CBC News – January 28, 2011 About a hundred parents waited in line outside the Calgary Islamic School for a chance to enroll their children. The private school — which teaches kindergarten to Grade 11 — has room for about 20 new students next year, officials said. But since it’s the only school of its…
Protesters of the expansion of a Saudi government- funded Islamic school say they fear an increase in traffic in the area. But debates usually transform into hot discussions about the spread of radical Islam through the school. The Islamic Saudi Academy is seeking to serve more students, and area residents are concerned. “I submit no…
Shock and anger is spreading among Hamilton’s 20,000 Muslims after the city’s largest mosque was firebombed. The mosque includes the Islamic School of Hamilton which has about 200 students from kindergarten to Grade 8. Attackers had used a large rock to smash a hole in a front window at the mosque and then lobbed in…
A private highschool called “Éducative” will open soon at Villeneuve-Saint-Georges (Val-de-Marne). The tuition is estimated at 4500 Euros per year. The school belongs to a network set up by Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish thinker sometimes accused of promoting Islamicization. There are two thousand similar schools already present around the world.
Ensumata Abdoulghani, mother of three, was a passenger on a Yemenia Airbus that crashed into the Indian Ocean. The wife of Muslim teacher Youssouf Mahamoud, left Ottawa just over a week ago to visit her ailing mother in Comoros, her family said. The family is extremely active in the Ottawa Muslim Community. Mahamoud is a…
