بريطانيا: متجر شهير يوقع عقدا بتوريد الحجاب للمدارس الإسلامية

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

وقَّع متجر "جون لويس" البريطاني الشهير عقدًا مع المدرسة الإسلامية للفتيات التي أسسها المنشد "يوسف إسلام" عام 1983بشمال غرب "لندن"، و"مدرسة بلفيدر أكاديمي" التي تأسست منذ 130 عامًا بـ"ليفربول"، وذلك لتوريد الملابس اللازمة والحجاب للمسلمات.

وقد حصلت المدرسة الأخيرة على إعجاب مفتشي التعليم والثناء على مستواها التعليمي "المذهل"، وكذلك تُعد أُولى المدارس التي أصبحت أكاديمية مستقلة عام 2007، وهذا إضافة إلى بلوغ عدد الطلاب المسلمين بالمدارس البريطانية نحو 400 ألف طالب؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Major British Retailer to Sell School Hijab

A major British store department has signed a new agreement with two major Islamic schools for girls to sell their school uniform including a headscarf, or hijab, for the first time.

“We provide uniforms for 350 schools across the country,” a spokesperson of giant retailer John Lewis told MailOnline.

“The school informs us of the items they want to sell as part of their uniform list.”

The veil, worn by Muslim women, is to be sold in the company’s stores in London and Liverpool after it signed contracts with two schools.

One of the two schools is the Islamia Girls’ School in northwest London which was set up in 1983 by Yusuf Islam, better known as the singer Cat Stevens before his reversion to Islam in 1977.

The Belvedere Academy in Liverpool was founded 130 years ago and is a non-denominational school for girls.

It was the first school in the UK to become an independent academy in 2007. It was recently judged by Ofsted, the UK schools watchdog, as “outstanding”.

The fact that a mainstream, upmarket UK retailer such as John Lewis has started to supply the hijab will likely be welcomed by Muslim parents who until now have relied on specialist shops.

Britain is home of a Muslim community of nearly 2.7 million.

There are 400,000 Muslim students in British schools, according to the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB).