Apology for Muslim who skipped graduation (ACLU Alert)

MSNBC ^ | June 9, 2008

[PROCON]

He sued after his high school held the ceremony in a Baptist church

TRENTON, N.J. - A Muslim student who sued because his public high school graduation ceremony was held in a Baptist church has received an apology from the largest school district in New Jersey and assurances that it will not hold future events in houses of worship.

Bilal Shareef said he had to skip his 2006 graduation from West Side High School because his religious beliefs prohibit him from entering buildings containing icons of God.

"I was forced to choose between honoring my education and my faith, and no one should be put in that position," Shareef, now a college student, said in a statement. "I'm proud I stood up for my beliefs and I'm proud that my experience will keep other students from having to face the choices I did."

[PROCON]

We're very pleased," said Ed Barocas, the ACLU lawyer who represented Shareef. "These are important policy changes to ensure that no student is made to feel like an outsider as Bilal was."

Yeah, change the policy because of one crybaby!

[eleni121]

Coming soon:

Tear down all Christian churches

Keep letting these islamofscist terrorists in and we will soon be forced to do this and more.

[Red_Devil 232]

I wonder if this Bilal Shareef has ever visited a museum of history?

[JoeSixPack1]

...to feel THRIVE like an outsider as Bilal was."

His big chance to be special, round one.

[silverleaf]

How come all the Jews, agnostics and other nonBaptists don’t “feel like outsiders” for using a church as a building?

Hint to Bilal- maybe you feel like an outsider because you are!

[Izzy Dunne]

Stay tuned for next week’s exciting episode of “Something Else to Whine About”!

[yarddog]

I wonder if this guy was just trying to show his ass. Most Baptist Churches have a minimum of Icons. I don't recall seeing any except maybe stained glass windows in a few.

I truly believe he was just wanting to create a fuss to show what big jerks, some Muslims are.

[Dagnabitt]

Every day I become more convinced that enabling islamic immigration to the USA is high treason.

[Mila]

"We're very pleased," said Ed Barocas, the ACLU lawyer who represented Shareef. "These are important policy changes to ensure that no student is made to feel like an outsider as Bilal was."

I've got news for you Bilal, it's moves like these that show you to be the outsider that you really are.

[rockabyebaby]

WHY WHY WHY do we keep apologizing and WHY WHY WHY in most cases do we give into their wishes.........IMO, if you don’t like it here, get lost, go back to whatever third world hell hole you came from, you certainly won’t be missed here.

[andonte]

The bigger jerks are the officials who caved. The man should have been told, “Too bad. Get over it. Get lost.”

[SF Republican]

But it IS okay to turn a church into a mosque?

[American Quilter]

We're very pleased," said Ed Barocas, the ACLU lawyer who represented Shareef. "These are important policy changes to ensure that no student is made to feel like an outsider as Bilal was."

The ACLU has just appeased a member of a religion which, in Muslim countries, declares all other religions to be illegal. I'd like to know just how many Christians the ACLU represents in those countries. Oh, wait, that would be none.

With every instance of America's "justice" system placing more value on Islamic culture than on our own, the Islamofascists make another step forward in their agenda of overthrowing western civilization.

[SampleMan]

Bilal Shareef said he had to skip his 2006 graduation from West Side High School because his religious beliefs prohibit him from entering buildings containing icons of God.

But he doesn't recognize Christ as being God, so what's the problem?

[ml/nj]

I wonder what items in this church he thought were "icons of G-d."

ML/NJ

[Twink]

LOL! Best comment of the thread so far.

[A_Former_Democrat]

You’d think the Jewish lawyers in the ACLU (which is heavily staffed by them) would know better than to cut their own throats.

[svcw]

Stage 1:
Start immigrating - move into a country quietly
Stage 2:
Begin starting churches: “learning centers” community helps: food etc.
Stage 3:
Political activism: demanding rights, denounce derogatory comments/press etc.
Stage 4:
Get elected, pass laws favoring rights etc. move toward political majority
Stage 5:
Political control, Sharia Law

[doodad]

But he doesn't recognize Christ as being God, so what's the problem?

