Dear Mrs. Awwad:
One the reasons people leave places like your former home is because the religion there has failed to make accommodations to modern times. This country is what it is because Christians, Jews and others have accommodated their faiths, without compromising their principles, to the realities of public education and public and private employment. You and your fellow believers need to seriously decide what to do: accommodate to this nation or go back home and accept all the disagreeable parts of living in a nation which accommodated itself to a medival religion.
Your choices are: open a private school, get a ruling from whatever authority you accept that schooltime and worktime prayers can be performed without being on the floor on a rug, allow prayers to pray five times a day but let them shift the times to accommodate their needs. Your faith is the one which needs to accommodate to modernity, not the other way around.
Sincerely,
Someone who prays daily on her own time
That was a good post. Too bad you are infidel and she won’t be able to read it.