Pro-Hezbollah teacher in London vows
to make children holy warriors
by Jane Prinsley, The Jewish Chronicle, January 16, 2025:
A pro-Hezbollah teacher at an Islamic school located minutes from a London synagogue has vowed to make children holy warriors, the JC can reveal.
Photos obtained by this newspaper show schoolgirls at Jaaferiya school in Tooting wearing green bandanas and a boy wearing a T-shirt that reads: “I don’t see death as anything but bliss.”
The school’s walls can be seen plastered with images of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s brutal Supreme Leader notorious for operating terror proxies across the Middle East, human rights violations and seeking the destruction of Israel.
In a Facebook post on October 7, a trustee and teacher at Jaaferiya school, Aun Ali Naqvi, shared an emoji of a Palestinian flag and said the day marked “happiness”.
A day later he wrote in a chilling post: “We will make our children soldiers of Imam (Aaj)” – a 9th-century figure whom Shia Muslims believe will reappear one day to wage an apocalyptic war against non-Muslims and rid the world of evil.
In another post on the day Israel attacked a Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut, Naqvi appeared to suggest that children should take up arms, saying: “When the lion among us is killed, the children recognise the enemy and seek revenge.”
Perhaps it should read: Cowardly, hateful adults turn to children to take revenge.
Naqvi, who has claimed children in the UK are “brainwashed” by immoral Western values, also shared an image memorialising Hezbollah terror chief Ibrahim Akil as “martyr”, captioning a photo of him “martyr commander of H/e/z/b/o/l/l/a/h”.
The charity that runs the school and its mosque, Idara-e-Jaaferiya, is already under investigation by the Charity Commission and the JC’s evidence has been added to the probe, a spokesman said.
The mosque, which helps organise London’s Quds Day march, the annual Tehran-backed rally against Israel, has shared a poster encouraging followers to attend the demonstration featuring the Star of David in flames.
Numerous posts on the mosque’s social media pages glorify Khamenei and quote his speeches. One called for the “power of Islam [to] be established in the world”, while several others show children and babies in the mosque wearing green bandanas.
The mosque runs the Islamic Saturday school, or madrassa, for children aged five to 14 that professes to provide “a holistic Islamic education that fosters a strong sense of identity, compassion, respect, and community service”.
Naqvi – who has been photographed teaching large groups of young children at Jaaferiya – regularly shares gushing social media posts about the Supreme Leader and has posted about defeating the “enemy” and waging a “war against those who fought you until the Day of Resurrection”.
Naqvi claimed that children are being “brainwashed” in UK schools. In a post on his Facebook profile, he wrote: “Homosexuality, sex education, atheism, liberal ideology are openly taught to the children of primary schools… That means our children are being brainwashed. Just because you have come to the West does not mean that you will follow their example, brother.”…
It's hard to argue his brainwashing accusation, but it's not brainwashing he's against, it's Western brainwashing as opposed to Islamic brainwashing that he hates.
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