Camp Izza in Pasadena and Irvine aims to help Muslim children take pride in their culture and faith. The summer includes prayers and Koran recitation as well as water balloons and scavenger hunts. Camp Izza, believed to be the only Muslim summer camp in the U.S. that is accredited by the American Camp Assn….
18./ 19.102011 An investigation by BBC Radio 4’s “File on 4” has discovered that Britain’s madrassas faced more than 400 allegations of physical abuse in the last three years. However, only ten of them were dealt with in court, with successful prosecutions in only two cases (as identified by the BBC). While corporal punishment is…
27.09.2011 According to Ahmet Toprak, Professor for Educational Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences and Art in Dortmund, and Aladin El-Mafaalani, Ruhr University Bochum, many German teachers have insufficient knowledge about young Muslims and the values and ways of thinking of parents from more traditional Turkish or Arabic backgrounds. While many teachers may think…
19 February 2011 The Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (IZRS) has held its yearly meeting, to which the president of the IZRS Nicolas Blancho had invited a number of prominent speakers. Approximately 2000 people attended the conference, where the star of the gathering was the Kuwaiti Sheikh Mishary Rashid Al-Afasy, while around 50 people from…
Refugee children from Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere are being resettled here. Muslim couples who can’t conceive want to adopt but don’t want to violate their faith’s teachings. State child welfare agencies that permanently remove Muslim children from troubled homes usually can’t find Muslim families to adopt them because of the restrictions in Islamic law. The…
