(Paterson Times) The cafeteria workers at John F. Kennedy High School served chicken patty sandwiches to students for lunch on Monday afternoon. But there was something inconspicuously different about the sandwiches: the meat between the buns was halal, allowing hundreds of Muslim […]
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(KDFW) Two Dallas Islamic groups want to change ideas about women of their faith and the hijab as its symbol. The Dallas chapter of the Islamic Circle of North America and Gain Peace are launching a six-week public outreach campaign. The main […]
(BBC) All children must learn about same-sex couples regardless of their religious background, the head of Ofsted says. Hundreds of parents protested outside a Birmingham school against it teaching pupils about same-sex couples and gender identity. Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman told […]
(IPT) Linda Sarsour, dogged by accusations of anti-Semitism, will speak next month at a New York University program on immigration. The announcement for the March 25 event, sponsored by NYU’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute, makes no reference to Sarsour’s divisive views. It ignored the […]
(BBC) The UK’s largest teachers’ union has warned government not to introduce measures that would make teaching staff criminally responsible for failing to report the forced marriage of a pupil. A Home Office consultation is exploring such proposals for teachers, health workers […]
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(Canadian Press) Prosecutors say a man found not criminally responsible in a knife attack at a Toronto military recruitment centre should not be allowed to take college classes on his own. The crown is appealing a decision by the Ontario Review Board, which […]
(Schools Week) A man jailed for his support for terrorist group Islamic State has been banned from being involved in running schools. Mohammed Mizanur Rahman is now barred from holding management positions in private schools and being a state school governor under […]
(Dutch News) The Dutch cabinet is to set up an investigation into informal weekend schools in the Netherlands following the news that Turkey is to fund 12 Saturday and Sunday schools for children aged six to 17. The aim is to find […]
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(Deutsche Welle) Kiel University on Wednesday announced that it has banned full-face coverings in classrooms, citing the need for open communication that includes facial expressions and gestures. However, the university in the capital of the German state Schleswig-Holstein clarified that its action did […]
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(Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) A high school art project helped students gain a new perspective by connecting them with people of the Islamic faith. Fayetteville High School students in Ashley Grisso’s advanced placement world history classes worked in groups of two or three. They […]
(BBC) Brunel University in London is hoping to encourage more Muslim women to play sport by launching a sports hijab. A 2017 study by Sports England found just 18% of Muslim women participate in regular sport, against 30% of the UK’s female […]
(Courthouse News) A Fourth Circuit panel sided Monday with a Maryland school district after a Christian student and her family opposed a lesson plan that taught about the Islamic faith. Caleigh Wood was an 8th grade student in Charles County Public School […]
(Deutsche Welle) Officials in the city of Mainz on Monday withdrew the license of the only Muslim kindergarten in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate amid allegations that the facility was promoting Salafism. The president of the state’s youth office, Detlef Placzek, said the […]
(Anadolu) A Muslim-Turkish association in Melbourne opened an institute for Islamic studies. The Islamic Community National View (IGMG) opened the institute which will be part of the Ilim College based in Melbourne. A total of 10 students — six female and four […]
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(Anadolu) A Muslim leader in Austria expressed shock Friday over a change in the title of elective courses on Islam in school report cards to “IGGO,” the abbreviation for the Islamic Religious Community of Austria. “The institution or organization that represents the […]
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(Jewish Journal) The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) California chapter called on the University of California chancellors to retract their stated opposition to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. In December, the ten UC chancellors issued a statement calling BDS “a […]
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(NY1) Debbie Almontaser stopped by Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene as she promoted her first book “Leading While Muslim.” She says the backlash she received as the founding principal of the country’s first Arabic-language public school inspired her to write it. “I […]
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(CBC) Quebec’s Education Ministry is trying to find out how many people its plan to ban teachers from wearing religious symbols will affect. The ministry has asked school boards whether they have a record of how many staff wear a religious symbol […]
(Brooklyn Eagle) “We want to be provocative — but in the best possible way,” said Brooklyn Historical Society President Deborah Schwartz as she introduced the latest entry in the organization’s winter events: a roundtable discussion featuring Dr. Debbie Almontaser, founding principal of […]
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(Delaware News Journal) Wilmington has agreed to pay $50,000, revise policies and train staff to settle a discrimination lawsuit filed by a Muslim school whose students were asked to leave a city pool last summer because of their garb. In court records […]
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(Gatestone) “New York, Geneva and Strasbourg are the only cities in the world which are home to international institutions without being national capitals,” an official page of the French city proudly proclaims. “The choice of Strasbourg as the European capital following the […]
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(CBC) Western University’s Student Recreation Centre is offering women a segregated fitness and recreation space to ensure they feel “safe and included” accessing the gym on campus. The pilot project, which launches Tuesday, was initiated after some women shared concerns with the […]
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(Daily Sabah) The Arabic and Islamic courses planned to be taught in a school in northern Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region were suspended after receiving reaction from anti-immigrant and central-right parties, local media outlets reported Saturday. Emilia-Romagna Regional Assembly member of the ruling anti-immigration […]
(NY Times) Early on Sunday mornings, Habiba Hatem, 9, prepares her own breakfast, grabs her flashy pink school bag and jumps into her father’s car — bound for Arabic lessons at her local mosque in a suburb north of Paris. Colorful sketches […]
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(Anadolu) A group of Muslim academicians teaching at universities in the U.S. and Canada visited Turkey and attended a conference on Tuesday. Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Yavuz Selim Kiran also attended the conference, which was jointly organized by Turkey’s Center for Strategic […]
(Daily Caller) Universities funded by the Department of Education to help shape the way U.S. K-12 schools and colleges portray the Middle East and Israel are simultaneously bankrolled by $600 million tied to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Muslim-majority countries, a Daily […]
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(Dutch News) A school in The Hague does not have to pay compensation to two Muslim sisters who missed their annual school photograph because it clashed with the end of Ramadan, appeal court judges said on Tuesday. A lower court last year […]
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(Anadolu) Following a controversial decision, Athens is likely to take steps to preserve the balance between Turkish and Greek language lessons in the curriculum of Muslim religious schools in Western Thrace, according to an expert on minority affairs in Greece. Earlier this […]
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