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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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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

Technically you can’t call Democrats Nazis because Democrats are internationalist and the Nazis were nationalist.

It is a minor but important distinction. IMOP

Democrats’ goals are highly directed to establishing a global government.

Nazis would only have accepted international control under Germany.


21 posted on 11/27/2021 6:53:17 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
1400 years / 800 MILLION INNOCENT PEOPLE MURDERED

- that's Islamic HISTORY!!.....but lets not inform people so they can protect themselves!

22 posted on 11/27/2021 7:15:35 AM PST by high info voter
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To: Pontiac
I remember when I was a grade school kid and we had a Holocaust survivor talk at my school.

Me, also. They showed grainy black and white film footage from the liberation of the camps as well. I'm 66. How old are you?

23 posted on 11/27/2021 7:35:14 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: MtnClimber

Because the school board can’t handle the truth.


24 posted on 11/27/2021 7:43:19 AM PST by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: MtnClimber

I don’t need any encouragement to hate Islam.


25 posted on 11/27/2021 11:11:42 AM PST by jmacusa (America.Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: Vigilanteman

I am 61.

I think the last Holocaust surviver died a few weeks ago.


26 posted on 11/28/2021 5:42:42 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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