Who the f is Tarik ibn Zayad?
What? Abraham Lincoln or George Washington aren’t good enough to name public schools after anymore?
The relentless creep of Turban Sprawl continues...
Here is the WHO. The better question is WHY was he chosen for the name of a US school?
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Tarikibn.html
Tarik ibn Ziyad , fl. 711, Berber leader of the Muslim invaders of Spain. When the heirs of the Visigothic king, Witiza, requested help from the Moors of N Africa against the usurper Roderick , Tarik, with his Moorish army, crossed (711) from Africa to Gibraltar (originally named for him, in Arabic, Jebel-al-Tarik; i.e., Tarik’s mountain). Tarik defeated Roderick in the same year in the battle of Guadalete, but he did not restore Witiza’s heirs. Instead, he sent for African reinforcements and conquered most of the Iberian Peninsula within a few years. Thus began the Moorish domination of Spain, which was not fully ended until 1492.
It appears he conquered Spain. (It is sometimes difficut searching for Arab names as they don’t use the Latin alphabet, but I think that’s who he is.)
Check this out, but first take a blood pressure pill:
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/003761print.html