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Islamic School Officials Attack News Crew

Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:04:49 am PDT

Islamic school officials in Minnesota attack a news crew.

In an attempt to report about the new findings from the Department of Education Monday, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS went to Tarik ibn Zayad Academy in Inver Grove Heights.

While on school grounds, our crew was attacked by school officials. Our photographer was injured while wrestling with the two men over the camera.

Our photographer was examined by paramedics and suffered minor shoulder and back injuries.

The state education department on Monday directed the charter school to “correct” two areas related to religion at the school on Monday.

Tarik ibn Zayad Academy, which focuses on Middle Eastern culture and shares a mosque with the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, came under fire after a teacher alleged that the school was offering religious instruction in Islam to its students.

The Muslim American Society is one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s main front organizations inside the United States.

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1 Shug  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:05:31am

yoohoo........ACLU where are you?


/

2 Ward Cleaver  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:06:24am

Just you watch, the RoPers won't be prosecuted.

Diversity!

3 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:06:40am

I'm glad they got it on video.

4 Sharmuta  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:06:54am

I'm shocked, shocked this would happen on the grounds of a school teaching the joys of the world's most peaceful and tolerant religion!

/

5 Spiny Norman  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:07:17am

re: #1 Shug

yoohoo........ACLU where are you?

/

They will soon be defending Tarik ibn Zayad Academy. Bet money on it.

6 Creeping Eruption  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:07:18am

So how does the school district plan on continuing to monitor the school when in all likelihood, the school will not let them in?

7 Shug  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:07:56am

Let's focus on the Jesus freaks instead. They are holding dangerous after school prayer club.

/ACLU

8 anotherindyfilmguy  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:08:09am

Perhaps they need a police escort if the school is now a no-go zone...

9 TallTexan  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:08:12am

But how could they attack -- they are from the Religion of Peace. The guy with the camera has to be at fault! Quick, get St. Obama on the scene!

10 Onslow  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:08:46am

Now that's a teachable moment.

11 friarstale  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:09:25am

right under our noses, a taxpayer funded Islamic School

12 pegcity  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:09:34am

nothing to see here folks, move along, and please take this pamphlet on islam and its peacful ways

13 Sharmuta  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:09:41am

re: #6 Creeping Eruption

It's not the school district- it's the Minnesota State Department of Education. If they don't comply, the Department can cut off funds.

14 loppyd  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:10:23am

Now kids, today we are going to learn about SHARIA.

S-H-A-R-I-A.

Can you say it with me?

15 Ward Cleaver  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:10:25am

Do they have "metal shop", like in Gaza?

16 victor_yugo  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:11:29am

re: #13 Sharmuta

It's not the school district- it's the Minnesota State Department of Education. If they don't comply, the Department can cut off funds.

And revoke their charter.

17 pat  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:11:55am

Not that the school teaches hatred or anything

18 Vinegar Joe  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:12:58am

So what's the big surprise? The school teaches Middle Eastern culture, right? The news crew got a good lesson in intercultural relations for free.

19 NoSubmission  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:13:26am

Attacked by school officials.

How are they going to weasel out of this one?

20 wolfie  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:13:34am

re: #13 Sharmuta

It's not the school district- it's the Minnesota State Department of Education. If they don't comply, the Department can cut off funds.

But will they?

21 el mago de oz  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:13:45am

here is the link to the video:
liveleak video local news in MSP/ST PAUL

22 mayweed  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:14:24am

Well, at least it isn't just in britain where this kind of madness goes on. We're all immersed in it, on both sides of the pond.

Not that it's any consolation, of course.

23 gman  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:14:26am

Expecting assault charges filed and MSM outrage in 5...4...3...2..

24 jihadnemesis  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:14:29am

I'm glad we finally got this story up here. It exemplifies everything we know and fear about these radical Islamists. They think it's their allah-given right to do whatever they want to spread Islam, whether it's a publicly funded madrassa, or physically and criminally assaulting the media covering this violation of the law.

25 realwest  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:14:41am

OK, I don't want to appear to be insensitive, but this is part of the MSM we're talking about here.
I'm sorry (if the story is true) that anyone got hurt, but this is Minnesota and the Department of Education should exert itself and de-Charter this school and move the students to a variety of other schools, ASAP.

26 Sharmuta  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:15:01am

re: #16 victor_yugo

And revoke their charter.

Indeed- and I'm sure they will be monitored for a long time to come, even if they do comply with demands. I doubt the courts are going to support any claim they might make that they should be allowed to continue on this present system with public funding.

27 joncelli  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:15:06am

We're not violent and we'll kill you if you say we are!

28 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:15:14am

re: #19 NoSubmission

Attacked by school officials.

