U.K. Teacher Fired After Complaining About Students' Anti-Semitic/Christian Behaviour

Rather than being thanked for bringing to light the possible radical indoctrination of students at a school where he teaches, 52-year-old Christian teacher Nicholas Kafouris was fired from his job in East London, instead. As a result he's suing the school for discrimination.

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It all changed after 9/11 when his predominately Muslim students started to demonstrate anti-Semitic and anti-Christian attitudes.

They told him: 'We hate the Christians' and 'We hate the Jews', despite his attempts to stop them.

"Miss Hankey proceeded to excuse and justify the pupil's behaviour, conduct and remarks to me as if I had no right to be offended by the child's remarks and conduct.

'Amongst Miss Hankey's justifications for the child's remarks, she said, "If the child was older, say 15, I might take it more seriously. He's only nine - he's only doing it to wind you up". He added: 'I felt the head's behaviour and conduct towards me amounted to direct religious discrimination. I was intimidated in the way she spoke to me which indicated "Don't come back with such issues again".'

Things continued to escalate with an abundance of racist and anti-Semitic and anti-Christian incidents, after there was no disciplinary action taken against the offending children.

One pupil said: 'Don't touch me, you're a Christian' when he brushed against him.

Others said: 'We want to be Islamic bombers when we grow up', and 'The Christians and Jews are our enemies - you too because you're a Christian'.

'In late November and December 2006, a number of unacceptable and blunt racist, anti-Semitic and anti-Christian remarks were being made by various children in Year 4 where I taught, such as, "The Twin Tower bombers are heroes and martyrs".

'Some children were expressing delight at the death and killing of people of other cultures and religions.

'In the last week of November 2006 a child was talking about stabbing another child and I told him this was dangerous talk and that a lawyer had recently been stabbed by teenagers. His reply was, "I'm glad that man died". "Why?" I asked. "Because he's a Christian and English and we're Muslim".' He claimed that during a religious education lesson about Jonah and the whale, one of the pupils asked if Jonah was a Jew, before shouting: 'I hate the Jews, they're our enemies.'

When he approached the headmistress one more time, he was reprimanded for bringing the subject up again, and the blame was placed on him for lack of discipline.

He was eventually fired.

Although I'm not sure he really has a case, and perhaps it was a lack of discipline on his part that made the kids feel they could get a rise out of him and take advantage of him, but that's not the point. The point is that these kids were saying some very racist, hateful and offensive things and should have been dealt with in an appropriate manner. Whether it was just kids being nasty kids or whether they truly believe what they are saying is something that should be looked into, especially since there has been proof that U.K. kids are being radicalized. The longer we allow these kids to talk about hating Jews and Christians and other non-Muslims, the easier it will be for them to be indoctrinated into a culture of hate, and then where will that lead them?!