TiZA, an Islamic Public School, Threatens and Intimidates Witnesses in ACLU Lawsuit

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The latest outrage in a textbook case of Islamic supremacism in a taxpayer-funded Islamic school is the thug-like Muslim intimidation and bullying of anyone who challenges this publicly funded madrassah. I have been covering this school since early 2008.

This is a "teachable moment" for the ACLU, which has generally refrained from tackling issues of separation of mosque and state despite its war on Christianity and the separation of church and state. TiZA is an egregious violation of the separation of mosque and state, which is why the ACLU is suing the school. Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA) is a K-8 charter school in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. Charter schools are public schools, and by law must not endorse or promote religion. But TIZA is an Islamic school, funded by Minnesota taxpayers.

TiZA shares the headquarters building of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, whose mission is "establishing Islam in Minnesota." The building also houses a mosque. TIZA's executive director, Asad Zaman, is a Muslim imam, or religious leader, and its sponsor is an organization called Islamic Relief.

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Students pray daily, the cafeteria serves halal food — permissible under Islamic law — and "Islamic Studies" is offered at the end of the school day.

Here is what one teacher at TiZA said: "teachers led the kids into the gym, where a man dressed in white with a white cap, who had been at the school all day," was preparing to lead prayer. Beside him, another man "was prostrating himself in prayer on a carpet as the students entered." "The prayer I saw was not voluntary," Getz said. "The kids were corralled by adults and required to go to the assembly where prayer occurred."

Katherine Kersten of the Star Tribune continues her seminal, brave and singular reporting TiZA vs. the search for truth. Here's an excerpt of her latest, read it all (hat tip George).

The school — public, mind you — tries to intimidate all who would challenge it.

In June 2010, the ACLU returned to court to quash what it described as yet another TiZA attempt to intimidate current and former employees from speaking about what they had seen at the public school. TiZA's "Staff Handbooks include a secrecy clause, and related threat of legal action for violating it," according to the ACLU's court filings. TiZA "wields [these provisions] as a sledgehammer to keep former employees quiet about what they saw at the school." As a result, "former TiZA employees have expressed fear about speaking to the ACLU."

According to the ACLU, TiZA's refusal to agree not to enforce the secrecy clause "sends the ominous signal that current and former employees who talk to the ACLU may be forced to defend themselves against a baseless, expensive lawsuit."

On Oct. 1, Judge Donovan Frank agreed — affirming an order the ACLU had earlier won barring TiZA from enforcing the confidentiality clause in the context of this litigation.

The court's order and memorandum spoke volumes: "It appears that information related to TiZA's business, finances, operations and office procedures is public data and cannot be kept secret." "The relevant question … is why TiZA, a public charter school, does not want to allow its former and current employees to participate in the informal discovery process to ascertain the truth about how TiZA operates."

The court's strong language in response to TiZA's actions was unusual: "[I]ntimidation and threats will not sit well with a fact-finder such as a jury." As a result of the school's actions, "[T]he Court may be required to draw adverse inferences about how TiZA operates as a result of TiZA's efforts to keep information about its operations secret. … [TiZA's] behavior during the discovery process thus far … has not been consistent with a good faith search for the truth."

The ACLU has characterized TiZA's recent actions regarding the secrecy clause as "only the last in a long line of intimidation efforts." Not quite. Last month, an attack was launched from a different front.

Several organizations that are not even parties to the lawsuit went to court in an attempt to disqualify the ACLU's lawyers — Dorsey & Whitney — from representing the ACLU on grounds that Dorsey personnel had previously communicated with Zaman about entities involved in the litigation. The organizations include the Muslim American Society of Minnesota (MAS-MN), MAS-MN Property Holding Corporation and the Minnesota Education Trust (MET).

"The ACLU believes Mr. Zaman's testimony relating to control of virtually every significant event at TiZA, MAS-MN, MET and MET's subsidiaries, coupled with his efforts to hide such control, constitute powerful evidence against TiZA's denials that it is a Muslim school and that it funnels state and federal money to other Muslim organizations."