How are they going to weasel out of this one?

They were trying to protect the privacy and learning environment of the children.

29 faraway  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:15:22am

Is this the first instance of school officials attacking a news crew in America?

Isn't this big news? Breaking news and all that.

30 bosforus  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:15:28am

Liveleak's video.

31 Spiny Norman  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:15:41am

Does anyone remember the name of the (publically-funded) Los Angeles "magnet school" that was all about radical Mexican nationalism where a TV reporter was attacked? I think it was in 2005 or 2006.

32 Doda Mccheesle  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:16:11am

That wasn't a news crew- it was a PLOT by those tricky ZIONISTS!

33 akak  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:16:20am

"Do they not see us advancing from all sides?"

it's in their book

34 RickZ  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:16:33am

Can't figure out how to put an American flag up on the flagpole, but they do know how to intimidate a free press through violence. Yep, they're sooooo assimilated.

35 The Other Les  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:16:35am

re: #20 wolfie

But will they?

NO.

Political Correctness is the rule in Minnesota Government.

36 TimK  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:16:36am

Here in the People's Republic of Minnesota, various party hacks would not want to do anything to offend any minorities, much less so members of the ROP.
It should come as no surprise that Minnesota has been repeatedly in the news with Muslims complaining about various affronts to their dignity, because State officials are left-leaning wimps.

37 David Simon  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:16:48am

re: #13 Sharmuta

It's not the school district- it's the Minnesota State Department of Education. If they don't comply, the Department can cut off funds.

Yep:

[Link: 64.233.167.104...]

38 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:16:52am
Tarik ibn Zayad Academy, which focuses on Middle Eastern culture and shares a mosque with the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, came under fire after a teacher alleged that the school was offering religious instruction in Islam to its students.

Ya think? A school on Middle East culture which shares a mosque with the Muslim American Society may be teaching islam to its students? What do you think they'd be teaching - fly fishing?

39 opnion  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:17:43am

Minnesota Muslims:? One of the attackers had to be Olie Hussein johannson.

40 sojerofgod  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:17:45am

Well well, the mask come off these liars at last. I remember in an old Star Trek episode, "Mirror Mirror" where Kirk and the gang were exchanged in a beam up with another universe where tyranny was law. (and Spock had a beard) The line that stayed with me was, "it is far easier for a civilized man to act as a barbarian, when necessary, than for a barbarian to act as a civilized man."
I reckon that is true in this case as well. Amazingly stupid. Here this guy has a friendly government, a state rep. in his pocket, and all he has to do is to walk up and ask them to leave. But the brute overrides the brain and now all his friends will have to run for cover.
Time wounds all heels!

41 faraway  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:18:09am

Why is our leader, Bush, not fixing this? Why do we allow this?

42 victor_yugo  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:18:14am

re: #26 Sharmuta

Indeed- and I'm sure they will be monitored for a long time to come, even if they do comply with demands. I doubt the courts are going to support any claim they might make that they should be allowed to continue on this present system with public funding.

Okay, but let's say the department revokes their charter and orders the school shut down. How will they enforce it? Send in the cops? That won't go over very well, after the Texas FLDS fiasco.

43 Spiny Norman  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:19:07am

re: #36 TimK

Here in the People's Republic of Minnesota, various party hacks would not want to do anything to offend any minorities, much less so members of the ROP.
It should come as no surprise that Minnesota has been repeatedly in the news with Muslims complaining about various affronts to their dignity, because State officials are left-leaning wimps.

Isn't it odd that the state with the most obsequious public officials is the site of the most "Islamophobia" complaints...

44 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:19:17am

re: #32 Doda Mccheesle

That wasn't a news crew- it was a PLOT by those tricky ZIONISTS!

Trickyses they is, precious

45 VegasRick[deleted]  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:19:18am
46 maddogg  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:19:53am

Maybe if enough damned reporters get the crap kicked out of them they'll start reporting the truth about Islam. But I'm not holding my breath, it takes a lot of ass kicking to wake a lefty up.

47 soccerdad  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:19:54am

re: #6 Creeping Eruption

So how does the school district plan on continuing to monitor the school when in all likelihood, the school will not let them in?

De-funding. No one says you cannot teach Islam in school. it is just so annoying that these friggin CHARTER schools keep popping up teaching Islam using OUR OWN tax dollars.

Khrushchev was almost right, except he was a little before his time. His quote updated: "The Americans will buy so much oil from us that we will have enough money to destroy their society from within, using their own system against them."

48 pat  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:20:05am

They will explain to the authorities that the so-called attack was nothing more than a demonstrative demonstration of rage. And besides, everyone knows that a soldier in Iraq shot a Koran.

