I wasn't really plugged in so to speak pre 9/11. Pre 9/11 for me was a time of innocents. I was genuinely naive back than. I didn't realize that stuff like this was even going on. Nor did I know anything thing of significance about Jihad.

Pastorius said...

It was March of 2002 before I started getting my news on the internet.

Before that, I got little news, cuz I've never liked TV news, and the LA Times didn't much report on the Jihadist threat.

I wanted to understand it, but I had no idea where to go.

I read American Jihad by Steve Emerson, and various articles in the New Yorker and the Atlantic Monthly. But, that was it.

Damien said...

Pastorius,

I first learned about Jihad and the Islamic supremacist theology from Jihad Watch, a few months after 9/11. I was looking for answers, and there I found them, even through I clearly did not like them, at least now I know. What I like or dislike has no bearing on reality.

Pastorius said...

I got it on 9/11.

However, I did not understand the depth of the depravity we are dealing with until April of 2002; the "Jenin Massacre" hoax.

I realized then that the media was in on it too, and the governmental elites of Europe as well.

At that point I knew I could not trust the media, and I could not trust anyone on the Dem side of the aisle either.

If they are willing to put up with the anti-Semitism of the Arab World then they are nothing to me.

The kind of anti-Semitism we see in the Arab World is unparalleled in history, unless you want to include the Nazis.

We are facing a Nazi-like threat.

Dems have ignored it. Republicans have addressed it.

So, though I was a registered Democrat all my life, I have staked my claim with the Republicans.

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Pastorius said...

Good point, Damien.