الولايات المتحدة: تخريج الدفعة الأولى من طلاب الثانوية الإسلامية

- خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أكد السيد "عماد إنشاسي" - رئيس وإمام الجمعية الإسلامية بولاية "أوكلاهوما" الأمريكية - أن المجتمع الإسلامي يستعد لتخريج أول دفعة من طلاب "مدرسة الرحمة الثانوية الإسلامية" بـ"أوكلاهوما" في العام الجاري 2013؛ من أجل خدمة المجتمع وتقديم قدوة للبلد.

وتتضمن الدفعة عددًا من الفتيات المسلمات المتميزات من طالبات المدرسة.

وقد بدأت المدرسة نشاطها بتقديم فصول محدودة تتضمن الدراسات الإسلامية، وتشمل الفصول الدراسية بدايةً من مرحلة ما قبل رياض الأطفال حتى الصف العاشر، ثم أضيف الصفين الحادي عشر والثاني عشر لاحقًا عامي 2010 و2011؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Oklahoma’s First Muslim Class Graduates

Senior students at Oklahoma’s first Islamic high school are preparing to be the first graduation class in 2013, filled with hope to serve their community and act as role models for their country.

“This has been a journey,” Imad Enchassi, the Islamic Society's president and imam, told The Oklahoman on Saturday, January 05.

“These girls are basically pioneers. They are trailblazing the way through for others.

The historic class of 2013 includes Isra Cheema, 17, of Edmond; Jasmine Shafik, 17, of Oklahoma City; Areebah Anwar, 18, of Norman; and Zoha Qureshi, 17, of Oklahoma City.

The exuberant quartet at Mercy School is set to become the Islamic school's first graduating class.

Celebrating the first graduation class, Enchassi said the metro Muslim faith community has come a long way to get to this stage.

Mercy School was opened by the Islamic Society of Oklahoma City in a small building to offer Islamic studies for young people in prekindergarten through 10th grade.

Relocating into their new $9 million complex in 2010, a senior class was feasible in the new building, Islamic Society leaders said.

The 11th grade was added in 2011, and the 12th grade was added in 2012.

In addition to attending Mercy School, the four students enrolled at a local junior college and has been taking concurrent college courses.

Shafik said each has between 40 and 50 hours of college credit.

Being apprehensive about attending college as high schoolers, students said the experience has helped them gain confidence that will help them when they become full-time college students.

“We were really nervous in the beginning to kind of branch out, but we were all together,” Anwar said.

Though there are no official figures, America is believed to be home to nearly eight million Muslims.

Muslims in Oklahoma are estimated at 30,000, less than one percent of the state's 3.7 million population, according to CAIR.