49 victor_yugo  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:20:10am

re: #41 faraway

It isn't a federal matter. All the feds can do is yank the money.

50 Cygnus  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:20:29am

re: #21 el mago de oz

here is the link to the video:
liveleak video local news in MSP/ST PAUL

Excellent report. It seems that the kids are more mature than the school officials.

51 song_and_dance_man[deleted]  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:20:32am
52 Spiny Norman  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:20:52am

re: #38 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Ya think? A school on Middle East culture which shares a mosque with the Muslim American Society may be teaching islam to its students? What do you think they'd be teaching - fly fishing?

The Art of Lutefisk?

53 wolfie  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:20:52am

re: #31 Spiny Norman

Does anyone remember the name of the (publically-funded) Los Angeles "magnet school" that was all about radical Mexican nationalism where a TV reporter was attacked? I think it was in 2005 or 2006.

No, but I'll bet it's still there, and not significantly changed.

I mean, it's not like its curriculum was truly evil....say, Eurocentric or pro-American. /

54 Kenneth  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:23:14am

I do hope the news crew has had time to reflect on how they insulted the school officials and offended their traditional values. Under Caliph Obama this sort of thing will never happen again.

55 Cygnus  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:23:37am

re: #51 song_and_dance_man

So the Charter school is accused of teaching Islam. I wonder if the students are taught to recite the American Pledge of Allegiance or evolution.

They're probably taught that the Earth is flat. Science!

56 chukardog  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:24:21am

keep my comments to myself. Anything I have to say would be, um, fodder for the likes of Daily KOS etc...

57 faraway  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:25:31am

re: #49 victor_yugo

It isn't a federal matter. All the feds can do is yank the money.

FBI. Homeland Security. Bully pulpit.

58 Kenneth  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:25:43am

re: #46 maddogg

Maybe if enough damned reporters get the crap kicked out of them they'll start reporting the truth about Islam. But I'm not holding my breath, it takes a lot of ass kicking to wake a lefty up.

Ha! It didn't work for Robert Fisk. When a mob of Afghanis beat him up he said he didn't blame them.

59 song_and_dance_man[deleted]  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:27:56am
60 wolfie  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:28:42am

re: #46 maddogg

Maybe if enough damned reporters get the crap kicked out of them they'll start reporting the truth about Islam. But I'm not holding my breath, it takes a lot of ass kicking to wake a lefty up.

Historically the opposite may be true. There is ample evidence that reporters in the Middle East, e.g., slanted or sanitized news out of fear before they did it out of conviction. Fear of not getting access to news, fear of violence. Then a twisted respect for those you fear sets in.......along with the usual leftist self-loathing.

61 incanus  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:28:42am

re: #4 Sharmuta

I'm shocked, shocked this would happen on the grounds of a school teaching the joys of the world's most peaceful and tolerant religion!

/

"Your Koran Sir"

"Oh, thank you"

62 David Simon  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:28:59am

re: #58 Kenneth

Ha! It didn't work for Robert Fisk. When a mob of Afghanis beat him up he said he didn't blame them.

Considering it was Fisk, I don't blame them either.

63 Sharmuta  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:29:20am

re: #42 victor_yugo

Okay, but let's say the department revokes their charter and orders the school shut down. How will they enforce it? Send in the cops? That won't go over very well, after the Texas FLDS fiasco.

One of the reasons this school went charter was because as a private school, the student's families could not afford it. They have to use public funds to sustain their enrollment. Unless they receive a large amount of money from, say, the house of saud, revoking their charter and public funds would cause them to close without use of force. Of course- if they go private, it's a whole different matter as they wouldn't be using public money.

And I disagree that the state won't do this. I think they will, based on the successful stopping of shari'a at the airport. Enough public outcry, and the State will stop this.

64 incanus  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:29:30am

re: #5 Spiny Norman

They will soon be defending Tarik ibn Zayad Academy. Bet money on it.

I don't think so ... the MNCLU has (for some reason) a pretty good track record on Islam in schools.

65 TN_Vol  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:30:00am

I honestly can't understand why any self respecting DOE would allow a school like this to operate with tax payer dollars.

This is one reason (of many) why my children do not attend public schools. The decisions that school boards and education departments make give me a blinding headache that HeadOn will not even begin to touch.

66 Ward Cleaver  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:32:17am

I'll bet the school is jam-packed with anti-Semitic and anti-Christian materials.

67 faraway  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:32:26am

Minnesota has a Republican governor. What has Governor Pawlenty said about this? Probably nothing.

