(Deutsche Welle) The only Muslim kindergarten in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate lost its appeal to stay open after an administrative court confirmed state officials’ concerns about the school’s ties to an Islamist ideology.
The state’s decision to revoke Al Nur kindergarten’s license was lawful because evidence showed links between the school’s administrators and the extremist Salafist ideology, an administrative court in the city of Mainz said.
The court said the links made it difficult for children at Al Nur to integrate into German society and compromised their independence.
The court said efforts by Arab Nil-Rhein, the association that runs the kindergarten, to distance itself from Salafist thought were “not convincing.”