Every time we read about this lawsuit, we have to pinch ourselves and say: We're talking about a public, taxpayer-funded school.

Previously at Atlas:

  1. Executive Director of Taxpayer-Funded Islamic School TIZA Academy

    Feb 28, 2010 Atlas readers are very familiar with the supremacist Islamic academy, Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA), a K-8 charter school in Inver Grove
    atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/…/executive-director-of-taxpayer-funded-islamic-school-tiza-academy-we-could-just-kill-you-yeah-tell-y.ht…
  2. The Ummah Fights for Islam in Public School – Atlas Shrugs

    Mar 13, 2010 "Basically, TiZA is being sued for the Muslim-ness of its students," it said. TiZA families seek to join in legal fight over religion at
    atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/…/the-ummah-fights-for-islam-in-public-school.html
  3. Atlas Shrugs: Litigation Jihad

    TiZA charter school in Inver Grove Heights countersues state's ACLU In a countersuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court, lawyers for TiZA argue the
    atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/litigation_jihad/
  4. Muslim Prayer in Islamic Public School – Atlas Shrugs

    Apr 9, 2008 Recently, I wrote about Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA), a K-8 charter school in Inver Grove Heights. Charter schools are public schools and
    atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/04/muslim-prayer-i.html
  5. Unethical Congressman Keith Ellison's Pilgrimage to Mecca Paid for

    Jul 22, 2009 TiZA, which also has a campus in Blaine, received an estimated $4.7 million in state aid this year, including more than $520000 in annual
    atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/…/unethical-congressman-keith-ellisons-pilgrimage-to-mecca-paid-for-by-islamic-nonprofit-claims-didnt-.html
  6. Publicly Funded Islamic Charter School Counter Sues the ACLU for

    Jul 30, 2009 TiZA's suit is in response to an ACLU lawsuit filed in January, which argues the school violates the First Amendment by sharing space with
    atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/…/publically-funded-islamic-charter-school-counter-sues-the-aclu-for-defamation.html
  7. Secretive World of Muslim Public Schools – Atlas Shrugs

    Mar 9, 2008 Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA) — named for the Muslim general who conquered medieval Spain — is a K-8 charter school in Inver Grove
    atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/…/secretive-world.html
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Marilyn
Marilyn
13 years ago

ACLU needs to back off, the term separation of church and state has been so misused since the latter 40’s.
When Jefferson made this statement, it purposely got abused. This statement is not in the Constitution nor any government document. It is therefore not a law. What Jefferson meant by this comment, is that he wanted to keep the state out of the church, but keep the church in the state.
Our tax dollars should not even be paying for this Islamic school, there shouldn’t even be AN ISLAMIC SCHOOL at all!
This is America, not Islam….sounds like ACLU needs to disappear and those folks need to get a new job..chain ganging it.
This school needs to be exposed & expelled out of society.

A. E. Moreira
A. E. Moreira
13 years ago

I don’t know how Minnesota law works, but why doesn’t the ACLU sue those companies trying to get its lawyers thrown off the case?
Also, why hasn’t the Minnesota legislature defunded the school and asked for all of its awarded money back? Or is that why the ACLU is suing and the state of Minnesota must wait until that suit has run its course?

a
a
13 years ago

hey mofos at any school who tries this: if i or any of my kids is there we will stand up and holler no fricking’ way. we REJECT your fascist ideology. say NO to islam! peroid. “no compulsion in religion’ my arse.
we will holler, we will fight. we will take no shiz from you pitiful, stanky,racist mofos.
get the hell out.

a
a
13 years ago

i am so furious about this. compelling school kids? oh hell no.
be glad i wasn’t there. i would’ve broken the mic and effed up the ‘man in white’. oh yeah. don’t try that shiz in my neighborhood you mofos. i’m so frickin’ serious. america is not going to take this shiz.
you have way crossed the line. no…frickin…way. NO WAY.
don’t ever let me or any of us REAL americans catch you abusing our school kids with your fascistic, evil “religion”. do you hear? we ain’t p.c. and we ain’t polite or respectful. we don’t care. you f–k with our kids? oh hell no. bastards. just try it in my neighborhood and your arse is straight whupped.