68 wolfie  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:33:15am

re: #63 Sharmuta

Enough public outcry.....yes. We can hope that will matter.
It would help if the ACLU went into action, but I hear they are still "looking into" it, as they have been for months.

69 chinesearithmetic  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:33:30am

Minnesota has a big problem. (It's Retro Tuesday.)

70 incanus  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:35:30am

re: #42 victor_yugo

Okay, but let's say the department revokes their charter and orders the school shut down. How will they enforce it? Send in the cops? That won't go over very well, after the Texas FLDS fiasco.

They can't order the school to be shut down. What they can do is remove funding.

Here's how it works: in a privately funded school, you can teach religion. In a publically funded school, you cannot. TIZA is a publicly funded charter school, and therefore must comply with MN Department of Education guidelines if they want to keep the funding.

The fact that the school is teaching Islam isn't the issue, the fact they're doing it with public funds, and apparently the students are compelled to attend, is (read this article)

71 OrzBorz  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:36:31am

They seemed to be on the sidewalk the entire time of the video. Is the sidewalk part of the private property or is it public? Interesting to consider given the charges of trespassing.

72 wolfie  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:36:53am

If this were a Catholic-oriented school right next to and making use of a Catholic church, it would have been shut down in, oh,.......30 seconds.

73 Nemo  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:37:36am

This disgusting and reprehensible behavior has become something to be expected out of some Muslim schools. How prevalent this disease is would be very interesting to know.

Somewhere someone with oversight power has to display some fortitude and, with no equivocation, take a hard line approach and put a stop to the hate-training. Maybe then other oversight committees will follow suite or, once a precedent has been established. will not have to follow suite.

Such hate-filled teaching is not to be tolerated in any American school's curriculum.

How this was accomplished in the southern states (where I now live) during desegregation could be a good model at which to look.

The delousing of Islamic schools is something that will need to be done, sooner or later. The sooner the better.

74 maddogg  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:39:14am

re: #58 Kenneth

Ha! It didn't work for Robert Fisk. When a mob of Afghanis beat him up he said he didn't blame them.

Hell, I don't blame them either, would have offered to help if I'd have been there. Do you think he would have blamed me?:)

75 redheadredstate  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:40:46am

This cannot be allowed to happen in America. This is America for cripes sake! I know that Minnesota is barely America in many of it's leanings but still as of now, yep it's a US state. Shut these idiots down and send a message! ACT!

76 maddogg  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:40:57am

re: #60 wolfie

Historically the opposite may be true. There is ample evidence that reporters in the Middle East, e.g., slanted or sanitized news out of fear before they did it out of conviction. Fear of not getting access to news, fear of violence. Then a twisted respect for those you fear sets in.......along with the usual leftist self-loathing.

So, I suppose we can add cowardice to their long list of deficiencies.

77 hjalmar80  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:41:30am

I wonder how ol' Dough-boy Hooper over at CAIR will elicit damage control...or perhaps he and his posse won't generate more than a tired bored yawn.

78 incanus  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:43:11am

re: #75 redheadredstate

This cannot be allowed to happen in America. This is America for cripes sake! I know that Minnesota is barely America in many of it's leanings but still as of now, yep it's a US state. Shut these idiots down and send a message! ACT!

I live in MN. My wife and I live in the Twin Cities. Recently we drove up to Bemidji (north-central MN) ... my wife was amazed at the number of pro-life billboards and other non-lefty signage. Geographically Minnesota is conservative; the big lib areas are the Minneapolis-St. Paul, St. Cloud, Duluth, and the Iron Range (the latter due to all the crazy Finns that got kicked out of Russia by the Tsar because they were too Communist).

79 Kenneth  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:43:45am

re: #74 maddogg

This Fisk incident perfectly encapsulates the masochistic self-loathing inverted narcissism of the Western leftist journalist. The "Other" is considered perfect and beyond any criticism. "We" are bad and must be punished. The only position worthy of "We" is to grovel at the feet of the "Other".

80 ratherdashing  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:49:35am

The school says they have been receiving threats since the Katherine Kersten's investigative report. If that's the case, I wouldn't want a news crew filming my children exiting the school. The school official could have easily asked them to turn off the camera for the protection of children's identities. But, he acted like a thug. Go figure.

81 Sharmuta  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:50:31am

re: #75 redheadredstate

This cannot be allowed to happen in America. This is America for cripes sake! I know that Minnesota is barely America in many of it's leanings but still as of now, yep it's a US state. Shut these idiots down and send a message! ACT!

The MN State Department of Education is doing just that. If Minnesota were truly going dhimmi, this investigation would not have even happened. And now the school has messed up even further in attacking the journalists- this will not go over well.

82 soccerdad  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:50:56am

re: #70 incanus


The fact that the school is teaching Islam isn't the issue, the fact they're doing it with public funds, and apparently the students are compelled to attend, is (read this article)

Right on in everything except the bold. At least in PA, you have to apply to get accepted at a charter school. There is no compulsion. (unlike one particular religion we know)

83 Ma Sands  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:51:41am

What struck me, forcibly, is that just a half-second before the assault by the school staff, the faces of those kids were so full of innocent joy --and the scene those same children could not have avoided seeing up-close: their own school's people doing such to the ones who had just pulled out of the children those lovely, open smiles and laughter.......

84 soccerdad  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:53:00am

re: #73 Nemo


The delousing closing of Islamic schools is something that will need to be done, sooner or later. The sooner the better.


There -- fixed that for ya...

85 ratherdashing  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:53:18am

Katherine Kirsten's updated story:

Teacher questions Muslim practices at charter school

TIZA's operation as a public, taxpayer-funded school is troubling on several fronts. TIZA is skirting the law by operating what is essentially an Islamic school at taxpayer expense. The Department of Education has failed to provide the oversight necessary to catch these illegalities, and appears to lack the tools to do so. In addition, there's a double standard at work here -- if TIZA were a Christian school, it would likely be gone in a heartbeat.

86 victor_yugo  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:54:50am

re: #57 faraway

FBI. Homeland Security.

Only if the school is a transfer point for terror cash. Still, that can't get the school shut down. It can only get the perps behind bars.

87 gymnast  Tue, May 20, 2008 9:55:45am

I assume that the Colleges of "Education" at most American have no comment on the Dawa movement co-opting parts of the nations school system. What else would you expect from a bunch of proto-socialists attempting to destroy the nation from within.

88 debutaunt  Tue, May 20, 2008 10:00:39am

re: #47 soccerdad

De-funding. No one says you cannot teach Islam in school. it is just so annoying that these friggin CHARTER schools keep popping up teaching Islam using OUR OWN tax dollars.

Khrushchev was almost right, except he was a little before his time. His quote updated: "The Americans will buy so much oil from us that we will have enough money to destroy their society from within, using their own system against them."

Our loopholes have been carefully studied and are being used by the loopholeheads.

89 ratherdashing  Tue, May 20, 2008 10:06:26am
90 astronmr20  Tue, May 20, 2008 10:06:45am

Did they get the footage? ?

Let's hope this mask stays off.

Either way, I'm sure they will still spin this as victimhood. Give 'em a few hours.

Let the people of minnesota see this news report.

91 shibumi  Tue, May 20, 2008 10:07:39am

For what it's worth, this story (along with the video) was covered on our local (Detroit) morning show. And they did mention that it was an Islamic school. However, they failed to report that it was a state funded Islamic school, which isn't particularly surprising.

92 NY Nana  Tue, May 20, 2008 10:09:51am

OT : Bulletin on newsradio880, NYC...Sen. Kennedy has a brain tumor.

93 TS  Tue, May 20, 2008 10:11:56am

There were other news crews out there who have video of the whole thing...wonder where to find them? Have they even released them? And if not, why not? I want to see what happened.

94 mean Gene  Tue, May 20, 2008 10:12:25am

According to Charles' link (the video) the school is going to supply transportation to take students home if they want to skip Friday prayers and/or religious studies that take place ''after school'' but before the buses arrive.
Will this really be enough to let them keep open on the taxpayers' dime?
Will these students still be marched, in groups of 4, to the bathroom to wash under the eyes of their teachers, in prep for prayers?

95 NY Nana  Tue, May 20, 2008 10:13:00am

On Foxnews: 'Breaking News > Doctors Tell AP That Sen. Ted Kennedy Has Brain Tumor '

There will news conference at 1:20 PM.

96 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  Tue, May 20, 2008 10:13:11am

re: #92 NY Nana

OT : Bulletin on newsradio880, NYC...Sen. Kennedy has a brain tumor.

Operable?

97 Conservative in Liberal Hands  Tue, May 20, 2008 10:14:22am

re: #92 NY Nana

CNN Website says: Doctors say Sen. Edward Kennedy has brain tumor; condition discovered after he had seizure.

98 maninthemiddle  Tue, May 20, 2008 10:15:33am

What must the feeling of superiority be when officials from a publicly funded charter school attack a TV news crew.

Sharia creep is a strategy.

Support truly moderate (no sharia) Muslims by making your voice heard in opposition to CAIR, MAS, MSA, ISNA and other Islamist front groups. Letters, calls, etc.

Support groups such as The American Islamic Forum for Democracy, Muslims Against Sharia, and A Singular Voice - without visibility and support, these fine groups and individuals are left to the devices of the extremists.

