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For a large majority of Muslim students enrolled in Spanish schools, Islamic education remained a far dream, with over 90 percent of students having no access to the classes approved by the government earlier.
For a large majority of Muslim students enrolled in Spanish schools, Islamic education remained a far dream, with over 90 percent of students having no access to the classes approved by the government earlier.
The news, declared in a report published by the Union of Islamic communities (UCIDE) in Spain, said that there are two Islamic education teachers in total at the primary level, Anadolu Agency reported on Monday, April 6.
Meanwhile nine out of 10 Islamic education teachers are unemployed.
The report, released on Monday, April 6, offers a demographics study of the Muslim population in Spain.
According to UCIDE, Islamic education is offered in elementary schools only in schools in Andalusia, Aragon, Basque Country, Canary Islands and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
In the Basque county, there are over 6,065 Muslim students, of which 5,032 are foreigners and the rest (1033) Spanish. However, there are two Islamic education teachers in total at the primary level, the report says.
Meanwhile nine out of 10 Islamic education teachers are unemployed.
In total, there are 275,324 Muslims students in Spain (112, 214 Spaniards and 163,110 immigrants) and only the aforementioned communities and two autonomous cities have Islamic education teachers.
According to UCIDE, Muslims make up 3.8 percent of the Spanish population, 40 percent are Spanish and the remaining 60 percent are immigrants.
Most of the Muslims in Spain are mostly from Morocco although there is a significant presence of Pakistanis and Senegalese Muslims in cities like Barcelona, Valencia and Logrono.
http://www.onislam.net/english/news/europe/484787-spanish-muslims-lack-islamic-education.html
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