18 May 2012

Toronto school board right to shut religious program for anti-Jewish material

There’s no room for hate in our schools – period. That’s why it’s good to see the Toronto District School Board taking quick, firm action to prevent a weekend religious school from using its facilities once it was shown that its curriculum included blatantly anti-semitic material.

Jewish groups were understandably outraged when they discovered that anti-Jewish statements appeared on the website of the East End Madrassah, an Islamic Sunday school that rented space in a Scarborough high school for decades. Among other things, they referred to Jews as “treacherous” and “crafty” and accused them of “conspiring to kill the Prophet Muhammad.” [Toronto Star] Read more