The Musli School provides the termination of the contract before the French court

Rabat-Al-Kindi, the only private high school in France and the only Muslim institution with a state partnership, is Stand Before the Lyon Administrative Court today for the decision of the authorities to terminate his contract.

The Prefecture of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes earlier on January 10 announced the termination of the Al Arti primary school, the middle school and the high school, about the allegations to “carry out a project that contradicts the values of the republic” as well as “defects and dysfunctions” that were observed during the inspection.

In the inspection report carried out in April of the same year in October 2024, it was found that two “radical” books were found in the school library, one claims that they initiated the “violent jihad”.

The report also condemned statements by one of the professors on YouTube, in which he supposedly supported controversy imams, including some that were excluded from France. In addition, the report as a discriminatory girl against girls kept as discriminatory rules for the school dressing regulations.

The school that has previously vocation This decision gave several times to the report by explaining that she changed her rule book to end any distinctions between boys and girls, and that she released the professor who made the controversial comments.

Al-Kindi, which built 620 students, also dealt with the allegations in relation to the books that were classified as “radical”, and explained that the authorities read the text in “literally” and not contextualized, in particular that some of them are part of the traditional Islamic literature and can be found in different facilities, including the regional library library.

This supervision and inconsistencies question whether the French court is influenced by Islamophobic prejudices, which is not unusual in various public regulations in the entire European country.

Farid Benmoussa, City Councilor of Venissiux in the suburbs of Lyon, addressed This decision in a local newspaper published OP-ED. “Only two high schools lost their accreditation in 30 years, and it was not surprising that they were two Muslim schools,” he said in relation to Averroes, a high school that was approved a year earlier.

“In the past three years, private Muslim schools have been confronted with many inspections. Private Catholic schools are inspected every 15 years, while private Muslim schools, whether under contract or not, are inspected every year, ”he said.