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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article3746920.ece
April 15, 2008
“Teacher accuses Islamic school of racism”
Alexandra Frean, Education Editor
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A former teacher at an Islamic school, who alleged that it taught an offensive and racist view of non-Muslims, has been awarded £70,000 by an employment tribunal after winning his case for unfair dismissal.
Colin Cook told the tribunal in Watford that pupils were taught from Arabic books that likened Jews and Christians to “monkeys” and “pigs” at The King Fahad Academy, which is funded and run by the Saudi Arabian Government.
The tribunal ruled that Mr Cook, a British Muslim, was unfairly dismissed from his £36,000-a-year post at the school in Acton, West London, in December 2006 after blowing the whistle on systematic cheating at a GCSE exam.
The panel found that the school created a “smokescreen” to try to justify his dismissal after 18 years’ unblemished service.
It awarded Mr Cook £58,800 in compensation for loss of earnings and £10,500 for injury to feelings. But it rejected his claim that the school discriminated against him on racial grounds.
Mr Cook told the hearing that after leaving the school another member of staff gave him extracts from an Arabic textbook, which encouraged students to believe that all religions other than Islam were worthless.
The books referred to “the repugnant characteristics of the Jews”. Another passage said: “Those whom God has cursed and with whom he is angry, he has turned into monkeys and pigs. They worship Satan.”
Mr Cook alleged that the books were spreading race hatred. “They should not be brought into this country and they should not be used in this country,” he said.”
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Well, let’s see how Jimmy Carter’s Middle East tour is going.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200804/FOR20080414a.html
“Jimmy Carter Gets ‘Souvenir’ Rocket Tail on Visit to Rocket-Pounded Sderot”
By Julie Stahl
CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau Chief
April 14, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Just days before he is supposed to meet with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Damascus, Syria, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter criticized Palestinian rocket attacks on civilians in southern Israel.
“I think it’s a despicable crime for any deliberate effort to be made to kill innocent civilians, and my hope is there will be a cease-fire soon,” Carter said during a visit Monday to the rocket-ravaged town of Sderot. (One Kassam rocket slammed into an open area near Sderot on Monday, the army said.)
Although some senior Israeli officials have snubbed Carter — refusing to meet with him — a Foreign Ministry representative in Sderot, Jonathan Peled, said it was important for Carter to visit Sderot.
“The fact that Carter came to Sderot is basically important - for him to see the terrible situation in Sderot and the conditions [under which the residents are living],” Peled told Cybercast News Service.
Carter was shown a house that was hit by a Kassam rocket, the remains of rockets and he also visited an overlook that shows just how close the Gaza Strip is to Israel, said Peled.
Carter also received a “souvenir” - the tail of a Kassam rocket, with an inscription from Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal.
“To President Carter: A momento of the thousands of Kassam rockets that were shot at Sderot and the region and caused the death of many innocent civilians. With hope for peace and tranquility in the near future,” read the inscription, written in Hebrew.
Moyal was one of the few Israeli officials to meet with Carter on his trip here. He said he does not believe that Carter’s upcoming meeting with Mashaal will bring “calm and peace” nor advance Israel’s interests.”