Muslim charter school in Minnesota

[Donald Scruggs]

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	Recently, controversy has engulfed Minnesota's Tarek ibn Ziyad  
Academy (TIZA), a publically-funded charter school that reportedly has  
been violating state and federal law by teaching Islam, scheduling and  
organizing Muslim prayer on school grounds during the school day, and  
marketing itself among Muslims as an avowedly Muslim institution.  
Reports suggest that these abuses have continued despite several  
inspections by state officials responsible for ensuring that no public  
school promotes or endorses religion. Some commentators have  
speculated that a Christian school acting in the same ways would not  
have been handled with the same leniency.
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