A teacher who imposed too much Islam on pupils’ education at a Birmingham school linked to the Trojan Horse scandal has revealed he is to fight his classroom ban in the High Court.
Inamulhaq Anwar was last week banned from teaching for life after he was found guilty of professional misconduct following a National College of Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) hearing.
Mr Anwar, aged 35, of Bordesley Green taught at the former Park View Academy in Alum Rock and was previously governor at neighbouring Nansen Primary.
The two schools were among five in Birmingham placed in special measures in 2014 following snap inspections by Ofsted, sparked by allegations of a plot to Islamise non-faith schools. Mr Anwar, who was told he could apply to have the ban lifted in six years, said he was “extremely disappointed and upset” by the prohibition order and “level of injustice that has taken place”.
During the hearing, the NCTL panel heard Mr Anwar contributed to a group called the Park View Brotherhood, on the phone messaging service WhatsApp - reportedly sending messages describing homosexuality as a “filthy crime”.
Mr Anwar was found guilty of reforming the curriculum to exclude proper sex education. And the panel ruled his behaviour left pupils at risk of “being isolated” in an Islamic bubble “and not properly integrated” into British society.
The panel said that while his push to Islamise pupils’ education was “in no way extremist”, the children were “not being prepared for life in modern Britain”.
Mr Anwar denied all of the allegations.
