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Teacher breaks wall of silence at state's Muslim public school
Star Tribune ^ | April 9, 2008 | KATHERINE KERSTEN,

Posted on 04/09/2008 6:06:29 AM PDT by wallcrawlr

< snip > Now, however, an eyewitness has stepped forward. Amanda Getz of Bloomington is a substitute teacher. She worked as a substitute in two fifth-grade classrooms at TIZA on Friday, March 14. Her experience suggests that school-sponsored religious activity plays an integral role at TIZA.

Arriving on a Friday, the Muslim holy day, she says she was told that the day's schedule included a "school assembly" in the gym after lunch.

Before the assembly, she says she was told, her duties would include taking her fifth-grade students to the bathroom, four at a time, to perform "their ritual washing."

Afterward, Getz said, "teachers led the kids into the gym, where a man dressed in white with a white cap, who had been at the school all day," was preparing to lead prayer. Beside him, another man "was prostrating himself in prayer on a carpet as the students entered."

"The prayer I saw was not voluntary," Getz said. "The kids were corralled by adults and required to go to the assembly where prayer occurred."

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: islam; mn; muslims
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1 posted on 04/09/2008 6:06:29 AM PDT by wallcrawlr
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To: wallcrawlr

Separate, and unequal. Brought to you by Liberals!


2 posted on 04/09/2008 6:09:21 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (New York Times Endorsed!!!)
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To: wallcrawlr
...who had been at the school all day," was preparing to lead prayer.



He wasn't down in the basement cafeteria drinking coffee for the past 5 1/2 hours, was he?

3 posted on 04/09/2008 6:10:45 AM PDT by jdm
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To: wallcrawlr

And to think that four words will absolutely throw them into a tizzy, “In Jesus name, Amen!”


4 posted on 04/09/2008 6:11:01 AM PDT by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: wallcrawlr

Minnesota is filled with liberal ostriches.


5 posted on 04/09/2008 6:11:40 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: wallcrawlr
Before the assembly, she says she was told, her duties would include taking her fifth-grade students to the bathroom, four at a time, to perform "their ritual washing."

ISLAM: We bet we can make our religion more of a pain in the ass than yours.

6 posted on 04/09/2008 6:13:10 AM PDT by jdm
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To: wallcrawlr
The playground should have been the first hint.



7 posted on 04/09/2008 6:14:28 AM PDT by vietvet67
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To: wallcrawlr

So what’s the problem.
There is nothing in the constitution on the separation of mosque and state.


8 posted on 04/09/2008 6:15:13 AM PDT by gdzla
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There’s nothing in the Constitution on the separation of church and state, either.

Islam isn’t a religion or a church. It’s a political party.


9 posted on 04/09/2008 6:20:59 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA) — named for the Muslim general who conquered medieval Spain — is a K-8 charter school in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. TIZA is a public school financed by Minnesota taxpayers.

The school is run by a Muslim Brotherhood Front, Muslim American Society (MAS-MN), recently listed a co-conspirator in the Federal Dallas Holy Land Foundation trial of last fall.

TIZA’s strong religious connections date from its founding in 2003. Its co-founders, Zaman and Hesham Hussein, were both imams, or Muslim religious leaders, as well as leaders of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota (MAS-MN).

Since then, they have played dual roles: Zaman as TIZA’s principal and the current vice-president of MAS-MN, and Hussein as TIZA’s school board chair and president of MAS-MN until his death in a car accident in Saudi Arabia in January.


10 posted on 04/09/2008 6:27:16 AM PDT by kidd
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To: wallcrawlr

This is quite a good article. I fear for the safety of the “whistle-blowing” sub teacher and the author.

Militant


11 posted on 04/09/2008 6:27:44 AM PDT by militant2 ("From time to time, the tree of Liberty must be nourished with the blood of tyrants!")
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To: Uncle Miltie

Here is the separation of Church and State that the Founding Fathers intended.


12 posted on 04/09/2008 6:27:47 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Drill ANWR, Personal Accounts NOW , Vote Hunter in the Primary)
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To: wallcrawlr

Gee, I wonder why we haven’t heard from the ACLU on this? Hm?


13 posted on 04/09/2008 6:29:18 AM PDT by ottbmare
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To: NordP

They are once again, hijacking your state! :(


14 posted on 04/09/2008 6:30:29 AM PDT by SnarlinCubBear (Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... it's learning to dance in the rain)
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To: wallcrawlr

KATHERINE KERSTEN better watch out. She may be ticking off the wrong people... The muzzies know how to deal with those who oppose them...


15 posted on 04/09/2008 6:33:03 AM PDT by Proverbs 3-5
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When was the last time that Minnesota tax payers funded a Christian school with voluntary prayers, an on site chapel and special time for Bible studies or a Jewish Academy with Torah studies and attached synagogue? The ACLU would be howling for church state separation were that to even be suggested. It should make no difference if it is a religious school then no state funding should be given. However a simple solution is available, school vouchers. With vouchers parents could decide where to send their kids for schooling including religious based schools. I wouldn't hold my breathe for that to happen in Minnesota.
16 posted on 04/09/2008 6:34:42 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: Arthur McGowan

I think it’s a violent cult. I’m a libertarian but Islam is testing my thoughts about religious freedom. Such as their honor killings, and having duties to lie to and kill infidels. The infection of dhimmitude into political correctness greatly galls me.


17 posted on 04/09/2008 6:40:19 AM PDT by coloradan (The US is becoming a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: The Great RJ

Try “with involuntary prayers” in your first sentence.


18 posted on 04/09/2008 6:41:24 AM PDT by coloradan (The US is becoming a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: wallcrawlr

How can a Muslim school even be a public skrool?


19 posted on 04/09/2008 6:43:39 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220
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“Before the assembly, she says she was told, her duties would include taking her fifth-grade students to the bathroom, four at a time, to perform “their ritual washing.”

Maybe that’s what Mr Wide-Stance was doing in the airport bathroom .....


20 posted on 04/09/2008 6:56:42 AM PDT by Disturbin (Liberals: buying votes with your tax dollars)
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