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Op-Ed: The United Kingdom's Muslim Trojan HorsebyDr. Mordechai Kedar If there is one special thing of which Great Britain is proud, it is its national school system. The mandatory national curriculum is uniform for all schools and every educational institution is expected to follow it scrupulously. Expected to, that is, because recently a massive breach has been found in this sacrosanct wall of uniformity.The more Islamization there is, the harder it is to turn the Muslim communities into an integral part of British society.The story takes place in Birmingham, a city with a large concentration of Muslim immigrants. A majority of Muslim pupils exists in nearly twenty of the city's schools, and recently it was discovered that a group of teachers, on their own initiative, decided to add extremist Muslim study units to the curriculum.Some of them, who identify with the Salafist movement, prepared a document which called for firing all teachers, headmasters and municipal supervisors who refuse to take part in the Islamization of the educational system. The Salafist complaints include claims that the curriculum is too permissive; they are against the singing of Christian songs in the schools and oppose mixed gender physical education classes.The Ministry of Education is frantically conducting an inquiry into the matter in an attempt to put a stop to the phenomenon before it spreads to other cities with Muslim pupil majorities.And it has recently come to light that one of the key figures in this islamification scheme is a man named Bil'al Bil'ali, who has visited Syria at least once and Is suspected of enlisting a good part of the 400 - or thereabouts - Britons who are now in Syria playing a role in the jihad against Assad.Bil'ali even posted statuses on Facebook, such as: "Why do the media attack our heroes, who gave up the good life in Britain [to fight] for the life of the Syrian people?"There is, however, no proof that Bil'ali actually took part in the fighting in Syria.The above goes hand in hand with other Islamization phenomena in the UK, most prominently, the government's sanctioning the establishment of an Islamic court system that will make decisions on the basis of Sharia law in disputes between Muslims as well as act as a family court. The government's allowing this is based on the view that there can be a multicultural system in the UK in which each culture has autonomy without any need for the state's intervention in its cultural life.In the meantime, the investigation in Birmingham is progressing, and the British Minister of Education is weighing the possibility of abrogating the city of Birmingham's authority to supervise its school system, which entails handing over the controls to a national governmental body that will be less prone to listen to the Islamic wishes of the city's Muslim population. Britain"s interior ministry, responsible for public order and law enforcement, is very worried by the growing Islamization of education, seeing it as a mirror of that population's ongoing trends. The more Islamization there is, the harder it is to turn the Muslim communities into an integral part of British society. Leaving the Muslim population in its own cultural bubble may create violent friction between those closed enclaves and government and law enforcement agencies.