Posted on 11/21/2009 3:32:27 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
LEWISTON — A national Muslim civil rights organization has filed a formal request with the Lewiston School Department to allow a middle school student to pray on school property. The group also wants Lewiston to modify existing policy and provide "constitutionally protected religious accommodation," such as a designated prayer room.
The group has also requested the school department institute diversity training for school staff, and to ensure the middle-schooler won't face retaliation because of her request to pray at the Lewiston Middle School.
According to the Washington, D.C.,-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, seventh-grader Nasra Aden had been routinely "praying discreetly during her free time or lunch break in a corner of a school hallway." But, on Tuesday, CAIR asserts a teacher told Aden "never to pray on school property" after Aden was seen preparing to kneel in prayer in a corner of one of the hallways.
After Aden told her mother, Jamad Warsame, what happened, Warsame spoke with school Principal Maureen Lachappelle and asked the school to accommodate her daughter's desire to pray. According to CAIR, Warsame's request was rebuffed and she has been "forced to pick up her daughter every day and take her to a nearby park to pray."
Lachappelle said Aden is not being forced to leave school to pray, but that the district accommodated her mother's request for her to leave the campus this past week for prayer.
Lewiston Superintendent Leon Levesque, who learned of CAIR's written accusations hours after a press release had already been published on various Web sites, said, "Students are free to pray quietly during class if they choose as long as it's not disruptive," because "prayer is constitutionally protected in schools."
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So sorry Muslims...this aint the middle east...
hey ACLU and libes you like to say you are for the seperation of church and state then here is a great case for you.
Ws it not Clinton which brought muslims to ME when he was in and was they not from Somalia?
Nothing like diversity right
ARF
if they cave in and allow a Muslim prayer room...every Christian group in this country should demand a chapel in every public school.
This is awesome!
The only thing better would be an NAACP office being built on wetlands with nonunion labor. What a mess for libs on what to support!!! LOL
Don’t worry we will.
I say let her have a prayer room. And make all the teachers take islam lessons. And while they’re at it set aside prayer rooms for every religion that wants one and make the teachers take lessons on all of the religions.
But don’t give islam special treatment over all other religions. That would be unconstitutional.
The atheists must be steaming over this... lol
Either all religions are allowed or none are, make your choice!
I see that Lewiston is reaping the rewards of promoting unchecked Somali immigration.
How about these Somalis learn the concept of getting off of welfare (which was the initial reason they all moved to Lewiston) and getting a job (over 50% unemployment for Somali adults). No, they gladly continue to get their government checks (and soon to be free health care) while whining about “religious intolerance”.
This city better wake up before it goes the way of Detroit.
So pray inside your freakin’ heads, you morons!
“Ws it not Clinton which brought muslims to ME when he was in and was they not from Somalia?”
Um, no. It was the Catholic Church in cahoots with the Bush State Department.
after doing some research I found the answer and yes Clinton did bring them over to ME and there was trouble in the local high school
F.O. Moose limbs. Head back to the Carolinas where you emigrated from. Or is it too uncomfy for y’all there?
” Clinton did bring them over to ME and there was trouble in the local high school.”
Gee, seeing as your from Florida, you probably ought to know! /s
Your “reasearch” is wrong. The first few Somalis showed up in Maine in February of 2001...after Bush became president.
Time to send these bastards back to their middle east homelands.
Are you kidding? The only God they oppose is the God of the Judeo-Christian tradition. The ACLU only goes after the One True God because that is their modus operandi. Dr. James Kennedy had a great expose on the ACLU revealing their history, source of funding, etc. They only oppose the God of all creation; the false idols they advance.
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