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London: Conservative Muslim school leaders in Britain’s second city, Birmingham, conducted an “organised campaign” to impose faith-based ideology on their pupils, Education Secretary Michael Gove says.

Clashes between Muslim governors and non-Muslim senior staff had led to a “culture of fear and intimidation” in which some head teachers felt forced to leave their jobs, leaving those remaining free to impose a narrow curriculum, the minister said on Monday.

Mr Gove was reporting the findings of two investigations into allegations of an Islamist plot to take over the leadership of state-funded schools in Birmingham with the intention of imposing a religious agenda.

Park View School in Birmingham. Government inspectors say there is a “culture of fear and intimidation” at several British schools.

Park View School in Birmingham. Government inspectors say there is a “culture of fear and intimidation” at several British schools. Photo: AP

The claims renew concerns about the risk to young people in Britain of Islamic extremism, and expose a rift at the heart of the government about how to tackle religious radicalism.

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