New inquiry at Islamic school over leaked footage of preacher

(Dutch News) Education inspectors have launched another investigation at Amsterdam’s only Islamic secondary school amid claims that a pupil was suspended for allegedly filming teachers in class.

Two weeks ago a film was leaked to Het Parool in which a teacher at the Cornelis Haga Lyceum was seen showing a speech by a Salafist preacher, Fouad el Bouch, to children.

El Bouch is one of a number of religious figures who [were] implicated in a recent report by the security service AIVD as influencing the school curriculum, though education inspectors found no evidence to support this claim.

Soner Atasoy, director of the Haga Lyceum, said the latest probe began when the mother of a girl at the school claimed her daughter had been suspended for making the film. The woman said the accusations against her daughter were false.

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