(Brussels Times) The new Flemish coalition agreement that was presented on Tuesday called for ideological neutrality in schools, banning headscarves and other religious symbols. “In education, we warrant neutrality. In provincial and community education, we ensure the philosophical neutrality for teachers and […]
(CBC) Hundreds of people attended a rally in the Park Extension neighbourhood on a rainy Saturday afternoon to speak out against Quebec’s secularism law — and in particular its effect on teachers in the province. Bouchera Chelbi, who teaches English as a […]
(AP) The American Civil Liberties Union urged the Trump administration Friday to drop its investigation into a Middle East studies program the agency says has focused too much on the “positive aspects of Islam” and misused grant money to promote “ideological priorities.” […]
(Paterson Times) School officials expanded the district’s self-operated halal food program to 10 more Paterson schools in the 2019-20 school year, said superintendent Eileen Shafer on Friday morning. School 2, 7, 8, 9, 19, 27, 28, Don Bosco Technical Academy, International High […]
(CBC) The English Montreal School Board has voted in favour of taking the province to court over its religious symbols ban. They’re seeking an exemption because they are a linguistic minority. Last month, the EMSB held off on deciding whether or not it […]
(CBC) Civil rights groups fighting Quebec’s religious symbols law have filed new evidence which, they say, demonstrates without a doubt it has “caused and continues to cause irreparable harm.” Lawyers submitted affidavits last week from Muslim women who were denied employment opportunities or […]
(Radio France) France’s education minister has expressed concern over a campaign poster by a parents’ association showing a mother wearing a Muslim headscarf while accompanying her child on a school trip. Jean-Michel Blanquer called the campaign an “error” and questioned the association’s purported […]
(CBC) Fatima Boularhmane isn’t sure where to turn anymore. She and her husband and children emigrated from Morocco about a decade ago, lured by the idea of living in a free and democratic country. Trained as an electrical engineer, Boularhmane tried in vain to get a […]
(Anadolu) Parents and students of a Turkish minority school in Greece on Monday protested a move splitting up the school day into two shifts due to inadequate classroom space. Some 2,000 protesters, according to local media, at the Xanthi (Iskece) Muzaffer Salihoglu […]
(AP) The Trump administration is threatening to cut funding for a Middle East studies program run by the University of North Carolina and Duke University, arguing that it’s misusing a federal grant to advance “ideological priorities” and unfairly promote “the positive aspects […]
(CBC) The largest school board in Quebec says three teachers have been directly affected by Quebec’s secularism law, formerly known as Bill 21. On Tuesday afternoon, the Commission Scolaire de Montréal (CSDM) revealed the teachers took off their religious symbols in order to be able to […]
(Dutch News) Education minister Arie Slob has told an Islamic secondary school in Amsterdam that the entire board must step down, or the government will halt all funding. It [is] extremely rare for a government minister to intervene directly in a school. […]
(NL Times) A majority of Dutch people are in favor of abolishing religious primary schools, according to a poll by Maurice de Hond. 59 percent of respondents said that all schools based on a religion in the Netherlands should be closed. Last […]
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(Anadolu) Austrians have reacted to former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s proposed headscarf ban as an election promise as political fever before the Sept. 29 general elections is running high in the country. Kurz, chairman of the Austrian People’s Party who is known for […]
(Anadolu) Students in a high school of Greece’s Turkish minority prevented the entrance of a Greek-appointed mufti (Muslim cleric) by calling him an “unwanted” person, according to local media. Western Thrace region of Greece is home to a Muslim-Turkish minority numbering around […]
(Dutch News) The ruling VVD and opposition Labour party want to change an article in the Dutch constitution which gives people the right to set up a school on the basis of a religion. VVD parliamentarian Dennis Wiersma told Radio 1 on […]
(Dutch News) Children who go to mosque-run fundamentalist Muslim schools across the country are being taught people of different faiths deserve the death penalty and to turn their backs on the values of Dutch society, a joint investigation by current affairs programme […]
(CBC) Quebec’s new secularism law is creating situations that “darken the climate of a school,” says the head of a union representing Montreal teachers. She says the law is compelling school boards to turn away teachers as they’re facing a labour shortage. “I […]
(ABC-Australia) Tayeba Quddus was shocked when she saw a lecture slide from a subject on diversity suggesting that while “most Muslims are peaceful,” up to 300 million Muslims were “radicals who want to destroy and murder.” The quote — sourced from a […]
(Barking and Dagenham Post) The trustees of a mosque where children were groomed for terrorism failed to properly monitor an Islamic State sympathiser then attempted to cover up what happened, the Charity Commission has found. All five have been disqualified for 10 […]
(Xinhua) A 17-year-old man armed with a knife assaulted two municipal employees at a canteen in a school in Marseille on Friday morning, French daily Le Parisien reported. The two victims, one with several stab wounds, the other a punch, were not […]
(Brussels Times) An Islamic school in the Flemish city of Genk will appeal an accreditation refusal based on constitutional grounds which prevented it from opening on the first day of school. The Flemish minister of education, Hilde Crevits, said Genk’s Selam College […]
