ENGLAND: The Derby Telegraph has exclusively revealed that teaching unions claimed staff have been ordered to sign new contracts making it compulsory for the female teachers to wear hijabs. Unions also allege that female pupils at the school are told to sit at the back of classes, staff are only allowed to eat halal food on the site and are not allowed to wear jewelery.

THE Al-Madinah Muslim School, under fire over ordering female teachers to wear a hijab – an Islamic scarf – regardless of their faith, has refused to answer crucial questions.

And education officials have also stayed tight-lipped over whether it was right to give £1.4 million of public money to the city school.

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