Posted on 05/20/2008 7:37:17 AM PDT by kellynla
The curriculum at a charter school catering to Muslims complies with federal and state law, the state Education Department said Monday but it directed other changes be made in religious areas.
The state said Tarik ibn Zayad Academy should change its busing schedule and its handling of Friday prayer services. The shorter prayer services on other days were found to be acceptable, but not the 30-minute service on school grounds on Muslim's holy day.
The department said bus rides home should be available right after school ends; currently students must wait until after a voluntary after-school religious program.
State law requires charter schools — publicly funded schools with more autonomy than traditional public schools — to be nonsectarian. The Education Department investigated after a substitute teacher alleged the school was offering religious instruction in Islam to students.
The school of about 400 students in suburban Inver Grove Heights shares a building with the Muslim American Society of Minnesota and its mosque.
Asad Zaman, the school's executive director, said it was significant that the review found no problems with the curriculum and the school will comply with the state's directives.
"I believe this report vindicates what we have been saying all along in that we are not a Muslim school. We are not a religious school," Zaman said.
He said the school hadn't determined how it would change its Friday prayer sessions. The review noted that the sessions take place at the school and teachers pray alongside students, which may seem an endorsement of religion.
Assistant Education Commissioner Morgan Brown said the department expected its concerns about Friday prayer services to be addressed within weeks and the busing issue by the start of school in the fall. He declined to say what penalties could be imposed if the changes weren't made but added that Commissioner Alice Seagren ultimately has the power to withhold funding.
Perhaps it is time in America to require any religion that wants to exist in the U.S. to make a pledge that if the religion they practice comes to be the majority religion that they will abide by the constitution and uphold freedom of religion in the country and if such a religion refuses to do so - i.e. the leaders of that religion insist that it is their goal to turn the U.S. into a Muslim state where other religions are not permitted complete freedom to practice and seek converts - then that religion is against the law, against our Constitution and forbidden in the USA
OR, (just a thought) we could get the goobermint out of education completely, so that nobody has to worry that somebody else is spending their tax dollars on things of which they don’t approve.
One more terrorist attack in America and all of this will be irrelevant...
Every foreign muzzie will have to pack up his koran & family and go back to whatever sandbox they came from...we didn’t allow German-American Bunds to operate during WWII; why we are allowing foreign mosques to operate here now is ridiculous.
It’s worse than what’s reported here.
Two muzzie school officials attacked a local news crew that came to investigate the story. The cameraman was wrestled to the ground and injured.
Report with video here: http://kstp.com/article/stories/S449649.shtml?cat=1
P.S. Please tell me that community is up in arms!
Awesome video:
The same kind of terrorists who support Obama did this:
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
Never apologize for them.
Never appease them.
Never forget.
They should hire radical atheists. THAT would fight fire. Find the most enthusiastic antitheist to DEPROGRAM the cultists.
A public (American taxpayer funded) institution where the public isn't allowed.
Laura Ingraham just covered it on Fox News.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2008-05-20-islam-charter-school_N.htm?csp=34
yep, I saw it...
some clown from CAIR...
one more muzzie terrorist attack in America and what they’re teaching at the charter schools will be the least of the muzzies’ problems...
Achmed wanted to chat about the awards the PUBLICALLY FUNDED so-called public school/mosque had received. Laura, thankfully, cut him off. Achmed still doesn't want the AMERICAN PUBLIC to see what is going on inside the TAX PAYER FINANCED facility.
Just think - you're paying for Muslim goons...
“Just think - you’re paying for Muslim goons...”
heck, we’re paying for muzzie goons every time we fill up at the gas station
If it looks liberal and smells liberal, it is liberal.
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