(Brussels Times) Selam College, an Islamic school planning to open its doors in September, has not received provisional recognition. This was decided on Friday by Flemish Education Minister Hilde Crevits on the basis of the education inspection opinion and of a competent […]
(CTV) All of Quebec’s subsidized private schools received letters from the provincial government telling them how to comply with the new law on secularism. The letters were sent on Aug. 20 to private elementary and high schools throughout the province, including Montreal. […]
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(CBC) The English Montreal School Board was expected to vote Wednesday night on whether it would enforce the province’s religious symbols ban, but the item was struck from the agenda shortly before the start of the meeting. “I guess the majority of the commissioners […]
(Brussels Times) Dutch-speaking green party Groen want to strike down a general ban on the wearing of headscarves in Flemish schools and only ban them on a case-by-case basis, a party member announced Wednesday. Elisabeth Meuleman, a Groen MP, announced that her […]
(Canadian Press) The Quebec government is saying no to some parents who want to pull their children out of classrooms taught by teachers wearing religious symbols. About 50 parents signed an open letter published in Montreal newspaper Le Devoir Wednesday calling on […]
(Anadolu) A court in Belgium ruled in favor of a schoolgirl and against the headscarf ban in the Flemish region of the country. The school which the student had filed a case against is affiliated to a public body named GO! Education […]
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(CBC) Quebec’s largest school board appears to be falling into line when it comes to the province’s new religious symbols law, despite saying earlier this summer it wouldn’t apply the rules until holding further consultations. The Commission scolaire de Montréal (CSDM) began quietly including a notice […]
(Yle) The city of Helsinki has announced a programme to help schools and children’s NGOs better recognise situations where planned trips by migrant-background families might endanger children’s safety. According to a report by tabloid daily Ilta-Sanomat, the guidelines will advise adults working […]
(Daily Sabah) Greece’s Education Ministry shut down five more schools attended by students from the country’s Turkish minority, drawing criticisms from the minority population. Schools were shut down due to the low number of students according to the ministry. The number of […]
(Breitbart) According to the head of a Swedish animal protection group, behaviour in “immigrant-dense areas” is responsible for an increase in cruelty cases toward hedgehogs and other animals. Earlier this week, Swedish media spoke to Annica Sjöberg, the head of the animal welfare […]
(CBC) Biftu Hulo still remembers the day — not long after she became head of the Carleton University Muslim Students Association — that her phone rang. When she picked up, she couldn’t believe who was on the line: a representative from the Canadian Security […]
(CBC) When Ramz Aziz received a nervous phone call from his mother-in-law two years ago, it wasn’t to check in on his new baby. Instead, two men were at her door, looking for him. The pair identified themselves as public safety officers, and […]
(Breitbart) The Swedish National Defence College has announced a new study that will examine the effects of the radical Islamic ideology Salafism in various cities across the country. The new project, which is set to last until 2021, was described by Filip […]
(BBC) Non-Muslim girls in Lincolnshire are being asked to wear a hijab for a day to raise awareness of discrimination. Ghada Mohamed said she came up with the idea in response to a number of incidents where girls wearing hijabs were subjected […]
(FrontPage) Last month, the South Florida Muslim Federation (SFMF) took a delegation of a half-dozen people to meet with the Palm Beach Post to propagandize against Israel and demand their reporting of “Muslim issues” meet with their approval. Partaking in this show […]
(HuffPost) The Muslim Council of Britain has denied issuing a “ruling” that parents should not vaccinate their children against flu, following an “inaccurate” frontpage story in the Daily Telegraph. In Monday’s edition an article by Bill Gardner reported that the MCB, Britain’s […]
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(Brussels Times) Headscarves and other religious symbols will no longer be banned in higher education schools managed by Brussels’ French Community Commission (COCOF), a member of the coalition government announced at the weekend. The ban was also lifted from Francophone adult education […]
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(IPT) A pending New Jersey bill banning anti-Israel rhetoric and Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) activities on college campuses and in public schools in the state unfairly links such activities with anti-Semitism, officials with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) say. CAIR’s partners […]
(Canadian Press) Ontario’s top court has upheld a decision allowing a man found not criminally responsible in a knife attack at a Toronto military recruitment centre to eventually take college classes on his own. The appeal court says the Ontario Review Board […]
(Dutch News) Education minister Arie Slob has announced that he will stop funding to the Cornelius Haga Lyceum, an Islamic middle school in Amsterdam, if the current board remains in place. Slob announced that only a new school management can “put the […]
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(Dutch News) All 10 requests to open new Islamic secondary schools last year were reportedly turned down, according to figures from education body DUO. The NOS broadcaster says that the requests all came from four cities, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht, […]
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