a
a
13 years ago

i am a jew. a proud mofrickin’ jew. and we have put up with this bullshi- for the last 1400 years. no more. no way. you play your disgusting ‘call to submission’ on your loudspeakers in israel and everywhere else. no way. just come and try it in my neighborhood. oh hell no. you will NOT abuse innocent school kids. this is illegal, immoral..and you will pay if you try it. you will feel me you ugly, sick mofos.

mk750
mk750
13 years ago

Here’s a JEWISH Charter school in Brooklyn. I believe there is also one in Fort Lauderdale. I believe there are also Christian charters in various places in the South.
The US Constitution DOES NOT speak of “separation of church and state” that is the former Soviet Union’s Constitution. What the US Constitution guarantees is that the GOVERNMENT will not establish any one particular religion. This was to counter the English system of the monarch also being head of the Church of England (Anglican) and coercing membership. Benjamin Disraeli did not convert out of conviction. According to Andre Malraux in his biography of the Former PM, he was encouraged to receive baptism because without membership in the COE, he would have no future because a good education would be denied to him. His headmaster thought it a waste of great ability and assured Disraeli Pere that this was a mere formality and no observance would be required.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/nyregion/25hebrew.html?_r=1
As long as ALL religions are able to benefit from the Charter School system, there is nothing to be done about any one that is not to your liking or that you are justifiably afraid of. If there is wrong doing being promoted that undermines the LAW of the US and the State in which the school is located, bring your evidence and get them closed on that basis. Eating halal lunch, when you ARE a Moslem is no more illegal than eating a kosher one if that’s your preference. No one is forcing non-Moslem kids to go to these schools and if you are going to close this one on the basis of religion, you have to demand that NO Religion gets funding but there is no Constitutional basis to do so. The basis exists only if one religion is PREFERRED over another. Is that the case here?

mk750
mk750
13 years ago

This is a Moslem school, just like there are Catholic schools which, BTW, do receive taxpayer funds even tho they aren’t “charter schools.” Try to understand the reason behind Charter schools. If you disagree with the concept, fine, get it shut down. Charter schools were started so that all kids could get a free education. This was so that if a community had a lot of people who wanted their kids to focus on lets say, arts, they could do so without it becoming a luxury item. Not every kid fits into the mold public education has to offer. Some do better with Montessori early experiences, some do better with Waldorf and some parents want a religious world view to be part of their kids learning experience.

mk750
mk750
13 years ago

Marilyn, you start off great explaining the Disestablishment Clause but then you revert to exactly what it is enacted against. You can’t say an Islamic school shouldn’t exist because “this is America, not Islam.” Um, sorry, yes America is Islam, Christianity, Judaism Buddhism, New Age, Wicca, Bahai and any other religion you can think of. You don’t like it, ok, I have to agree as an Israeli Jew but unless you have a new Revolution and write a new Constitution wherein you DO establish a National religion, you can’t make that statement. You all are trying to have your cake and eat it too. The Constitution was written, indeed, the whole country came about via Freemasonry which does include Islam as part of it’s doctrinal basis. It is a religion, a polytheistic, multi-faith religion where belief in the validity of any and all gods is not only encouraged but required. It’s ok to “prefer” your own for personal worship, but you must respect the “truth” of others, including Allah. Look into the 33rd Degree, Shriners, They don’t wear fezes and have the scimitar as their symbol among other things to be cute. There is doctrine behind all of it and all the Founders were in the 33rd Degree with maybe one or two exceptions.

sheide
sheide
13 years ago

mk750, you are misinformed. See this:
http://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/guid/cspguidance03.pdf
It is guidance for charter schools in the United States. Charter schools may not be religious in nature nor teach religion, other than in the course of studying all religions. Religious services may not be offered nor practiced, other than prayer.
According to witnesses, this school is in violation of the mandate for charter schools.

John Kelly
John Kelly
13 years ago

The ACLU & ISLAM ARE THE MOST TREACHEROUS & TREASONOUS ORGANIZATIONS flourishing in the USA.
Both have an agenda to undermine and destroy our Constitution, our Judeau-Christian heritage, our patriotism, our culture and our way of life.
Is it just a coincidence that one of the biggest financial supporters of the ACLU (and Obama) is George Soros who said regarding the American Constitution “if the system is broken, we need to replace it.”
The founding fathers of America had a very practical way of dealing with traitors who also had an agenda to undermine this nation. John Andre (the accomplice of the traitor Benedict Arnold) was sentenced to death and hung on October 2nd, 1780.
Like it or not Islam, the ACLU and many other Soros funded organizations are at war with the American Constitution and our way of life.
There is NO NEUTRAL GROUND IN THIS WAR. You are standing for America and freedom or you are standing with the enemy.
WHERE DO YOU STAND?

John Kelly
John Kelly
13 years ago

Thanks sheide. Great comment.

Grimcargo
Grimcargo
13 years ago

No. American Taxpayers do not BELONG to Islam. So Marilyn is right. They can have any kind of school they want to have but not with my GD dollar. Islamics love every thing about our freedom here in America. They use it often to hamstring us. But there is one thing they DO NOT like and that is the discovery process.

John Kelly
John Kelly
13 years ago

mk750 I can only assume that the “mk” stands for Mohammad Khan or something similar.
You claim to be an Israeli Jew while you defend Islam so I can deduce that you are either totally ignorant of the facts or you work for C.A.I.R. or some other Muslim organization.
You claim America came about via Freemasonry. Hmmmmm I heard an Imam once spouting the same trash as a means of disconnecting the American Constitution from the Judeau-Christian influence.
You claim we will find this truth by looking into Freemasonry & the 33rd Degree Shriners. I have studied this concept in great detail and can conclude that at very best this whole “Freemasonry / Founding Fathers” ideology is based on VERY flimsy evidence that does not stand up against any serious investigation.
mk750 I have a great nose for smelling a rat and believe me I smell a VERY BIG RAT as I read your posts.
Just to bring you up to speed, in case you haven’t noticed, the ACLU & ISLAM are out to destroy America and Western Civilization.
This is a war and there is NO NEUTRALITY IN THIS WAR.
I don’t have to ask WHERE DO YOU STAND as you have made it obvious.

John Kelly
John Kelly
13 years ago

Marilyn great comment. I agree 100%.

John Kelly
John Kelly
13 years ago

Grimcargo I wanted to applaud as I read your comment. You are right on the money!!!

John Kelly
John Kelly
13 years ago

Tell me mk750 which Mosque do you attend?

revparadigm
revparadigm
13 years ago

The Amendment defends us against a state run religion while protecting the freedom of religious principles in America. That is the spirit of the founding father intentions. With Christianity & Judaism [along with some other forms of religion like Buddhism etc…] it is possible to allow their principles to influence our laws without creating a theocracy.
With Islam?
Impossible on all accounts. The ideology demands a Islamic theocracy in government and would bring the destruction of the our Constitution. Is this behavior protected under the Constitution? Of course not. Labeling Islam merely a religion is the Trojan horse of our times.

John Kelly
John Kelly
13 years ago

mk750 a.k.a. Mohammad the Traitor.
As I read your posts it is soooooo obvious that you are a mealy mouthed “taqiyya” spouting Muslim trying to infiltrate this site with your subtle snake like charm.
Let’s see if I can correctly identify you after reading a few of your posts.
You are a Muslim Attorney looking to deceive us gullible Westerners with your flowery words while also impressing your superiors with your Jihad of words.
The first of your posts I read had just one word that gave you away. Now as you like to play the “intellectual” role I will see if you are smart enough to pick the word.
Do us a favor and stick to the Muslim websites where you can spout your treasonous trash to a receptive audience.

