Rehman Chishti
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(10 years, 4 months ago)
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Michael Gove
My hon. Friend makes a characteristically acute and pertinent point.
Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham) (Con)
I welcome what the Secretary of State is doing in this area. I was appalled by some of the report’s findings, particularly the comment by Sheikh Shady al-Suleiman, where he distorted the concept of jihad and linked it to Afghanistan, which is often used by extremists to recruit people to radicalisation. Linked to that, does the Secretary of State agree that Sunday schools at places of worship should also be encouraged to teach British values and that sermons should be taught in English and not simply in Urdu or Arabic, to ensure that distortion is tackled?