Saturday, May 06, 2006

Columbus Muslim day-school marks 10 years of progress

Two important facets of the Muslim-American experience found in this Columbus Dispatch article: Education and "5th column" suspicions

Muslim milestone

"At its 10 th anniversary, central Ohio’s only Islamic day school has much to celebrate: rising enrollment, academic proficiency and a pending expansion.

But Sunrise Academy in Hilliard also faces critical questions from some of its neighbors — the same attitudes that other U.S. Muslim institutions have encountered since the 2001 terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq...."

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