My thought exactly. And what about all those arabic depictions of Mo?

[Political Junkie Too]

I guess he doesn't get invited to a lot of weddings or Bar Mitzvahs.

-PJ

[STONEWALLS]

....thank you, thank you, thank you SVCW....your post should be made into stickers to be put up around the country.

[El Gato]

his religious beliefs prohibit him from entering buildings containing icons of God

What does he care about another religion's icons? Muslims have no icons, which is fine, but this is just another effort to impose his religious standards on others. IOW, stealth Sharia law.

OTOH, he didn't try to blow up those Christian icons, as his Taliban brothers did in Afghanistan, when they blew up the Bamiyan Buddas, which had been carved into a cliff face around the 3rd century A.D. (C.E. for him). (These were the tallest standing Buddas in the world, at 53 and 36 meters)

Maybe next time.

[El Gato]

I don't recall seeing any except maybe stained glass windows in a few

No crosses? But you are right, Baptist Churches do tend to be on the unadorned side, compared to those of other denominations.

First Baptist Church of Lafayette, Louisiana

Next three are from New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, Lithonia, GA:

Oh wait, an icon

, a rather large one.

Those folks in Lithonia better put up the anti truck bomb barricades.

[nyyankeefan]

F this muzzie and his aclu lawyer!!!

let him go to some arab hell hole and live!!!

[El Gato]

And what about all those arabic depictions of Mo?

What depictions? But such as there might be, they don't consider Mo to be a God, only God is God to them. Three Gods in One is one thing they "like" less about Chrisianity than Judism.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Bilal Shareef said he had to skip his 2006 graduation from West Side High School because his religious beliefs prohibit him from entering buildings containing icons of God.

What a retard. Baptist churches don't have "icons of God" in them. He probably has the typical stereotype that Muslims have that every Christian church is covered in idols of Mary, crucifixes, and all that other garbage.

[doodad]

The ones with angels and flying horses and such that I have seen. They scream about any depiction of mo, but their history has many example of drawings of his life events.

[muglywump]

“...that every Christian church is covered in idols of Mary, crucifixes, and all that other garbage.”

Hmmmmm.......it sure is nice that YOU have such an open mind, Titus.

[HIDEK6]

because his religious beliefs prohibit him from entering buildings containing icons of God.

Do they just make this stuff up as they go along, or is there a comprehensive list of "The Rules" somewhere?

[Right Wing Assault]

Whiner.

[rawhide]

What is the big deal if a muslim enter a Christian church. I do not understand it? I would not feel that way if I entered a mosque? It would not effect me in my faith.

I remember after 911, one of the liberal baptist churches in my town invited the local imam to their church to speak, and I do not think he died from it, or even got sick. And I think that the mega-church, Willow Creek, outside Chicago, also had a muslin come and speak in their church, and he did not died or get sick either.

[ApplegateRanch]

because his religious beliefs prohibit him from entering buildings containing icons of God.

Didn't keep the Moslems out of Hagia Sophia; nor the Palis out of Church of the Holy Sepulcher...or countless others that they took over either permanently or temporarily.

And that doesn't count the ones they looted & pillaged, before razing them.

[Right Wing Assault]

It would not effect me in my faith.

Islam is a weak faith. If is afraid of losing members to it tries to hold on to them through fear and strong-arm tactics. Most religions have outgrown that if they ever had it. No Islam.

[ViLaLuz]

I highly doubt a Baptist church had icons in it.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Hmmmmm.......it sure is nice that YOU have such an open mind, Titus.

Oddly enough, having an "open mind" is very, very low on my list of priorities.

[PapaBear3625]

You’d think the Jewish lawyers in the ACLU (which is heavily staffed by them) would know better than to cut their own throats.

There are some people who hate Christianity more than they fear Islam

[MrB]

The ACLU and Islam are on the same side, at least for now.

Western Judeo-Christian culture is to be destroyed. Then they’ll worry about their differences.