Finland: Islam in schools should contribute to anti-radicalization

 Finnish pupils in elementary education have started their school year of 2016 with a new national curriculum.

Finnish pupils in elementary education have started their school year of 2016 with a new national curriculum.

In Finland, every school is obliged to offer subject education in Islam for Muslim children, when at least three students would select it instead of the majority Evangelic Lutheran religious education or alternatively Ethics.

Whereas until now the contents of teaching and learning for minority religion subjects (i.e. not Evangelic Lutheran) such as Islam, Baha’i, Mormonism etc. were determined in a separate document, the curriculum for Islam has been revised so that it is now for the first time included in the new national curriculum.