Posted on 10/18/2010 9:31:13 AM PDT by mojito
The battle over the role of Islam in a Minnesota public school is heating up again in a federal courtroom in St. Paul. The conflict began in January 2009, when the ACLU of Minnesota sued Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy -- a K-8 charter school with campuses in Inver Grove Heights and Blaine -- for violating constitutional prohibitions against government endorsement of religion.
TiZA since has fought tooth and nail -- erecting procedural barriers to prevent the ACLU from investigating what goes on behind its doors. The school's tactics have gone far beyond the usual rough-and-tumble of lawyers in our adversary system. Its chief tool has been attempted intimidation of all who would draw back the curtain on its secrets.
One of TiZA's first targets was the ACLU itself. A few months after the suit began, the school filed a $100,000-plus defamation claim, citing ACLU executive director Chuck Samuelson's simple statement that "[TiZA is] a theocratic school ... as plain as the substantial nose on my face." The court dismissed the claim.
In January 2010, the ACLU was back in court to seek a protective order, on grounds that intimidation by TiZA was discouraging potential witnesses from appearing. The ACLU filed affidavits by a former TiZA parent and a former TiZA staff member, who described what they interpreted as threats of violence against them.
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The ACLU and American liberals are finding out that Muslims don’t follow the same rules as Christians.
It would be interesting to know where Keith “X” Ellison stands on this...
Good for the ACLU.
Somebody threaten me.
Please......
Wasn’t the “ACLU” founded by a American Communist Jew in the 1920s?
The ACLU was founded by pacifists during WWI. I don’t know about all the founders, but the most prominent ones were not Jewish. As for their politics, other than pacifism, I’m guessing it was probably socialist of a Fabian stripe, but I don’t know for sure.
Thanks to all those bleeding hearts who invited those sub-humans in to nest there in MN.
I like this.
Sorta like the Eastern Front: Nazis vs. Commies. Every casualty was a net gain for the rest of the world...
The names and quotes of the founders of the ACLU are:
"I am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately, for abolishing the state itself. … I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the properties class, and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal. I don’t regret being part of the communist tactic. I knew what I was doing. I was not an innocent liberal. I wanted what the communists wanted and I traveled the United Front road to get it." - Roger Baldwin, leftist, anarchist, and Communist, was born in Wellesley MA and co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." - Norman Thomas, Socialist Party Presidential Candidate in 1940, 1944 and 1948, co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Great post.
We are almost there.
Broken clock time at the ACLU.
Thanks, Sergio. Your post certainly makes things abundantly clear.
Either they got one right by mistake, (even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in awhile), or it's the old hatreds between fascists and communists seen during WWII. My way of ending freedom is better than your way of ending freedom.
Hitler and Stalin were both totalitarians who were after the same result, yet they hated each other.
It’s almost as if they’re fighting over a “power vacuum” that they foresee developing now.
“It would be interesting to know where Keith “X” Ellison stands on this...”
A guy who supported cop killers, what do you thik his stand is.
The ACLU may finally be realizing that if you let islam build up to critical mass, there no easy way to stop them.
I don't particularly like the ACLU, but in this case, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
I firmly believe that it’s all
Smoke
&
Mirrors
That’s all.
They’re intended goal is the demise of the US & they’re in league with one another.
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