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Employers are seemingly discriminating against people because they are Muslim, a BBC Inside Out undercover investigation has revealed.
The programme found apparent discrimination in the workplace when it sent two undercover reporters, one Muslim and a non-Muslim, to apply for 40 jobs.
The non-Muslim applicant succeeded in getting 13 interviews and one offer of a job, whilst the Muslim candidate was successful in getting only three interviews, despite having similar qualifications and experience.
Inside Out also undertook secret filming in a supermarket where three jobs were advertised for a manager, a store supervisor and a driver.
‘Zoltan’, the Muslim candidate, arrived first at the shop and was told that the job had been filled.
The non-Muslim applicant, ‘Ian’, followed five minutes later and was told there were several store supervisor jobs available and was given an application form.
Baroness Warsi, the government’s Faith and Communities Minister, says it is vital that discrimination policies are “applied at the grass roots level”.
In response, the supermarket has thanked Inside Out for bringing this to their attention and says it is investigating the findings in the programme.
Inside Out West is broadcast on BBC One on Monday, 28 October at 19:30 GMT and nationwide on the iPlayer for seven days thereafter.
Categories: Europe and Australia, UK
Endemic racism is infecting all walks of British society. It is a well known fact that British education is a home of institutional racism. The immigrant children are victims of bullying and racism. Muslim children suffer more than other children.
British schooling is not only the home of institutional racism but also British teachers are chicken racist. This is one of the main reason why Muslims, Hindus and Sikh communities have been setting up their own schools with their own teachers. Even Black community is thinking of setting up its own schools with Black teachers.
Nearly 88,000 racist incidents were recorded in Britain’s schools between 2007 and 2011, the BBC has found. Data from 90 areas shows 87,915 cases of racist bullying, which can include name calling and physical abuse.
Racism is the biggest type of bullying at schools in Bradford accounting for 75 per cent of incidents during the last academic year, it has been revealed.
A total of 344 bullying incidents were reported by schools in the district between September, 2010, and July, 2011, of which 260 were deemed to be racist, figures obtained by the Telegraph & Argus through a Freedom of Information request show.
Last term, from September to December, racist incidents accounted for more than half of the 113 recorded bullying incidents.
Other types of bullying reported by schools during this period include incidents relating to disability, family nationality or lifestyle, homophobia, gender and religion.
Sarah Soyei, of the anti-racism educational charity, Show Racism the Red Card (SRRC), said: “Unfortunately, the numbers of recorded racist incidents are just the tip of the iceberg. “Racism is a very real issue in many classrooms around the country, but cases of racist bullying are notoriously underreported.
“Often teachers may not be aware of racism in their classrooms because victims are scared of reporting them out of fear of making the situation worse.” Many local education authorities say that the increase in reported incidents – up until 2010/11 when the guidance changed – is due to better recording methods.
However, anti-racism charities say that it is a growing problem in many regions.
It is absurd to say that institutional racism is dead. It is still alive in the form of Islamophobia. . One of the deepest expressions of institutional racism affecting immigrant communities, and one that has been long documented is the unequal treatment of their children by the education system. They are motivated, but knocked back by their experiences of the school system. They are often treated more harshly and viewed with lower teacher expectation on the basis of teachers’ assumptions about their motivation and ability.
LAs are failing in their duty to combat racism in schools, according to OFSTED, Education system exhibits “aspects of racism”. A quarter of authorities are not doing enough to promote equal educational opportunities. A Brighton University study found that the Britain education system is institutionally racist, with pupils and teachers vulnerable to abuse by peers, teachers and management. I discovered the element of racism in early 70s. National Curriculum does not reflect cultural diversity and minority pupils are being held back by native teachers.
London Borough of Newham was judged by OFSTED as unsatisfactory in tackling racism. There are big issues about racism in schools needed to be tackled but could not understand that Bilingual Muslim pupils need state funded Muslim schools with bilingual Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental periods. It is a crime against humanity to deprive a child of his mother tongue but in the name of integration everything is fair. Independent schools are also racist in nature. The parents of a Pakistani boy who was racially abused by his classmates and teachers are suing St. Christopher School.
Education report by Birmingham Advisory Service recommends that school lessons should take into account cultural differences in order to improve pupils’ performance. It calls for teaching “the need for mutual respect and understanding”. Minority pupils are underachieving at school because the curriculum is racist. The study found lessons often failed to motivate or interest pupils because curriculum did not provide enough positive role models. The curriculum needs to be more balanced and less Eurocentric. Pupils grow up thinking there is no other playwright than Shakespeare. An ethnicity “Tsar” should be appointed to reform British schooling. Muslim schools performed best overall, although they constitute only a fraction of the country’s 7000 schools. Muslim schools do well because of their Islamic ethos and a focus on traditional discipline and teaching methods. They teach children what is right and what is wrong, because young children need structural guidance. Muslim school is responsible for the development of the whole child. Muslim schools give Muslim children “pride, identity and a sense of culture and languages.
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