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“Muslims Force Expat Christian Teacher to Flee Maldives”
by Compass Direct News   
July 18th, 2001

NEW DELHI, October 5– Authorities in the Maldives last week had to transport a Christian teacher from India off one of the Islamic nation’s islands after Muslim parents of her students threatened to expel her for “preaching Christianity.” On Wednesday night (Sept. 29) a group of angry Muslim parents stormed the government school on the island of Foakaindhoo, in Shaviyani Atoll, accusing Geethamma George of drawing a cross in her class, a source at Foakaindhoo School told Compass. George had drawn a compass to teach directions to the students, the source said. Administrators at the school set up a committee to investigate the allegation, but parents did not wait for the finding that she had only drawn a compass. Local newspaper Haveeru reported that authorities transferred George to the nearby island of Funadhoo “after the parents threatened to tie and drag her off of the island.” Preaching or practicing a non-Muslim faith is forbidden under Maldivian law, which does not recognize any faith other than Islam. The more than 300,000 citizens of the Maldives are all Sunni Muslims. “Fearing that the teacher would be physically attacked, the officials took her out of the island right away,” the source said. “She will never be able to come back to the island, and nor is she willing to do so. She will be given a job in another island.”

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