A teacher in England who was banned from working with children for telling a Muslim student that “Britain is still a Christian state” has won an appeal and received a new teaching job. 

The teacher reportedly pointed to the fact that the King was the head of the Church of England and that Islam was a minority religion in the U.K.  

The teacher, who wished not to be identified, also reportedly reprimanded Muslim students for using the sinks of a school bathroom to wash their feet as an Islamic ritual before their Islamic prayers. Three students filed complaints against the teacher, who was subsequently suspended, fired, and banned. Police were also called to investigate his actions as a hate crime.  

The teacher’s lawyers insisted that the concept of prayer, which had been banned on the playground, included the washing of feet in the school’s bathroom sinks, and that the school was not faith-based. The Metropolitan Police eventually dropped its investigation of the teacher. 

After winning his appeal of the ban, the teacher is now teaching at a different school. He is suing the local authority with support from the Free Speech Union (FSU). 

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