Kassel (dpa / lhe) – In the legal dispute with the Turkish mosque association Ditib about the stopped Islamic religious education, the state of Hesse has suffered a defeat. As the Hessian Administrative Court announced on Wednesday in Kassel, the state was not allowed to suspend the so-called confession-oriented Islamic religious education in cooperation with Ditib in 2020. The judgment of the Administrative Court of Wiesbaden from the first instance is thus final (Az: 7 A 1802/21.Z).
In Hesse, this religious instruction was initially set up in elementary schools for the 2013/14 school year. In April 2020, the Ministry of Education announced that it would suspend classes in the following school year, citing doubts about the association’s suitability as a cooperation partner. It is questionable whether the necessary independence from the Turkish state exists.
The Turkish Mosque Association took legal action against this decision and prevailed before the administrative court in Wiesbaden. The decision of the Administrative Court is no longer contestable.
