(NJ.com) The New Jersey teacher who faced a criminal investigation after an Olympian repeated allegations she pulled a hijab off a child’s head has filed a lawsuit claiming the social media-fueled firestorm ruined her teaching career and led to threats on her […]
(Radio France) As ceremonies continue on Monday commemorating the second anniversary of the death of secondary schoolteacher Samuel Paty, the French daily newspapers look back on a weekend of memorial events marked by sadness and dignity. Samuel Paty, teacher of history and […]
(Arab News) A French government minister has pledged to confront an increase in clothing associated with Muslim cultures in French schools, which, he says, is counter to French values of secularism. Pap Ndiaye, the minister of education, described the phenomenon as a […]
(Breitbart) A teacher in a French high school was subjected to death threats after discussing freedom of expression and cartoons of the Islamic prophet Mohammed, leading to the arrest of a student and her uncle, in a case redolent of the death […]
(Detroit Free Press) The protest began with a prayer. On a Sunday afternoon last month in Dearborn, Nagi Almudhegi took the stage to address the crowd gathered outside Henry Ford Centennial Library to demonstrate against some LGBTQ books in Dearborn Public Schools’ libraries. […]
(Press and Guide) The Dearborn Public [Schools] Board of Education meeting was shut down Monday night after the fire marshal declared the meeting room too full to continue after hundreds of people gathered in the room and in adjacent hallways to discuss […]
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(CBC) Red tape covered their mouths. Their hands were bound behind their backs. They were on their knees. That was the silent statement protesters wanted to make as they gathered in front of Montreal’s McGill University Thursday afternoon to demonstrate against online […]
(CTV) McGill University says it is investigating one of its instructors who allegedly called for the death of people participating in anti-government protests in the streets of Iran in recent weeks. Members inside and outside the McGill community are accusing the staff […]
(JNS) The City University of New York (CUNY) has reversed course after it assigned a former employee of a vehemently anti-Israel NGO to investigate allegations of anti-Zionist discrimination. The probe came at the request of Prof. Jeffrey Lax, chair of the business […]
(Fox) Two Republican lawmakers from the Committee [on] Education and Labor called for an inquiry Wednesday into Oberlin College’s religion studies professor Mohammad Jafar Mahallati due to his reported ties with the world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism, the Islamic Republic of […]
(European Conservative) With the start of the new school year, Islamist threats are once again hovering over French schools, according to two successive memos issued by the Inter-ministerial Committee for the Prevention of Delinquency and Radicalisation and Territorial Intelligence, one dated August […]
(Middle East Eye) New York Congressman Lee Zeldin has come under fire from a leading Muslim rights organisation after attacking the Muslim American official tapped to lead a probe into a complaint of antisemitism at a university in New York City. Saly […]
(NY Post) A Brooklyn councilwoman is taking the city’s public college system to task for assigning a former employee of an anti-Israel BDS group to investigate a high-profile incident of antisemitism flagged by a Jewish college professor. “@CUNY assigning a former @CAIRNational […]
(Daily Caller) The City University of New York (CUNY) is assigning a former leader of the Hamas-linked Council [on] American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to investigate an antisemitism and anti-Zionism complaint made internally by a Jewish professor. CUNY assigned its chief diversity officer, Saly […]
(KARE) This year, there’s a new way students can proudly show their school spirit at William Byrne Elementary. For the first time, hijabs featuring the school mascot are being sold alongside t-shirts, ensuring everyone at the school is able to wear something […]
(Middle East Eye) The Federation of Student Islamic Societies (Fosis), the national body for Muslim students in Britain, has threatened to launch a disaffiliation campaign against the National Union of Students (NUS) after the NUS suspended its president-elect, Shaima Dallali. Earlier this […]
(Local) Two members of the Danish government’s so-called “Commission for the Forgotten Women’s Struggle” have reversed course on the group’s recent recommendation to ban the hijab in primary schools. The commission last week recommended a ban on young girls wearing the hijab […]
(NL Times) Education Minister Dennis Wiersma has decided that the board of the Stichting Islamitische School Amsterdam (ISA) must resign as quickly as possible. A new inspection of the foundation, which operates several Islamic schools, noted “financial mismanagement, unlawful enrichment and unlawful […]
(Local) A commission appointed by the Danish government has recommended a ban on young girls wearing the hijab or Muslim head scarf at schools. The commission argues that wearing the hijab marks our Danish Muslim girls as being different from other Danish […]
(AP) A Massachusetts charter school where an eighth grade student was written up for a uniform infraction for wearing a hijab says it understands its “handling of the situation came across as insensitive.” A family member of the Mystic Valley Regional Charter […]
(NL Times) As-Siddieq, the largest Islamic educational institution in Amsterdam, may face sanctions for misuse of government funds and general mismanagement. Primary and Secondary Education Minister Dennis Wiersma will decide on possible consequences for As-Siddieq, in consultation with the Education Inspectorate, according […]
(Washington Times) A professor who was sued — and won — over his teaching about Islamic terrorism says he’ll continue to teach the lesson and won’t back down to cancel culture. A Muslim student along with the Council on American-Islamic Relations of […]
