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School board refuses to allow students to hear from ISIS survivor because it might encourage ‘Islamophobia’
American Thinker ^ | 27 Nov, 2021 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 11/27/2021 4:35:12 AM PST by MtnClimber

“You can’t handle the truth,” the famous line uttered by Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, could well be the motto of many educrats. Sheltering students from the truth when it offends the politically correct sentiments of favored minorities is all too common. And this phenomenon is not limited to the United States. Consider this from the UK Daily Mail:

A Canadian school has cancelled an event with ISIS survivor Nadia Murad, saying her visit would be offensive to Muslims and foster 'Islamophobia'.

Murad was scheduled to sit down with students from the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) - the largest school Board in Canada with nearly 600 schools - to discuss her book The Last Girl: My Story Of Captivity in February 2022.

Murad's graphic exposé detailed how she escaped the Islamic State, where she was ripped from her home and sold into sexual slavery aged just 14 years old, according to The Telegraph.

She uses the book to talk about how she was raped and tortured before finding her way to a refugee camp in Durhok, in northern Iraq, and then to Germany where she now lives. But before the event could happen the superintendent of the Board Helen Fisher said that her students would not participate.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: canada; censorship; germany; isil; isis; isissurvivor; islamicstate; jihad; murad; muslims; nadiamurad; schoolboard; toronto
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1 posted on 11/27/2021 4:35:12 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The school boards see themselves as the gatekeepers of leftist indoctrination. That is how we have come to live in clown world.


2 posted on 11/27/2021 4:35:23 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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I remember when I was a grade school kid and we had a Holocaust surviver talk at my school.

I guess today that man would not have been permitted to talk at my school because it might have engendered Germanaphobia.

Being uninformed about Nazism would be the lesser of two evils.

Are that makes sense.


3 posted on 11/27/2021 4:44:41 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: MtnClimber

Seems to me that the school board could simply send someone to the nearest mosque and have ISIS guy come over and give his side of the story. At least that’s how a free country operates.


4 posted on 11/27/2021 5:06:30 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: MtnClimber

Hard to believe that when Harold Ballard was still principal owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, there was that good bit more sanity in that city compared to now.


5 posted on 11/27/2021 5:07:01 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: MtnClimber

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10247301/School-CANCELS-event-ISIS-survivor-Nadia-Murad-saying-visit-offensive-Muslims.html#article-10247301

The comments at the article are heartening.


6 posted on 11/27/2021 5:09:27 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: MtnClimber

Yep.


7 posted on 11/27/2021 5:19:17 AM PST by sauropod (Meanie Butt Daddy - No you can't)
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To: MtnClimber

Can’t have anyone learning the truth about Islam.......


8 posted on 11/27/2021 5:30:15 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

The same people that want to punish any student who says there are only two genders.


9 posted on 11/27/2021 5:33:05 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

I think it’s ironic that people who are pacifist, who call themselves liberals but they aren’t, will go to great lengths to protect Islam, the very group that would kill them if they had half the chance. I feel sorry for these idiots sometimes


10 posted on 11/27/2021 5:54:30 AM PST by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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Narrow minded bigots. They think that the children are such feeble thinkers. Psychological projection. Hey kiddies, you are too stupid to reason. You are too prone to cultural bias that we are not going to let you think for yourselves.


11 posted on 11/27/2021 5:59:05 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (Socialism should more accurately be called Sociopathism)
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To: realcleanguy

Yes, and they don’t mind smearing Christians as invading Crusaders (forgetting that the Muslims invaded and brutally subdued the CHRISTIAN Holy Land 500 years earlier); evil Italian navigators, Catholic Spaniards and Portuguese Conquistadors and enslaving Indians; Horrible evil white Anglo-Saxon Puritans killing innocent Natives, and above all, the EVIL white slavers of the South, or more broadly, ALL Southerners, especially conservative Christians.


12 posted on 11/27/2021 6:03:06 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: MtnClimber
You can’t handle the truth,” the famous line uttered

Uttered? He must not have seen the movie.

13 posted on 11/27/2021 6:04:32 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting.)
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To: MtnClimber

How about the Chinese putting Muslims into Concentration Camps? Is that Islamophobia?

(crickets)


14 posted on 11/27/2021 6:04:49 AM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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The real problem though unstated is Schoolboardaphobia

It can’t be allowed to persist and produce another Charlottesville


15 posted on 11/27/2021 6:11:43 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Free Republic has gone to hell is a Covid handbasket)
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To: MtnClimber

This is all a part of the islamization of the West produced by the strange alliance of communists (democrats, labour, etc.) and muslims. Democrats and their fellow leftists also always cover for each other. I saw an article over at Twitchy showing a recent example, “The WHO appears to have skipped over the Greek letter ‘Xi’ when naming the ‘Omicron’ variant”, so give that a look. Very convenient, and I doubt if the next Greek letter was ‘Trump’ WHO would have skipped that. Covid wasn’t the first bio weapon sent here by communist China. Sars and H1N1 swine flu preceded it (they were test runs).


16 posted on 11/27/2021 6:31:38 AM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: Alas Babylon!

Maybe we should deport White liberals back to Europe


17 posted on 11/27/2021 6:32:54 AM PST by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: Pontiac

Democrats are nazis (national SOCIALISTS). The myth is they were right wing, but socialists are always left wing.


18 posted on 11/27/2021 6:33:31 AM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Somebody needs to force Nigel Farage to read quran too. Dude is great except he denies what islam is. It’s his one fault (that I can see).


19 posted on 11/27/2021 6:34:29 AM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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“School board refuses to allow students to hear from ISIS survivor because it might encourage ‘Islamophobia’”

Sure because all Muslims invade ... I mean migrate to countries to assimilate and make their host country stronger just like the Muslims in our own Congress.


20 posted on 11/27/2021 6:51:38 AM PST by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti Astronomers see white dwarf 'switch on and off' for first time)
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