Investigation launched into Prophet Muhammad cartoon proven in school

An unbiased investigation has been launched after a picture of the Prophet Muhammad was proven in a lesson at a Yorkshire college.

The inquiry will have a look at the context of how pupils at Batley Grammar College have been proven the image, in keeping with the multi-academy belief that runs the varsity.

Protesters gathered outdoors the West Yorkshire college on Thursday and Friday final week after the instructor was suspended, scary a nationwide debate about offence and free expression.

Batley Multi Academy Belief stated in assertion on Wednesday that an inquiry panel would start work inside a fortnight and it understood that “everybody will need readability as quickly as potential”.

“We consider the proper manner ahead is for an unbiased investigation to evaluation the context during which the supplies (which triggered offence) have been used, and to make suggestions in relation to the non secular research curriculum in order that the suitable classes might be discovered and motion taken, the place essential.”

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The assertion added: “We’ll proceed to help the entire college group because the investigation progresses, together with all college workers and college students.”

The belief stated it anticipated the result of the investigation in direction of the top of Could.

Gary Kibble, the varsity’s headteacher, earlier apologised for a “completely inappropriate picture” being proven throughout a non secular research lesson – extensively reported as taken from the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

He added that the instructor concerned had “additionally relayed their most honest apologies”.

Protesters advised The Impartial final week they needed the instructor sacked.

A petition calling for the suspended instructor to be reinstated has been signed tens of 1000’s of occasions. The coed who set it up claims the picture was proven in a lesson about “racism and blasphemy”.

The daddy of the instructor stated his son “retains breaking down crying” amid fears he and his household could also be killed.

“Look what occurred to the instructor in France who was killed for doing the identical factor,” he advised the Each day Mail.

Final yr, Samuel Celebration, a historical past and geography instructor, was beheaded outdoors his college in a Paris suburb after displaying cartoons Muhammad in school.

Final week’s protests have been condemned by ministers, with Gavin Williamson, the schooling secretary, calling them “utterly unacceptable”. Academics shouldn’t be threatened for doing their job, he stated, whereas Robert Jenrick, the communities secretary, stated it was essential to defend free speech.

Further reporting by Press Affiliation