dan
dan
13 years ago

From today’s NY Times:
Letters
Hezbollah’s IndependencePublished: October 15, 2010
Sunday Book Review: ‘A Privilege to Die’ by Thanassis Cambanis (October 3, 2010) To the Editor:
Joe Klein, in his review of “A Privilege to Die,” by Thanassis Cambanis (“The Hezbollah Project,” Oct. 3), says Mr. Cambanis fails “to put Lebanese Hezbollah in the context of Iran’s larger terrorist network.” However, Mr. Cambanis is correct in his presentation; the idea that Hezbollah today has a place in Iran’s “larger terrorist network” is ill-informed. Hezbollah has not been under Iranian political or military control for nearly a decade. It is now an organization operating on its own recognizance, although it continues to receive a fraction of its operating funds from Iran — much of it in the form of religious charitable contributions from its Shia brethren.
WILLIAM O. BEEMAN
Minneapolis
The writer is a professor and the chairman of the anthropology department at the University of Minnesota.
Minnesota – seems to be infested with sharia and taqiyah and dawa – so we buy locally produced butter and eggs and milk.

dan
dan
13 years ago

The Constitution is a-religious, on purpose – there is NO mention of god in it – at all. IF taxpayer money is use for charter schools, there shall be no establihment of religion – period. There shall be no compulsion to pray, be led in prayer, etc. IF any charter school violates that, they do not get funed – period. This is America and the secular rule of law is the flavor of the day. the ACLU is correct in this one (I used to be a card carrier and was raisedas an ACLU baby).
ANY school, other than a privately funded, religious school, SHALL NOT make students pray, recite the pledge, take a moment of silence, etc…. this is America – support it, support the Constitution and eliminate threats to our pluralistic way of life. The Constitution states to estblish Justice, insure domestic tranquility, PROVIDE FOR THE COMMON DEFENSE, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessing of Liberty to oursleves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish….
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Push religion in Schools? Then suffer the wrath of the Citizens and the Law.

Mac-101
Mac-101
13 years ago

THere shouldn’t be Catholic charter schools either!

Mac-101
Mac-101
13 years ago

Let me restate: There should not be Muslim, Catholic, or JEWISH Charter Schools recieving tax payer money!

Richard 2
Richard 2
13 years ago

Very good, I wish more people would realize that not standing with and supporting the US is standing with and supporting the enemy, this is a war where there can be no neutrals.

Richard 2
Richard 2
13 years ago

I am surprised to see the ACLU going after a Moslem school, normally they are siding with them, I wonder if some member of the ACLU finally read the Koran?

Mac-101
Mac-101
13 years ago

I hope that ATLAS, that is our Pamela, could open up another front. This one would be on JEWICIDAL Jews such as the ACLU atorneys, Soros, Blumberg and the thousands of others who MUST hate their own heritage and people and are out to destroy Judism as well as Western Civilization. As for Blumberg, can it really be he WANTS BILLIONS more? How many BILLION are enough?

Mac-101
Mac-101
13 years ago

Richard de Second, Thanks, I missed that the ACLU was actually fightin this. We’ll see how hard they’ll fight.

juniper
juniper
13 years ago

Dear Pamela and all who follow Atlas Shrugs: PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO ABOUT COPTIC CHRISTIANS IN eGYPT! TREATED LIKE SLAVES TO MUSLIMS, DAUGHTERS STOLEN TO MARRY MUSLIMS, PARENTS TORTURED FOR ASKING WHERE DAUGHTER IS! tHESE PEOPLE CAN ONLY WORK SORTING RUBBISH! MOTHERS WHO ARE CHRISTIAN SAY THEIR DAUGHTERS WILL BE RAPED IF DONT CONVERT TO ISLAM! COMING HERE TOO, IF WE DONT FIGHT IT NOW!!
THIS IS THE TRUE APARTHEID STATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST!! PLEASE WRITE TO YOUR CONGRESSMAN/SENATOR/BLOG
http://madaboutmahound.blogspot.com/2010/10/egypts-rubbish-people.html

A. E. Moreira
A. E. Moreira
13 years ago

I disagree completely; charter schools are simply privately-operated public schools. And that is a charter school that is operated by a Jewish foundation, but is secular. Reading the name of it, Hebrew Language Academy simply appears to be coincidental and is a misnomer (in the way that the company Rent-A-Wreck is a misnomer); they may teach the Hebrew language, but they don’t teach one religion over another, and so they are on the up-and-up, unlike TiZA, which actually teaches one religion over another.
Anyone can operate a charter school. TiZA would have been okay if it wasn’t teaching Islam in its school…hence the lawsuit. Anyone can operate a charter school provided it meets state standard, be it a religious foundation OR secular foundation. It’s just that religion cannot be taught.

A. E. Moreira
A. E. Moreira
13 years ago

With America, which is where the ACLU stands.

A. E. Moreira
A. E. Moreira
13 years ago

Or they take separation of church and state extremely seriously. The ACLU in Minnesota has been intimidated over almost 2 years in this case…I say that the next intimidation move should result in a criminal investigation of TiZA.

jim smith
jim smith
13 years ago

It’s time for freedom-minded people around the world to take a stand against the attack on free speech by Muslims. So, here’s a Q&A and a plea for action:
Q: Is there justification for burning Korans, drawing cartoons of Muhammad, having shadow puppet shows that Muslims don’t like, or showing films like “Fitna” or “The Stoning of Soraya M”?
A: YES! Those who do so are sending a message that free speech is sacred and free people are not going to allow Islamic intimidation to shut it down.
Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, David Horowitz, Geert Wilders, and others are great spokesmen for the effort to inform people of the dangers of Islam, and they have pointed out that we, the people, because we have the right to free speech, have the right to draw cartoons of anything we want to, including the warrior Muhammad, as well as the right to burn anything we want to, including the right to burn Mein Kampf or my Koran.
But, they also need to promote the EXERCISE of free speech (draw Muhammad days, Koran burning days, “International Free Speech Day”, etc) to remind free people that we must take ACTION to protect the freedom of speech. Just as the muscles of the body must be exercised in order to maintain vitality, free speech must also be exercised. As the saying goes: USE IT OR LOSE IT!!!
Whenever and however it’s done, the events need participation by as many people as possible so that Muslims and the MSM can’t focus their ire on any one person, as they did with the minister in Florida.
WE’RE EITHER IN THEIR FACE NOW OR THEY’LL BE IN OUR BEHINDS LATER. There can be no backing up or backing down.
Please sign the petition for an International Free Speech Day: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/nationalfreespeechday/ Then, forward it to everyone who values free speech.

A. E. Moreira
A. E. Moreira
13 years ago

Uh, no. Catholic institutions can operate charter schools so long as they don’t force religion on anyone.

A. E. Moreira
A. E. Moreira
13 years ago

As for the ACLU being funded by Soros – coincidence.

foxmuldar
foxmuldar
13 years ago

Catholic Schools get no Tax dollar funding, and neither do other religious schools. Islam isn’t a religion but an ideology. They teach Islam in the Tiza school and its run by Muslims. Thus it shouldn’t qualify for tax funding. Im sure Obama wouldn’t mind sending more tax dollars to his favorite folks but I’m glad to see the ACLU actually doing its job for a change. Muslims need to understand they are part of this country and should obide by the rules that are for all americans not just infidels. Trying to force students to pray to some jackass called Mohammad isn’t going to cut it here in America. Thanks Pamela for pointing this issue out to those of use who want our country to remain a Christian nation, not some stinking Muslim rat hole under sharia rule.

That's Enough
That's Enough
13 years ago

These people are not American. They do not come here to become American. They want to exercise power over our nation and pursue this goal in actions such as these. Islam is a political system shrouded in the gloss of religion. It is a danger.
Don’t talk to me about American-born muslims being “moderate muslims.” Do you hear them speaking up about the abuses such as this? No. They fear their own religious sisters and brothers.
Moderate muslims are like moderate Nazis and moderate Nazis allowed the Holocaust to take place.

