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Al-Huda, listed as a private elementary school by Ontario’s Ministry of Education, was founded by controversial female Islamic scholar Farhat Hashmi, whose ultra-conservative teachings have faced criticism in the past.
A Canadian school, branch of a female madrassa in Pakistan where California shooter studied, has suspended its classes for at least a day after a media report emerged that four of its girl students had joined Islamic State in Syria.