Posted on 09/03/2009 7:57:15 AM PDT by bs9021
TiZA is for Trouble
by: Bethany Stotts, September 03, 2009
This August, Minnesota Department of Education [MDOE] officials said they will be investigating the Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy’s use of state “lease aid” grants. The charter school has been paying rent to Muslim religious organizations.
Chas Anderson, deputy commissioner of MDOE told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that the inquiry was sparked by a January American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit, reported Tony Kennedy on August 29.
“TiZA spokesman Darin Broton said the school will cooperate, but he accused officials of conducting a politically motivated investigation,” he wrote. “[Broton] said the department has conducted 19 TiZA inquiries in the past year and a half.”
The ACLU lawsuit alleges that TiZA’s principals are subject to “conflicts of interest” and that the school’s “operation and public funding” violate the Establishment Clause. It also names the Minnesota Department of Education as a co-defendant because “The Commissioner and the Department have not terminated the sponsorial relationship, have certified funds for the school, and have disbursed funds to the school despite repeated violations of [Minnesota law].”
“TIZA, the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, MAS Minnesota Property Holding Corp., Minnesota Education Trust, and Blaine Property Holding Corporation are linked by a complex interconnecting set of personal, corporate, and operational relationships,” stated the complaint.
Indeed. TiZa academy’s Inver Grove Heights campus is located in St. Paul, Minnesota, and shares the same address with the Muslim American Society of Minnesota (MASMN). Thus the building doubles as a charter school, MASMN headquarters, and a mosque.
The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) describes the Muslim American Society (MAS), MASMN’s parent organization, as the “United States chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood,” predominately founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and training its members in the ideology of Sayyid Qutb...
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...
GO ACLU! First time I ever typed (or even thought) those words.
Every once in a while even a blind, communist, moonbat squirrel will find a nut.
They hate all religions equally.
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