A very interesting post from www.jihadwatch.org about Muslim holidays.
NYC Mayor: No Muslim holidays in NYC public schools
Anti-dhimmitude from an unexpected source: the mayor of New York. Bloomberg unexpectedly bucks the politically correct tide and points out that New York City public schools can't possibly observe every holiday that may be observed by any given student. The holiday initiative, in any case, is an attempt further to undermine the Judeo-Christian character of the nation (which remains as a pivotal influence upon our legal system and society even as belief has waned), and to force further acceptance of the highly dubious proposition that almost everyone already accepts anyway: that Islam has no political, violent or supremacist character about which anyone need be concerned, but is rather simply a religion like other religions that fit easily into the framework of American pluralism and the non-establishment of religion. And all they're asking for, by golly, is to be treated like everyone else -- after all, Christmas is a day off from school, isn't it?
Meanwhile, unnamed, unmentioned, unacknowledged, Sharia supremacism remains in the background.
"Bloomberg: Schools Can't Observe Muslim Holidays," from AP, June 30 (thanks to Pamela):
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York's City Council has passed a nonbinding resolution asking the Education Department to observe two important Muslim holidays. But Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the city is so diverse schools can't observe every holiday.
The city has the nation's largest school system. A 2008 study by Columbia University's Teachers College estimates at least 10 percent of its 1.1 million students are Muslim....
What? "At least 10 percent" of New York City public school students are Muslim?
This shows you yet again how trustworthy trusted news sources such as AP really are. Even if the Columbia Teachers College study did say that, it is absurd, and AP should not have passed it on uncritically.
Why would the percentage of Muslims in New York City public schools so much higher than even the most generous estimate of the Muslim population in the U.S.? Even if you take the most inflated figure of all that Islamic advocacy groups bandy about, it makes for nine million Muslims in the U.S. That's three percent. Of course, one may expect that they would congregate in cities and that therefore New York's total would be higher than the national total, but three times higher?
And there aren't nine million Muslims in the U.S., anyway. Even Obama, who claimed in Cairo that there were seven million, revised it down to five million soon afterward. The Pew Research Center a few years ago found 2.3 million -- less than one percent.
The inflated figures, of course, are designed to magnify the appearance of Muslim political clout. And apparently this is an effective tool, as it is frequently employed
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Muslim parents teach their children to respect their teachers. From a very young age, we are taught that Islam teaches us that after our parents, our teachers are most deserving of respect.
It must be an extremely confusing time for the Muslim parent in Leytonstone, London. For up to 30 parents may face prosecution for withdrawing their children from school, disobeying the teachers in the school, simply to secure a decent moral upbringing for their children. The school had decided to have a week of lessons about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history. Part of this was a special adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet retitled Romeo and Julian as well as fairytales and stories changed to show men falling in love with men. Rather than filling the heads of impressionable boys and girls with fatuous drivel about gay penguins, schools should be ashamed of the fact that they are sending children out into the world barely able to read, write and add up properly. Muslim children are leaving schools without learning their cultural roots and linguistic skills.
The action was being taken against the parents as part of a policy of ' promoting tolerance'. So why not tolerate parents, who, for sincerely-held reasons, consider their children too young to be taught about gay relationships? This isn't education, its cultural fascism. A record numbers of pupils persistently played truant in 2006-07, with around 272,950 pupils persistently absent in 2007, missing more than 20% of school. We rarely see councils prosecute the parents of these persistent truants. Yet, the parents who removed their children as a one-off to protect their morality may be prosecuted!
If the local council does decide to go through with a prosecution, it would be in line with the government's approach to the Muslim community. Muslims who believe homosexuality is a sin would be labelled as extremists. Liberal totalitarianism is a growing phenomenon in Britain and the west in general but many people will be shocked that the school can override a parent's view of what's appropriate or inappropriate to teach their children.
This latest episode should be a wakeup call for Muslim parents. Muslim parents MUST explain our moral standards to schools and be prepared to take steps to protect our children’s morals and values from a growing agenda to impose liberal values upon them. This is an eye opening for those Muslim parents who keep on sending their children to state schools to be mis-educated and de-educated by non-Muslim monolingual teachers.
The solution of all the problems facing Muslim children is state funded Muslim schools with bilingual Muslim teachers. Those state schools where Muslim children are in majority may be designated as Muslim community schools. Bilingual Muslim children need state funded Muslim schools with bilingual Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental periods.
Iftikhar Ahmad
www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk
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