Illegal school taught that only Muslims were saved in the Ark

The director and head teacher of a Muslim ‘learning centre’ for home-educated children have been fined for running an illegal, unregistered school in a landmark case. Al-Istiqamah Learning Centre in Southall, west London, was not registered as a school but taught about 60 children for five mornings a week and set homework every night. Children were congratulated at the school when they repeated the lesson that only ‘Muslims and animals’ were saved in the Ark. Ofsted inspectors twice visited the…