Slough RE Teacher: "Most Suicide Bombers are Muslims"

Iain Dale thinks this teacher's departure from his temporary teaching post in a Slough Secondary for allegedly saying, among other things: "Most (or All) suicide bombers are Muslim" to a class discussing an essay they had produced, set by another teacher, on the advantages and disadvantages of religion.

There doesn't seem to be enough evidence in the BBC text or the linked video tape for Iain to seem so certain that the decision to let the teacher go constitutes an outrage. Perhaps it does. But there is no evidence. Just the man's assertion of his innocence.

The reporter's question about racism, vehemently denied by the supply teacher, specifying as evidence in his rebuttal that he was a Christian as if that cleared him instantly of being capable of racism, completely misses the nuance between racism and religious discrimination.

Nick Griffin and Mark Collett are seriously damaged goods. But court claims "Not racist". Every one of these BNP men do however boast criminal records.

This is of course the main reason quoted on why Mr Nick Griffin and Mr Mark Collett of the fine, upstanding and eminently respectable BNP escaped justice in Leeds Crown Court recently. Slagging off Islam but successfully arguing that this was not racist or even aimed at muslims. Local Blogger's View: 2 February 2006 entry.

Let us wait and see what if anything emerges over time on this strange case of a certain Mr McCluskey, an allegedly loose and rather reprehensible remark, and the upset 12 year old students of Baylis Court School.

Suicide bombing is completely outwith the correct practice of Islam. Just as placing murderous bombs in Omagh Town is not within the teaching of the Catholic Church in Ireland.

I imagine that a supply teacher who went into the old school of Padraig O'Brien (BBC London's reporter) and made a similar remark about Catholics or Protestants would find that their feet would not touch the floor.