[Link: www.aifdemocracy.org...]
[Link: muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com...]
[Link: singularvoice.wordpress.com...]

99 jorline  Tue, May 20, 2008 10:16:00am

I didn't know that Islamic State funded schools operated under a different set of rules than all the other State funded schools...what makes them different?

100 Conservative in Liberal Hands  Tue, May 20, 2008 10:16:37am
BOSTON -- Sen. Edward Kennedy has a brain tumor.

Doctors for the Massachusetts Democrat said tests conducted after Sen. Kennedy suffered a seizure this weekend show a tumor in his left parietal-lobe. The usual course of treatment includes combinations of radiation and chemotherapy, but Sen. Kennedy's treatment will be decided after more tests.

The 76-year-old senator has been hospitalized in Boston since Saturday, when he was airlifted from Cape Cod after a seizure at his home.

His wife and children have been with him each day but have made no public statements.

His doctors said in a statement released to the Associated Press that he has had no further seizures, is in good spirits and resting comfortably.

Copyright © 2008 Associated Press

101 Russkilitlover  Tue, May 20, 2008 10:17:15am

re: #11 friarstale

right under our noses in our faces, a taxpayer funded Islamic School

Fix it.

102 Jhn1  Tue, May 20, 2008 10:18:08am

Attacking the news crew might be defensible (how many of us have looked on and wished Bolton, Chaney, or W had physically attacked certain media personalities instead of continue the "interview")(and it coud be plausibly claimed that the school staff somehow believed that the media was a physical danger to th students)(with the same skills of keeping a straight face while telling blatant lies that allows them to claim secular school funds while running a militant Muslim indoctrination center)

Taking the camera away is no defensible. Either the crew was a danger and the police were called to contain that danger, or they were attacking for the sake of censorship a marked news crew and taking the equipment away for the express purpose of preventing the creation of an unfavorable story.
And the latter is not supposed to be legal in this country even if it is legal in the countries they wish to emulate here. Given the value of the camera, it should be classified as a felony. Depending on the manner of the confrontation maybe even illegal restraint of the news crew.
If the station does not push for those charges, it will happen again both to them and to other news crews across the country (media tends to get up on their high horse about defending the interpretations of law that allow them the most latitude to do their work, at least before Muslims became involved)

We will see how much spine they have.

103 WitchDoctor  Tue, May 20, 2008 10:21:48am

List to the whole report. Note the bit at the very end where one of the complaints is that the school doesn't provide transportation for kids who don't want to stay after for muslim studies. Gosh, no way home kid, guess you'll have to hang on for a little more hate training.

104 rickadams  Tue, May 20, 2008 10:27:05am

In contrast, here's how it works for the Minnesota charter school that shares a building with my church.

Before they signed the contract, my church made sure the building's "religious imagery" would not be a problem for them. Specifically, there was a wall mural featuring Bible characters along an adjacent hallway. The school officials didn't express any concern.

Then the charter school starts up, and a parent complains about the mural. The church resists at first, then gives in, and the mural is painted over. There are other complaints related to the imagery in our children's church (their "theatre room"), and the Minnesota Department of Education comes on site to investigate.

I can only imagine the inspection team pointing to wall art and passing judgement: "Hmmm, Moses, no. Jesus is right out. Spongebob can stay..."

So after the smoke cleared, the school was denied use of the "theatre," since the church was unwilling to sanitize it from all religious imagery. Some of the parents were really mad! (Good job!)

In the meantime, my wife has to cover up a large display of "The Five Pillars of Islam" in her classroom when she teaches girls on Wednesday nights.

I love my church and its leaders, but I might have preferred they not invite the charter school in. I believe God is using the situation to His good, however. A lot of our people are attending and helping at the school, and we are a positive influence there.

105 darwin akbar  Tue, May 20, 2008 10:27:11am

Prepare for the usual Muslim 4-Step Plan when they are caught on videotape:

1. The video tape does not demonstrate what the visual images plainly depict.

2. Even if the video tape does actually demonstrate what the visual images plainly depict, which I deny, this excerpt is taken out of context as the Muslim was provoked into doing what he did not do by someone else.

3. Even if the video tape does actually demonstrate what the visual images plainly depict, which I deny, the Muslim had a right to act that way as he was provoked/threatened.

4. We have already been threatened and harassed...therefore, by showing the video tape you will be subjecting us to more threats...therefore we are the victims.

106 darwin akbar  Tue, May 20, 2008 10:29:42am

Of course, had Christians attacked a news camera crew, CNN would be rushing a crew there to film a one-hour special on the "Schools of Hate."

Don't expect the dhimmi Minnis to do anything.

