Debbie Schlussel Stands Up for Persecuted Christian Teachers---in America

Frontpagemagazine ^ | 11-24-10 | Jamie Glazov

[SJackson]

FP: Debbie Schlussel, welcome to Frontpage Interview.

You have recently launched a federal lawsuit against Imad Fadlallah, a Muslim individual who was, until July, the principal of Dearborn’s Fordson High School.

Tell us what the lawsuit is about.

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Schlussel: Two teachers at Dearborn’s Fordson High School, Bryan Purcell and Georgene Stergalas, were repeatedly harassed by the then-Muslim principal Imad Fadlallah. (He has since been replaced by another Muslim principal.) As we’ve noted in the press release announcing the lawsuit, it was clear that the harassment was brought because these teachers are Christians and not Muslims and because the principal wanted to replace Christian teachers with teachers who are Muslims, Arabs, or Arab Muslims.

Fadlallah has used this tax-funded public school to push Islamic extremism, including giving students the day off and extra credit to campaign against Christian candidates on Election Day and temporarily canceling the prom because it is unIslamic. The school football team also illegally engages in organized Islamic prayer before football games. As we noted in the lawsuit, Fadlallah, who is a cousin of recently-deceased Hezbollah spiritual leader Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, made sure that the teachers were repeatedly scheduled for two classes at the same time at opposite ends of the school, and he recruited Muslim students to harass and report on the teachers, as well as deliberately assigning them the worst students—troublemakers—repeatedly encouraging them to harass these two teachers.

The teachers are both award-winning teachers, but as part of Mr. Fadlallah’s harassment of them, he and other school personnel under his domain gave the teachers negative reviews and reports in their records. Mr. Purcell also has Type I Diabetes and, as part of the harassment against him, he was repeatedly told he could not take time out to give himself necessary shots and the school deliberately scheduled classes when he was medically required to eat and take shots.

FP: What is the larger significance of this lawsuit? For instance, if you win, it will be a victory not only for this suit in and of itself, and the same goes for if you are not successful. Tell us about the larger issues that are at stake.

Schlussel: As we’ve noted in the press release, this is a tax-funded public high school in which Islam is heavily pushed, in blatant violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution and in which religious discrimination against non-Muslims is egregious. Specifically as it relates to the lawsuit, I cannot comment beyond what we’ve said in the lawsuit and in the press release announcing it (and any further filings as the case goes forward). However, in general, as I’ve repeatedly noted on my own site, DebbieSchlussel.com, regarding Islamic takeovers of American institutions, there are always—in every fight regarding American society and the direction of tax-funded, public institutions (and private ones)–greater implications beyond just a single school or a region of the country because, as we see more and more cities, neighborhoods, and school districts take in increasingly greater numbers of Islamic immigrants and Muslim adherents born here—but who refuse to absorb into American culture and instead impose their views and religious requirements on others—America can either sit back and take it and lose our country as we know it. Or we can reclaim Western culture and require that tax-funded institutions adhere to the same Separation of Mosque and State as we require for Church and State and Synagogue and State. The long-term survival of the West and Western culture depends on insisting on the latter. I broke the story on my site of the University of Michigan-Dearborn’s use of over $100,000 in public money to install Islamic footbaths, and I’ve broken other stories about the Constitutional violations imposed by Muslims in America, violations that we’ve accepted and done nothing about. We must fight back. I will be announcing future lawsuits regarding this, very soon.

FP: We support and praise you here at Frontpage for launching this lawsuit, Ms. Schlussel. What can our readers who want to help do?

Schlussel: Because this case is a contingency fee case, I am mostly pursuing it on behalf of my clients for free, until and unless we prevail. I have put many hours into it and continue to do so, all pretty much for free. It is very costly to pursue and we would appreciate all support and help, no matter how small, to help defray the costs of pursuing this litigation. All contributions can be made via Paypal to writedebbie@gmail.com. I appreciate that FrontPageMag has given us this opportunity.

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FP: Debbie Schlussel, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview and thank you for being such a courageous freedom fighter and for supporting those in our own society who are being persecuted by the forces of Islamic jihad – with no one else to defend them.

We encourage all of our readers to help Debbie Schlussel in her valiant effort to defend our fellow citizens who are being attacked by the forces of Islamic supremacism on American soil. Make a contribution via Paypal at writedebbie@gmail.com.

[ZULU]

I’m ready for the next Crusade. We need to flush all theswe bastards out of America before they outnumber all non-Muslims and establish Sharia Law - the ultimate goal of these lunatics.

God Bless Debbie Schlussel.

[battousai]

I thought Jim R forbade any and all postings pertaining to Debbie Schlussel.

I was just about to donate, but now want to hear the rest of the story first, why is she banned here?

