It’s a great pity that the UK doesn’t have separation of church and state.

A religious school leader has been appointed as chairman of Ofsted for what is believed to be the first time.

Sir Hamid Patel will take up the interim role until a successor is found for Dame Christine Ryan at the schools regulator.

He is the chief executive of Star Academies Trust, which runs nearly 40 primaries and secondaries, including several Islamic schools.

Ah, Islamic schools. So girls have to wear hijab? So girls are called sluts if they don’t wear hijab? And the people who make these appointments are ok with that?

Sir Hamid has been on the board of Ofsted since 2019 and has led Star Academies since its inception in 2010. He was previously the headteacher of Tauheedul Islam Girls’ High School in Blackpool.

While [he was] in that role, the school became one of the first in the country to urge pupils to wear a hijab outside of school.

Oh outside of school too – that’s a nice touch. The little sluts have to be taught not to tempt the poor helpless boys. They must emulate their sisters in Afghanistan.

Guidance reportedly told pupils to “recite the Koran at least once a week” and “not bring stationery to school that contains un-Islamic images”, such as pictures of pop stars.

The school was criticised over a visit in 2010 from Sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Sudais, a Saudi Arabian cleric who had described Jews as “pigs”.

Sheikh Sudais also prayed for God to “terminate” the Jews and, discussing his visit, Sir Hamid told The Sunday Times in 2013: “The girls wanted to see this guy with 5 million followers. They had seen him on YouTube. He stayed 20 minutes.”

Cool cool; that’s fine then.