A London primary school teacher was banned from working with children after telling a Muslim student that "Britain is still a Christian state." The teacher, who remains anonymous, was suspended and dismissed after reprimanding students for washing their feet in the boys' toilets and reminded them that Islam is a minority religion in the UK. A complaint led to his suspension, then termination last March.

 

Following the incident, the teacher was referred to a local safeguarding board and The Metropolitan Police. The safeguarding officer concluded that his comments about Islam caused emotional harm to the child involved. Although the police inquiry was dropped, the teacher is now suing the local authority with support from the Free Speech Union and has appealed the ban.

 

Lord Young, director of the Free Speech Union, criticized the situation, stating, "This teacher lost his job and almost ended up being barred from the profession for life just because he pointed out...that the national religion of England is Anglicanism." He emphasized concerns about free speech implications if teachers are censured for stating facts about religion in the UK.

 

In a related case, Jamie Michael, an Iraq war veteran, was banned from coaching his daughter's football team after being cleared of a "hate crime." Despite his acquittal, a "child protection concern" was substantiated against him, leading to his ban from coaching by the Football Association of Wales. Free speech advocates argue that safeguarding laws are increasingly used to suppress right-wing views.

 

Key Takeaways

• A teacher was banned for comments on UK's Christian heritage, sparking free speech debates.
• He is appealing the ban with the Free Speech Union's backing.
• Similar safeguarding concerns were cited in a separate case involving a war veteran.

 

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from Mail Online 2025-12-09

 

 

 

 

I just wonder how Britain fell to such depths where plain truths need to be suppressed in order not to offend the worlds most offensive a religion. 

Where and when will it end ?

 

There was another story in the news last week about a nurse getting suspended for inadvertantly calling a patient  by the wrong pronoun. Walking into the room and seeing a large person with a muscular body and a full beard lying in bed she used the word Mr instead of Ms because she had not had time to read the patients notes. He went balistic and called her a black ......and a lot of other racist slurs but she remains suspended for her innocent mistake.

 

As long as the country allows ultra virtue signaling morons to hold high office there will be no end to this madness.

 

 

Refusing to follow the leftist narrative can be costly. 

 

Facts must not get in the way of denigrating Britain and the British people. 

16 hours ago, trucking said:

I just wonder how Britain fell to such depths where plain truths need to be suppressed in order not to offend the worlds most offensive a religion. 

Where and when will it end ?

 

There was another story in the news last week about a nurse getting suspended for inadvertantly calling a patient  by the wrong pronoun. Walking into the room and seeing a large person with a muscular body and a full beard lying in bed she used the word Mr instead of Ms because she had not had time to read the patients notes. He went balistic and called her a black ......and a lot of other racist slurs but she remains suspended for her innocent mistake.

 

As long as the country allows ultra virtue signaling morons to hold high office there will be no end to this madness.

 

 

Just gross. Where will it end? Well it will likely bounce back the other way, hard right, where ordinary people (the majority) have had enough and the misfits (the minority) get consigned back into obscurity. Not ideal, but what is happening right now is all wrong. The replacement of the deeply unpopular Labour government and worthless PM is a given for righting the ship. 

Imagine the outrage if a Muslim teacher reprimanded Christian children for following their religious practices.

 

No teacher has any duty to reprimand any child for following their own faith.

 

 

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Imagine the outrage if a Muslim teacher reprimanded Christian children for following their religious practices.

 

No teacher has any duty to reprimand any child for following their own faith.

 

 

 

When they are in school they need to follow the school rules.

 

They don't get a special pass because of their religion. They wouldn't be allowed to follow widespread Muslim practices of opposing LGBT classmates or treating the girls in the class as second class citizens and demanding separate spaces from them either.

 

They are in Britian now.  

53 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

When they are in school they need to follow the school rules.

 

They don't get a special pass because of their religion. They wouldn't be allowed to follow widespread Muslim practices of opposing LGBT classmates or treating the girls in the class as second class citizens and demanding separate spaces from them either.

 

They are in Britian now.  

Please provide a reference to which school rules were broken or that any of your other imagined grievances took place.

 

“They are in Britian now.”

 

Your evidence that these children were ever anywhere other than in Britain?

 

4 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Please provide a reference to which school rules were broken or that any of your other imagined grievances took place.

 

 

 

 

Going out on a limb here (see what I have done eh?) but perhaps there is one against washing ones feet in the boys toilets!

8 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Please provide a reference to which school rules were broken or that any of your other imagined grievances took place.

 

Washing feet in the toilet.

 

21 hours ago, CharlieH said:

The teacher, who remains anonymous, was suspended and dismissed after reprimanding students for washing their feet in the boys' toilets

 

2 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Imagine the outrage if a Muslim teacher reprimanded Christian children for following their religious practices.

 

No teacher has any duty to reprimand any child for following their own faith.

 

 

 

  Is it  a Muslim practice to wash  your feet in the sink in schools ?

Where in the Koran does it mention that ?

(The original Koran, not your imaginary new 1924 edition 🙂 )

18 minutes ago, JAG said:

Going out on a limb here (see what I have done eh?) but perhaps there is one against washing ones feet in the boys toilets!

And perhaps there is not.

 

It’s for the person claiming school rules haven’t been followed to produce the school rules.

18 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

Washing feet in the toilet.

 

 

Produce the rule Jonny.

 

The dismissed teacher might also be advised to do so.

18 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

  Is it  a Muslim practice to wash  your feet in the sink in schools ?

Where in the Koran does it mention that ?

(The original Koran, not your imaginary new 1924 edition 🙂 )

I doubt the Koran mentions school sinks.

 

Not even the actual 1924 Cairo edition  (pleased to see you are paying attention).

 

 

3 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Produce the rule Jonny.

 

The dismissed teacher might also be advised to do so.

 

   Aren't pupils supposed to follow the Teachers instructions in schools ?

1 minute ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Aren't pupils supposed to follow the Teachers instructions in schools ?

Erm depends on the instruction.

 

Doh!

 

3 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

And perhaps there is not.

 

It’s for the person claiming school rules haven’t been followed to produce the school rules.

It is not a court Chomper, and you are not a judicial official empowered to demand evidence. It is a discussion forum; so often a forum for discussions which you seek to close down by somehow posturing as someone who has some form of moral or quasi judicial authority. 

4 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Produce the rule Jonny.

 

The dismissed teacher might also be advised to do so.

 

The teacher was right. Britain is a Christian country.

 

So funny to see you lefties simping to a religion that goes against all of the core values you claim to have i.e. lgbt rights, women's rights, religious tolerance etc.

 

They won't need you much longer then you'll see what happens to your precious groups.  😄

2 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Imagine the outrage if a Muslim teacher reprimanded Christian children for following their religious practices.

No teacher has any duty to reprimand any child for following their own faith.

 

4 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I doubt the Koran mentions school sinks.

 

 

 

    OK, so washing feet in school sinks isn't  a Religious practice .

The Teacher wasn't actually reprimanding the pupils for following their faith

What I find hilarious is Muslim folk moving too what is basically Christian country, I wonder why, when there are all those basically Muslim countries out there to choose from, even their own......... 

22 hours ago, CharlieH said:

A London primary school teacher was banned from working with children after telling a Muslim student that "Britain is still a Christian state."

 Nothing wrong whith a good information.

5 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Erm depends on the instruction.

 

Doh!

 

 

  The instructions were not to wash their feet in the sinks .

Double Doh! back 

8 minutes ago, transam said:

What I find hilarious is Muslim folk moving too what is basically Christian country, I wonder why, when there are all those basically Muslim countries out there to choose from, even their own......... 

 

It's like when your house is a total mess, so you see your neighbour's house is nice and clean so you move in there without asking and insist they respect your habits. 

 

Within 6 months it's also a mess, but you keep banging on about how great your house next door is, without ever moving back there. 

London, eh?  Anywhere but that little green spot, and the teacher may still be employed, given that there IS an official state religion in England and he/she got it right:

 

 

Source:  vividmaps.com

 

Religion in the United Kingdom and Ireland - Vivid Maps

 

 

3 hours ago, daveAustin said:

Just gross. Where will it end? Well it will likely bounce back the other way, hard right, where ordinary people (the majority) have had enough and the misfits (the minority) get consigned back into obscurity. Not ideal, but what is happening right now is all wrong. The replacement of the deeply unpopular Labour government and worthless PM is a given for righting the ship. 

As Tommy Robinson has shown them, and also BLM, Antifa and others, the only solution that works these days is to take violent protest action and demand change. Governments are more and more incompetent and ignorant, and the narrative has been taken over by unelected UN and EU type bureaucratic socialists. IMO the People are at a breaking point and it will soon explode if the Western Govts dont do what the People want. And if the Govts dont wake up soon and respond, they will be removed the same way the out of touch Royals and Elite were many many years ago - with massive force - and unfortunately it will not be organised and will be very destructive.  

20 hours ago, trucking said:

I just wonder how Britain fell to such depths where plain truths need to be suppressed in order not to offend the worlds most offensive a religion. 

Where and when will it end ?

The objective of Muslims is to caliphate the West, so as far as they’re concerned, there’s no end.

5 minutes ago, impulse said:

London, eh?  Anywhere but that little green spot, and the teacher may still be employed, given that there IS an official state religion in England and he/she got it right:

 

 

Source:  vividmaps.com

 

Religion in the United Kingdom and Ireland - Vivid Maps

 

 

Those figures are based on the 2021 Census - which a large percentage of the Muslim population did not complete - and certainly not the illegals. Yes UK is still 'Christian' overall, but the number of Muslims is far greater than as depicted in the Census.   They found the same problem in Sweden - the Muslims dont provide their details in response to Census requests.  

Isn't Christianity just another minority religion in the UK and Britain is nowadays a secular society?

1 minute ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Isn't Christianity just another minority religion in the UK and Britain is nowadays a secular society?

 

Maybe.  But there is still a constitutional state religion.  With the Monarch at the top.

 

32 minutes ago, JAG said:

It is not a court Chomper, and you are not a judicial official empowered to demand evidence. It is a discussion forum; so often a forum for discussions which you seek to close down by somehow posturing as someone who has some form of moral or quasi judicial authority. 

No, it’s a discussion forum and in the news section claims made need to be backed by credible links.

 

I have absolutely no wish to close down this discussion, those supporting this dismissed teacher’s actions are doing a marvelous job of revealing their arguments are based on prejudice, hypocrisy.

I encourage them to continue revealing their prejudices.

 

33 minutes ago, transam said:

What I find hilarious is Muslim folk moving too what is basically Christian country, I wonder why, when there are all those basically Muslim countries out there to choose from, even their own......... 

do you have evidence these Muslim children moved to the UK?