Minnesotans Pay for Muslim School

NewsMax ^ | April 14, 2008 | Newsmax Staff

[2ndDivisionVet]

Minnesota taxpayers are footing the bill for a charter school that reportedly violates the law by promoting religion — Islam.

Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA) in Inver Grove Heights regularly holds prayer sessions and includes study of the Koran in its curriculum, even though charter schools are public schools and must not endorse or promote religion, according to columnist Katherine Kersten of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune.

She writes: “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.”

Zaman maintains that TIZA is not a religious school, and that prayer is voluntary.

But Kersten says a substitute teacher who worked at the school told her that students were taken to the bathroom to perform “ritual washing,” then were led into the gym where a man dressed in white with a white cap led them in prayer.

“The prayer I saw was not voluntary,” the teacher told Kersten, adding that students were studying the Koran, “which gave me the impression that Islamic Studies was a subject like any other.”

The ACLU of Minnesota has begun an investigation of TIZA, and the Minnesota Department of Education has also launched a review, according to Kersten, who concludes:

“TIZA is skirting the law by operating what is essentially an Islamic school at taxpayer expense…

“There's a double standard at work here — if TIZA were a Christian school, it would likely be gone in a heartbeat.”

[2ndDivisionVet]

Silly Katherine, rules are for dhimmis! I'm sure the ACLU will get right on this!

[JCG]

If they have a prayer tower someone will be mighty pleased...

 

Obama: Man of the World
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: March 6, 2007

Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to
prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that
seemed delightfully uncalculated [...], Mr. Obama described the
call to prayer as "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at
sunset."

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/opinion/06kristof.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
http://nevadathunder.com/?p=3626




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[ButThreeLeftsDo]

See also: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?s=charter&q=quick&m=any&o=time&SX=4804386eca6e1a492de1e01e064bd1a244f74832

[Last Dakotan]

The only thing I heard about this on Minnesota Public Radio today is that they have been receiving threats - always the victims.

[R_Kangel]

"Minnesotans Pay for Muslim School"

Fascinating.

Question: Have Minnesotans ever paid for a Christian School?

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[EGPWS]

TIZA is skirting the law by operating what is essentially an Islamic school at taxpayer expense…

Well, we are paying for everything else via political doctrine in the Great state of Minnesota, so why stop now??

Arrgh!

[2ndDivisionVet]

"Question: Have Minnesotans ever paid for a Christian School?"

In the 19th Century up to the early 20th century, much was allowed in schools that wouldn't be nowadays. OTOH, we are now in the 21st century, and if Christians, Jews, Buddhists or Zoroastrians can't have their own schools, neither should the Muslims!

[EGPWS]

Have Minnesotans ever paid for a Christian School?

Yes, willingly and individually via choice to do so.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Maybe change the name from “Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party” to “Minnesota Sharia-Dhimmi Party?”

[muawiyah]

Adherents of Islam simply do not believe in seperate church, state, government, culture, religion, ......

Islam is supposed to be all things to all people for all purposes for all time.

To these guys it probably seems normal to get the government to fund their school.

[o_zarkman44]

sue sue sue!
don’t wait for the aclu!

[EGPWS]

Maybe change the name from “Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party” to “Minnesota Sharia-Dhimmi Party?”

My mind has been made up and I'm sticking to it!

DFL stands for Dumb f###ing Liberals. ; )

[dragnet2]

Thats nothing...A few years back they were building this big old mosque in Texas, and the governor flew out, on the tax payers money, to help lay the first stone...

What a country!

Plano, TX: "Officials lay bricks in symbolic start for Muslim center" Dallas Morning News ^ | June 14, 2005 | LINDA STEWART BALL

PLANO – The Ismaili Muslim community announced Tuesday that it is building a $6.5 million worship and community center in Plano, where it has found a warm welcome.

Gov. Rick Perry flew in to lay the first ceremonial brick for the center's foundation. It was a symbolic gesture since the site for the new center

Nice!!

[popdonnelly]

Now, this can’t possibly stand. The taxpayers of Minnesota can’t be forced to pay for religious education, even MUSLIM religious education.

[x_plus_one]

Minnesota Madrassa - it has a ring to it doesn’t it now?

[R_Kangel]

'Minnesota Madrassa - it has a ring to it doesn’t it now?'

Not in America.

Scary though, Isn't It!

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[John123]

does the school have foot baths?

[AnimalLover]

bttt