(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 […]
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
(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, […]
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
(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, […]
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
(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 […]
(JTA) A Muslim student group at American University was set to co-sponsor an interfaith seder and iftar event this week with the campus Hillel chapter, to commemorate Passover and Ramadan. Then, in an Instagram post Saturday, the Muslim Student Association at the […]
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
(Connexion) The family of Samuel Paty, the French school teacher murdered by a jihadist in October 2020, is suing the ministries of education and interior for “non-assistance of a person in danger” and “non-prevention of a crime.” They accuse the intelligence services […]
(Anadolu) Right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen has pledged to impose a total ban on the wearing of the Muslim headscarf in public places if elected France’s next president. The leader of the National Rally party, who is currently leading second in polls […]
(CTV) The president of the Muslim Student Association at the University of Saskatchewan claims students are not being given religious accommodation to write exams during Ramadan, calling it institutional Islamophobia. “We were very appalled to find out that the university denied students, […]
(BBC) A teacher has been suspended from a top state grammar school after allegedly using a mug with a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad on it. The teacher at Colchester Royal Grammar School (CRGS) in Essex is thought to have taken the […]
(Jewish News) The National Union of Students has voted for a new president who only last week had to apologise for a historic tweet in which she posted the words of an infamous Islamic chant threatening “Jews” with an attack by “the […]
(Age) The principal of Victoria’s largest Islamic school is being sued by a female teacher for sexual harassment and assault. Omar Hallak, the founder and principal of Al-Taqwa College in Truganina in Melbourne’s outer west, allegedly sexually assaulted or harassed the then-25-year-old […]
(Radio France) Ten years after France was rocked by a series of Islamist shootings targeting Jewish children and French soldiers, President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday joined two of his predecessors — Nicolas Sarkozy and François Holland[e] — along with Israeli President Isaac […]
(New Arab) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling on Georgetown University Law Center to look into student claims of Islamophobia by a law professor. In a letter to the law school this week, CAIR Maryland director Zainab Chaudry wrote that they […]
(Algemeiner) French presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse on Friday visited the Jewish school in [the] southern city of Toulouse that 10 years ago was [the] site of a deadly Islamist terror attack that took the lives of a teacher and three small children. […]
(WHYY) A Muslim athletic trainer was fired by a private girls school in Bryn Mawr over years-old social media posts criticizing Israel, the Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) alleged Wednesday. The group has filed a federal Equal Employment […]
(AP) Noor Abukaram’s elation at completing one of her first varsity cross-country races quickly turned to disappointment when she failed to find her name among those of her high school teammates on the results list. To Abukaram’s shock, she learned she’d been […]
(New Arab) Even with its growing Muslim community, Minnesota’s district schools have until now not officially observed Muslim holidays. That will change starting next school year, when several school districts will recognise Eid El-Fitr and Eid El-Adha as official school holidays. “Muslims are […]
(AP) Schools and school sports regulators could no longer require advance waivers or otherwise restrict participants’ religious apparel unless it causes a “legitimate danger” for fellow competitors, under a bill signed into law Monday by Gov. Mike DeWine. The measure was inspired […]
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Eye on Islamism is no longer printing excerpts from articles published by certain news sources. To read the original article, click here.
Thank you for reading Eye on Islamism.