Saturday 19 November 2022 10:35 PM Police called after teacher rebukes pupils in homophobia row calling 9/11 ... trends now
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A teacher has been dragged into an extraordinary Islamophobia row after citing 9/11 while rebuking pupils for clashing with a gay Muslim campaigner.
The campaigner, Khakan Qureshi, was invited to Wood Green Academy in Wednesbury, West Midlands, last week to share his experience of coming out.
But in a testy Q&A exchange with sixth-formers, Mr Qureshi faced hostile questioning, with one student asking: 'Do you agree that being gay and Muslim is wrong?', and he later received death threats.
Angry at the way Mr Qureshi was treated, the teacher later lectured pupils on tolerance.
But it resulted in a furious backlash when he was filmed referring to the September 11 attackers as Muslims rather than terrorists.
In his rebuke, the teacher said: 'We live in a diverse and tolerant country. We are tolerant of different religions. Twenty-one years ago a group of Muslims smashed aeroplanes into buildings to kill thousands of people. At that stage people stood up and said, "No, we must not condemn Muslims for what a few have done."
'Because we are a tolerant society, and that means we may not like some things that you say but you do have the right to
