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Seattle-Area District School Board Instructs Teachers to Give Islamic Blessings
LifeSite News ^ | 5/10/19 | Dorothy Cummings McLean

Posted on 05/10/2019 8:58:43 PM PDT by marshmallow

SEATTLE, Washington, May 10, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) ― As Ramadan began, a public school board urged teachers to assist Muslim pupils in adhering to the annual Muslim fast.

According to the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund (FCDF), Dieringer School District in Washington state has asked teachers to follow guidelines set by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) about Muslim pupils’ religious practices during school hours.

“In March, CAIR submitted an ‘Informative Letter on Upcoming Islamic Holidays and Religious Accommodations’ to Superintendent Judy Martinson,” the FCDF reported.

“Martinson enacted the letter as official district policy when she distributed the letter to school principals, who in turn circulated the letter to all teachers and staff.”

CAIR lawyer Amanda Misasi had asked that teachers not schedule “tests or important assignments” on two Muslim holy days, Eid Al-Fitr and Eid Al-Adha, that these holidays be added to school calendars, that fasting students be allowed to spend the lunch period in the library, and that teachers welcome Muslim students to the classroom during Ramadan by wishing them “Ramadan Mubarak” (i.e. “Have a blessed celebration”) or “Ramadan Kareem” (i.e. “May Ramadan be generous to you”).

Misasi also requested facilities for in-school prayer.

“In addition to supporting Muslim students during Ramadan, you can also support Muslim students in your school by accommodating their need for prayer year-round,” she wrote. “One or two of which will typically occur during school hours, depending on the time of year.”

Daniel Piedra, FCDF’s executive director, believes that the instruction to bless Muslim students is a violation of the First Amendment.

“By urging teachers to bless Muslim students in Arabic, the District is running roughshod over the First Amendment’s mandate of government neutrality toward religion,” he wrote.

“A school district would never order teachers to ‘welcome’ Catholic students during Easter with.......

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TOPICS: Current Events; Islam; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: academicbias; aclumia; establishmentclause; mosqueandstate
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1 posted on 05/10/2019 8:58:43 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

This is NOT a Muslim country


2 posted on 05/10/2019 9:02:11 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: marshmallow

Ham sandwich, musbag? Har! Not directed at you...


3 posted on 05/10/2019 9:11:55 PM PDT by W. (NRA life member! Cost me 500 bones, but oh, well!)
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To: Innovative

This is NOT a Muslim country


Yet.

But it soon will be.

And we will deserve it for letting such nonsense continue.


4 posted on 05/10/2019 9:20:59 PM PDT by old curmudgeon (There isTha no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: marshmallow

Let me guess...the teachers are banned from greeting their students with Merry Christmas...or at Easter with He Is Risen...


5 posted on 05/10/2019 9:22:07 PM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: marshmallow

Time for the mid-Ramadan pig roast.


6 posted on 05/10/2019 9:23:34 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: marshmallow

Bacon muffins in morning, BLT for lunch, pepperoni jerky for snacks.


7 posted on 05/10/2019 9:30:28 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: marshmallow

Seattle, AIDS capitol and sewer of humanity...


8 posted on 05/10/2019 9:36:34 PM PDT by northislander
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Islam is a war plan.


9 posted on 05/10/2019 9:39:46 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: marshmallow

Some people are determined to commit suicide.


10 posted on 05/10/2019 9:44:19 PM PDT by sport
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To: Gene Eric

And it is working.


11 posted on 05/10/2019 9:51:33 PM PDT by sport
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To: marshmallow

Fuch that.


12 posted on 05/10/2019 9:59:43 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: marshmallow

No surprise, it’s the public schools and since most conservatives think their particular public schools are ‘wonderful’, they’ll keep sending their poor kids into that rot and defending their ‘wonderful’ schools from those who want to break up the monopoly.

So, given that, we deserve those schools and those policies.


13 posted on 05/10/2019 11:15:39 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: marshmallow

What in the heck!? Is really wrong with these leftists!?


14 posted on 05/10/2019 11:15:59 PM PDT by vpintheak (Stop making stupid people famous!)
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To: sport

True that.

It’s the ultimate virtue signal.


15 posted on 05/10/2019 11:17:12 PM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.r)
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To: marshmallow

Were a Christian group asking for similar Christian guidelines, the ACLU and the SPLC and others would be filing briefs asserting the “separation clause”.

However, since the original mentions the word “church” and muslims have “mosques”, the clause does not apply ... therefore, let it be known that muslims can have as much religious freedom as they please with mandatory compliance, while any such guideline from a Christian group is forbidden ... and will be prosecuted.

You will convert soon, because your children will demand it.


16 posted on 05/11/2019 1:39:22 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: marshmallow

“teachers welcome Muslim students to the classroom during Ramadan by wishing them “Ramadan Mubarak” (i.e. “Have a blessed celebration”) or “Ramadan Kareem” (i.e. “May Ramadan be generous to you”).”

Under no circumstances however, will they say “Merry Christmas”.


17 posted on 05/11/2019 2:44:48 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: marshmallow

Separation of religion and state?


18 posted on 05/11/2019 2:54:46 AM PDT by RichardMoore (Without the protection of life all other right are void, dump TV and follow a plant based diet)
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To: marshmallow

Reason number 245 googolplex to homeschool...This is why we need to take over our local board of education. Muslims are going to kill this Judo-Christian nation.


19 posted on 05/11/2019 3:35:11 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: marshmallow

>>a public school board urged teachers to assist Muslim pupils in adhering to the annual Muslim fast.

While at the same time encouraging students to ignore biblical teachings that homosexuality is a sin.


20 posted on 05/11/2019 5:10:06 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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