{"id":677674,"date":"2026-01-06T12:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/677674\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T12:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:37:10","slug":"teacher-patrick-lawler-banned-indefinitely-for-calling-islam-satanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/677674\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Patrick Lawler banned indefinitely for calling Islam satanic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lawler has now been banned from teaching indefinitely and can apply to be reinstated after 22 December 2029. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the hearing he was found to have &#8220;authored or co-authored&#8221; a series of online newsletters saying Islam was &#8220;demonic&#8221; and calling sex between two men an &#8220;unnatural, unhealthy, disgusting perversion&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The panel found Lawler had distributed &#8220;material which was intolerant of others&#8217; faiths and beliefs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the classroom, the panel found, he had not taken a &#8220;child-centric approach&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Proven allegations included Lawler calling Martin Luther King a &#8220;fraud&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On a separate occasion he told pupils he was &#8220;surprised you were not all hanging from lamp-posts&#8221; and in another lesson said &#8220;back in the day you used to be able to get cocaine purer&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawler has now been banned from teaching indefinitely and can apply to be reinstated after 22 December 2029.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-677674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115848193362549154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}