January 22, 2014 Hundreds of Catalan children travel each year to Gambia to study the Koran and Arabic. These children between 7 and 17 years old may be between six months to five years in madrasas (Islamic schools). The goal is for their children to maintain the traditions and religious and cultural ties to the home community….
U.S. Rep. Andre Carson, an Indianapolis Democrat who is one of only two Muslims in Congress, is coming under attack for a speech he gave to the Islamic Circle of North America. André Carson, created controversy when he told an Islamic Circle of North America convention that; American schools should be modeled after Madrassas, or…
June 7, 2012 The Dutch Ministry of Education has congratulated the country’s Islamic schools for their greatly improved academic performance. In only a few years the schools have shown rapid development. For instance, in March 2011 one-fifth of Dutch Islamic primary schools showed poor performance, and 7.5% had very poor performance; now none of…
By Mohamed Elshinnawi As the population of Muslims in the United States continues to grow, so too does the number of Islamic schools serving Muslim families across the nation. American Muslims see these schools as a way to provide their children with a combination of good, mainstream education and training in the essentials of their…
Le Monde reports that a greater number of Muslim parents are seeking to educate their children in confessional schools. Three Muslim schools have been announced, one in Montigny-le-Bretonneux (with 29 students), another in Marseille (with approximately 40 students) and a third in Toulouse (with 30 students registered).
