A court in Turkey sentenced pop star Gülşen Bayraktar Çolakoğlu, widely known by her first name only, to ten months in prison on Wednesday for a joke mocking Islamist religious schools.
A Swedish Administrative Court has closed two independent Muslim schools in Stockholm and Uppsala after security police warned of the spreading of Islamist ideology and possible radicalisation.
An Islamic Studies teacher has been convicted of sexually assaulting two girls and a boy in Birmingham, England.
An Islamic school in London has been given a mere “official warning” and not shut down despite a teacher being jailed for showing students an ISIS propaganda film.
The Swedish School Inspectorate has revoked a Gothenburg Islamic school’s licence due to concerns that pupils may be exposed to radical Islamic ideology.
President Muhammadu Buhari announced a major crackdown against so-called “Islamic reform schools” in Nigeria on Monday after authorities rescued hundreds of boys from facilities akin to “torture chambers.”
(AFP) — Police in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna have rescued more than 300 male students from an Islamic school where many had been tortured and sexually abused, a police spokesman said Friday.
Marks and Spencer has been criticised for selling hijabs as part of its school uniform range, with anti-extremism campaigner Majid Nawaz condemning the leading British department store for “facilitating medievalism”.
Members of the House of Lords have mocked the suggestion that the government should monitor mosques and Islamic madrassas “hate speech”, calling for the UKIP Peer who asked the question to be monitored instead.
A new study from the University of Graz has claimed that less than a quarter of Islamic teachers in the south of the country have the same level of teaching qualifications as their Austrian counterparts. The university study interviewed 64 of
The UK’s schools watchdog Ofsted found an Islamic primary school did not provide toilet paper for its pupils and had books written by a banned Islamic extremist in its library.
Extremists have tried to intimidate Britain’s schools watchdog over its crackdown on unregistered Muslim schools, where inspectors were called “Britain First paedophiles”. Ofsted boss Amanda Spielman revealed that inspectors at one of the regulator’s regional offices have been forced to take additional
An increasing number of private UK faith schools are being judged as inadequate, a report by the national inspectorate has found, calling some “squalid” and stating that in a number of establishments English is not taught properly.
A £1500-a-year Muslim girls school has been given the inspectorates lowest raking, after a series of failings including not providing toilet paper for “cultural” reasons.
School inspectors are so concerned at the level of sexist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, and anti-Western material in Britain’s Islamic schools, they have compiled a dossier of examples.
School inspectors will speak to primary school girls wearing hijabs to ascertain why they are covering their hair, amidst concerns children as young as four are being forced to wear the garment by schools or their parents to protect their ‘modesty’.
VIENNA (AFP) – A debate is raging in Austria after a study suggested that Islamic kindergartens in Vienna were helping to create “parallel societies” or even produce the dangerous homegrown radicals of the future. According to its author, Ednan Aslan,
A Muslim school in Sweden is forcing girls to the back of its school buses with one Swedish expert comparing the move to the racial segregation in the American south during the civil rights era.
Ofsted was wrong to penalise an Islamic faith school over its gender segregation policies because they affected girls and boys equally, a high court judge has ruled.
Dozens of Islamic schools are still operating despite Ofsted inspectors finding that the schools are “unsafe”, with children being exposed to extremist ideas as well as being unaware of British values, it has emerged. Many more schools have never been inspected at all.
A high court judge has been slammed for giving special protection to a strict Islamic school, which is trying to quash a highly critical Ofsted report court, forcing the press to censor its name and location.
An Islamic school in Luton has been reported to Britain’s Education Secretary and the equalities watchdog, after teachers insisted on segregating themselves from the opposite sex behind a screen, even as an inspection took place. Ofsted, the government inspector, has previously found
Six Islamic schools in Australia that rely on government grants for survival are set to lose their tax payer-funded revenue after an audit found them to be operating for profit. The schools are all affiliated with the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils
