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Mom outraged as her daughter, 7, is given henna TATTOOS on school 'multicultural' day'
Daily Mail ^

Posted on 12/23/2015 10:29:58 PM PST by TigerClaws

A Texas mother is speaking out after her daughter's school gave the young girl a henna tattoo the week before Christmas.

Tammy Samour was shocked when she picked up her daughter Leah, 7, from Ed White Elementary School in Houston and saw the second grader's hands covered in the designs, which are traditionally applied to the hands and feet of women during Hindu ceremonies and festivals.

That shock soon turned to outrage however as Ms. Samour says she never gave the school permission to tattoo Leah - and now the brown paste will not wash off her hands. It can take several days before the vegetable dye fades.

Ms. Samour also said that connections she discovered between the Hindu and Muslim faiths were of concern to her when she decided to do further research on the tattoo.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3372806/Mother-outraged-daughter-7-given-henna-tattoos-school-multicultural-activity-week-Christmas.html#ixzz3vDWuw5zm Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

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To: Crucial

I’m reading an interesting book suggested by another FR member:

UNHOLY ALLIANCE: RADICAL ISLAM AND THE AMERICAN LEFT.

Eye opening.


41 posted on 12/24/2015 12:00:46 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: Utilizer

No to belabor the point, if I got an email telling me my child was going to get any kind of a tattoo, I would be racing to the dictionary and a phone.

Was the school “acting stupidly?” Yes, of course.

But the parents are responsible for protecting their children.

Finally, my girls would get henna “tattoos” at the beach every summer.

They would last a couple of weeks.


42 posted on 12/24/2015 12:02:22 AM PST by Vermont Lt (I had student debt. It came from a bank. Not from the Govt.)
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To: TigerClaws

This much outrage over a temporary tattoo? Wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out to be a fake story designed to make conservatives look dumb. Freaking out over henna is pretty darn silly.


43 posted on 12/24/2015 12:05:19 AM PST by Junior_G (Funny how liberals' love affair with Muslims began on 9/11)
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To: TigerClaws

Apparently separation of church and state only applies to Christians.


44 posted on 12/24/2015 12:08:00 AM PST by DaiHuy (May God save the country, for it is evident the people will not! Millard Fillmore)
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To: Utilizer
Ms. Samour told Click 2 Houston that while the family did receive this email from the school, it was her husband who read it and it made no difference as neither one of them had heard of henna tattoos.

If I don't understand something, I look it up. If it were a notification from my kids' school, I would for sure make it my business to look it up. This woman glibly says, "It made no difference." For shame!


45 posted on 12/24/2015 12:11:22 AM PST by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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To: TigerClaws

On many levels, including that of common sense, this henna skin marking activity was inappropriate for a school. All things Eastern are held up as the cat’s meow, while things Judaeo-Christian are considered out of bounds for the public school. I don’t see public school classes having kids do “Ash Wednesday Multiculti” forehead art projects at school. If they tried that, what a howl there would be from the Left.


46 posted on 12/24/2015 12:12:03 AM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: Utilizer

Ah, reminds of high school parties where we would pull out the permanent markers on the first guy that passed out. Our art was full of swastikas and pentagrams. It was extremely fun and annoying at the same time. We all got tagged at one time or another. It takes a few days to wash those permanent markers off skin too. These henna tattoos are nothing even approaching the level of innocent high school fun. This sounds like a a soccer mom got all bent out of shape because she’s ignorant or stupid.


47 posted on 12/24/2015 12:14:22 AM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: MamaB
Ms. Samour told Click 2 Houston that while the family did receive this email from the school, it was her husband who read it and it made no difference as neither one of them had heard of henna tattoos. If I don't understand something, I look it up. If it were a notification from my kids' school, I would for sure make it my business to look it up. This woman glibly says, "It made no difference." For shame!
48 posted on 12/24/2015 12:15:31 AM PST by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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To: steve86
The henna complaint is stupid, although the school should not have allowed them to be applied without permission.

No it is not stupid. It matters not that there is no spiritual significance. This is wrong. Suppose your child came home dyed blue? Would that be OK with you?

