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(Calgary Herald) Ordering a private Calgary school to allow Muslim students to pray on campus negatively affected the non-denominational principle that attracted parents and teachers to the institution, a lawyer argued Thursday. David Corry, who represents Webber Academy, said Justice Richard Neufeld […]
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(BBC) A school where a teacher showed pupils a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad is to be the subject of an independent probe, the trust which runs it has announced. Protests were held at Batley Grammar School in West Yorkshire after the […]
(Anadolu) France’s interior minister on Wednesday criticized two legal amendments adopted by lawmakers prohibiting parents from wearing visible religious symbols while accompanying their children on school trips and allowing public swimming pools to ban “burkini” swimwear. Gerald Darmanin said the measures, approved […]
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(BBC) Sharing the identity of a teacher who showed pupils an “offensive” cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad could result in police action, a watchdog has warned. Protests were held outside Batley Grammar School, where the staff member was suspended after complaints. Baroness […]
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(BBC) A petition defending a teacher who showed pupils a “deeply offensive” cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad has gathered more than 44,000 signatures. The staff member was suspended after protests were held outside Batley Grammar School. Some had demanded the teacher’s sacking […]
(BBC) Protests outside a school where pupils were shown a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad are “deeply unsettling,” a government minister has said. Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said teachers should be able to “appropriately show images of the prophet” in class. Protests […]
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(Baltimore Sun) Baltimore County public school leaders have removed an image depicting a negative stereotype of people who practice Islam from the school system’s online math curriculum. The lesson in question centered on a mathematical concept called radical expressions. An image featuring […]
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(Press of Atlantic City) The city’s school district will begin serving halal food five days a week at several elementary schools and the high school, Superintendent Barry Caldwell said Tuesday. “We’ve heard the community,” Caldwell said at the start of Tuesday’s regular […]
(Algemeiner) French Jews commemorated on Friday victims of the horrific 2012 shooting attack at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, which took place during a days-long killing spree that claimed the lives of seven people. On March 19, 2012, Islamist terrorist Mohamed […]
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(Deutsche Welle) “Fascists in our lecture halls! Dismiss Professor Kinzler! Islamophobia kills,” read the large banners hanging at the University of Grenoble. Activists from the French student union Unef also posted the slogans online. Five months after the brutal murder of history […]
(Algemeiner) France on Thursday began commemorations for the ninth anniversary of a devastating Islamist terror spree that claimed the lives of seven people, including three children at a Jewish school and two soldiers in the French army. The tributes to the victims […]
(NL Times) The main focus of the election program for Geert Wilders’ PVV is still to close mosques and Islamic schools, ban the Koran, and ban Dutch people with dual nationality from voting or acting as a politician in the Netherlands, NU.nl […]
(Buffalo News) Buffalo Public Schools serves a growing population of about 5,000 Muslim students, many of whom follow strict, religious dietary guidelines. Some of them bring their own food to school, but if they don’t, they’re not eating all day long, say […]
(Global News) Dozens of Calgary students marched out of their school Tuesday to protest the injustices, racism and microaggressions they say their school administration isn’t doing enough to stop. Muna Bouh and Rahma Abdela are in high school at the Calgary Islamic […]
(AFP) The lawyer for the family of beheaded French teacher Samuel Paty expressed her anger on Tuesday over lies spread on social media which led to the murder. Paty, a secondary school teacher in a town near Paris, was killed last October […]
(Radio France) The student who accused history teacher Samuel Paty of Islamophobia, which began a hate campaign that [led] to his brutal public beheading in October, has admitted to making up her story. The 13-year-old did not attend class on the day […]
(Politico) A majority of French high schoolers believe they and their classmates should be allowed to wear religious symbols such as a hijab or a kippah, a poll has found. “Conspicuous religious symbols” have been banned in schools since 2004 as part […]
(Breitbart) A report on antisemitism in schools in the Swedish multicultural city of Malmo has made the claim that much of the hatred toward Jewish students comes from students of Arab and Middle Eastern backgrounds. The February report, “Schoolyard racism, conspiracy theories […]
