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Thaher Tarahneh, 12, was praying with friends when he says they were interrupted by a teacher. The 12-year-old claims he was grabbed by the staff member and told it was an 'act of defiance'.
LONDON: A Muslim schoolboy in London who was physically stopped by a teacher from praying was told it was an “act of defiance.” Thaher Tarawneh, 12, had been forced to pray outside because his school’s prayer room was closed. He and his friends were praying in the playground of the recently opened Ark Soane Academy when they were interrupted and aggressively told to “stop at
A school in Ealing will be opening this September, after a year’s delay due to COVID-19. Ark Soane Academy (ASA) which will be based on Gunnersbury Lane, will be welcoming its first cohort of Year 7 students after its opening was delayed in 2020. Matthew Neuberger was appointed headteacher in January, and he's quite impatient to get started following the delays. He said: “Everyone who is a part of the team is excited and impatient to get this project underway as quickly as we can. "We’ve had a lot of conversations with parents over Zoom, but that ability to shake people’s...