La Réussite (Ibn Rushd) school in Aubervilliers, France is collapsing under the weight of its debts, its headteacher recently reported. Many critics have pointed to the French government for denying it the same grants given to other faith schools. According to the Guardian newspaper, with a 1959 law, over 8000 Jewish and Christian schools receive…
The Belgian Security Service advised against officially recognizing the Attakwa mosque in Kortrijk, saying that there are certain teachers in the mosque who take extreme points of view when teaching Quran classes on Saturday mornings. The interior minister and justice minister Stefaan De Clerck agreed, saying that it is possible that the mosque may be…
An expose from IslamOnline.net explores the ongoing success achieved by a local Muslim school in San Francisco, California. The al Arqam Islamic School has become an example that full-time comprehensive Islamic schools can thrive, 11 years after being officially accredited. The school was also recently accepted into the academically rigorous International Baccalaureate program, and is…
Muslims in Berlin are planning to train Islamic clergymen at a soon-to-be-opened school, the first of its kind in the German capital. The project is the brainchild of Institut Buhara, an organization founded by a group of Muslims linked to the Sufi branch of Islam. The move comes amid growing frustration by Muslims who have…
An Islamic state secondary school has been found to be giving preference to children from a private school in its admissions process. The schools adjudicator upheld a complaint against Madani High School in Leicester. The adjudicator found the admissions process was “socially and economically discriminatory”, reducing the places for Muslims from other local schools. Madani…
