UK faces backlash as teacher dismissed for telling student Britain is a Christian country

An simple schoolhouse teacher successful London was dismissed and referred to authorities aft telling a Muslim pupil that Britain was a "Christian country," according to the lawyer supporting his ineligible challenge. 

The lawsuit from earlier this twelvemonth has added to the broader statement astir escaped expression, multiculturalism and the usage of safeguarding mechanisms successful British schools — the strategy designed to guarantee a harmless situation successful which children tin learn.

Lord Toby Young, manager of the Free Speech Union, told Fox News Digital that the cardinal accusation was triggered by the teacher’s connection that Britain remains a Christian country." To assertion that Britain is simply a Christian state and to constituent retired that the king is the caput of the Church of England isn’t a peculiarly politically contentious happening to say. It’s conscionable stating a beauteous straightforward fact."

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King Charles III serves arsenic caput of the Church of England — a information the dismissed teacher cited erstwhile telling a pupil that Britain is inactive a Christian country. (Richard Pohle - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

The ailment besides progressive the pupil washing his feet successful a schoolhouse descend — a pre-prayer ritual for Muslims. "The genitor of a lad astatine the schoolhouse complained due to the fact that the teacher had told the lad not to lavation his feet successful 1 of the sinks successful the schoolhouse lavatories," Young added.

He said the Free Speech Union is seeing a emergence successful referrals to safeguarding panels for mainstream views. "We’ve got implicit a twelve cases of radical being referred to safeguarding panels due to the fact that they are said to beryllium a menace to children’s information conscionable due to the fact that of the views they’ve expressed."

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A Union emblem flies successful beforehand of St Paul's Cathedral successful London, England. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

After the schoolhouse dismissed the teacher, the lawsuit was referred to the Teaching Regulation Authority (TRA). Young said the TRA held a afloat proceeding and yet "dismissed the charges," uncovering "no lawsuit to answer." Had it gone the different way, helium said, the teacher could person been barred from the assemblage for life. The Free Speech Union is present backing the teacher’s suit for unfair dismissal.

Young besides tied the lawsuit to a nationalist statement implicit the U.K. government’s enactment connected a nonstatutory explanation of Islamophobia, thing his enactment opposes. He warned specified a explanation could beryllium embedded into "speech codes," with imaginable disciplinary consequences.

Worshipers get for prayers astatine the East London Mosque successful London, England, arsenic men and women marque their mode into the building. The mosque is 1 of the largest successful the United Kingdom and serves arsenic a cardinal hub for the section Muslim community. Sept. 2025. (Fox News Digital)

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He said the governing enactment fears losing parliamentary seats to Muslim autarkic candidates — a dynamic helium argues has created governmental incentives to assistance "special protections" to Muslim constituencies.