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A top secondary school received bomb threats and extremist calls for the murder of its teachers after Muslim pupils were told to stop praying on school grounds, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
The teachers became so frightened that they escorted each other to school and back home, and were forced to close early for the Easter break fearing for their safety and that of pupils, according to legal documents in the High Court.
The papers say police were called into the secular London school at least three times – once including a bomb disposal team – after the head teacher received a chilling warning that explosives had been planted in classrooms and toilets.
Emails were also sent threatening the 'kuffar' [disbeliever] headmistress with death for 'insulting Islam' and a brick was thrown through the window of a teacher's house, court papers say.
Met bomb squad officers were called in to sweep the school for explosives; none were found
The alleged incidents began after a black teacher stopped some Muslim pupils from praying in the playground, saying that ritual worship on premises was against school policy. Angry Muslim pupils clashed with the teacher, which led the headmistress to expel one teenage girl for 'serious rudeness and defiance' on March 23, the first day of the holy month of Ramadan.
The next day, a social media campaign against
