Nine years ago, my best friend, a life-long resident of Lackawanna (it borders on Buffalo), was displeased with the local school system and decided to do something about it by starting a charter school for his grandchildren to attend. He gathered some supporters and together they spend 2 years jumping through hoops trying to comply with all the state and local roadblocks to their endeavors. Finally successful, they opened in late 2001 in a building donated by K-Mart. They hired teachers, administrators, maintenance personnel, and everything needed to run a school. My friend was on the board of directors and things went well the first year.
Lackawanna, having a large Moslem population, began sending a lot of children to the school, withdrawing them from the public schools. The board of directors and administrators added more staff and board members (mostly parents of the students), nearly all Moslem. By the 4th year, the now predominantly Moslem board of directors, with Mohamed T. Albanna as the board president, forced out (fired, laid off or made uncomfortable enough to leave) all of the non-Moslem members from positions of authority (including my friend, who started the school); then, slowly, they laid off the non-Moslem teachers, and maintenance staff and then replaced the non-Moslem employees with Moslems. The school is now virtually 100% Moslem, my friend’s grandchildren no longer attend, but instead, now have returned to the public school system instead of staying with this Madrassa.
There are far more conservative Christians in this country than there are Muslims, and the best defense against Islam is to have Christian children well grounded and well educated in Judeo Christian principles of **freedom**!
If that happened with a Christian school, or Catholic, Baptist, whatever, could you imagine how quickly that school would be shut down with screeches of *separation of church and state*?
Where’d everybody go?