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I looked at Patel’s photo several times and then pinched myself, thinking it was a joke. A mufti with a Salafi beard and in Islamic robes appointed to head the UK’s most important education body? Opinion.

Giulio Meotti is an Italian journalist with Il Foglio and writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author, in English, of the book "A New Shoah", that researched the personal stories of Israel's terror victims, published by Encounter and of "J'Accuse: the Vatican Against Israel" published by Mantua Books, in addition to books in Italian.
The English government has just appointed the new head of Ofsted, the body that inspects public schools. His name is Hamid Patel and he is a mufti.
And then they say that "Islamization does not exist".
Patel was the headmaster of a school in Blackpool, the first in the country to ask pupils to wear the hijab outside of school, to “recite the Koran at least once a week” and to “not carry stationery containing non-Islamic images”. And while he was at it, Patel also invited a Saudi imam to speak badly of Jews, which never hurts.
A sort of emirate in Lancashire.
The Oftsed thus gets its “first religious leader in history” and since there will soon be more practicing Muslims than Christians in England why not get ahead of the curve a little?
England and Europe are sinking into decline, naivety and fear” writes imam Hassen Chalghoumi, who knows what he’s talking about since in France he has to wear a bulletproof vest and go around with an armed escort like a head of state. “An Islamist to head Ofsted, the UK’s leading education body… This is the result of the appeasement of political Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood. We would never see such an appointment in the Arab and Muslim world, except in Afghanistan and Iran. The Islamist grip is no longer just on our doorstep, it is now within the system.”
I looked at Patel’s photo several times and then pinched myself, thinking it was a joke. A mufti with a Salafi beard and in Islamic robes appointed to head the UK’s most important education body?
“The UK could fall into the hands of Islamic fundamentalists” and become “an Islamist state with nuclear weapons.” It is not the usual alarmist Meotti who says this, but Suella Braverman, former British Home Secretary.
Demographic change is the defining megatrend with the most important implications for Europe’s societies, culture and governance structures. Just look at the percentage of Muslims in the country's major cities:
London, 15 percent Muslim
Birmingham, 1,149,000 inhabitants: (29.9 percent)
Bradford: 536,000 inhabitants (30.5 percent)
Manchester: 553,000 inhabitants (22.3 percent)
Leicester: 357,000 inhabitants (23.5 percent)
Nottingham: 331,000 inhabitants (12.2 percent)
Blackburn: 148,000 inhabitants (35 percent)
Luton: 218,000 inhabitants (32.9 percent)
Slough: 164,000 inhabitants (29.4 percent)
Pendle: 91,000 inhabitants (26 percent) hundred)
Oldham: 237,000 (24.4 percent)
Rochdale: 211,000 (18.8 percent)
Kirklees: 438,000 (19 percent)
Sheffield: 556,000 (10.3 percent)
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/405946