A MUSLIM state school would be welcomed in Dundee should funding become available under an SNP government, the city council’s education convener has claimed.

Councillor Kevin Keenan said he shared “fairly similar views” to SNP leader Alex Salmond, who told a newspaper yesterday that a Nationalist win in next May’s Scottish Parliament elections would lead to the creation of the first Muslim faith state school in Scotland.

Mr Salmond also pledged to extend the right to denominational education, already enjoyed by Catholics, to other faiths.

Mr Salmond said, “We must listen to representations from within the Muslim community, in particular, and make a full assessment of the demand for Muslim schools.

“We already have the good example of the success of Scotland’s Catholic schools and our successful Jewish school. My experience, strengthened by speaking to people around Scotland, is that our diversity as a nation is also one of our strengths.”

Mr Keenan said there were no funds available in Dundee City Council’s education budget to consider pursuing the creation of a Muslim school.

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