Schools dominated by Muslim children should be closed down and replaced with a new breed of "multi-faith" academies in order to forcibly integrate pupils in some of the UK's most troubled towns, the government's most influential education adviser has said.

The concentration of individual faith groups and ethnic minorities in schools has created a "strategic security problem" that could only be solved by building new mixed schools, said Sir Cyril Taylor, chairman of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, the body that oversees the government's academy programme.