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Brookings Presents Study On Publicly Funded Islamic Education
European governments funding Islamic education aimed at producing model citizens
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Muslim Link Staff Reporter
A new study by the Brookings Institute on publicly funded Islamic education in nine European countries and the United States finds outdated, stereotypical textbooks, lack of teachers training and publicly funded European Islamic schools being used to produce "model citizens�.
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Fatimah Aulaqi, a newlywed Ye m e n i - A m e r i c a n i n Texas, is not receiving congratulatory messages on the phone from her relatives these days.
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>> YEMEN Pg 12
American Muslim Tries to Give Athan in All 50 States | pg 22 Pew Study: Islam Fastest Growing Faith on the Planet | pg 24 Pray for Those Who Departed This Life: Obituaries | pg 30
Jamal al-Labani, a resident of Oakland, CA, who had gone to visit his wife and young child in Yemen, was killed on Thursday, April 2, 2015, as he walked home from the masjid.
TML's Marketplace | pg 31