An overreaction?
A junior high school principal who allowed a group to make a presentation about Islam to students is no longer on the job.
Council on American-Islamic Relations president Tarek Hussein said he contacted the principal about the educational presentation (Islam 101) after hearing from a father who said his son was physically attacked at the school because he is Muslim. Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Muslim students often get teased and called terrorists, Hussein pointed out.
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An overreaction, NO!
It appears that this was good intents gone awry.
Having an assembly detailing what punishments would be enforced to those who taunt, harass, etc. those who are "different" might have been enough. The question is how much of this type of incident were happening at the middle school? Was anything other than dealing with the specific students justifiable?
Sadly, now what may have been a good principal is gone with slim chances of redeeming himself. How sad.
Shalom
Posted on June 6, 2008 9:20 PM
Female student wants specialized studies program at local college, meets resitence from students and faculty, stages fake assault with racial slurs wrtitten on her body, recants, program is instituted regardless of the lies.
Man declares son is attacked and demands that school begins program to indoctrinate students on sharia.
What's the difference? How do we know that the student wasn;t just an ordinary kid who got into a fight?
Why do we accept everything that is thrown at us as the truth?
The Q'ran states that lying to infidels is both sanctioned and expected.
Posted on June 8, 2008 10:37 AM
I sympathize with the innocent victims who are caught in the demonic web of Isam; but that is NO reason why we sould allow it to take root in our nation. i am not suggesting deportation or oppression, but i do think the private sector whould do as much as possible to restrain and undeu and fallacious attempts to advance it. It is a violent, decpetive and relentless ideology. If they continue their quest to impose Sharia on parts, or all, of our country, we might visit deportation again. We deport terrorist suspects; why not a Trojan Horse religion with admitted take-over objectives?!
Posted on June 8, 2008 2:33 PM
Yes, I believe it was was overreacted, because in American tolerance has been an issue for decades. Not all Islamic believers are terrorist and people need to understand that. Many religions are touched on in the school systems and this is one I believe needs special attention because of the negative information being circulating. I believe each individual is entitled to believe what they want and its the responsibility of each person to get the facts before deliberately causing bodily harm to anyone.
Posted on June 9, 2008 3:05 PM