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Article: VOA NEWS: MUSLIM AMERICANS ESTABLISH OWN SCHOOLS IN US
- Article from:
- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 16, 2007
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The Voice of America issued the following story:
By Mohamed Elshinnawi
There are some six to eight million Muslims living in the United States and many Muslim children attend public schools. For decades, Muslim families relied on Islamic Sunday schools to teach their children about Islam and Arabic, the language of the holy Koran. But now some Muslim Americans are establishing their own Islamic academies, combining a regular school curriculum with Islamic studies. VOA's Mohamed Elshinnawi has more from Dearborn, Michigan, where he visited the Muslim American Youth Academy.
These children were born in the United States, second or third generation Muslim Americans, so they are not alien to ...