AN ISLAMIC weekend school has been ousted from its regular 'home' at Langley Academy following a complaint that its organisers have hosted extremist speakers at events in the town.

Islamhood Youth Tarbiya weekend schools describe themselves on line as offering 'character development for young Muslims living in Britain today'.

The organisation behind them has been hiring facilities at the mainstream secondary school Langley Academy in Langley Road.

But towards the end of last year a Slough father of two contacted the school to express his concern that it was allowing its premises to be used by Islamhood.

He complained that Islamhood UK had hosted events in Slough where hard line speakers had made insulting remarks about gay people, Jewish people and even promoted 'proper' way of performing female genital mutilation. He believed some of the speakers had attended the weekend school although he did not believe such comments had been made there.

This week Rhodi Bryant, executive principal at Langley Academy, said in a statement that the trust that runs the school took allegations that extremist views or ideology might be promoted on its premises extremely seriously.

He said: "We were deeply concerned when a complaint was first raised with the trust about Islamhood’s Weekend School in December and immediately consulted our external lettings agency who are responsible for such lettings. We have carried out an in-depth investigation and the lettings agreement with Islamhood has been terminated with immediate effect."

He said the trust was also undertaking a thorough review of its lettings policy and agreements with outside groups or organisations that used the premises outside school hours.

A statement for the IslamHood Youth Tarbiya Weekend School said: "We are deeply saddened to hear of the complaint made against Islamhood - alleging that IslamHood endorses and promotes 'hate speech' by 'extremist preachers'.

"This is completely against our own ethos and values as a supplementary school, as our focus is on delivering a character development based curriculum tailored for young Muslims living in Britain.

"Our supplementary school therefore encapsulates British values such as mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs at its core."