Boarding Schools for Girls

Community opposition has derailed plans to build a Muslim school for girls with a capacity of 5,000 students in Briefield Mills, England. But according to a Nov. 30 article in the Lancashire Telegraph, the group that led the fight against the school isn't ready to rest just yet:

It was announced earlier this week that Islamic Help, a national charity, had scrapped plans to convert the seven-acre site into a 5,000-pupil boarding school for Muslim girls.

But it was revealed that the 50-pupil Ghausia High School for girls, based in Nelson, will still look to move to the site and the trust will look to create a sports centre for the whole community, alongside a commercial village housing start-up businesses. &

Clitheroe Road Residents Association, which now has a 1,000-person petition against the plans, vowed to continue their fight.

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A proposed Muslim girls boarding school is facing opposition from a residents organization in the British town where it hopes to open. According to a Nov. 12 article on the website of the British newspaper The Burnley Express, the Brierfield's Clitheroe Road Residents' Association is disseminating a pamphlet with the following text:

A group called Islamic Help has now placed a deposit on Brierfield Mills and is proposing a 5,000-student boarding school of single sex and single faith.

The residents' association is made up of members of different cultures, religions, age groups and sex, and are opposed to the proposals, which we feel will divide the communities and cultures of Brierfield and Pendle.

A plan for Brierfield Mills, from a company based in Birmingham, will cause deep-rooted divisions in our town and Pendle as a whole, which would end all the good work that we have all contributed to over the years.

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