Trojan Horse document
The Trojan Horse document was passed to Birmingham City Council in November 2013. It purported to be part of a plan for 'Operation Trojan Horse', an Islamist takeover of Birmingham schools.[1] According to the Independent, the document is widely considered to be a fake.[2]
The document claims the Trojan Horse strategy has been successfully applied at four Birmingham schools: Saltley School, Adderley School, Regents Park Community School and Park View Academy.[1]
Defenders of the documents authenticity note that includes details regarding Adderley School that had not been in the public domain.[1]
However, the Guardian has reported:
- A source at West Midlands police said one line of inquiry is whether the Trojan Horse document is a hoax, linked to other claims of fraud brought by four former teaching assistants at Adderley primary.[3]
Four women were arrested in relation to a fraud investigation at Adderley School in April 204, the Birmingham Mail reported:
- It is alleged the women were involved in a bogus resignation letters plot at Adderley Primary School in Saltley.
- The fraud reinvestigation began after Birmingham City Council received a document which alleged hard-line Islamists were plotting to takeover some Birmingham schools, in an operation called Trojan Horse.[4]
External resources
- M.G. Khan, ‘The so-called “Trojan Horse” document is being used to destabilise Muslim-majority schools', Times Educational Supplement, 27 March 2014.
- Richard Bartholemew, Daily Mail Claims Alleged “Operation Trojan Horse” Plot Goes Back To 1990s, Bartholemew's Notes on Religion, 10 March 2014.
- Dominic Kennedy, Greg Hurst and Ruth Gledhill, Times discovers that ‘Trojan horse’ letter is a crude forgery, The Times, 11 March 2014, archived at Islamophobia Watch.
- Oliver Coss, Of #trojanhorse, and rumours of Trojan Horses, The Vicar of Purgstall, 15 April 2014.
- Scribd, Trojan Horse document.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Phil Mackie, Operation Trojan Horse: Will we ever learn the truth?, BBC News, 17 April 2014.
- ↑ Richard Garner, Tristram Hunt challenges Michael Gove's handling of Trojan Horse schools crisis, Independent, 7 June 2014.
- ↑ Helen Pidd, Alleged Islamic plot to take over Birmingham schools may be hoax, The Guardian, 13 March 2014.
- ↑ Brett Gibbons, Four woman held in Birmingham school 'bogus resignation letters' fraud probe, Birmingham Mail, 17 April 2014.