(Politico) French Minister for Higher Education and Research Frédérique Vidal today defended her probe into the influence of postcolonial studies and “Islamo-leftism” in the country’s universities. Vidal received plenty of criticism from universities and left-wing parties after she first announced the inquiry […]
(WKBW) Buffalo Public Schools provide around 28,000 school lunches every day. But meals like hot dogs, hamburgers, and sometimes even chicken are not suitable for all Muslim students. So, Atiqur Rahman sent a letter to Common Council members Mitch Nowakowski and Bryan […]
(AFP) The French minister for higher education has sparked a backlash from university heads after warning about the spread of “Islamo-leftism” in the country’s academic institutions. The term “Islamo-leftism” is often used in France by far-right politicians to discredit left-wing opponents they […]
(AFP) After months of controversy and 135 hours of parliamentary debate, MPs in France are set to approve a draft law to crack down on what has been termed “Islamist separatism” on Tuesday. AFP examines what is, and what isn’t, in the […]
(AP) More than three dozen French police officers descended on a small private school in Paris, blocked the 92 students inside their classrooms, took photos everywhere even inside the refrigerator, and grilled the school director. “It was like they were moving in […]
(AP) French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Thursday a state school teacher who allegedly received death threats after writing an open letter on the threat of radical Islam to teachers has been offered the highest level of state protection. Didier Lemaire had […]
(Deutsche Welle) No one at the school “The Eucalypts” in the village of Ollioules, near the Mediterranean coast in southern France, wants to talk to the media anymore. Sandra Olivier, maths teacher and member of the teachers’ union SNES-FSU, turned down DW’s […]
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(KCRG) The nation’s largest Muslim civil liberties group condemned a proposed bill in the Statehouse after a story aired on Tuesday on the TV9 News. House File 222 would reduce funding for public schools each day the New York Times Magazine’s 1619 […]
(Tennessean) A Nashville charter school has led the charge for national change as it pertains to wearing religious headwear during volleyball competition. High school volleyball players no longer need state association approval to wear religious headwear during competition, according to one of […]
(Anadolu) The Grand Mosque of Pantin near Paris, closed as part of a crackdown against radical Muslims by the French government in the aftermath of history teacher Samuel Paty’s assassination, will soon be reopened, the interior minister announced Monday. The mosque was […]
(Expats.cz) The Prague Municipal Court upheld a ruling by the Prague 10 District Court that halted the case of a Muslim nursing student who was not allowed to wear a hijab by her secondary school. The verdict has taken effect. The incident […]
(AP) French lawmakers debated a bill on Monday they hope will uproot radical Islam in the country, beliefs that authorities maintain are creeping into public services, associations, some schools and online with the goal of undermining national values. The bill is broad […]
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(Jerusalem Post) The Vienna University of Technology has withdrawn an invitation to a radical pro-Iranian regime imam with respect to an event about mosques after a human rights group protest, it confirmed on Tuesday to the Jerusalem Post. Herbert Kreuzeder, the university […]
(Arizona Republic) The Council [on] American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed an appeal Friday in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a decision dismissing a case against the Maricopa Community College District and one of its professors for teaching material that […]
(Anadolu) An ongoing debate on the controversial draft of a “separatism” bill has sparked criticism, [and] resulted in a diversion, dividing the house on the question of [the] veil, whether to include amendments to ban veiled students at the university and accompanying […]
(AP) French anti-terrorism police on Tuesday detained seven people suspected of having communicated via social media with the killer of a schoolteacher whose beheading last year reopened debate about France’s cherished rights of expression, a judicial official said. The teacher, Samuel Paty, […]
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(JNS) Anti-Semitism watchdog groups are raising alarm over a graduate student and teaching assistant at Johns Hopkins University who threatened to fail pro-Israel students, while also making disparaging remarks about Israelis and white people. “We find it alarming that a teaching assistant […]
(Radio France) To avoid possible incidents in the classroom, 49% of teachers in France say they have self-censored their teaching methods when dealing with religious issues. According to a survey carried out by Ifop published this Wednesday, for the Jean-Jaurès and Charlie […]
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