Even though you think there is no religious intent, some people believe that a person's body is their holy temple not to be defiled in any way.

1 Corinthians 3:16 — Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

1 Corinthians 3:17 — If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

On a more personal level, I cannot even stand to accidentally get an ink mark on my hand. I would be very upset if a teacher put a tattoo on my child. An impressionable child may be influenced to think it is acceptable to get a "tramp stamp" tattoo as a teenager.

49 posted on 12/24/2015 12:28:34 AM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: Utilizer

They never accidentally promote anything Christian there. They sure do with every other crap religion.

It is not by accident.


50 posted on 12/24/2015 12:38:40 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: steve86; All
The henna complaint is stupid, although the school should not have allowed them to be applied without permission.

No it is not stupid. It matters not that there is no spiritual significance. This is wrong. Suppose your child came home dyed blue? Would that be OK with you?

Even though you think there is no religious intent, some people believe that a person's body is their holy temple not to be defiled in any way.

1 Corinthians 3:16 — Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

1 Corinthians 3:17 — If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

On a more personal level, I cannot even stand to accidentally get an ink mark on my hand. I would be very upset if a teacher put a tattoo on my child. An impressionable child may be influenced to think it is acceptable to get a "tramp stamp" tattoo as a teenager.

51 posted on 12/24/2015 12:55:27 AM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: TigerClaws

Good thing the girl was not baptized, then the FBI would be involved.


52 posted on 12/24/2015 1:12:56 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers.)
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To: TigerClaws

not exactly a tattoo if you could wash it off. At first I was concerned. Tattooing a child without parent permission is definately wrong, but its just paint that could be washed off so not a big deal


53 posted on 12/24/2015 1:46:32 AM PST by 4rcane
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To: TigerClaws

I guess I have a couple of questions and a comment or two:

1) Were boys subjected to the same thing?
2) Were any of the children asked if they wanted them beforehand.

Comment 1: I’m not specifically aware of any close link between Hinduism and Islam. I’d think they are quite different.

Comment 2: I’m quite sure that if Christianity as a whole had a social tradition of marking bodies with henna dye, there wouldn’t even have been an article about this because it wouldn’t have happened.

Comment 3: The parents should have been asked for permission beforehand. It amounts to temporary disfigurement of a child in my opinion.


54 posted on 12/24/2015 3:23:30 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Secret Agent Man

The first thing the parents need to do is take their kids out of those schools and homeschool.

I’m wondering how long it will take before the law suit begins. Be sure to go for the throat when it does.


55 posted on 12/24/2015 3:43:53 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: TigerClaws

Nothing should be applied to anyone’s child by public schools without permission. Any substance that they come in contact with should be non toxic and should be readily removable using soap and water available on the premises. Anything outside of that should be investigated and staff performance should be documented and corrected.

No need to break it down any further than that.


56 posted on 12/24/2015 4:25:08 AM PST by rhoda_penmark
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To: Junior_G
When kids are leaving school with no concept of the English language, books are banned, and we rank very low internationally in math and science, I can see why parents and freepers might be miffed at “multicultural day”. It's ludicrous and a waste of time. What ever happened to standard geography lessons??
57 posted on 12/24/2015 4:31:37 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard then Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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To: lefty-lie-spy

I get your point that this is not a big deal in terms of the temporary benign nature of the tattoos, but this is not a bunch of drunken guys having a little fun ... it’s a public school and the administration should have required the teacher to obtain permission slips from the parents before marking up the kids. Just makes sense to me to do that.


58 posted on 12/24/2015 4:32:16 AM PST by glennaro
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To: MamaB

I had never heard of them either and I am 71.

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Not too far behind you, I’m 70 and never heard of them either.


59 posted on 12/24/2015 4:37:46 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: TigerClaws

Henna can cause chemical burns.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3200827/Prom-queen-s-horror-holiday-henna-tattoo-leaves-chemical-burns-scarred-life.html


60 posted on 12/24/2015 4:43:20 AM PST by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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