A spokesman defends the action, but a Muslim student chaplain sees ‘a violation of civil rights.’ The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students more broadly than previously known and at schools far beyond the city limits, including Ivy League colleges Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania, the Associated Press has learned. Police…
24.11.2011 Baden-Württemberg’s Integration Minister Bilkay Öney held the first “Round Table Islam” last week, which was initiated to improve the dialogue with Muslims (as reported). Öney invited more than 30 Muslim representatives of organisations, associations, and ministries to discuss topics such as the public perception of Islam, Islam and education, Islam and basic liberties, and…
THE PRESS RELEASE announcing complaints against Catholic University of America for alleged bias against Muslim and women students begins with a mention of criminal charges leveled against a bishop in Kansas City for withholding information about suspected child abuse. It’s an irrelevant cheap shot. But it’s a good tipoff to the lack of substance in…
27.09.2011 According to Ahmet Toprak, Professor for Educational Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences and Art in Dortmund, and Aladin El-Mafaalani, Ruhr University Bochum, many German teachers have insufficient knowledge about young Muslims and the values and ways of thinking of parents from more traditional Turkish or Arabic backgrounds. While many teachers may think…
But at UC Irvine, the case of student protesters who disrupted a speech on campus by the Israeli ambassador last year appears to not have resonated. In a Santa Ana courtroom Monday, closing arguments will be heard in a case involving Muslim students and the right to free speech. But the so-called Irvine 11 trial,…
