Posted on 04/09/2008 10:47:12 AM PDT by xtinct
Recently, I wrote about Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA), a K-8 charter school in Inver Grove Heights. Charter schools are public schools and by law must not endorse or promote religion.
Evidence suggests, however, that TIZA is an Islamic school, funded by Minnesota taxpayers.
TIZA has many characteristics that suggest a religious school. It shares the headquarters building of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, whose mission is "establishing Islam in Minnesota." The building also houses a mosque. TIZA's executive director, Asad Zaman, is a Muslim imam, or religious leader, and its sponsor is an organization called Islamic Relief.
Students pray daily, the cafeteria serves halal food - permissible under Islamic law -- and "Islamic Studies" is offered at the end of the school day.
Zaman maintains that TIZA is not a religious school. He declined, however, to allow me to visit the school to see for myself, "due to the hectic schedule for statewide testing." But after I e-mailed him that the Minnesota Department of Education had told me that testing would not begin for several weeks, Zaman did not respond -- even to urgent calls and e-mails seeking comment before my first column on TIZA.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
And, in Boston, the Mayor of the City participated in a ground-breaking ceremony for a mosque that is smack dab in the middle of a high school and a state sponsored junior college.
And, Muslims are using that high school's auditorium for their services until the mosque is complete.
Never saw that privilege afforded to ANY of the other religions in the City... Nor are Catholic, Christian, and Jewish kids allowed to use ANY public school facilities like pools, gyms, libraries, home ec, etc. ... although their parents are paying taxes...
The ACLU's dirty little secret is that they aren't pro-Constitution, only anti-Christian.
Check out some of the stuff they've done as far as the First Amendment rights of pro-lifers. The ACLU will defend racists who advocate killing people of the wrong ethnic group, but they'll gladly use the law to silence Christians who only want to save babies' lives.
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Right on!!! IMO, the AC-effing-LU only concerns itself with “separation of chruch and state” when the religion is Christianity and probaly also Orthodox Judaism. Everyone else gets a free pass.
shocking - 3rd to last paragraph, the state aclu is “investigating”...
normally they’re the anti-Christian liberals’ union, so their “investigation” is probably non-existent.
my bet’s on the vaporizing...
What, you don't read your own posts?
From the article: "In addition, schools cannot favor one religion by offering services for only its adherents, or promote after-school religious instruction for only one group. The ACLU of Minnesota has launched an investigation of TIZA, and the Minnesota Department of Education has also begun a review."
Catholics, Christians, and Jews need to demand equal treatment.
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