WASHINGTON — The Anti-Defamation League is taking issue with a new, broadly supported pamphlet on balancing anti-bullying policies and religious speech in public schools. The pamphlet, written chiefly by the American Jewish Committee, was released on Tuesday (May 22) with endorsements from groups ranging from the National Association of Evangelicals to the National School Boards…
05/04/2012 Today, Ceuta has 14 teachers of Islam in public schools, an “insufficient” number for the Union of Islamic Communities in Ceuta, who last month met with the delegate of the Government to reactivate the request made earlier to the Spanish State to expand the teaching staff. The organization accuses the state of “violating…
Visit almost any school in America and you’ll find students sharing their faith, reading their scriptures, saying grace before lunch and, in high schools, meeting in religious clubs. But in a growing number of state legislatures around the country, lawmakers want more. Barred by the U.S. Supreme Court from turning the clock back to the…
11.09.2011 In light of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Deutsch Türkische Nachrichten interviewed Lamya Kaddor, a scholar of Islamic studies of Syrian origins and actively involved in introducing Islamic education in German public schools, about her recent visit to New York and Ground Zero and the scaremongering by Interior Minister Friedrich. Kaddor thinks…
The Toronto Star – August 8, 2011 About a hundred demonstrators congregated on the steps of the Toronto District School Board toting signs and shouting chants condemning the city’s public schools for allowing Muslim prayer groups. “No Islam in our schools! Never, never, never!” shouted Ron Banerjee, director of the Canadian Hindu Advocacy. The…