DMS
DMS
13 years ago

Why are they doing this? They already have unlimited Saudi funding for their private madrassahs. The answer would seem to be that they want to escalate by using taxpayer money so that we are funding our own forced Sharia. Death by a thousand cuts as the saying goes.

DMS
DMS
13 years ago

Maybe the Moderate muslims can’t afford to quit their jobs and go into hiding or hire bodyguards 24/7 if they do speak up. They can see what happens to apostates and others who speak out in public against islam. I’m sure some of them go along to get along, fearing persecution. Trouble is, we can’t tell the difference so I don’t trust any of them.

Demsci
Demsci
13 years ago

No MK750, there are now very knowledgeable people around that can show you that Islam really is some sort of totalitarian ideology besides a religion. And it wants to do away with the whole Democratic system it now prophits from. It wants to dominate.
And even in the constitutions of Democratic nations, that constitutes TREASON and SEDITION. But if more laws are needed, as you say, then we should strive for them. Because it’s crazy to commit Democratic suicide by being tolerant to the intolerant. Remember, even schools and mosques CAN be used against our Democratic system, by indoctrinating children and parishioners.
Everybody is innocent until proven guilty, but because of mountains of evidence telling the world about the real character of the Islamic most important guiding texts and so many declarations and actions of Islam’s leaders and followers, the burden of proof is now on the side of the Muslims and their defenders; Muslims are proven guilty and must now prove their innocence about opposing our Democratic system and siding with it’s enemies. Consciously or Unconsciously.

a
a
13 years ago

i am not afraid of anything except the G-d of Israel.

Sounder
Sounder
13 years ago

Related from Point de Bascule
Lessard/Gariepy area residents of Edmonton Alberta learned about the Muslim Association of Canada’s intentions to run an Islamic school in their area. 60% of the residents signed a petition opposing the project.
Initially their objections were based on zoning considerations but then they learned the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) openly supports jihad and suicide bombing.
The MAC is the Canadian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) whose motto concludes with “Jihad is our way” and “Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope”. That will make such a great school won’t it?
So what did the MAC leader do? Well, they tried to silence them by threatening to sue for “Islamophobia”, of course.
Now the outcome. The school opened.
Furthermore, er, creeping sharia,
What has to be understood is that the implementation of shariah is a gradual process. …. The MB with its substantial financial backing in petrodollars is working hard at implementing shariah wherever it sets up branches. …. To confirm this point, it is worth mentioning that Feisal Adbul Rauf (“Bridge builder”), the MB operative behind the New York mosque being planned for Ground Zero, is leading a team of Muslim scholars whose task is precisely to come up with a shariah index. Rauf’s website describes the index as an “Islamic legal benchmark for measuring [the] Islamicity of a state“. The shariah index is a tool that the MB will use to plan its future campaigns, to determine which Western country shows the least resistance to the implementation of shariah, where more Islamist propagators should be sent and so forth.
All bridges are being built …. to Islam. Wake up Canada and USA.

elderly tess
elderly tess
13 years ago

please tell the readers where these Catholic Schools are located.
We need the addresses and phone numbers of each.
(Remember we are not talking about one or two odd classes
that the public schools agree to share with the lowly Chritians!)
We are talking about entire schools or school districts that the
American taxpayer supports. NEED THE NAMES, ADDRESSES NOW!

elderly tess
elderly tess
13 years ago

Islamicity studies belong over in the Middle East. We do not need them here
in our country. We are finding out the ‘hard way’ that the Islamics are
not as peaceful as they tell us. If they come to our country let them abide
by our laws.