107 Sharmuta  Tue, May 20, 2008 10:32:22am

re: #89 ratherdashing

see the .pdf of a letter to TiZA from the Minnesota Dept of Ed.

I was just reading that. The school seems to have a couple issues the MDE is looking to see changed- the school can't be happy.

108 nyc redneck  Tue, May 20, 2008 10:40:48am

they are basically trying to establish no-go zones in our country and we are allowing it happen. time to get beyond seeing them as a special group who deserve special privileges. they are criminals and need to be aggressively pursued, like we would pursue any other group of law breakers.

109 Jhn1  Tue, May 20, 2008 10:47:17am

#42 victor_yugo

Okay, but let's say the department revokes their charter and orders the school shut down. How will they enforce it? Send in the cops? That won't go over very well, after the Texas FLDS fiasco.

Two large tools are 1) remove public funding, and 2) remove accreditation.
With the first, it was stated earlier that they did not have enough money to keep running the Islamist indoctrination Center, so without tax dollars, it would either close or get money that would not be available to use in other indoctrination efforts.
Known as win/win.
With the second, the grades and transcripts are not automatically applied towards secondary education. They would have to take, and successfully pass, the same tests a home-schooled kid would. That would make at least some of the scholastic requirements get some attention at the school (reports of Islamic School curriculum indicate a concentration of efforts in learning Islamic beliefs and Arab culture until the last couple of years of the primary school enrollment.)(anything that bite into that time is a good thing)

110 Jhn1  Tue, May 20, 2008 10:52:02am

#42 victor_yugo
Not to mention that some employers treat unaccredited schools' graduation as nothing. So the Islamic Center graduate of an unaccredited school is treated treated the same as a highschool dropout.

111 ploome hineni[deleted]  Tue, May 20, 2008 10:59:24am
112 Ma Sands  Tue, May 20, 2008 11:07:47am

re: #104 rickadams

Thank you for taking the time to type all that..........you are right --it is being used by God......and that kind of thing is one of the "last bastions of defense" in this country.....nay, in this world.....

113 Sunlight  Tue, May 20, 2008 11:20:01am

video of this @ powerlineblog.com

114 Paul Green  Tue, May 20, 2008 11:20:18am

Be it noted that the man for whom this madrassa is named, Tarek Ibn Zayid, is the Muslim marauder who led the Moorish conquest and subjugation of Spain in 711, beginning an Islamic occupation that would last until 1492.

Guess the school officials are trying to live up to his spirit. But don't call it jihad; someone might take offense!

115 Sunlight  Tue, May 20, 2008 11:25:57am

re: #19 NoSubmission

Attacked by school officials.

How are they going to weasel out of this one?

I'm starting to see a pattern. This guy obviously thinks his behavior is OK. Watch the video. He didn't even hesitate. Rip a shoulder? Check.

Israel and we are asking for special treatment... people like this guy behave this way where they are from and don't see anything wrong with behaving that way wherever they go. Assault laws? Made by man, not to be followed by a purist such as himself. So you have no go areas in France, UK, and now it looks like, in the U.S.

116 Zebra  Tue, May 20, 2008 11:30:39am

Hmmmmm, it seems there is one set of rules for Christians and Jews and another set of rules for Muslims.

117 RobCon  Tue, May 20, 2008 11:36:38am

Islamic school officials in Minnesota attack a news crew.

Response from media - (crickets)

118 debutaunt  Tue, May 20, 2008 11:51:57am

re: #115 Sunlight

I'm starting to see a pattern. This guy obviously thinks his behavior is OK. Watch the video. He didn't even hesitate. Rip a shoulder? Check.

Israel and we are asking for special treatment... people like this guy behave this way where they are from and don't see anything wrong with behaving that way wherever they go. Assault laws? Made by man, not to be followed by a purist such as himself. So you have no go areas in France, UK, and now it looks like, in the U.S.

More and more people have politically-correct immunity.

119 madisonsfriend  Tue, May 20, 2008 12:01:43pm

If it was the BBC, they would have been welcomed with open arms.

120 Dustyvet  Tue, May 20, 2008 12:21:46pm

Minnesota Department of Education should pull all state funding from this school!

121 astronmr20  Tue, May 20, 2008 1:01:37pm

re: #83 Ma Sands

What struck me, forcibly, is that just a half-second before the assault by the school staff, the faces of those kids were so full of innocent joy --and the scene those same children could not have avoided seeing up-close: their own school's people doing such to the ones who had just pulled out of the children those lovely, open smiles and laughter.......

That's the first thing I noticed.. what cute kids.

Then they get exposed to their school administrator beating up a guy for filming them.

