[ April 20, 2024 ]
Muslim supremacists demand special rights and special sharia accommodations in the public school.
Why do they come to live in Western countries if they want to live under the bitter sharia?
Muslims want children excused from music, mixed phys-ed classes The Gazette
Story continues below advertisementWINNIPEG — A dozen Muslim families who recently arrived in Canada have told Winnipeg’s Louis Riel School Division that they want their children excused from compulsory elementary school music and coed physical education programs for religious and cultural reasons.
“This is one of our realities in Manitoba now, as a result of immigration,” said superintendent Terry Borys. “We were faced with some families who were really adamant about this. Music was not part of the cultural reality.”
Borys said the school division has alerted Education Minister Nancy Allan about the situation since music and phys-ed are compulsory in the province’s elementary schools.
There have been no issues so far with children of middle-school or high-school age, he said.
The families accept physical education, as long as the boys and girls have separate classes, but do not want their children exposed to singing or the playing musical instruments, Borys said. The division has suggested they could instead do a writing project to satisfy the music requirements of the arts curriculum.
However, a local Muslim leader says there is no reason for young kids to be held out of music or phys-ed classes based on religious and cultural grounds.
“Who is advising them? My first concern would be who are these new immigrants talking to?” said Shahina Siddiqui, executive director of the Islamic Social Services. “This is the first time I am hearing this; I’m not very happy about it.”
Siddiqui said there is no problem with elementary-school children taking coed phys-ed, at least “not with little kids under the age of puberty.”
She said when some middle-school and high-school students have asked not to mix genders, they have been accommodated by schools.
Siddiqui acknowledged that music can be an issue — but only for a few people.
“Music is controversial in our community; this is a North American phenomenon,” she said. “There is a minority view that music is forbidden. (That view) is not accepted by the majority.”
Borys said that there had been one or two requests for kids to be excused previously, but this year a dozen families came forward at six schools.
Borys said that school division contacted a member of the Islamic community whom the parents suggested, consulted the Manitoba Human Rights Commission and looked at what other jurisdictions are doing about accommodation, particularly Ontario.
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20 Comments
13 years ago
When in Rome… otherwise go back to where you came from. England and Germany have had enough. It’s time Canada stood up to this nonsense. When these children grow up without exposure to things we value like music what kind of deficient citizens will they be? Immigrants should add to the ‘mosaic’ not take away from it!
13 years ago
Why o why can’t we just excuse them ALL right out the door down the street out of town and OUT of OUR country!!! Damn the miserable control freaks anyway. Crap stirring bunch of troubelmakers. Using their children, while training them, to change society to fit their nasty sharia rather than them fitting into our constitutional society.
13 years ago
And just who do they think will be available to watch, much less oversee “projects” for their children? Schools don’t just have teachers hanging around with nothing to do. Let the parents commit to sitting with their children during that time OR scheduling so the classes are at the end of the day and the kids can go home.
Or better yet. Form your own schools to meet your religious needs. Catholics do it. Jews do it. We don’t expect public schools to change for us. Either take it or leave it!! I am really getting sick of people expecting everyone to change in order to meet their agenda. You know what is it when you come here. If you don’t like it, don’t come here.
13 years ago
Intimidation is only as strong as you let it. the Muslims should be told firmly but politely that if they don’t like the cirriculum then they should attend a private school. Our school system should not be forced to accomadate a particular religion’s standards if those standards are in conflict with our norms and traditions.
13 years ago
“Who is advising them? My first concern would be who are these new immigrants talking to?” said Shahina Siddiqui, executive director of the Islamic Social Services. “This is the first time I am hearing this; I’m not very happy about it.”
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I have a suggestion, Shahina. Why don’t you meet with these “muslims” who recently immigrated to Canada and explain to them that this isn’t the real “islam”. Find out who they’ve been talking to.
But whatever you do, DON’T TELL US THAT THIS ISN’T THE REAL “ISLAM”. TELL THEM!!!
And while you’re at it, you might ask them why they decided to immigrate to Canada if they don’t want to participate in Canadian life.
13 years ago
The Provincial Governments and the Federal Government better start getting a grip on this type of thing! Enough already! If we don’t start standing up for our culture and our Canadian way then these people will keep pushing their agenda!
The schools should say NO..if your child is in our school then this is the way it will be. We can’t have half the school doing things one way and the rest doing things another way. If the parents don’t like it…they can always home school their children!
Schools don’t accomodate parents who would like things to be done different for their children who have genetic anomalies, such as using teaching methods such as Neurodevelopmental programs that have been shown to actually work! No…these children are put into Special Ed. classes to be babysat for 12 years!OR the parents home school!
If they don’t accomodate one group then they shouldn’t accomodate another! If it’s part of the Provincial curriculum then that’s the class they take or they can move to another Islamamentian country!
13 years ago
Mohammed hated music and at the sound of a few notes from a flute or a voice singing would cover his ears. He said that musical instruments were of the devil, he especially hated bells that called Christians to their churches. When he returned from Medina to Mecca in triumph after winning the battle with the Meccans, among the first on the list of those who were to be killed were some singing girls. In Afghanistan no music was allowed, not even folk songs, because the Taliban wanted a pure Islam, following the rules and regulations set down by Mohammed.
13 years ago
Tell them that here we have mixed gender classes and you have to attend all classes or you fail your grades, all of them, as simple as that.
13 years ago
It would be interesting to know what Obama would say about this
13 years ago
As soon as Obama’s minions set up a teleprompter-….
It’s demands like this that segregate the muslims from other cultures.. they know what they are doing.
13 years ago
Above all, this points up the irrationality of government education–whereby the government, in effect, owns your children and dictates how they should be raised and to what ends.
Funny that pundits can only see this truth when Muslims are involved.
But as long as the public system exists, capitulation to Islam’s demands (and we know where these are coming from, don’t we?) is acquiescence to the stealth jihad.
13 years ago
moslims GO HOME!!!
13 years ago
Music is so human.
So indicative of the best that’s in us.
Truly, Mohammed either was a demon or possessed by one to hate it.
He did indeed hate humanity.
13 years ago
They are not “immigrants” they are colonizers.
It’s an invasion, not emmigration.
Let’s understand the fundamental reality of Islam.
Muslims come to take over, not adapt.
Music was forbidden by Mohammad as a secular distraction from endless prayer.
It will be silenced once serious Mohammedans gain power anywhere.
13 years ago
Well said, now everyone contact your representative & ask them to stop muslim immigration at least until they havehad a chance to study it’s detrimental effects in Europe and until they set up new ground rules which would make it easy & immediate to deport any muslim that can’t assimilate.
13 years ago
should have said “won’t assimilate”.
13 years ago
If they want to be seperate, then
let them form Muslim schools, paid
for by Muslims!
13 years ago
The basic tactic of Muslims in the West is to to use the tools of Western democracy to undo democracy.
13 years ago
This is irritating! I sure hope that Canadian government, school board, or whatever stands up to these imposters! My gosh, I am sick and tired of governments bend over backwards for these idiots. I am sick and tired of being oppressed by Moselims!! Every time I see one, it ruins my day, literally!!!!
13 years ago
I don’t want to pay taxes for the stupid government we have in office now in America,do you think this will work for me if I tell them I am Muslem? I am going to have to try it! Maybe we should all try it!
