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   Ray Honeyford   
   04 Sep 06 12:27:11   
   
   From: hjkhjkhd@hhhh.com   
      
   'Mr Honeyford thought that schools such as his own, the Drummond Middle   
   School, where 95 per cent of the children were of Pakistani or Bangladeshi   
   origin, were a disaster both for their pupils and for society as a whole. He   
   was a passionate believer in the redemptive power of education, and its   
   ability to integrate people of different backgrounds and weld them into a   
   common society. He then became notorious for, among other things, his   
   insistence that Muslim girls should be educated to the same standard as   
   everyone else.   
   Last week, 22 years on, he was finally vindicated. The same liberal   
   establishment that had professed outrage at his views quietly accepted that   
   he was, after all, right. Ruth Kelly, the Communities Secretary, made a   
   speech, publicly questioning the multiculturalist orthodoxies that, for so   
   long, have acted almost as a test of virtue among "right-thinking" people.   
   As Miss Kelly told an audience: "There are white Britons who do not feel   
   comfortable with change. They see the shops and restaurants in their town   
   centres changing. They see their neighbourhoods becoming more diverse.'   
      
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