Hijabi girls in front of Eiffel Tower in Paris. Suggested reading: Who Speaks for the Flesh and Blood 1.6 Billion Breathing Muslim Souls?
Source: Wall Street Journal
By Stacy Meichtry and Nick Kostov
PANTIN, France—Every Sunday, parents in this working-class neighborhood just north of Paris bring their children to a small school operated by the local mosque. Half of the three-hour lesson is devoted to learning Arabic, the other half to learning the Quran.
Now President Emmanuel Macron’s government is considering giving parents a secular alternative to that intertwining of Arabic and Islam by prodding more of France’s public schools to offer children as young as age 6 Arabic lessons—without religious content.