(CityNews) Parents of six Muslim girls who attend Collège Citoyen, a private high school in Laval, north of Montreal, have written an open letter denouncing what their daughters went through, alleging staff at the school met with them in early September and […]
(Deutsche Welle) Twenty-four Muslims from across Germany formally passed their imam training at the country’s new Islamkolleg Deutschland in the northwestern city of Osnabrück on Saturday. The graduates, who included men and women, received their first certificate of completion after attending a two-year part-time course. […]
(LA Times) For months, hundreds of religious parents have regularly rallied outside a Maryland school board building, aghast at [a] curriculum featuring books that portray LGBTQ+ families to elementary school kids. Waving American flags, they have chanted against “indoctrination” of children. They’ve […]
(Anadolu) France’s highest court on Monday ruled that the government ban on Muslim dress abaya is legal. The Council of State said it had rejected an appeal by three organizations against the government ban announced last month on abaya — a loose-fitting […]
(Anadolu) A Muslim student, who had been turned away from school for wearing a kimono, a Japanese garment, in France, has filed a complaint with the UN over being “discriminated against” due to her religious affiliation. The controversy over the French government’s […]
(Sahan Journal) A lawsuit against Hamline University by a former art history professor will remain in federal court, U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez ruled Friday. But she dismissed four of the professor’s five claims that stemmed from a campus dispute last winter. […]
(Detroit Free Press) Michael Flynn, a retired Army general who once served as former President Donald Trump’s national security advisor, is reaching out to Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib and the Muslim community in metro Detroit to form a broad conservative coalition. Flynn, […]
(Montreal Gazette) Embroiled in controversy, a private high school in Laval says it has not forbidden students from wearing religious symbols — but it does require that parents request a “religious accommodation.” An online petition that collected 6,900 signatures over two days […]
(AFP) French police said they were holding a man on Friday for threatening a school principal who turned away his daughter for wearing a traditional Muslim abaya robe. President Emmanuel Macron’s government announced last month it was banning the abaya — a […]
(AFP) France’s top administrative court on Thursday upheld a government ban on traditional over-garments worn by some Muslim women in schools and rejected complaints it was discriminatory and could incite hatred. President Emmanuel Macron’s government announced last month it was banning the […]
(Anadolu) The Muslim community in Belgium contested new sexual education methods in schools on Wednesday, according to a statement. “This decision seems to confront the universal and inviolable values of the familial education framework, and the interests of the students and their […]
(AFP) French schools sent dozens of girls home for refusing to remove their abayas — an over-garment from the shoulders to the feet worn by Muslim women — on the first day of the school year, a government minister said Tuesday. Defying […]
(Brussels Times) Improvised prayer rooms in universities have become the subject of discussion after an opinion piece by Nadia Geerts of the Francophone liberal MR party denounced the existence of these so-called “clandestine” areas at ULB University. For several years, a place […]
(AP) French President Emmanuel Macron opened the door Monday to experimenting in some public schools with uniforms or a dress code amid debate in France over a ban in classrooms on long robes worn mainly by Muslims. The ban on robes known […]
(AFP) French authorities were on Monday imposing a newly-announced ban on the abaya Muslim dress for women in schools, with over 500 establishments under scrutiny as children across the country returned to class. The government announced last month it was banning the […]
(AP) French students won’t get past the door if they show up for school wearing long robes, President Emmanuel Macron made clear Friday, saying authorities would be “intractable” in enforcing a new rule when classes resume next week. French Education Minister Gabriel […]
(Politico) With the ban on abayas in schools, French President Emmanuel Macron is killing two birds with one stone: He sends a signal to the right and divides the left. But he also risks opening a Pandora’s box. The decision to forbid […]
(Reuters) The French government’s decision to ban children from wearing the abaya, the loose-fitting, full-length robes worn by some Muslim women, in state-run schools drew applause on Monday from the right, but also criticism. France has enforced a ban on religious symbols […]
(AFP) The French government’s decision to ban schoolgirls wearing abayas — long, flowing dresses of Middle Eastern origin — has opened a fresh debate about the country’s secular laws and the treatment of Muslim minorities. Education Minister Gabriel Attal said Sunday that […]
(AFP) French authorities are to ban the wearing in school of abaya dresses worn by some Muslim women, the education minister said Sunday, arguing the garment violated France’s strict secular laws in education. “It will no longer be possible to wear an […]
(GB News) A Birmingham mosque with a long history of hosting controversial speeches recently awarded millions in taxpayers’ cash has had its grant paused after a GB News investigation. The Green Lane Masjid and Community Centre in Birmingham was awarded £2.2million from […]
(Washington Post) Montgomery County’s mandate that students read books with LGBTQ characters forces religious families either to forfeit their beliefs or depart the public school system, lawyers for Muslim and Christian families suing the district said during oral arguments Wednesday at the […]
(National-UAE) British authorities consider Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to be the greatest threat to national security amid reports the group is increasing activities in the country. Home Secretary Suella Braverman is said to be concerned over reports that the group […]
(Jerusalem Post) Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) leadership preached an ultimate war on the Jewish people in live-streamed talks arranged by the Islamic Students Association of Britain, according to a Jewish Chronicle report on Thursday. Some of the speakers who addressed the Muslim […]
(Canadian Press) A Muslim organization and a civil rights group seeking to suspend Quebec’s ban on prayer spaces in public schools have been denied leave to appeal a court decision that maintained the ban. Quebec Court of Appeal Justice Robert Mainville ruled […]
