DO MUSLIM SCHOOLCHILDREN HAVE A RIGHT TO THE INTRODUCTION OF AN ISLAMIC STUDIES CLASS AT THEIR PUBLIC SCHOOL?
Whether an individual school student has a constitutional right to be taught religious studies from their denomination is disputed in legal literature.1
It is true that according to Article 7(3) of the German Basic Law, religious communities have a claim against the state to provide Islamic religious education if they fulfil the requirements for this (see here).2 However, whether the religious communities make use of their right is at their own discretion. The state cannot force them to provide for it.3
1 In the negative: Kingreen/Poscher in: Grundrechte-Staatsrecht II, 33. Ed. 2017, margin 786; in the affirmative: Badura in: Maunz/Dürig, Ed. 74, Art. 7 margin 83.
2 Germann in: Grundgesetz (Beck/OK), 38. Ed. 15.8.2018. Art. 7 margin 44.1.
3 See above.