14 April 2011 According to the Pukhtoonistan Gazette, in an article dated 13 April 2011, teachers in Tajikistan have been ordered by the government to search in mosques for students missing class on Fridays. Furthermore, according to the report, the government is also considering a bill that would ban minors from attending houses of worship [...]
Apr 072011
07 April 2011 According to an article in The Brooklyn Paper, dated 06 April 2011, the Khalil Gibran International Academy, in New York, will be losing its current location. The article reports that the school, founded in 2007 by Debbie Almontaser, suffered from low student enrollment and “poor student performance and student progress”. The school is reportedly [...]
01 April 2011 An article in AnnArbor reports that the Michigan Islamic Academy is seeking to build a new large facility in Pittsfield Township. Permission was denied the group in January based on potential traffic issues. The article, dated 31 March 2011, says a traffic study commissioned by the Islamic Academy reports that the building [...]
Apr 012011
01 April 2011 An article in the New Republic,dated 31 March 2011, reports that the Afghani education system is in tatters. According to the article, although they receive regular paychecks, some teachers don’t even show up. This article highlights the plieght of a small villiage named, Oqa. Here is a brief excerpt from this [...]
27 March 2011 Garowe Online, in an article dated 18 March 2011, reports an Al-Shabab official has confirmed they use underaged children as soldiers. The official in question also states that they will continue to do so. Here is a brief excerpt from the article: Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, top Al-Shabaab militia’s commander confirmed [...]
Mar 142011
14 March 2011 Peshwar, Pakistan – The Daily Times, in an article dated 24 September 2010, reports that the Taliban has bombed two more girls’ schools in the provincial capital. This brings to five the numbers of schools attacked in the last week. Recent flooding has already damaged 900 schools and completely destroyed 226. Here [...]
Jan 262011
Dotted across the country are a network of over 40 schools and clubs teaching Muslim children, up to the age of 18, in the evening and the weekends. We wanted to find out what they were being taught. So we sent a young Saudi researcher under cover in London. He asked for and obtained the books, part of the Saudi national curriculum, for teaching 12 and 13 year olds. What was found, may or may not be surprising.
The Republic of Malawi, a country slightly smaller than the state of Pennsylvania, is located in southern Africa and shares boarders with Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia. According to an article dated October 27, 2010 in the publication Catholic Culture…a Catholic primary school in southern Malawi was recently the site of a Muslim riot. Elementary/Junior high [...]
