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Are taxpayers footing bill for Islamic school in Minnesota?
startribune.com ^ | 03/08/08 | KATHERINE KERSTEN

Posted on 03/08/2008 4:58:24 PM PST by TornadoAlley3

Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA) -- named for the Muslim general who conquered medieval Spain -- is a K-8 charter school in Inver Grove Heights. Its approximately 300 students are mostly the children of low-income Muslim immigrant families, many of them Somalis. The school is in huge demand, with a waiting list of 1,500. Last fall, it opened a second campus in Blaine. TIZA uses the language of culture rather than religion to describe its program in public documents. According to its mission statement, the school "recognizes and appreciates the traditions, histories, civilizations and accomplishments of the eastern world (Africa, Asia and Middle East)." But the line between religion and culture is often blurry. There are strong indications that religion plays a central role at TIZA, which is a public school financed by Minnesota taxpayers.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: africa; charterschool; diversity; homeschoolingisgood; irs; islam; islamicschool; minnesota; minnisota; mn; mosque; muslims; publicschool; religion; somalia; somilia; taxes; taxpayers; terrorism; tiza

1 posted on 03/08/2008 4:58:25 PM PST by TornadoAlley3
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To: TornadoAlley3

Why are Somalis here?


2 posted on 03/08/2008 4:59:32 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: TornadoAlley3

I’d like to know.


3 posted on 03/08/2008 5:02:33 PM PST by kinoxi
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To: TornadoAlley3
Are taxpayers footing bill for Islamic school in Minnesota?

If they are, I'm sure the ACLU will get right on it!

Oh wait...

4 posted on 03/08/2008 5:02:53 PM PST by Digital Sniper (Hello, "Undocumented Immigrant." I'm an "Undocumented Border Patrol Agent.")
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To: metmom

If this is so, than here’s another one!


5 posted on 03/08/2008 5:03:39 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (You can't be serious about national security unless you're serious about border security)
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To: TornadoAlley3

“According to its mission statement, the school “recognizes and appreciates the traditions, histories, civilizations and accomplishments of the eastern world (Africa, Asia and Middle East).”

I wonder when Orthodox Divine Liturgies will be chanted in the school for the Christian Arab kids?


6 posted on 03/08/2008 5:04:44 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Meanwhile, MAS-MN offers on its web site “beneficial and enlightening information” about Islam, which includes statements like “Regularly make the intention to go on jihad with the ambition to die as a martyr.”


7 posted on 03/08/2008 5:05:35 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 (Everytime McCain reaches out to conservatives, conservatives get poked in the eye.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

“Why are Somalis here?”

Where I live its because the Roman Catholic bishop wants them here (hint, follow the money).


8 posted on 03/08/2008 5:05:39 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Minnesota reminds me a lot of the Netherlands.


9 posted on 03/08/2008 5:06:53 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: TornadoAlley3

Bumps


10 posted on 03/08/2008 5:19:41 PM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK (http://eaglecooler.wordpress.com/)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Why are they here? That’s easy. It seems that all the Minneapolis cab drivers were allowing their passengers to ride with liquor, pork products and seeing-eye dogs. My God, they weren’t even washing their feet in the airport terminal! So the ever-wise Bill Clinton had to import a bunch of them to straighten that mess up. Also, he wanted to reward them for their actions in Mogadishu against our way-too-warlike military. Lastly, old caring Bubba wanted to make sure I had to to confession often from wanting to shoot them all!


11 posted on 03/08/2008 5:31:26 PM PST by Dionysius (Jingoism is no vice.)
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To: Digital Sniper

“Are taxpayers footing bill for Islamic school in Minnesota?

If they are, I’m sure the ACLU will get right on it!

Oh wait...”

Amazing I can hear crickets chirp in the dead of winter. :-)


12 posted on 03/08/2008 5:35:00 PM PST by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Another islamic stronghold. It’s a recruiting station and the sooner we wake up to that, the better.

Conquest by infiltration. Set up military outposts like this and and mosques in the name of religion and before you know it they’re everywhere.

It’s working in Europe. Now they know they can try it here.


13 posted on 03/08/2008 5:35:20 PM PST by ukie55
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To: TornadoAlley3

No public funding for traitor schools.


14 posted on 03/08/2008 5:49:41 PM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: DaveLoneRanger; 2Jedismom; aberaussie; Aggie Mama; agrace; Antoninus; arbooz; bboop; bill1952; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the “other” articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. If you want on/off this list, please freepmail me. The main Homeschool Ping List by DaveLoneRanger handles the homeschool-specific articles. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list.
15 posted on 03/08/2008 6:05:04 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Gabz; SoftballMominVA; abclily; aberaussie; albertp; AliVeritas; AnAmericanMother; andie74; ...

