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Grammar school teacher is suspended for 'showing pupils cartoons of Prophet Muhammad' in RE lesson - as head apologises for 'great offence to community' while police calm furious Muslim parents outside gatesPolice descended on a school today as dozens of furious Muslim parents protested outside after a teacher allegedly showed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad during a religious education lesson. Batley Grammar School in West Yorkshire had to delay its opening and told pupils to stay at home amid chaotic scenes at its gates, despite headteacher Gary Kibble (centre) apologising for the 'inappropriate' resource. Parents began gathering at 7.30am outside the co-educational free school and could be heard chanting - with about 20 to 30 pupils also milling around outside the gates, one of whom gave a speech. By the afternoon, the Huddersfield Examiner reported that the crowd remained outside the school - which was founded in 1612 by a Christian, the Reverend William Lee - and the road was shut in both directions. Mufti Mohammed Amin Pandor, a local Muslim scholar, told the crowd that the teacher had been suspended, but the school has not confirmed this - and police began threatening protesters with Covid fines after midday. Muslims make up around a third of the population in Batley, a historic market and mill town in the Kirkless region which was the constituency of Labour MP Jo Cox who was murdered by a Right-wing extremist in June 2016. Alumni from the school, which serves Halal-approved food in the canteen, include Innocent Smoothies founder Richard Reed, Ginetta Cars owner Lawrence Tomlinson and prominent 18th century theologian Joseph Priestley. Today's protest comes five months after teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded on the street near his school in Paris by an Islamic extremist last October after showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his students.
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