Bruce The Psychic Guy ([info]bitpig) wrote,
@ 2008-05-20 01:10:00
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the happening world / minnesota jihad


TOLERANCE ALERT! A public charter school in Minnesota — Tarik ibn Zayad Academy, which focuses on Middle Eastern culture and shares a mosque with the Muslim American Society of Minnesota (WTF??? - Ed.) — was ordered by the state education department today to stop offering religious instruction in Islam to its students. The school administration has been conducting Muslim prayer services and holding Islamic religious instruction classes during the school day. They also got in trouble for not flying the U.S, flag over the school in accordance with state law. Anyway, a TV news crew came out to the school today seeking to capture some reaction by the school's administration to the court orde, but what they got instead was a physical assault against them by the peace-loving, tolerant Muslim administrator of the school. Source

The best part: the ssalaries of the assailants, as well as those of the teachers conducting the Islamic Studies classes at his public school, are paid for not by private tuitions, but rather with the tax dollars of the people of Minnesota — and, of course, by infidels like you.

All cultures are equal... diversity is our strength... prayer in public schools is OK as long as Jesus isn't mentioned...

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WEITER




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[info]squidflakes
2008-05-20 03:26 pm UTC (link)
Prayer in public school is ok as long as it is not teacher or administrator lead. The object is immaterial.

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[info]kyburg
2008-05-20 07:55 pm UTC (link)
Story has been updated since last night - you might want to take a look.

In all honesty (and my lovely college education, heavy on the journalism), the original was a dog's breakfast when it came to reporting.

One, they led with the angle that the school was crossing the line on the taxpayer dime - and then mentioned the attack in the last paragraph.

UH. No. The real story is that someone attacked a news crew, their news crew, reporting a story.

That's criminal behavior, full stop. That's the real story.

Why were they there?

"The agency said it was concerned about the school, with about 300 students, accommodating communal prayer and providing transportation to an after-school religious program."

*looks at the video* Wow. Males in their twenties and early thirties. What a shocker. You're shooting film of their children, perhaps haven't even asked permission - wouldn't you find that a bit odd? (Keep in mind, I don't have sound - but the images are what they are, neh?)

It's privilege to accuse them of overreacting - "what do they have to hide?" - but someone is taking pictures of your children, and it did not look consensual to me. Do I sense someone overstepping a boundary?

Both sides. Both sides, man.

Keep sharpening that sword. It'll be useless as a plowshare in no time.

(Oh, and watch them comply with the requested changes and nobody report it. Just watch.)

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[info]d4nte
2008-05-21 03:15 pm UTC (link)
My brother went to a Lutheran school that had prayer sessions...how is this any different?

I also have to say that if they were filming kids without prior permission, they crossed a HUGE line. Not supposed to do that without consent.

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