Public Education Ping

This list is for intellectual discussion of articles and issues related to public education (including charter schools) from the preschool to university level. Items more appropriately placed on the “Naughty Teacher” list, “Another reason to Homeschool” list, or of a general public-school-bashing nature will not be pinged. If you would like to be on or off this list, please ping Amelia, Gabz, or SoftballMominVa
16 posted on 03/08/2008 6:09:27 PM PST by Amelia (Cynicism ON)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Those wonderful Somali traditions again: female genital mutilation, multiple wives, child brides, inabilty to control anger, etc.

All here and thriving thanks to our immigration sensitivity experts.


17 posted on 03/08/2008 6:14:13 PM PST by eleni121 (Solzhenitsyn on the bombing of Serbia: "no difference whatsoever between NATO and the Nazis")
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To: TornadoAlley3

More and more we see stories documenting behavior explicitly designed to drain the infidel’s financial resources through abuse of public subisidies.


18 posted on 03/08/2008 6:21:36 PM PST by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: TornadoAlley3

Named after this maniac OMG! Read his address to this jihadis as they prepared to obliterate Spain:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/711Tarik1.html


19 posted on 03/08/2008 6:23:18 PM PST by eleni121 (Solzhenitsyn on the bombing of Serbia: "no difference whatsoever between NATO and the Nazis")
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To: TornadoAlley3; eleni121

Thanks for posting. Thanks for the link/education/history lesson. BTTT!


20 posted on 03/08/2008 6:49:51 PM PST by PGalt
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Diversiy. Muzzie throwbacks from septic tanks are quite popular, this season.
21 posted on 03/08/2008 6:53:16 PM PST by isrul (Help make koranimals an endangered species)
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To: TornadoAlley3
http://www.centralacademy.net/ I used to teach at Central Academy. It is a charter school in Michigan that is very similar to the one in this article (Muslim indoctrnation funded by tax dollars). It's basically a free religious school for Muslims. The students are over 95% Muslim. I couldn't stay there long.

Highlights of my work there include:

1) Being screamed at and lunged at by students when I stated that it was unfortunate that innocent people at a Jewish wedding in Israel were killed by a suicide bomber,

2) Being told by students who were born in Michigan that they were "not Americans" and I was insulting them by calling them Americans, and

3) Attending a staff meeting where a second grade teacher apologized profusely for upsetting parents by giving the students a map of the world where Jerusalem was identified as the capital of Israel

4) Being told by a high school senior that Osama bin Laden was a good person and he couldn't understand why Americans didn't like him.

Thank God (sincerely) I was on to another job when September 11 happened. I heard from teachers still there, that after the terrorist attacks the people of Ann Arbor brought gifts, flowers, food, etc. to the school to show the Muslims that they weren't predjudiced. Typical liberal response: "We are not mad at you for killing our people, because that would be racist! Why don't you go ahead and kill some more?"

After that experience, I assume that anyone who says Muslim Americans are just like you and me has never actually spoken with any Muslim Americans.

22 posted on 03/08/2008 7:45:00 PM PST by Elvina
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To: TornadoAlley3

The Liberal reaction to this story will be: Demand more taxpayer money for this school as part of a ‘Childrens Cultural Outreach Program’.


23 posted on 03/08/2008 8:20:14 PM PST by navyguy (Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue.)
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To: Elvina

The only way to deal with Islam in the United States is to force them, through the legal system, to publicly change one of their religous tenets - making allowable killings conforming to Sharia (Islamic Law) illegal - due to the fact it is a violation of the U.S. Constitution.

Muslims will never agree to it. Then we enforce mass deportations.


24 posted on 03/08/2008 8:43:10 PM PST by SatinDoll (Desperately seeking a conservative candidate.)
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To: milford421

Ping.


25 posted on 03/09/2008 12:16:41 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1886546/posts?page=4972#4972 45 Item Communist Manifesto)
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To: TornadoAlley3

The enemy came as wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing, on 9/11.

It was supposed to devastate us. WTC, the Pentagon, the White House, Congressional Hill.

But it didn’t pan out properly.

So, now the enemy comes dressed in lamb’s clothing.


26 posted on 03/09/2008 8:02:34 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Just saying what 'they' won't.)
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To: SatinDoll

Nice idea, but do you REALLY think there would be mass deportation? The government won’t enforce immigration laws regarding illegal Mexicans. And since they openly embrace the Muslim indoctrination, we certainly can expect more of this (tax funded Muslim schools, foot baths in public places, etc)....


27 posted on 03/09/2008 10:35:32 AM PDT by captjanaway
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To: captjanaway

Mass deportations? There would probably be no need for that.

Those who are radical would leave, albeit noisily. Those who are criminal would be found and deported while those who just want to live free from Wahabbist pressure would agree to follow our Constitution and stay here, forming the nucleaus for a new sect of Islam.

No risk = no change. We better do somethin and do it soon.


28 posted on 03/09/2008 4:10:11 PM PDT by SatinDoll (Desperately seeking a conservative candidate.)
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To: All

FYI
Madrassa won’t raise the flag
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/04/minn-madrassah.html


29 posted on 04/13/2008 3:43:00 PM PDT by AliVeritas
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