AN OXFORD teacher who was forced to leave a school for calling a transgender pupil a girl was let go from a second school just months later after he said Muhammad was a false prophet, it can be revealed.
A court order banning the media from reporting the name of the teacher and the school expired at the beginning of the month.
It can now be revealed that Joshua Sutcliffe left The Cherwell School in Oxford and reportedly began teaching at a London school.
Mr Sutcliffe says he was then suspended because of comments made in a video he uploaded to YouTube.
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In the 12-minute video, titled ‘what does the Bible say about false prophets?’, Mr Sutcliffe says Muhammad is a false prophet.
“I know this is controversial and I know that people might be offended by what I’m saying but I do it in love and because I want to speak the truth,” he says.
“I believe Muhammad is a false prophet, I would suggest that Muslims have a false understanding of God because they’ve been led by a false prophet.
“Jesus is 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.
“We have other false prophets in this nation, never mind those that are following the teaching of Muhammad.
“What about someone in culture like Russell Brand, he is teaching a generation how to think.
“He’s got this multi-faith idea and that all faiths lead to the top of the mountain.”
Mr Sutcliffe was previously suspended from The Cherwell School after calling a transgender student a girl.
Although he originally intended to take the school to an employment tribunal, earlier this year he reached an ‘amicable resolution’ with the school.
Mr Sutcliffe was suspended from Cherwell in November 2017 after telling a room full of students ‘well done girls’ when one of them wanted to be identified as a boy.
At the time, he said he had been given no formal instruction on how he was to refer to the pupil, and said that when the pupil became upset, he tried to defuse the situation and apologised.
Following a week-long investigation, the school said Mr Sutcliffe had ‘misgendered’ the pupil, breaching school equality rules.
Mr Sutcliffe had worked at the school since September 2015.
In a separate video on his YouTube channel, viewed almost 14,000 times, Mr Sutcliffe said he was bullied by the ‘LGBT mafia’, which got him kicked out of the school.
He then discusses the second sacking, saying ‘this time it was an Islamic mafia’.
“Both camps used bully tactics and intimidation and they’re getting people sacked all around the country,” he said.
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“This is very dear to my heart, I love education, I love teaching and I really enjoy teaching maths.
“The sad thing for me is that I’m not allowed to be me, I do my job excellently, I teach maths very well and I understand the curriculum.
“The problem is that we’ve got the LGBT mafia which got me kicked out of one school and the Islamic mafia who got me kicked out of another.
“Teachers are scared stiff of these bullies.
“I was given a five day suspension because I said Muhammad was a false prophet.
“I believe Jesus is the true prophet of God because he is God, he is God in the flesh.”
Later on in the video, he calls homosexuality an ‘abomination’. He also refers to sex outside marriage, sex with your sister and sex with a child as abominations too.
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