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Gym Attire Seen As Latest Attempt to Force Shari'a in US
CNSNews ^ | October 02, 2006 | Monisha Bansal

Posted on 10/02/2006 11:59:58 AM PDT by 300magnum

A Muslim advocacy group's successful argument that a 9th grade student from a Virginia public high school did not have to wear regulation gym attire because of her Muslim religion, has fired up a critic of Islamic radicalism.

The 9th grader at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Va., was "threatened with failing the class if she did not wear shorts," according to a statement released by the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).

"The student's family contacted CAIR (of Maryland and Virginia) for assistance in resolving the issue. Following discussions with school officials, the student was moved to a different gym class and will be allowed to dress in attire that meets her religious needs," stated CAIR.

The group stated that initially, the girl's teacher told her "the law required that the student wear the shorts."

In light of the dispute over the gym class attire, CAIR also noted that it would conduct diversity training for Lake Braddock's newer staff, as well as "visit local middle and high schools to review their policies for accommodating the religious needs of Muslim students during Ramadan, Eid and throughout the school year."

But Daniel Pipes, a frequent critic of CAIR and the director of the Middle East Forum, told Cybercast News Service that the gym shorts are part of a "campaign" by CAIR to replace rules in the U.S.

It is a campaign "to adapt public schools in the United States to Islamic norms," Pipes said, and "is an integral part of its effort to adapt the country to the Shari'a, or Islamic law."

"Its success in getting the gym rules changed at Lake Braddock [Secondary] School, plus its success in providing 'diversity training' for school staff, have inspired it to become more bold and to 'review the policies' in other middle and high schools in an attempt to bend them too to the Shari'a," Pipes added.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: brainwashing; cair; diversitytraining; islam; islaminamerica; muslims; pc; politicalcorrectness; politicallycorrect; politicalreeducation; sharialaw
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To: osideplanner

"I remember those when I went to Catholic boarding school in the 50s.."

Me, too. I have memories of our gym teacher, a Sister who joined the Order after her circus career. No kidding...

I still see her in my mind's eye running up and down the basketball court in tennis shoes, whistle in one hand, and the other hand holding the crucifix around her neck in place to keep it from bouncing.

It was so much simpler then, non?


81 posted on 10/02/2006 12:26:26 PM PDT by OpusatFR ( ALEA IACTA EST. We have just crossed the Rubicon.)
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To: Blueflag

The swin suit issue was practically addressed earlier by another poster.


82 posted on 10/02/2006 12:26:29 PM PDT by osideplanner
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

They'd love to make us all dhimmis.


83 posted on 10/02/2006 12:26:43 PM PDT by brooklyn dave (Dhimmis better not be Dhummis!!!!------or else!!!)
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To: OpusatFR

Habit forming.


84 posted on 10/02/2006 12:27:04 PM PDT by osideplanner
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To: knarf

I believe it is lil kim, but don't quote me on that, fyi


85 posted on 10/02/2006 12:27:16 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Samsonite! I was WAAAYYY off!)
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To: in hoc signo vinces

I agree with you - just saying it's taking a while for the public backlash to occur.


86 posted on 10/02/2006 12:27:50 PM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)
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To: Global2010
Neither was the girl who started all this, no?

:o)

87 posted on 10/02/2006 12:28:23 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Samsonite! I was WAAAYYY off!)
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To: brooklyn dave

What kind of balls does it take to force a school kid to wear shorts?


88 posted on 10/02/2006 12:28:43 PM PDT by osideplanner
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To: in hoc signo vinces

Problem is: "only a matter of time" -- like the ACLU taking all vestiges of prayer out of schools, it soon becomes the norm. The time to fight back is in the beginning, before these groups become the norm. It's no different than the drivers license issue in Florida when a woman wanted to wear a Burka in the photo.


89 posted on 10/02/2006 12:28:57 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: osideplanner

"What kind of balls does it take to force a school kid to wear shorts?"

Blue ones? hehehe

Sorry, that was out of line.


90 posted on 10/02/2006 12:29:36 PM PDT by DonaldC
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To: osideplanner

I just wanted to pile on ;-p


That's half the fun of FR :-)


91 posted on 10/02/2006 12:30:03 PM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitor)
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To: 2banana
Thanks for that post. It's chilling to see the control of Islam all in once place, esp. from our state dept.

Carolyn

92 posted on 10/02/2006 12:30:40 PM PDT by CDHart ("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
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To: 300magnum
HEY Mr. & Mrs. Laden Bin!! Send her to this f'in school and shut up!! It's less than 5 miles from your damn hut.

Here's the link: http://www.saudiacademy.net/html/about_ISA.html

93 posted on 10/02/2006 12:30:43 PM PDT by WideGlide (That light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash.)
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To: 300magnum

Man, if only dodgeball was still allowed.


94 posted on 10/02/2006 12:30:45 PM PDT by MattinNJ (The West has been fighting the war on terror for 1300 years.)
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To: 300magnum

Guess my dad (Baptist preacher, not Muslim) was ahead of his time in the '50s and '60s. He sent a note each year that I wasn't permitted to wear shorts in gym class -- or dance -- or see movies -- or learn bowling. Needless to say, my school years sucked. Nothing like being the geek P.K. forced to the sidelines for 12 years.


95 posted on 10/02/2006 12:31:19 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: DonaldC

obviously for the swimming class


96 posted on 10/02/2006 12:31:22 PM PDT by osideplanner
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To: Jaysun

The diversity they celebrate does not include my heritage, my faith, my politics, or my sexual preference.

In fact, the left is quite hostile towards these things. Conservativism is being made criminal by thoughtcrime.


97 posted on 10/02/2006 12:31:27 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: HamiltonJay

Thanks. We live in interesting times...


98 posted on 10/02/2006 12:31:37 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: RacerF150

EXACTLLY! I am doing my part. I REFUSE to give ANY respect to those Godless heethens. I refuse to use uppercase I's, M's, K's or Q's when posting about islam, mohammed, koran or quran or however their book of hate is spelled. And anything else about that CULT gets the same treatment. I urge all FReepers to do the same. Respect is earned and that cult doesn't rate any.


99 posted on 10/02/2006 12:32:33 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (RADICAL islam IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ELIMINATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

How old were you when you went to your first movie?


100 posted on 10/02/2006 12:33:05 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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