Primary teacher sacked for praising Isil beheadings

A PRIMARY school teacher has been banned from the classroom for life after praising Isil for beheading of aid worker Alan Henning in string of offensive social media posts.

The Muslim teacher, Nargs Bibi, posted 40 offensive messages urging Isil to kill all non believers, immediately after the Briton’s murder by the terrorist known as “Jihadi John”.

Ms Bibi, a 31-year-old divorcee, had worked at Knowsley Junior School, Oldham, for three years before being fired in December 2010 over allegations of bullying and intimidation.

In a series of Twitter posts, the disgraced teacher abused Mr Henning’s wife, calling her “a b----” and a “slag”.

She also referred to aid workers in Syria as “barking dogs”, called on Muslim women to “stay at home” and prayed that Allah would “destroy” the UK and America.

In a separate post written after she was fired from the Oldham school, Ms Bibi wrote: “Kill them by God’s law… and don’t let compassion move u.”

Ms Bibi admitted making the comments and accepted they amounted to unacceptable professional conduct and conduct that may bring the profession into disrepute.

She did not attend a disciplinary hearing of the National College for Teaching and Leadership in Coventry and was not represented. The professional conduct panel’s written ruling redacted the tweets on its website because they were so offensive.

The messages began appearing on Ms Bibi’s Twitter account on the day of Mr Henning’s death last Oct 3, and continued the following day.

She was arrested by Greater Manchester Police but no further action was taken. Ms Bibi said her action was out of character, and she was suffering poor mental health at the time.

Tribunal chairman Mary Speakman said: “The panel considered that the nature of the tweets had the potential to incite religious hatred and expressed some extreme views.

“The messages would have been offensive to people of Muslim and other faiths and were self-evidently demonstrating intolerance to other faiths and beliefs.”

New government schools guidelines have appealed to teachers to do more to identify and report extremist colleagues.