The Obstacles to Implementing Islamic Religious Education in Public Schools
by David Katz Rotnitzky
Question(s) at stake
Whether the inaction of the administration in response to a request for students to receive Islamic religious education at public schools is lawful.
Outcome of the ruling
The Court upheld the appellant’s request to have her children receive Islamic Religious Education according to Law 26/1992. The Court also ruled that the administrative regional educational authorities did not comply with the law.
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Official citation
High Court of Justice Murcia, Judgment of 8 February 2022, no. 41/2022 (Tribunal Superior de Justicia Murcia, Sentencia de 08 de febrero 2022, Sentencia número 41/2022)
Topic(s)
Keywords:
Right of parents to ensure the religious and moral education of their children Publicly funded education in a minority religion Freedom of thought, conscience and religion State-funded schools
Tag(s):
Islamic religious education Indoctrination in a particular religion
Bibliographic information
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David Katz Rotnitzky (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Department Law and Anthropology, Germany)
David Katz is a PhD Candidate in the Law & Anthropology Department at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. He holds a bachelor’s degree in social and cultural anthropology from the University of Barcelona (Spain), and was awarded the European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratization by the European Inter University Centre in Venice (Italy), for which he spent a semester at the UNESCO Chair on Education for Human Rights, Democracy and Peace at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). In his master’s thesis, “Deconstructing the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief in Human Rights: A Multidisciplinary Approach on Antisemitism towards the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki”, he analysed the right to freedom of religion and belief and the correlation between the inherent antisemitism in some spheres of Greek society and the limits on the enjoyment of religious rights by the Jewish community of Thessaloniki. His current research falls within the project “Cultural and Religious Diversity under State Law across Europe” (CUREDI).