Muslims join Paris protest against gender equality drive in schools
February 2, 2014 Tens of thousands of supporters of the conservative “Manif pour Tous” movement (Protest for Everyone) gathered in Paris on Sunday February 2nd to protest against gender equality...
View ArticleTroubled Islamic free school in Derby to close its secondary school
February 9, 2014 A troubled free school is to stop teaching pupils of secondary school age from September. Schools Minister Lord Nash, the man responsible for free schools and academies, announced...
View ArticleNew York City public school kids getting new Muslim, Lunar New Year holidays
February 4, 2014 Mayor de Blasio said Monday that he’d move forward with closing schools for Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, two Muslim holy days, and for Lunar New Year. But he was hesitant regarding...
View ArticleHassen Chalghoumi interviewed by Le Figaro: ‘We have not built a French Islam’
February 16, 2014 Hassen Chalghoumi, the President of the Conference of Imans of France and President of the Muslim Association of Drancy was the guest speaker on the Talk Orange-Le Figaro show on...
View ArticleParis denies French school is teaching sharia law in Qatar
February 5, 2014 France’s Foreign Ministry has denied media reports that a French international school in Qatar has agreed to teach Islamic sharia law and separate boys and girls into different...
View ArticleAlleged plot to ‘take over’ and run schools on strict Islamic principles
March 7, 2014 An alleged plot to oust some Birmingham head teachers and make their schools adhere to more Islamic principles is being investigated. A letter detailing the plan, known as “Operation...
View ArticleThe Gulen movement in Germany
March 20, 2014 Opaque structures and ambiguous objectives are not conducive to the education of the young. This is why the Gulen movement must be monitored more closely, writes Ursula Ruessmann In...
View ArticleGovernment intervenes at school ‘taken over’ by Muslim radicals
March 22, 2014 The Birmingham school at the centre of an alleged campaign of “Islamisation” by Muslim radicals is to be placed in “special measures” by the Government’s education watchdog in a move...
View ArticleMuslim parent upset over school flyer promoting church’s Easter egg hunt
April 4, 2014 Some Muslim parents are concerned about public schools in Dearborn handing out flyers to all students advertising an Easter egg hunt, saying it violates the principle of church and...
View ArticleTeacher admits campaign to install Muslim staff at schools
A senior teacher at the centre of an alleged plot by religious hard-liners to seize control of governing bodies has admitted that there was a campaign to install Muslims in leading roles at schools in...
View ArticleHead teachers’ union raises serious concerns over ‘Trojan Horse’ schools
The National Association of Head Teachers says it has serious concerns over schools at the centre of the alleged Islamic plot in Birmingham, with the union’s general secretary warning that Islamic...
View ArticleHouse gives nod to Volusia-inspired textbook review bill
TALLAHASSEE — The Florida House, essentially reacting to a months-old protest over the portrayal of Islam in Volusia County school textbooks, passed a bill Monday that would give local school boards,...
View ArticleMuslim leaders ask for equal billing with Jewish holiday on Montgomery calendar
Muslim community leaders in Montgomery County this week asked that the Islamic holy day of Eid al-Adha be given equal billing as the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur on Montgomery’s 2015-2016 school...
View ArticleHamburg begins with interreligious education
June 23, 2014 Starting in August 2014 two schools in Hamburg will test religious education in a joint sponsorship involving Jewish, Christian and Islamic communities. With this the federal state of...
View Article‘Trojan Horse schools plot’: What was the Trojan Horse letter?
July 6, 2014 In March, an anonymous letter was made public that claimed to be a template illustrating how state schools could be taken over and pushed into adopting a more Islamic culture. The...
View Article‘Radicalisation risk’ at six Muslim private schools, says Ofsted
The debate over “British values” came to the fore in the wake of the “Trojan horse” affairs, and the realization that hundreds of British Muslim men – and some women – had become radicalised enough to...
View ArticleCDU politician from Rhineland-Palatinate demands burqa ban
Federal deputy and head of faction Julia Klöckner from the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) has demanded to restrict the full coverage of women in the public. Underlining her claim for the burqa ban,...
View ArticleRepealing the Chatel Circular, campaign to allow veiled mothers on school trips
A group of signatories have called for a repeal of the Chatel Circular: “We ask for the removal of the Chatel Circular, which prohibits veiled mothers from accompanying their children on school trips....
View ArticleGultepe Mosque in Rotterdam receives threat letter
The Gultepe Mosque in northern Rotterdam received a threat letter this week. Part of it reads: “You can’t trust anyone anymore, so leave now, when you’re still able too. Because death is in your...
View ArticleBritish Muslim school children getting abuse following Paris Attacks
Muslim pupils across Britain are suffering a backlash of bullying and abuse following the Charlie Hebdo massacre amid a broad rise in Islamophobia in schools, which the Government is failing to tackle,...
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