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  • Muslim advocacy group files complaint with Lewiston School Department

    11/21/2009 3:32:27 PM PST · by Free ThinkerNY · 28 replies · 1,198+ views
    sunjournal.com ^ | Nov. 21, 2009 | Judith Meyer
    LEWISTON — A national Muslim civil rights organization has filed a formal request with the Lewiston School Department to allow a middle school student to pray on school property. The group also wants Lewiston to modify existing policy and provide "constitutionally protected religious accommodation," such as a designated prayer room. The group has also requested the school department institute diversity training for school staff, and to ensure the middle-schooler won't face retaliation because of her request to pray at the Lewiston Middle School. According to the Washington, D.C.,-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, seventh-grader Nasra Aden had been routinely "praying discreetly...