Extremists have tried to intimidate Britain’s schools watchdog over its crackdown on unregistered Muslim schools, where inspectors were called “Britain First paedophiles”.
Ofsted boss Amanda Spielman revealed that inspectors at one of the regulator’s regional offices have been forced to take additional security measures after they were were repeatedly sent radical Islamic literature.
The chief inspector of schools accused a “mixture of Islamic extremists and the hard left” of using threats and intimidation to halt Ofsted’s attempts to crack down on hardline elements of Islam in schools in England and Wales.
“I had an email, which was the most threatening one, which was along the lines of ‘We know where you live and we can get you any time we want to’.”
Spielman disclosed that, after a court ruled that segregating boys from girls at a Muslim school was unlawful sex discrimination, her home address had to be wiped from the internet following an email which said: “We know where you live and we can get you any time we want to”.
“I’m not easily bruised. I don’t fall over when I see a load of nasty tweets pointed at me, but there has been some pretty venomous stuff,” she told the Times on Saturday in an interview.
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