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Greece: After a new holistic education program, the number of Muslim pupils grows in schools of northern Greece

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The number of Muslim children entering secondary education in Thessaloniki has grown fourfold, ten years after a groundbreaking program was introduced to produce modern materials for speakers of other languages whose cultural identity was once deemed incompatible with mainstream teaching methods. Among the program’s successes has been the introduction of bilingual textbooks, schoolbooks, digital and…

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German Primary Schoolers Get Textbook on Islam

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“My Book About Islam” is the first schoolbook on the Muslim faith to be approved for young children in Germany. The authors hope it will help foster understanding by dispelling myths about the followers of the Koran. “My Book About Islam” is intended for Muslim children, who come from different ethnic backgrounds and offers different…

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Primary school wins national award

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A Merseyside primary school that has built-in prayer rooms for Muslim pupils has been named the best primary in the country for including children of all backgrounds. At Kingsley community primary school in Toxteth around 85 per cent of pupils are from an ethnic background. The school celebrates difference and promotes inclusion and harmony has…

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Religion Study: ‘There Is Absolutely No Reason for Islamophobia’

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Germany’s Muslims are pious and yet more tolerant than most assume, a new study has found. Its authors are urging authorities to draw the country’s Muslim children away from Koran schools by offering public religious instruction. Dr. Martin Rieger of the Bertelman Stiftung thinks Muslim children should have their own religion classes. Rieger was the…

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RELIGION STUDY: ‘There Is Absolutely No Reason for Islamophobia’

Euro-Islam16 years ago03 mins

Germany’s Muslims are pious and yet more tolerant than most assume, a new study has found. Its authors are urging authorities to draw the country’s Muslim children away from Koran schools by offering public religious instruction. Dr. Martin Rieger of the Bertelman Stiftung thinks Muslim children should have their own religion classes. Rieger was the…

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