Saudis' Islamic school here
Wednesday December 09 2009
Plans for an Islamic school in Dublin to teach the children of Saudi people living here have been announced by the Saudi Embassy in the capital.
Details of the decision are carried in Arabic on the embassy website, which says the decision to set up the school was taken at a meeting in Dublin last last month.
The announcement says the meeting was attended by members of the Shura Council, which advises the Government.
Similar Saudi schools in London, Bonn and the US have been the centre of controversy in recent years amid complaints that the textbooks and other curricular material used in the schools contain language intolerant of other religions.
It is understood that the Dublin project is at a very early stage and the Saudi government has not yet been in contact with the Irish Government about the issue.
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- Clodagh Sheehy