Praapje
Praapje
13 years ago

How is it possible that a public school can be Islamic? I believe you have in the States a seperation between religion and State. The school is funded with taxpayers money, so where is the separation? Well, here in Holland were actually worse off, I must add. Here we have public schools which are all non-religious. But then…we have all kinds off religion based schools (every Christian denomination, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu etc). These are also payed with taxpayers money!!! Under the label: freedom of education. It’s totally absurd, of course. Two of the most damaging aspects of this: segregation of society by separing children with parents of different beliefs from another and…the combination of religion and science which is totally absurd. You can be deeply religious and yet do proper science (although I tend to be skeptical about that) but you can’t teach science under the cloth of religious dogma!!! Religion, based on assumptions and gut feelings and science, based on objective facts and empirical evidence and above all critical thinking are incomparable when it comes to education. Education is not about free choice of the parents but about the rights of the child and the freedom of the child to choose that perspective he feels comfortable with when he / she is old enough to know.

mod
mod
13 years ago

What role does Keith Ellison have in this? Sounds like a nogo muslim area

mk750
mk750
13 years ago

John Kelly, Your nose is wrong this time. I am an Israeli Jew. Pamela knows that I am. I understand the Arab mind because I live with it on a daily basis and my life depends on it i.e. when the only cardiologist around is named Mohammed. Fortunately I don’t have a condition that requires his services. I happen to agree with you about the ACLU and the Jihad but your Constitution allow for such people to use and abuse the system. You should have voted down CHARTER schools when the issue first arose. You should change the Constitution because the World has changed in 225 years. My stand is that MORE action needs to be taken by those of you who feel this is not the country you want to live in but as it stands, until these people commit a crime, you have no recourse as things stand. It’s your country and you are free to elect representatives who will amend the Federal Constitution and the laws of your various States to give you the community of white, christian folk you desire. That’s not unreasonable but to deny the clear writings of your current law and then claim these folks are breaking them is emotional response, not clear, critical thinking about the facts. I grew up in America being taught it is the greatest political entity in the World. It grieves me to see how the Constitution is being misapplied because of emotion. If it’s broken, fix it. Admit that the Founders had a great idea but it needs tweaking to continue to provide the culture you want in the 21st Century.

Danny Smith
Danny Smith
13 years ago

Well none of the “Christian” defense groups would take this case. But when you have to pay 500+ per hour like the ACLJ to their attorneys you can only take cases which will bring in lots of donations.

mk750
mk750
13 years ago

I agree, Demsci but they are dominating by changing, not the laws but the culture from within. Once they realized that the law provides for them to exercise their religion fully and freely, they put down the bombs and entered the mainstream but on their terms with their demands because they are the “Majority” in some places and the majority rules. I dont’ see them acting in treasonous ways because they want schools that teach their beliefs alone. Prove that this charter school is advocating a crime such as killing infidels that’s all I’m saying. Quoting a text isn’t enough. I can quote Torah on keeping the Sabbath but a Reform Jewish business owner will say, Oh we don’t follow that, we’re open on Saturday Ok, that doesn’t change the truth of what’s written but try and prove it is the ONLY way Jews live. You have suspicions but that’s what keeps America from being a Fascist country at this point. You don’t lock people up based on suspicion. AS you said, innocent until PROVEN guilty so prove that this school is fomenting jihad, teaching terrorism and turning it’s students against the US. I am challenging you to do that because I do believe it is likely going on but you have to live with your laws or change them. One of the major tenets of American law. along with innocent until proven is that the prosecution, you, have the burden of proof of a crime. The defendant has no burden or proof at all.

Danny Smith
Danny Smith
13 years ago

Easy. A lot of Christians have been pushing really hard to open their own religious publicly supported schools and getting laws passed to allow such things now Islamic people are doing the same thing.
The Christians never thought that others might be allowed to do the same sort of brain washing as they wanted to do.

mk750
mk750
13 years ago

Anyone who names himself after a Tom Clancy character is too ignorant to respond to.

mk750
mk750
13 years ago

Exactly! Finally someone with critical thinking skills. But if there are, and no one challenges them or the Jewish ones, then the Islamic ones have to be allowed FOR MOSLEM STUDENTS, unless and until they are found to be violating the Constitution in a real way.

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