OPPRESSION BY INDIFFERENCE

In Europe-with occasional exceptions, such as the popular resistance in 1974 to efforts in France and Spain to extend Socialist government control over non-public schools-such arrangements became largely uncontroversial. In 1984, leaders of the Association for Public Education published a book calling for just such a new schoolstrijd, arguing that, as a result of secularization, confessional education was no longer demanded by parents (despite survey evidence to the contrary) nor provided in a coherent way by Catholic and Protestant schools. [...]long as the religious practices of Muslim immigrants could be seen as fading cultural survivals, they were tolerated, but such practices "become unbearable when they take their place definitively on the stage of . . . society as the affirmation of a faith detached from any foreign culture." According to a 2017 article in the Daily Mail: Vishnitz Girls School - where the teaching of Jewish and religious studies was singled out for praise by inspectors in its first Ofsted report of July 2013 - was presented with an ultimatum: teach your children about homosexuality and gender reassignment, or we will close you down.