“This is just much too much!”
Politically correct = a double standard.
The title of the post is a line spoken by Maggie Smith’s character in the movie “Tea With Mussolini.” She had been dissapointed in Mussolini’s broken promises and treatment of herself and her companions in the war. I found myself repeating the same line after I read how John Klein, the Chancellor of NYC Public Schools (pictured) is planning on opening an all-Muslim public school. The school is due to open Sptember 4 of this year. The plans are being challenged, but what is he thinking?
Where is the ACLU in this? What about separation of Church and State? You can’t even display a Christmas creche in NYC public schools, yet they can open a Muslim public school? The scary part of it is who is on the advisory board for the proposed school. From the CNA article:
“Some of the school’s promoters have ties to questionable Islamic organizations, including the Council of American Islamic Relations. The group’s founder and chairman publicly stated in 1998: “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith but to become dominant. The Quaran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”
Imam Talib Abdul-Rashid of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood is on the school’s advisory board. The Muslim Brotherhood website contains the ominous slogan: “The Qu’ran is our constitution/Jihad is our way/And death in the way of Allah is our promised end.” - Catholic News Agency
Let them start their own schools if they must - privately, like Catholics have done for decades.
August 28th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
I have no words, only 3 letters…WTF?!
August 29th, 2007 at 6:15 am
Cardinal Egan should come to the next school board meeting all decked out in his finest “Tridentine” regalia with acolytes and the whole nine yards and submit his application for a Catholic school.
August 29th, 2007 at 6:52 am
I like Ray’s suggestion.
August 29th, 2007 at 8:14 am
My Taxes are paying for this propagation of the moon-god. First it started out as an “Arabic language” school, and NYers were told it would not be religious in nature. Never trust progressives, they are the stupid AND evil party rolled into 1. We will hear cries of “tolerance” into we are in chains. When do we start paying the Jiza? (taxes Muslims enforce on “infidels”).
August 29th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
This is very wrong and I strongly suspect the reason is not because they love Muslims but because this is a great way to rile up even more division and hatred against them. These “powers that be” are SO insidious!
August 29th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
I forgot I about the Creche. On the Staten Island ferry terminal (S.I. side) there is displayed, every Christmas, a Gigantic Menorah. Finally, last year someone (I think just a local Islander, or worker), put a little Creche up on a TV dinner table. It didn’t last long, and some jerk broke off the Baby Jesus’s head.
August 30th, 2007 at 11:26 am
This edcuation-government financing for “specific cultural” schools isn’t limited to this particular group in NY. Recently, I have received an article from Flordia where a Jewish charter school is being built & Hebrew will be taught and culture. This too has raised concerns.
Further, there is a “Charter School” that has been approved in Mendota to be named: Wakanyezapi (or Sacred Little One). Classes will begin in 2008. They will teach “standard school curriculum” as well as the “Dakota Language and Culture”. “After school Cultural acitivities will include Sweat Lodge, visits to Native American holy sites, Dokata history, Sugar Bush Camp … ” etc.”
They are inclusive because “Students from all groups are welcome.”
Pluralism at work. Unity in diversity.
However, I wonder will the “government” influence & mandates be equal in all. How much of government money taken in by Catholic schools have influenced textbooks and watered down teachings? Just wondering.
August 30th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Hmmm to be fair, the organizers of this school say it is will be an Arab school and not necessarily a Muslim school. They make the point that there are Arabs who are not Moslems, yet who speak Arabic, have an Arabic history and culture etc.
I too am suspicious of the school, but I am not so quick to say that you cannot teach a culture without teaching a religion. If this were an Hispanic school seeking to teach Hispanic culture in an Hispanic context would we be so quick to say that it had to be teaching Catholicism?
Along those lines, Terry I am not sure that picture is really fair. The school is not even open yet and there can have been no pictures of it, yet the girls in the picture are all wearing hijab which is a definite act indicating faith. We don’t even know yet, do we, that the school will not adopt a Turkish model and actually ban the wearing of hijab.
August 30th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
David - you are absolutely correct about the photo. Thanks for making this point.