{"id":7314,"date":"2019-04-08T13:20:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T13:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/7314-uk-muslim-academic-targeted-amid-school-homosexuality-row\/"},"modified":"2019-04-08T13:20:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T13:20:47","slug":"uk-muslim-academic-targeted-amid-school-homosexuality-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/7314-uk-muslim-academic-targeted-amid-school-homosexuality-row\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Muslim academic targeted amid school homosexuality row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Godfrey-Faussett said that she is the victim of a \u201cwitch hunt\u201d against the Muslim community, and has been &#8220;hanged, drawn and quartered&#8221; by the mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">Kate Godfrey-Faussett said that she is the victim of a \u201cwitch hunt\u201d against the Muslim community, and has been &#8220;hanged, drawn and quartered&#8221; by the mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>The British Psychological Society (BPS), the organization in charge of the profession in the UK, has said it is \u201cconcerned\u201d by views expressed by Godfrey-Faussett and she is now being investigated over comments deemed to be \u201cunethical\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Godfrey-Faussett, who embraced Islam over 20 years ago, has worked in classrooms and lectured warning about state-imposed teaching of sex education to children as young as four years old. One lecture she gave at the Islamic Unity Forum in 2018 went viral online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the attacks began, my employers saw articles condemning me, now I have been suspended without pay,\u201d she said, adding, \u201cIt feels like a witch hunt is going on and no one has asked for my opinion or for my side of the argument.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The investigation targeting Godfrey-Faussett follows protests by parents against homosexual relationship classes titled &#8220;No Outsiders&#8221; lessons at the Parkfield School in Birmingham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Godfrey-Faussett said that she is the victim of a \u201cwitch hunt\u201d against the Muslim community, and has been &#8220;hanged, drawn and quartered&#8221; by the mainstream media. \u00a0 Kate Godfrey-Faussett said that she is the victim of a \u201cwitch hunt\u201d against the Muslim community, and has been &#8220;hanged, drawn and quartered&#8221; by the mainstream media. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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