In France, 40 Muslim schools reopened their doors this week. In Nanterre, (Hauts-de-Seine) two opened for the first time. The Ibn Badis Institute is attached to the mosque local mosque. The project has been in the works for 21 years and welcomed its first students in September. Unlike the school project halted by the local…
Two Islamic school teachers who beat a 10-year-old boy with a stick for reciting the Koran incorrectly have been jailed for a year. Mohammed Siddique, 60, and his son Mohammed Waqar, 24, admitted willful cruelty to a child under 16. The four attacks took place at the Jamia Mosque in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, between May and…
In France, ‘la mixité’ once meant just boys and girls going to the same school. Now Muslim mothers have adopted the word in their campaign against social apartheid. In a country that has liberty, equality and fraternity as its national motto, a banner that denounces “social apartheid” should do more than prick the collective conscience…
A French court on Thursday (Aug. 13) upheld a local move to stop offering alternatives to pork in school cafeterias, sparking dismay on the part of Muslim leaders and possibly setting a precedent for municipalities elsewhere in the country. The court found in favor of the mayor of a town in eastern France who announced…
Orange, blue, pink, blue, green. The colors in the classrooms of the new school in Corbeil-Essonnes are lively and warm. The incoming students will be attending the second private Muslim school, the other located in Vigneux-sur-Seine. The project began in 2011. “We took our time. We wanted to buy the property, we thought it would…