(IPT) The news was so disturbing it could not go without a comment from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Auburn University’s men’s basketball team was about to embark on a 10-day trip to Israel. They’d play some games and hold clinics […]
(Breitbart) Swedish academics have denounced a proposal by a government minister to limit the number of non-Scandinavian residents in neighbourhoods as “state racism.” Ten academics largely comprised of professors from various Swedish universities slammed the proposal made by Minister for Integration Anders […]
(IPT) A Scottsdale Community College professor did not violate his Muslim student’s rights when he taught about religious justification in Islamic terrorism, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district judge’s 2020 ruling dismissing […]
(Morning Call) The Alaska man who posed online as an ISIS-radicalized Lafayette College student, made threats to bomb several locations on campus and firebombed a car in Canada will spend more than five years in federal prison. Gavin Lee Casdorph, 22, of […]
(Reuters) A United Nations committee ruled that France discriminated against a Muslim woman who was prevented from attending vocational training in a public school while wearing her Islamic head scarf, according to a U.N. document. In 2010, Naima Mezhoud, now aged 45, […]
(Newsday) The Brentwood Union Free School District will begin serving halal-certified food in September. The district unanimously passed a resolution on July 20 to offer a halal option in the district’s 19 kitchens. The resolution was introduced by trustee Hassan Ahmed, the first Muslim […]
(Houston Chronicle) Iranian state-sponsored media and pundits have been sharing a video of Houston-area children singing a popular new religious song that includes references to Iran’s supreme leader — and mentions soldiers and martyrdom. The video, which was removed from YouTube on […]
(AL.com) Auburn men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl chose to stick to sports on Friday when a reporter asked him about 24 hours after a Muslim rights group asked the Tigers to cancel their trip to Israel for the inaugural “Birthright for College […]
(AL.com) A Muslim rights group has called on Auburn University to cancel its scheduled men’s basketball trip to Israel. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, sent out a public statement on Thursday that […]
(Kathimerini) Greece’s Foreign Ministry has issued a terse response to allegations from Turkey regarding the closure of four minority primary schools in the northeastern province of Thrace, which Ankara claims constitutes a violation of the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne provisions safeguarding the […]
(WBNS) A petition drive by a group of Muslim students in Hilliard resulted in the first school district in Ohio to recognize the Muslim holiday of Eid. As a result, the district will change the school calendar to reflect a district holiday. […]
(New Arab) The US state of Maryland has passed a law that will protect the rights of hijab-wearing female athletes and others with faith-related head coverings to play sports, without concerns of exclusion. The bill, called the Inclusive Attire Act, which took […]
(Star Tribune) For years, Shukri Ali has called her son Yusuf’s school every time she had to organize her family’s Eid al-Fitr celebrations to make sure he’s excused from classes. It’s another mental stressor each spring on a busy day for Muslim […]
(Global News) There will be one less teacher wearing a religious symbol in Montreal schools next year. Haniyfa Scott, who wears a hijab, is retiring after her more than 40-year career. “I don’t think it’s really hit me yet,” said Scott. The […]
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(Breitbart) At least 144 violations of France’s secularism law were reported in the second quarter of this year in French schools regarding the Islamic veil and other traditional Islamic clothing, a trend that is increasing. France’s Central Territorial Intelligence Service (SCRT), a police […]
(NY Jewish Week) At the Brooklyn Amity School, a majority-Muslim private school in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, high school students are taking part in a new Holocaust education initiative with an unlikely ambassador: NBA center and free agent Enes Kanter Freedom. Kanter Freedom, […]
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(London Free Press) We exist. Western University and London’s Muslim community must support that simple statement in more than words to start the healing after a social media post celebrating diversity was removed, says a gay Western student raised a Muslim. “The […]
(London Free Press) A group of “queer” Western University faculty and graduate students is slamming the administration’s decision to remove a social media post celebrating diversity and calling on them to reaffirm support of gay Muslims. “The Western Queer Caucus would like […]
(CBC) Shawn Ahmed is a gay Muslim who wishes Western University had been able to withstand a thunderstorm of criticism about a post on their Instagram account that featured an illustration of two women, both wearing hijabs, about to kiss. “I can […]
(London Free Press) A Western University social media post supporting the fight against homophobia included an illustration of two women in hijabs about to kiss — sparking a backlash from London’s Muslim community that forced school officials to delete it. The image, […]
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(Local) The Swedish Schools Inspectorate has revoked the permits for two Islamic free schools in Uppsala and Stockholm, after the country’s security services warned pupils were at risk of radicalization. On Thursday, the Swedish Schools Inspectorate announced that it had revoked approvals […]
(CBC) On Monday, like every other year after a month of fasting for Ramadan, Hikma Musa will skip class to celebrate Eid al-Fitr. She is among many students at Brooks Composite High School who are marked absent while they are with family and […]
(WXIA) A new menu item might be in Gwinnett County schools’ future. The Gwinnett County School Nutrition Department is looking to [add] halal-certified hot dogs to its lunch menu in the new school year. Halal is an Arabic word that means permissible […]
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