Arabic schools gain foothold in the region

toledoblade.com ^ | 09/16/07 | IGNAZIO MESSINA

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Is this the first publicly-funded Arabic school in the USA?

[TornadoAlley3]

excerpted from link in post #18

Amana Academy, Alpharetta, Georgia, near Atlanta: A charter school that requires Arabic language learning, Amana boasts of its “institutional partnership” with the Arabic Language Institute Foundation (ALIF). But ALIF forwards the learning of Arabic as a means “to convey the message of Qur’an in North America and Europe” and thus to “help the Western countries recover from the present moral decay.”

Carver Elementary School, San Diego, California: A teacher, Mary-Frances Stephens, informed the school board that she taught a “segregated class” of Muslim girls, and that each day she was required to release them from class for an hour of prayer led by a Muslim teacher’s aide. Stephens deemed this arrangement “clearly a violation of administrative, legislative and judicial guidelines.” The school’s principal, Kimberlee Kidd, replied that the teacher’s aide merely prayed alongside the students and the session lasted only 15 minutes. The San Diego Unified School District investigated Stephens’ allegations and rejected them, but it nonetheless changed practices at Carver, implicitly substantiating her critique. Superintendent Carl Cohn eliminated single-gender classes and reconfigured the schedule so students can pray during lunch.

Charlestown High School in Massachusetts: The school’s summer Arabic-language program took students on a trip to the notorious Islamic Society of Boston, where, the Boston Globe reports, students “sat in a circle on the carpet and learned about Islam from two mosque members.” One student, Peberlyn Moreta, 16, fearing that the gold cross around her neck would offend the hosts, tucked it under her T-shirt. Anti-Zionism also appeared, with the showing of the 2002 film Divine Intervention, which a critic, Jordan Hiller, has termed an “irresponsible film,” “frighteningly dangerous,” and containing “pure hatred” toward Israel.

Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy, Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota: Islamic Relief Worldwide, an organization with alleged links to jihadism and terrorism, sponsored this charter school that requires Arabic as a second language. The academy’s name openly celebrates Islamic imperialism, for Tarek ibn Ziyad led Muslim troops in their conquest of Spain in 711 A.D. Local journalists report that “a visitor might well mistake Tarek ibn Ziyad [Academy] for an Islamic school” because of the women wearing hijabs, the carpeted prayer area, the school closing down for Islamic holidays, everyone keeping the Ramadan fast, the cafeteria serving halal food, classes breaking for prayer, almost all the children praying, and the constant use of “Brother” and “Sister” when adults at the school address each other.

Only in the case of the Iris Becker Elementary School in Dearborn, Michigan, is the Arabic-language program not obviously pursuing a political and religious agenda. Its program may actually be clean; or perhaps the minimal information about it explains the lack of known problems.
THE ABOVE examples (see my weblog entry, “Other Taxpayer-Funded American Madrassas” for yet more) are all American, but similar problems predictably exist in other Western countries.

This troubling pattern points to the need for special scrutiny of publicly-funded Arabic-language programs. That scrutiny should take the form of robust Supervisory Boards whose members are immersed in the threat of radical Islam and who have the power to shut down anything they might find objectionable.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Thanks!

[TruthConquers]

Yours is a perfect example to the nay sayers here on FreeRepublic that say, “work within the system, that will fix it.”

Yeah, right. Your poor friend, he sure tried didn’t he?

[metmom]

These schools and mosques are recruiting centers and military installations. They’re establishing a beachhead

[EBH]

I am not so sure this is the first in Ohio? The Ihsan is a "private" religious school that gets state vouchers and functions as a non-profit.

A piece of this investigation also centers on the Ihsan School of Excellence in Cleveland. Haque founded and managed that school. Investigators say Haque's staff created false employment tax reports for those working at the school, from my profile page.

To read more about this school:

http://www.cleveland.com/weblogs/print.ssf?/mtlogs/cleve_plaindealer/archives/print084337.html

[EBH]

Thanks for the ping

[ran20]

Mr. Shalabi has absolulety no business being in my country. He needs to go back to Saudi Arabia if he wants his kids to be Arabic. And this just magnifies the type of immigrants that are coming here today. While I am sure there are some that are grateful to be here I’m willing to bet alot of them think like this POS.

Great post!

[ballplayer]

I think it used to be in this country that the Parents would maintain the ethnic culture of where ever they came from ,the schools would educate you in the culture in which we all live the AMERICAN CULTURE which is a miracle where people of all cultures live together in peace .
It seems to me this type of school is a loophole where Islam can be taught at taxpayer expense

[Kimberly GG]

Yep! It’s right near the 75/23 split in Perrysburg. I lived there for a couple of years. We call it the ‘missle’ mosque because those towers look like missles ;)

[kiki04]

It’s not the first, a few years ago they started opening a few in Columbus that are charter schools

http://www.iac-school.com/

[wintertime]

marxist madrassas.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Exactly!

It is time to call it what it is: Marxism!

Marxism is our nation’s most serious threat and our government schools ( their most important weapon) are thoroughly controlled by Marxists and their Useful Idiots.

We can survive Islamofascism but we can NOT survive if the Marxists succeed in indoctrinating the next generation of voters.

[oswegodeee]

How ironic! I remember back in the late seventies meeting a very nice man who was a lot older than me at that time. He was a wise old man and very intuitive. Jimmy Carter had just been elected, which scared the living heck out of us conservatives, at least this conservative! He said “We fought like hell to keep our country whole and safe and free” now we are going to begin selling it a mile at a time”, I was puzzled as to what he meant. He said “we are going to give into every demand made by everyone who comes here from other countries and not make them assimilate, we are going to allow them to bring with them their culture and their laws and at our expense set up little kingdoms throughout our county, so that they will feel more welcomed and convenienced”. He said, “ we will loose our identity and our freedom, the very freedom we fought so hard to protect”.
He had tears in his eyes! I said to him “ I just can’t believe we in the USA would do such a thing. He said “well dear, just hide and watch it will happen in your lifetime and may God have mercy on us”.Oh,he was so RIGHT!

[VR-21]

The “National Education Association” doesn’t sound quite as sinister as ”International A.N.S.W.E.R.” but it’s every bit as great a threat. That organization is every bit as intent on “changing” this country as any other leftist subversive organization is, and one can easily see how devoted to basic education they are.

Jimmy Carter created the Dept. of Education effectively to give the NEA a Cabinet Post in exchange for their support in getting him elected, and it has wreaked incredible havoc on our society. I looked to several big-talking Republicans over the years to do away with the D.O.E. but, well, you know.

I share your frustration at how the American people simply will not open their eyes to how rancid, brazenly leftist, and arrogant our public education system has become.

[Tired of Taxes]

"In the public schools, they expect every child to be in this melting pot, or what I call a mixed salad, with no identity of their country," Mr. Shalabi said.

If they're living here, their country is the United States.

[Lijahsbubbe]

"I want a school that isn't going to teach her how to have a boyfriend,"

.....but teach her how to make bombs.