The police were told that at school assemblies children were sometimes reminded of military conquests by the Prophet, and that non-Muslims were referred to as kaffirs. IT technicians are also said to have been asked to record what appeared to be al-Qaeda terrorist videos on a DVD, and one teacher recommended staff and children listen to lectures by the al-Qaeda ideologue Anwar al-Awlaki, considered so dangerous by the Americans that he was killed in a drone strike in Yemen in 2011. 

Alam says these claims are nothing but "a work of fiction". He also asserts that "none of the facts" in the Trojan Horse letter "are true". He insists that none his three schools practised segregation by gender, save for PE, as most schools do. To the extent that there was segregation in other subjects like Religious Education and PSHE (personal, social and health education), this was "purely for timetabling reasons" simply because RE and PSHE were timetabled against PE. I am told, however, that a 2008 design for the refurbishment of Park View School included separate gender entrances to the school hall. In one of the "Park View Brotherhood" message discussions, a teacher also said he wanted to increase classroom segregation.

Asked what he thought of the Brotherhood's messages, Alam said the "first time I came across them" was in Clarke's report. Can that be right? Alam reportedly made regular visits to Park View School for prayers and lunch, and to the other schools under his control — Nansen Primary and Golden Hillock. Present and former staff told Clarke that Alam dominated all decisions.

Alam insists that he was not "doing anything that a faith school would do. " Why then were Friday prayers introduced at his schools? 

The MCB suggests Clarke has ascribed guilt to Alam by "conflating conservative Muslim practices to a supposed ideology and agenda to Islamise secular schools". Why then was the word "Islamising" used by the Park View Brotherhood to describe the purpose behind its step-by-step approach to take control of schools?

For example, referring to the new head of a large secondary school in the Brotherhood's sights, Razwan Faraz messaged: "Don't pressurise her to start the Islamising agenda first. That will be a lot easier when she is respected as a leader."

Furthermore, many of the changes in schools introduced by Alam and the Brotherhood replicate those in a 2007 MCB pamphlet which set out the purported needs of 400,000 pupils from different Asian ethnicities, but whom the MCB defined only as a single homogenous group, identified solely by their faith as "Muslims." That pamphlet promotes the Islamist view that faith commitments encompass all aspects of life for British Muslim children. The word "should" is used over 90 times, mostly in demands for concessions. 

Alam co-authored the pamphlet with the MCB secretary-general because Alam chaired the MCB's education committee. Why does the MCB have an education committee and not, say, a transport committee? Because for Islamists education is the key to promoting Islamism.

One of the pamphlet's appendixes lists seven items, six of which are in-house productions of organisations inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood movement.