Part 1: The Letter in the Brown Paper Envelope

Update: 2022-02-03

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A strange letter appears outlining a plot by Islamic extremists to infiltrate Birmingham schools. Hamza and Brian visit the supposed mastermind of the plot, and he tells them he did take over a bunch of schools – just not for the reasons in the letter.To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New
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Eyal Bazelet

whereas I doubt that there really was any kind of conspiracy to "Islamize" schoos in the UK, your subject comes over as very arrogant and uncompromising and he did A ring in a lot of religieus aspects to q public school. even if legal, ethically questionable. he could have offered ecumenical devices without bias to a certain religion maybe. je could have made sure the teachers and staff are really diverse in both origin and gender. it's a shame that his stubborness spoiled so many achievements

Jan 19th

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