Press Release
Ofsted Hijab Inquisition – We Will Interrogate Your Children to Promote Our Liberalism

The chief inspector of schools in Britain, Amanda Spielman, has aligned herself with the secular fanatics who wish to impose their liberal values on everyone, showing that attempts to undermine Islam are getting more desperate and more sinister.

The Times Newspaper reported, “Inspectors are to question children who wear the hijab (sic) to primary school,” and that “it will be the first time the rise of the classroom hijab has been officially challenged in state schools.”

Whilst it is not a Shariah requirement for children to adopt any particular dress code, it is not unusual that parents would want to instil basic modesty within them, so that they grow up with values that stand them in good stead for the rest of their life. Hence why should it be a problem for a parent to ask their child to dress with the clothing that they will be required to wear when they do become an adult? This is aside from the reality that children like to dress like the ones whom they look up to around them, which is naturally their mothers, older sisters, cousins and aunties.

In fact there is no reason to attack the school girls who wear khimar in such a way, other than to further the cause of the bigoted Islam haters who have given up all hope of winning people to secularism through rational debate. They cannot attack the Islamic beliefs, upon which all of the Shariah rules are founded, as they will then leave themselves hopelessly exposed, as the secular belief has no rational foundation at all. They instead choose to target the vulnerable Muslim children, implying that adherence to Islamic rules is oppressing them, as they are unable to critique the belief foundation for those very rules. Thus their secularism has shown its invalidity. ﴿بَلْ نَقْذِفُ بِالْحَقِّ عَلَى الْبَاطِلِ فَيَدْمَغُهُ فَإِذَا هُوَ زَاهِقٌ﴾“Rather, We hurl the truth against falsehood and it cuts right through it and it vanishes clean away!” [Al-Anbiya:18]

The plight of the vulnerable is becoming more and more pronounced by the day in secular liberal Western societies. Muslims and non-Muslims are increasingly horrified by the fruits of the legally tolerated exploitation of children, and the capitalist culture in which greed is the only true value, so it is no wonder that they are looking for a better way of life, and hence are discovering Islam.

This most recent attack on Muslim children comes in the same week that YouTube has been exposed for making millions from videos aimed at perverts. The Times proudly claims that it exposed the parents who produce inappropriate content of their children suffering, to appeal to the lowest deviants in the society; yet in the next breath it attacks the basic Islamic teachings of modesty, as though they have no place in such a proudly liberal society. Look at the monsters that such liberalism creates. Look how children are the first victims of corporate greed, where the only consideration is how to monetise their desire to imitate those whom they look up to, not to question whether their objects or reverence should be free to be promoted into the lives of the vulnerable young.

Speilman made the ludicrous claim that “primary school hijabs could be seen to be sexualising children because the headscarf is traditionally worn as a sign of modesty in front of men when girls reach puberty.”

Such ridiculous perverse logic just smacks at desperate attempts to throw any old mud at Islam in the hope that something will stick. By this twisted reasoning, all clothing that covers one’s body would fall into this category.

No one is asking the girls and boys who like to wear their favourite sports team’s clothing whether they were forced into it by their parents? Nor of those children who wear the scanty clothing of the degenerate pop culture that is rammed down their throat on every tv channel, YouTube video and every high street clothing store.

Aside from the obvious contradictions in the claim that the government is protecting children when it wants to interrogate Muslim girls about why they wear Islamic clothing, there is potentially another far more sinister game at play. The government and their media lackeys have already exhausted themselves though their discredited Prevent programme, trying to generate an unnatural fear of Muslims, such that ordinary people start to view every Muslim through the lens of security. Being able to target very young children for interrogation is a perfect opportunity to gather information about how strongly Muslim families hold onto their Islam.

Although the theory that Islamic adherence is a conveyor belt to violent acts against civilians has no basis and has been thoroughly refuted, the purpose of identifying Islamic adherents was never about preventing violence. Families that hold onto Islam with conviction are far more likely to reject the secular Western values and stand up to promote Islamic values among the British people. They will be at the forefront of exposing the corporate greed and deceitful foreign policy, something that the greedy colonialists do not want exposed. Moreover, Muslims who practice their religion are the ambassadors for Islam, and will be the ones to come out in support of the Khilafah (Caliphate) on the way of Prophethood that is soon coming to the Muslim world.

The Times Newspaper almost said as such with the words “some fear the rise of the classroom hijab is a sign of Islamic conservatism asserting itself in the U.K.” While these attempts to smear Islam are ridiculous, they also present an opportunity for Muslim families to engage with their schools and communities to discuss the Islamic way of life. In an era when many people are questioning the horrendous secular colonial world order, it is a fitting time for us to present Islam as a comprehensive alternative.

﴿وَالْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتُ بَعْضُهُمْ أَوْلِيَاءُ بَعْضٍ يَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ وَيُقِيمُونَ الصَّلَاةَ وَيُؤْتُونَ الزَّكَاةَ وَيُطِيعُونَ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ أُولَٰئِكَ سَيَرْحَمُهُمُ اللَّهُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزِيزٌ حَكِيمٌ﴾

“The believing men and believing women are allies of one another. They enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong and establish prayer and give zakah and obey Allah and His Messenger. It is they who will be shown Allah’s mercy. Indeed, Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise.” [At-Tawbah:71]

Yahya Nisbet
Media Representative of Hizb ut Tahrir in Britain