Posted on 09/22/2015 10:54:46 AM PDT by upchuck
The Jersey City Board of Education voted last week not to close schools for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, one of the most important holidays for Muslims.
School board members in New Jersey made their decision Thursday despite appeals from Muslim attendees who showed up to advocate that the board change the school schedule.
At one point, things became so heated that an official urged security to “take charge” of the situation. At least one person was seen on video being escorted from the meeting.
“We feel alienated from the Board of Education, we feel alienated from this system,” Omar Abouelkhair told WNBC-TV.
“We’re going to be the majority soon,” another said.
But board member Gerald Lyons suggested there is a perfectly valid reason for having school on Thursday, telling residents that closing school with just six days’ notice would cause “undue hardship” for 5,000 to 10,000 parents who might not have anywhere else to send their kids.
Lyons also reminded that students can still take the day off as an excused religious absence, meaning they would not face a penalty for doing so. Others noted that the school does not let out for the Jewish holidays Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
0bammy’s goal is being realized.
Only in America do we welcome our enemies with open arms.
““We feel alienated from the Board of Education, we feel alienated from this system,””
Oh just wait. The more you bring Islam, the more alienated you’ll ‘feel’.
btt
They will be the majority in that community as they swarm like all immigrants do these days.
Good luck community. You’re the latest of Obama’s fated calves. Sacrifice you? Why not?
Folks, observe and learn.
No one got beheaded?
They’ll have to fight the Mexicans At least in texas
Yep. Disgusting.
This doesn't mean that public schools should be closed for religious holidays, though.
It simply reinforces my point that the whole concept of "public education" has no place in a free nation.
Yet.
If they want to feel unalienated we need to send them home. ASAP
If you feel so alienated then go back where you came from, to places where schools are closed on Muslim holidays.
Its frustrating to hear of these “immigrants” expecting us to change our country and our ways of doing things to suit them. Go back home if you can’t stand America.
Future hog food--but I'm swearing off that batch of pork...
“We’re going to be the majority soon,” another said.
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“Another” may not realize that We The People are not our government; nor are we frightened villagers.
“We feel alienated from the Board of Education, we feel alienated from this system,” Omar Abouelkhair told WNBC-TV.
Jut open your own schools - problem solved.
Try it and you and your filthy spawn will meet allah you son of a pig f’n dog.
Destroy the mosques, deport all islamists and end this nonsense before it gets more bloody on American soil.
I saw the video.
It’s not the words so much as the snarky attitude.
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