(AFP) In the ethnically mixed Paris suburb of Kremlin-Bicetre, a group of children sit quietly at their desks while outside their classmates frolic in the autumn sunshine. “Ayna yaskunu Adel? (where does Adel live)” teacher Hanan asks the children, pointing to a […]
(Breitbart) The Austrian government has enacted a headscarf ban in kindergartens across the country and is now considering widening the ban to include elementary schools. The conservative-populist government enacted the headscarf ban for kindergartens on Wednesday which will mean that children will […]
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(PJ Media) Minnesota state Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-60B) currently leads the race to fill the federal House seat being vacated by Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN). Immediately after being elected to her current seat in 2016, Omar faced allegations — soon backed by […]
(WBAL) A Baltimore County elementary school has stopped plans for a school play because of complaints of negative stereotyping of Arab culture. The drama club at Westowne Elementary School was planning to perform Disney’s “Aladdin Jr.” next year. Students auditioned for the […]
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(Montreal Gazette) Teachers at Westmount High School took to the street Thursday to protest the incoming Coalition Avenir Québec’s proposed religious neutrality laws, on the day the new government was officially sworn in. The English Montreal School Board, which represents more than […]
(CBC) Philosopher Charles Taylor says the new CAQ government “doesn’t get the point” of the report he co-authored that’s been frequently cited by the CAQ as justification for its controversial plan to ban the wearing of religious symbols by some civil servants. […]
(ANSA) Italian authorities said Thursday that they had started monitoring schools for the risk of jihadi recruitment. According to anti-terror investigators, the young are among the “vulnerable individuals most exposed to the risks of radicalisation.” Intelligence services were [said] to be in […]
(Montreal Gazette) Four years after staging protests against the Parti Québécois’s proposed charter of values, teachers at Westmount High School are planning to rally against the Coalition Avenir Québec plan to bar public servants in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols. […]
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(Clarion) The Alavi Foundation is an Iranian front group that funds mosques and educational institutions in the U.S. and Canada. In 2009, federal prosecutors charged that the Alavi Foundation was a front group for the Iranian government and violated U.S. law by […]
(Local) A crowdfunding campaign has raised €60,000 to help pay for school lunches for pupils in the northern Italian city of Lodi, where the mayor recently moved to make it difficult for the children of foreign parents to qualify for subsidised meals. […]
(Australian) Australia’s grand mufti has signalled open hostility to gay teachers in Islamic schools in defiance of Bill Shorten’s proposed changes to discrimination laws, saying they engage in “abnormal practices that contradict nature” and suffer from “mental illness.” The intervention from Sheik […]
(Jewish Journal) Rutgers University canceled a speaking event for Lisa Daftari, a regular Fox News contributor and journalist with expertise in the Middle East, foreign affairs and counterterrorism, after some students accused her of Islamophobia. Daftari, a Rutgers alumna and Iranian Jew, […]
(Reuters) Omar Alnifawi was 16 when he fled Syria’s civil war with his family. After four years working menial jobs in Lebanon to help pay for their journey on to Europe, he had given up on ever going back to school. Six […]
(LBC) Maajid Nawaz has criticised Marks and Spencer for selling school uniform hijabs for children as young as three. The LBC presenter labelled the store’s decision to sell the headscarf, which is listed in the “essential” school section, as “facilitating medievalism.” Maajid […]
(Global News) Toronto police say they’re investigating after signs at a Jewish day school were spray-painted with pro-Palestinian slogans, including a message in support of fundamentalist organization Hamas. In a statement from the advocacy organization B’Nai Brith Canada, officials said staff at […]
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(CBC) After a week of controversy, Quebec’s incoming Coalition Avenir Québec government is opening the door a crack to compromise on its plan to ban some civil servants from wearing religious symbols. The CAQ said last week it would be prepared to fire teachers who refuse to […]
(WDET) Steve Mustapha Elturk is getting his Master of Arts in Social Justice at Marygrove College, a small Catholic liberal arts school located in Detroit. During a class break, he walks down a hallway to a sparse room with a chalk board […]
(Canadian Press) Amrit Kaur’s turban never leaves her body, no matter what she does. The 27-year-old student teacher from Vaudreuil-Dorion, west of Montreal, has even figured out a way to shower with it on, by tying it around her waist while she washes her hair. […]
(FrontPage) “In the Hadith, the Day of Judgment will never happen until you fight the Jews,” Hatem Bazian reportedly declared, “until the trees and stones will say, oh Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me. Come and kill him!” That was […]
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(Religion News) Larycia Hawkins never questioned what she should do. It was days after the 2015 San Bernardino shooting, in which 14 people were killed at a center for people with developmental disabilities. Then-presidential candidate Donald Trump seized upon the religion of the […]
