Are taxpayers footing bill for Islamic school in Minnesota?

Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA) -- named for the Muslim general who conquered medieval Spain -- is a K-8 charter school in Inver Grove Heights. Its approximately 300 students are mostly the children of low-income Muslim immigrant families, many of them Somalis. The school is in huge demand, with a waiting list of 1,500. Last fall, it opened a second campus in Blaine. TIZA uses the language of culture rather than religion to describe its program in public documents. According to its mission statement, the school "recognizes and appreciates the traditions, histories, civilizations and accomplishments of the eastern world (Africa, Asia and Middle East)." But the line between religion and culture is often blurry. There are strong indications that religion plays a central role at TIZA, which is a public school financed by Minnesota taxpayers.

http://www.centralacademy.net/ I used to teach at Central Academy. It is a charter school in Michigan that is very similar to the one in this article (Muslim indoctrnation funded by tax dollars). It's basically a free religious school for Muslims. The students are over 95% Muslim. I couldn't stay there long.

Highlights of my work there include:

1) Being screamed at and lunged at by students when I stated that it was unfortunate that innocent people at a Jewish wedding in Israel were killed by a suicide bomber,

2) Being told by students who were born in Michigan that they were "not Americans" and I was insulting them by calling them Americans, and

3) Attending a staff meeting where a second grade teacher apologized profusely for upsetting parents by giving the students a map of the world where Jerusalem was identified as the capital of Israel

4) Being told by a high school senior that Osama bin Laden was a good person and he couldn't understand why Americans didn't like him.

Thank God (sincerely) I was on to another job when September 11 happened. I heard from teachers still there, that after the terrorist attacks the people of Ann Arbor brought gifts, flowers, food, etc. to the school to show the Muslims that they weren't predjudiced. Typical liberal response: "We are not mad at you for killing our people, because that would be racist! Why don't you go ahead and kill some more?"

After that experience, I assume that anyone who says Muslim Americans are just like you and me has never actually spoken with any Muslim Americans.

The only way to deal with Islam in the United States is to force them, through the legal system, to publicly change one of their religous tenets - making allowable killings conforming to Sharia (Islamic Law) illegal - due to the fact it is a violation of the U.S. Constitution.

Muslims will never agree to it. Then we enforce mass deportations.

The enemy came as wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing, on 9/11.

It was supposed to devastate us. WTC, the Pentagon, the White House, Congressional Hill.

But it didn’t pan out properly.

So, now the enemy comes dressed in lamb’s clothing.

Mass deportations? There would probably be no need for that.

Those who are radical would leave, albeit noisily. Those who are criminal would be found and deported while those who just want to live free from Wahabbist pressure would agree to follow our Constitution and stay here, forming the nucleaus for a new sect of Islam.

No risk = no change. We better do somethin and do it soon.

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