A school teacher named Joshua Sutcliffe has now lost his job at two schools in the first occasion he ‘misgendered’ a transgender pupil and he has now said he was dismissed by a second school after he said Muhammad was a “false prophet” in a video.
Mr Sutcliffe said “well done girls” to a group that included a pupil who identified as a boy while teaching at a school in Oxford in 2017.
He was later dismissed from a school in London over views he posted on his YouTube channel.
“On Nov. 1, I was brought in the Head’s office and told by the deputy head that I was being suspended for five days to be investigated for saying Mohammed is a false prophet. A Muslim parent complained about the video,” Sutcliffe explained.
Sutcliffe’s video affirms Jesus as “the only true prophet because He is God in the flesh; He is the voice of God; He brings true revelation and understanding because He is God.”
Mr Sutcliffe, whose videos include his views about the Bible and Christianity, told journalists at the BBC he was “constructively dismissed” from the Catholic school in Islington in November 2019 after he “made a video in which I said ‘Mohammad is a false prophet’.”
The maths teacher said he “never forced anyone to think or do anything” and that he “remained professional” while teaching lessons at the school between September 2018 and November 2019.
“I merely voiced my strongly held convictions on a public platform,” he said.
Mr Sutcliffe said the school was aware of the Oxford case before and it had been “happy to give me a role”.
An investigation in December 2017 found he had “misgendered” the Oxford pupil which broke its policy on equality, at the time of the first incident At the time, Mr Sutcliffe told the head teacher he did “not share your belief in the ideology of transgenderism” and later took legal action for constructive dismissal and discrimination.
A reporting restriction made during the employment tribunal prevented identifying anyone involved in media reports and details of the settlement have not been made public.
He said said he had no regrets over his comments and “in both cases” had been “punished” for being “vocal about my Christian position”.
“I would rather lose my job than be silenced,” he said.
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