Johann Hari: Q: Are there links between the Birmingham riots and the building of more faith schools?
Segregating children according to their parents' superstitions is a great way to make a volatile town
Published: 27 October 2005
Young black and Asian men in Birmingham hack chunks out of each other in a self-described "race war", while the government's education White Paper quietly prepares the ground for a massive expansion of faith schools. At first, these seem like disparate, disconnected news stories - headlines passing each other in the night.
But in reality, the fact that Britain has 7,000 expanding faith schools - Muslims to the left, Christians to the right - is feeding the Balkanisation of Britain's towns and preparing the ground for one, two, three Birminghams.
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