"Islam: ruining it for kids everywhere."

122 PloniAlmoni  Tue, May 20, 2008 2:01:32pm

Of course they attacked the news crew. Freedom of the press is obviously a very unusual concept to them.

123 Ma Sands  Tue, May 20, 2008 2:09:57pm

re: #121 astronmr20

Yes. My thought was, it's like in those other places, like the Gaza Strip --how long before the kids get "careful" about loving life freely?

124 leboaz  Tue, May 20, 2008 3:06:16pm

I heard the reporter (Ms Kirsten) call into Laura Ingraham's show. She said that a legislator or school board member wrote to her paper asking for her to be fired. The same person who doles out funds to this and other charter schools. That alone should be front page news on every paper in the country. News at seven- on Mars

125 rickadams  Tue, May 20, 2008 3:25:25pm

The person who wrote a letter to the editor published in the Star Tribune, urging that Katherine Kersten be fired, was Minnesota state Rep. Mindy Greiling, chair of the House of Representatives K-12 Finance Division.

126 YYZDFW  Tue, May 20, 2008 3:43:54pm

Just to continue the notes.

Send those emails to the reporters ( comments@kstp.com ), and to everyone else we can find in the State (preferably in government), much like the Wright affair - if we work hard enough, eventually it will have to be a national issue and pressure will be brought to bear.

127 Dustyvet  Tue, May 20, 2008 4:09:26pm

re: #125 rickadams

The person who wrote a letter to the editor published in the Star Tribune, urging that Katherine Kersten be fired, was Minnesota state Rep. Mindy Greiling, chair of the House of Representatives K-12 Finance Division.


Mindy Greiling (DFL) 54A
* 381 State Office Building
100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55155
(651) 296-5387

E-mail: rep.mindy.greiling@house.mn

128 Dustyvet  Tue, May 20, 2008 4:12:04pm

re: #127 Dustyvet

Mindy Greiling (DFL) 54A
* 381 State Office Building
100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55155
(651) 296-5387

E-mail: rep.mindy.greiling@house.mn

Censorious MN State Rep Mindy Greiling, Lauded By Terror Friendly CAIR


[Link: www.militantislammonitor.org...]

129 Dustyvet  Tue, May 20, 2008 4:14:53pm

re: #128 Dustyvet

Censorious MN State Rep Mindy Greiling, Lauded By Terror Friendly CAIR


[Link: www.militantislammonitor.org...]


MinMon Audio: K-12 finance chair calls Katherine Kersten a 'thug,' says she should resign


[Link: www.minnesotamonitor.com...]

130 Lynn  Tue, May 20, 2008 4:36:04pm

#124 leboaz:

I heard the reporter (Ms Kirsten) call into Laura Ingraham's show. She said that a legislator or school board member wrote to her paper asking for her to be fired. The same person who doles out funds to this and other charter schools. That alone should be front page news on every paper in the country. News at seven- on Mars

Here's more from Kersten's blog on the attempt to get her fired - as well as the text of an actual petition calling for her ouster:

[Link: ww3.startribune.com...]

Several of the quotes offered in support of the school in the petition are downright funny - especially in light of subsequent events.

131 rickadams  Tue, May 20, 2008 5:02:34pm

The funny thing about Katherine Kersten (other than the fact that her role as the Star Tribune's sole conservative voice drives people here absolutely bananas) is that -- though she more properly should be called an opinion columnist than a reporter -- she actually does more investigative reporting than most of the paper's actual reporting staff.

When the Muslim American Society helpfully offered to mediate a dispute with cabbies at the Minneapolis airport who were refusing passengers who were carrying alcohol -- due to a fatwah issued against the practice -- Katherine was the only person who thought to ask the obvious question: Who issued this fatwah? Why, the Muslim American Society, of course! This fascinating little fact was nowhere to be found in the paper's coverage of the issue.

132 tuptian  Tue, May 20, 2008 11:28:48pm

And to see it from a different point of view, another news station (kare11.com) had a crew there and taped the event. While talking to the host of the affiliated AM radio station the KSTP reporter could not explain why his crew was "selected for re-education." (my words not his)

133 Dr. Shalit  Fri, May 23, 2008 5:54:34pm

OK -

Saw some of this stuff on FOX yesterday. May I say this. If THE PRESS were really concerned, AND had the "Cojones" - that Muslim Subversive Institution would be CLOSED TOMORROW! I saw all of the young Girls forced to wear the HIJAB! Could anyone here IMAGINE such an institution promoting Japanese Militarism, Nazi or Fascist thought being ALLOWED to function in the US of 1942/3?
I, for one can not! FDR would have had them not "In" - but - "Under" the Jail.

-S-


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