Posted on 06/08/2007 1:47:02 PM PDT by Alouette
Amherst Middle School Bedouin tent community event has people across nation up in arms
AMHERST — What was conceived as a once-in-a-lifetime educational opportunity for middle schoolers has stirred the ire of bloggers across the country.
The girls wore “abayas” and the boys danced a traditional men’s only dance at the May 9 “Open Tent” at the middle school, designed to show members of the community what they had learned about Arabian culture, said world cultures teacher Debbie Hinrichs.
The trimester-long block was meant to teach the seventh-graders cultural tolerance, she said.
And that’s just the problem with it, according to the bloggers, who learned about the event when a story from The Cabinet’s website appeared in the conservative weblog “Little Green Footballs.” Beginning Friday, The Cabinet received a slew of e-mails decrying the event as too tolerant and “too cute” a depiction of a culture rife with serious human rights abuses.
(Excerpt) Read more at cabinet.com ...
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Will they be hosting a Seder next? No?
I doubt whether they’ll be allowed to celebrate Christmas or Easter, either.
GUILTY!!!
They got an ‘authentic matzo’ recipe from the Saudi cultural advisor to the event, but had some trouble finding the Palestinian children’s blood in the Kosher section of the local grocery store, so, no Seder.
Have a HUGE picnic where everyone dresses up in Muslim/Arabic garb and "celebrates" Islam by sitting down to a huge feast of bacon, hot dogs, sausage, pork, etc.
scratch that...wrong Debbie Hinrichs - both teachers, wrong state. Unless she moved.
Are they going to teach the children how to strap on explosive belts or fly toy planes filled with M80's into the school? There is so much to learn from their "culture".
How can people be so damn stupid? She went there to SA, she knows how cut off she felt wearing the abayas, how as a woman, she was treated either as non-human or a “male with female characteristics” for being an American. Yet, all she can push is this “teaching tolerance”. God, are our fellow Americans so brainwashed by liberalism, that even physically experiencing in life, they can’t see evil when it knocks them down?
Does this project include providing little American kids with toy suicide bomber kits and toy surface-to-air missiles to shoot down toy aircraft, and bags of stones to stone the little girls who don’t get with the program?
Imagine if this were an attempt to explain Christian culture...the ACLU would be in court seeking an injunction.
The double standard of the liberal is amazing.
The Face of the Enemy, I’d call it.
With the eyes of a serial killer. But hey, since it is the duty of every Muslim to kill every infidel, then this is a religion of serial killers.
Here’s the FR thread that discussed the article about “Saudi Night.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843358/posts
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