A man banned from working in education in the aftermath of the Trojan Horse letter inspires Brian and Hamza to track down one last witness with him – in Australia. And all three travelers find their faith tested.
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Since I pitched this story as my student project, I've always felt that if it was to make any difference, what you need is proof, incontrovertible, unassailable, beyond a doubt proof of who authored the Georgia Horse letter.
And we didn't have it.
Brian I had a lot of compelling circumstantial evidence of who might have written the letter and a sound theory of why it might have been written, but that wasn't going to be enough.
The Trojan horse affair means something to powerful people in my country, to its political and media class, to our decision makers and mood sayers when they're looking to justify policies or general political support.
It's part of the infrastructure that allows them to shorthand that Muslims are dangerous.
When others have pushed back against the Trojan Horus narrative, they've done it by calling out the islamophobia and racism that drove the affair, focused on the damage it's done to Muslims in Birmingham and Britain.
But none of that's really worked.
And I think its because that approach requires people to care about islamophobia, to care about Muslims, and were a long way from that.
Thats why ID focused on the letter.
I believed exposing the author of Operation Trojan Horse would give us an agnostic fact, would sidestep the need for people to care, and would force everyone to acknowledge what really happened here, even if its through gritted teeth.
And thats also why we're headed to Perth, Australia, our next and final stop in this investigation.
And it wasn't just Brian and me going.
We're taking with us to Perth.
Stay with me.