Any anti-Muslim discrimination is detestable, but it is especially pernicious when it targets students in our public schools, which should be safe havens for students of all faiths, and those of none.
The organisation believes that school services provide a community with a semblance of routine, as well as a safe-haven for students during the day.
A Haven for Muslim Students It is Ramadan, and at the bell for lunch, the school's Muslim students, who account for 80percentt of the student body at this Catholic school in France, stream outside for midday prayer.
At the University of Alaska, the goal of Inupiat House is to provide a safe haven for native students who come from tiny villages "where they're probably related to everybody," said Kevin L. Huddy, director of residence life.
She said: "I will be discussing, with my executive committee, how to deal with the kinds of statements Alex mentions, and what concrete steps we can take in future to preserve a club that's been a safe haven for Jewish students in the past".
Dartmouth has annoucned a $3.6 million plan for a Triangle House, meant as a safe haven for LGBT students and allies.
In the report, one parent said there needed to be a "heightened awareness surrounding racial issues in the country as a whole" and that she "believes our school system should seek to provide a safe haven for our students".
And even though Rey chose to leave Barnard for a coed school, he also says that women's schools can — and should — act as havens for transmale students, that they are, in fact, natural beacons for trans people, because "feminists and trans activists are both interested in gender".
The library is still a haven for successful former students, who come seeking inspiration.
Still, the program's reputation as a haven for less prepared students has frightened some families away.
