(Daily Sabah) The Arabic and Islamic courses planned to be taught in a school in northern Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region were suspended after receiving reaction from anti-immigrant and central-right parties, local media outlets reported Saturday.
Emilia-Romagna Regional Assembly member of the ruling anti-immigration League party Stefano Bargi and a deputy from the party, Guglielmo Golinelli, opposed the course claiming it is against their “Western teaching standards.”
“In our schools Italian language and Western culture are taught. We are absolutely against the use of a public schools’ classes by an Islamic foundation to teach Arabic and Islamic lessons,” British public service broadcaster BBC quoted Golinelli as saying.
