Swiss Muslim wants private Islamic school after ECHR swimming defeat
by Darren Boyle, Mailonline:
Swiss-Muslim families have vowed to create their own private schools to segregate boys from girls after a European court ruling made mixed-gender swimming lessons compulsory.
Aziz Osmanoglu took a case to the European Court of Human Rights after Swiss authorities insisted his young daughters should participate in mixed swimming lessons.
School authorities claimed the swimming classes were vital to the children’s ‘successful integration into Swiss society as part of the ‘full curriculum’.
After exhausting the Swiss legal process, Osmanoglu brought his case to the ECHR who upheld the original decision.
Serhad Karatekin, media representative of the Muslim Commission in the city of Basel, said: ‘We know that individual clubs have set themselves the goal of opening up a Muslim private school now.’
Osmanoglu is still refusing to send his two daughters to mixed swimming lessons, a move that has been supported by the Basel Muslim Commission.
Johannes Czwalina, a theologian and business consultant from Basel, said he would welcome a Muslim private school and would do all he can to help one open.
Czwalina gained national fame in Switzerland after he paid the legal bills of numerous Muslims in recent years.
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