[MaggieCarta]

Can we at least post something nasty about her before the thread gets pulled?

LOL! Thanks!

[StonyBurk]

To the deceived -i.e. the homosexual- the Communist —the Muslim etc. any who disagree with their dementia is unstable.
That public schools —even in Michigan promote Islam is every bit as evil as national policy promoting homosexuality.

[vc79]

People...whatever you think of Debbie, at least she brought this topic up. Look up Fordson’s website. The first thing that hit me was the Arabic scrawl on the home page. Next, look up the faculty. Creepy.

[traderrob6]

Click on post #8.

[justiceseeker93]

Congratulations to Debbie Schlussel for taking this case on behalf of these two teachers on a contingency basis.

Seems as if the conduct of this Islamist principal has been outrageous for a long time.

Former Mayor Hubbard must be rolling over in his grave!

[Hot Tabasco]

Just FYI...Schlussel is persona non grata around here.

Yep and this thread needs to be junked.......

[Hot Tabasco]

This is from Frontpage and is not written by DS.

Mr. Robinson does not want anything about DS posted here...............that's good enough for me.

[justiceseeker93]

She is as ignorant as a leftist when she says that school and religion don't mix because of the "establishment Clause." ... There is nothing in the Constitution that says kids can't pray before a football game, etc., etc.

IIRC, the SCOTUS has ruled that at a (public) public school event, any sectarian prayer led by a school official is unconstitutional, as it represents a de facto establishment of a government-preferred religion. The establishment clause has been extended by judicial decisions well beyond Congress, as a prohibition on all government agencies, not only federal, but state, municipal, and county entities as well.

I've heard Debbie Schlussel called some names, but "ignorant" would be the last adjective one would use to describe her.

[justiceseeker93]

She is as ignorant as a leftist when she says that school and religion don't mix because of the "establishment Clause." ... There is nothing in the Constitution that says kids can't pray before a football game, etc., etc.

IIRC, the SCOTUS has ruled that at a (public) public school event, any sectarian prayer led by a school official is unconstitutional, as it represents a de facto establishment of a government-preferred religion. The establishment clause has been extended by judicial decisions well beyond Congress, as a prohibition on all government agencies, not only federal, but state, municipal, and county entities as well.

I've heard Debbie Schlussel called some names, but "ignorant" would be the last adjective one would use to describe her.

[grellis]

If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.

[Larry Lucido]

When she’s talking about this subject, she is right on.

If anyone knows her personally, please tell her to stick to what she knows, and to stop being a fruit loop the rest of the time.

[Islaminaction]

Go Debbie!

[Pharmboy]

She is indeed ignorant about the First Amendment and its origins...and I am well aware of what SCOTUS has said, but they are wrong on this (and they've been wrong before...remember Dred Scott? The right to abortion is in the Constitution?).

At the time the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution, 12 of 13 emerging states had legal requirements for officeholders that included aspects of faith. For example, you had to believe in God in some states, in Delaware you needed to believe in the Trinity, etc. Virginia was the only one without such laws, but they were working on theirs. What Patrick Henry and George Mason were worried about was that the new federal gummint would tell the states what to do about their local practices.

"Congress shall make no law..." is a far cry from blessing God at a pre-game ceremony.

Read George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation from 1789 and tell me if SCOTUS would have OK'd it.

Have a wonderful holiday.

[justiceseeker93]

Of course, what you say about the origins of the First Amendment "establishment" clause is entirely true, and Schlussel is undoubtedly is aware of it, as are we.

The point is that her job as an attorney is to seek redress for the injustices done to her clients by the Islamist public school principal. In that respect, the best tool for her is a federal civil rights suit claiming that her clients, the non-Muslim teachers, were discriminated against and retaliated against by a city official for their practice of a faith different from his. In doing so, she will make use of a line of federal court decisions holding that similar actions in similar circumstances were deprivations of federal constitutional rights pursuant to the "establishment" clause. It's not a question of whether she approves of the line of reasoning or even the results of these precedents, it's a question of making use of them for optimizing her chances for vindication for her aggrieved clients.

[Pharmboy]

Nope. She says " in blatant violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution and in which religious discrimination against non-Muslims is egregious." The Establishment Clause says no such thing...it is the Supremes (wrong) interpretation of the First Amendment that says this nonsense.

VERY few people actually know the origins of the religious part of the First Amendment, and you say that you are aware...excellent. How you can say that SHE knows escapes me...Rush does not even appear to know this when he talks about this issue.

And please answer my question: would SCOTUS now claim the President Washington violated the First?

[MaggieCarta]

Former Mayor Hubbard must be rolling over in his grave!

I wondered what that noise was.

Ms Schlussel deserves credit for doing the right thing here. Thanks for pointing that out, justiceseeker93.