(State News) On Monday night, the Muslim Studies Program held a “Muslims and U.S. Politics” event at the MSU International Center, where Dalia Mogahed, director of research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding in Washington, D.C., was a guest lecturer. […]
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(Times of San Diego) A new 30-second commercial, appearing on Rep. Duncan Hunter’s YouTube channel and shared via Twitter, depicts his Democratic opponent as a security risk bankrolled by the Muslim Brotherhood. “Ammar Campa-Najjar is working to infiltrate Congress,” the narrator says. […]
(SD Union-Tribune) A federal judge on Tuesday rejected an attempt by parents to shut down San Diego Unified School District’s anti-Islamophobia efforts, saying that they could not prove that the district’s program was unconstitutional and favored Islam over other religions. While Tuesday’s […]
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(USA Today) How did a former undercover CIA operative who spent more than eight years fighting terrorism get branded as a teacher at “Terror High”? The strange ordeal for Abigail Spanberger, a Democratic House candidate, began when U.S. Postal Service employees wrongly delivered her confidential personnel […]
(NL Times) PVV leader Geert Wilders put forward a proposal to ban all forms of Islamic expressions in the Netherlands during the first day of the general considerations, the parliamentary debate on the government’s plans and budget for the next year, on Wednesday. […]
(IPT) A recent report on Islamophobia published by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) appears to affirm its common cause with a Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) effort to change public school curricula and staff training in the name of stopping Islamophobia. […]
(National-UAE) Regulators have opened dozens of investigations into UK Muslim charities over the last five years following weapons discoveries, the unmasking of extremists in religious schools and allegations of terrorist financing, analysis of official data shows. The Charity Commission publicly announced some […]
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(Canadian Press) An officer cadet facing expulsion from the Canadian Forces for desecrating a Qur’an is being allowed to continue his studies at the Royal Military College in Saint-Jean, Que., but another student is still fighting to remain in uniform. The two officer […]
(NJ Herald) On a day of mourning for the 3,000 people killed on Sept, 11, 2001, by Islamic terrorists inspired by Osama bin Laden, a middle school social studies teacher allegedly decided to skip that part of the discussion Tuesday and instead […]
(Anadolu) Austrians have reacted to a plan by the education minister to expand the headscarf ban for students and teachers to secondary schools. Education Minister Heinz Fassmann said on Monday that the issue should be discussed throughout the country, especially in the […]
(Washington Post) The battle for Republican Dave Brat’s suburban Richmond congressional seat has spawned a flurry of TV ads on a subject few saw coming as the midterms kicked off: Democrat Abigail Spanberger’s substitute-teaching job at a Saudi-funded Islamic school in Northern […]
(France 24) French conservative and far-right political forces on Tuesday blasted Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer’s welcome of a proposal to “revive the teaching of Arabic” in schools in a bid to combat Islamism in the country. The proposal stems from a 617-page […]
(Politico) Islamists have an “intellectual monopoly” over public debate among Muslims in France and the state must intervene to limit foreign influence over worshippers, according to a new report submitted to President Emmanuel Macron. The 617-page report, “The Fabric of Islam,” presents […]
(Local) A new report by a Paris think-tank underlines “the progress of Islamist ideology among Muslims in France,” suggesting that Salafi Islam can be stamped out through a “halal tax” and Arabic being taught in French schools. According to the report released […]
(Anadolu) Expanding the range of headscarf bans for students and teachers in secondary school should be discussed throughout the country, especially in parliament, Austria’s education minister said on Monday. Speaking at Austrian state television ORF on a draft law to ban Muslim […]
(ABC-Australia) Australia’s largest Islamic school has had its funding permanently restored by new federal education minister Dan Tehan, after several years of court battles. The Malek Fahd Islamic School’s future hung in the balance after a full bench of the Federal Court […]
(Swiss Info) The Federal Court says that an initiative by the conservative right Swiss People’s Party to ban head coverings in schools in the southern canton of Valais is invalid. It confirms the decision taken by the Valais parliament. The People’s Party […]
(Politico) Denmark’s right-wing government might once have expected pushback from the left-wing opposition when it introduced a controversial new integration policy. No longer. A recent government proposal, to be finalized by parliament in the fall, would target the country’s so-called ghetto neighborhoods […]
(Toronto Star) The York Region school board has publicly apologized for the anti-Muslim, “discriminatory and disrespectful” social media postings of an elementary school principal. “The board would like to apologize to the school community for failing to uphold the shared values of […]
(Washington Times) GOP Rep. Dave Brat on Tuesday said voters in Virginia’s 7th congressional district deserve to know more about Democratic opponent Abigail Spanberger’s work at the Islamic Saudi Academy in Northern Virginia. “I do think it is an issue,” Mr. Brat […]
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