The Subject of Islamic Religious Education in Public Schools in La Rioja
by David Katz Rotnitzky
Question(s) at stake
Whether it was lawful for the administration to refuse to provide Islamic religious education to the appellant’s children in a public school.
Outcome of the ruling
The Court upheld the appellant’s request for recognition of her right to have her children receive Islamic religious education in a public school. The Court concluded that the fundamental right of the appellant had been unlawfully denied.
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Official citation
High Court of Justice La Rioja, Judgment of 2 November 2017, no. 322/2017 (Tribunal Superior de Justicia La Rioja, Sentencia de 2 de noviembre de 2017, Sentencia número 322/2017)
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 Religious and life stance education
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).