Report: Teachers ‘Self-Censoring’ and Bullied by ‘De Facto Blasphemy’ Codes

Teachers are “self-censoring” to avoid going into hiding after offending Muslims, according to research, calling it a “de-facto blasphemy” code. Research from the think tank Policy Exchange has found over half of all teachers said they would not use an image of Muhammad in the classroom. The report noted the Batley Grammar School incident, where a teacher and his family, including four small children, were forced into hiding and received death threats, after he showed a class a picture of the prophet Muhammad, has “clearly scared the teaching profession.” Policy Exchange did a survey with YouGov involving over 1,000 and teachers found that, since the Batley Grammar School protests, 16 percent of British teachers say they have self-censored to avoid offence on religious grounds....