The line was busy
This is quite funny. It’s from an article on Alan Johnson’s U-turn on quotas for ‘faith’ schools.
The Guardian yesterday attempted unsuccessfully to contact Tahir Allam, an education spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain. Earlier he told Radio 4″s Today programme: “This assumption that faith schools are divisive is a false one because there is no evidence to support this.”
Actually I think that’s downright hilarious. The Guardian is so eager to check in with the MCB, and to be seen to check in with the MCB, that it even lets us know about its failed attempts. What – did it think we would be annoyed and ‘offended’ if it wrote a story on government policy on ‘faith’ schools without at least attempting to contact someone at the MCB? Does it think it is in some sense mandatory to check in with the MCB on pretty much all subjects that touch on ‘faith’?
Hey, yesterday I attempted to contact the Pope to ask him about ectopic pregnancies in Nicaragua, but, inexplicably, he ignored all my emails. Strange guy.
Let’s make sure that LOTS more children are raised in closed, divisive one-“faith” environments where they never meet another viewpoint, shall we?
What a good idea!
What? Failed to get through to the Earthly Father? Your tone of voice probably gave you away, Ophelia – not sycophantic or simpering enough. Try harder.