(CBC) The Windsor Islamic Association (WIA) says it’s had a “constructive meeting” with the local public school board after the majority of students at a local school — some connected to a mosque — were absent the day the Pride flag was […]
(Canadian Press) A Muslim organization and a civil liberties group asked for permission on Monday to appeal a Quebec Superior Court ruling that denied their request to suspend the province’s ban on visible prayer in public schools. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association […]
(Lexington Herald Leader) A Muslim woman has alleged she was forced to take off her hijab after being arrested by a University of Kentucky police officer and taken to the Fayette County Detention Center. Now a national civil rights organization is calling […]
(CityNews) The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) say they are continuing to challenge Quebec’s school prayer ban. “We cannot stand for a situation where Quebec students are being bullied and subjected to a regime […]
(Toronto Sun) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Muslim parents who object to their children being taught about gender identity issues in schools are being fed “misinformation and disinformation” by “the American right-wing” and the “far right.” “I’ve heard this concern many, many […]
(BBC) A primary school has apologised to parents and carers for serving non-halal meat that was labelled as halal. The principal of Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill in Wakefield said he discovered last week that not all the meat served to pupils in […]
(Daily Caller) Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki claimed Republicans are recruiting Muslims against transgender people in her Sunday episode of MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki.” Psaki claimed Republicans are using former President Richard Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” method by turning Muslim […]
(CBC) An Ontario father is questioning the legitimacy of a school board’s anti-Islamophobia strategy months after his son was singled out by a teacher during a lesson that featured racist cartoons. During the January class, the high school teacher in Peel Region, which includes […]
(AFP) A reported increase in Muslim girls wearing the abaya dress at French schools has triggered a debate about their violation of the country’s sacrosanct commitment to secularism in education. France’s identity has long been wedded to its conception of secularism in […]
(GB News) An Islamist cleric who said critics of the Prophet Mohammed should have their heads “chopped off” has been allowed into the UK to speak at an event. Sick Enayet Ullah Abbasi previously slammed the late Queen Elizabeth II for endorsing […]
(ECC Union) The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Los Angeles office released a statement Friday, June 16, condemning El Camino College’s official response to the controversy surrounding a graduation speech by the outgoing student government president. Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) LA-based director […]
(CT Examiner) After hearing concerns from the Waterbury Muslim community, the Board of Education voted 9-1 on Tuesday to modify the academic calendar to recognize Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as school holidays. About 50 local Muslim community members attended the meeting, […]
(Canadian Press) A Quebec Superior Court judge on Wednesday denied a request by a Muslim advocacy group and a civil liberties organization to suspend the province’s ban on prayer rooms in public schools. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the National Council […]
(Local) The French education minister says it is, but France’s Muslim Council says it isn’t. France’s latest clothing dispute has settled on the abaya — a long, loose robe or dress — and whether it is or is not an item of […]
(Canadian Press) Quebec’s ban on prayer rooms in public schools is harmful to Muslim students and should be suspended immediately, lawyers for a civil liberties group and a Muslim advocacy organization told a Montreal court Tuesday. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and […]
(NY Post) Another college student at a publicly funded school spewed antisemitic hate during her recent commencement speech, critics say — and the university even touted part of her talk on Twitter. El Camino Community College student Jana Abulaban, 18, accused Israel of “killing and torturing […]
(Washington Times) Tensions between Muslim parents and Montgomery County Public Schools over the Maryland district’s mandatory LGBTQ books escalated after a Democratic official compared the families to white supremacists. The Council on American-Islamic Relations demanded an apology for “offensive and disparaging remarks” […]
(Fox) Muslim parents are waking up to the “unholy alliance” their community forged with the Democratic Party after standing side by side with conservatives to fight for parental rights, said a Muslim journalist. “Parents everywhere, from the Muslim community to the Asian […]
(National Post) In a particularly stark illustration of what appears to be a growing rift between Muslim communities and the Canadian public school system, an Edmonton teacher was allegedly caught on tape lambasting Muslim students for eschewing in-school Pride celebrations. “You are […]
(NY Post) The nation’s largest American-Muslim advocacy group ripped into CUNY’s leadership as “dishonest” and “cowardly” for calling a law school graduate’s incendiary commencement address “hate speech” — claiming it was cleared by the school’s administrators. The New York chapter of the Council […]
(Fox) A Democratic member of a Maryland city council blasted Muslim children as on the side of “white supremacists” after they spoke out against sexuality discussions and materials in classrooms during a heated school board meeting Tuesday evening. “This issue has unfortunately […]
(WTVO) Some kids in Illinois might have trouble eating meals provided by their school, since they are not allowed to consume them for religious purposes. A bill recently passed by the Illinois legislature, however, will change that. The bill will require state-funded […]
(NY Post) Two law school graduates who made headlines for their fiery anti-Israel commencement speeches belonged to a pro-Palestinian campus group that raised money for a Muslim charity that sued the New York Police Department. CUNY Law School grads Fatima Mousa Mohammed […]
(NY Post) Outraged critics are demanding CUNY’s billions of dollars in taxpayer funding be stripped away after a law grad delivered a “hate-filled and dangerous” commencement address ripping NYPD “fascists” and Israel. In her vitriolic May 12 graduation speech at the public […]
(Spectator) Loitering by the entrance, I clock a large gentleman with tattoos crawling up his neck from underneath his collar. It’s immediately obvious he’s not there for lunch: he is there on behalf of the French state to prevent an assassination. Specifically, […]
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