Posted on 03/12/2012 7:14:12 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Intolerance seems to be part of the message sent to student-athletes on the sporting fields of Texas. Only under legal pressure and public criticism did the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools, which organizes competitions for more than 200 schools, recently agree to accommodate an Orthodox Jewish school and reschedule a basketball game that would have violated the Sabbath.
The association’s ignorance and bigotry toward Islamic schools is more stunning. As reported in The Times, one Islamic high school that sought to join the association, known as Tapps, in 2010 got a questionnaire that asked the school: “It is our understanding that the Koran tells you not to mix with (and even eliminate) the infidels. Christians and Jews fall into that category. Why do you wish to join an organization whose membership is in disagreement with your religious beliefs?” It also asked: “What is your attitude about the spread of Islam in America?”
The school, the Iman Academy SW in Houston, wanted to join the local soccer competition. It filled out the questionnaire and was denied membership. “Our kids are just as American as their kids,” an academy official said. “We just wanted to play ball.” At least two other Islamic schools declined to respond to the questionnaire.
Tapps also has surveyed member schools about allowing in Islamic schools. Sixty-three percent of 83 respondents rejected Islamic schools for membership in 2010, according to school officials. The others said it was in Tapps’s best interest to be open. Ten schools said they would quit Tapps if Islamic members were admitted.
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I’ll bet the NYT editors sneered at Eric Liddell in “Chariots of Fire”.
Answer: yes Muslim Football Players in Dearborn Heights Arrested for Assault on Christian Quarterback.
The team from the Islamic school REALLY did not like losing 48-6 last October, so four of them ripped off the opposing quarterback's helmet and punched and kicked him into a concussion.
I love the line “Our kids are just as American as their kids”. It is a line born of the Socialists and their partners in crime, the GOP Country clubbers, who have insisted on the open borders policy since its inception in the 1960’s as co-authored by Edward Kennedy. What it really says is that anyone with the price of a ticket into the U.S. is “American”. And of course it neatly dodges the issue of the inherent religious intolerance of the writ into the Muslim religion. Ah, but the sword will one day fly both ways. I hope I live long enough to see the Muslim cohorts brutally clearing the California beaches of their stoned, bikini clad hedonist trash one fine summers day. Already in parts of LA the “religion of tolerance” is forcing the closing of liquor stores in and near their neighborhoods by acts of planned “swarm” violence wherein they trash the liquor stores in the name of Allah. By promoting the Muslim interests above all other religions in the hopes they’ll work to close the Christian churches, the Socialists are sowing the seeds of destruction of their precious pluralistic, multi-cultural hell.
Why wouldnt they want these fun loving religion of peace fanatics join and change their league?
That sounds like a legitimate question to me.
A Moslem High School joining Tapps looks someone is using the school to infiltrate the organization. First they join, then they demand “reasonable” concessions on issues that “offend” them, then Katy bar the door...
I do, even to the point of amending the first amendment to say, freedom of religion for all religions who do not advocate murdering people of other religions.
Is it "prejudice" to detest people who want to kill you? Be certain, the mooselimbs want to kill every non mooselimb, starting with the Jews and Christians - and in that order.
Screw them, I don't even want them breathing our country's air.
This is a Jewish school team, presumably all the players are Jewish. Plus, these are private schools we're talking about.
“Why must we be tolerant to the intolerant?”
Islam does not, cannot, must not deserve nor receive the same Constitutional protections as do the other religions — precisely because Islam is MORE THAN just a “religion”, but is a political and behavioral cult cloaked beneath the guise of being a religion.
We have only to look to Western Europe to see the harbinger of being “tolerant” towards Islam. Even though the Europeans may still have the chance to turn things around. from a realistic viewpoint it looks to me like their time may soon run out.
I realize my assertions go against what are generally seen as the ideals of conservatism, that is, to -truly- treat everyone as “equal” regardless of who they are. It’s wrenching to read Thomas Jefferson’s beautiful language in his Declaration and conclude that what he wrote was idealistic, rather than based on the realities of the world.
But the core of conservatism is to see, understand, and accept reality as it is, not as we “wish it could be” (see “liberalism” for that journey).
The reality is that all religions are NOT “alike”, and that there is at least one in the world that poses a clear, direct and imminent danger to everyone else. To give that one religion the same protections as we afford all others is to give it the weapon that it will eventually use to gain power and to defeat us.
That we might - that we ARE - doing exactly this goes beyond foolishness. It heralds the loss of our own values in the face of an opposing force - a force that would enslave and dhimmify us. That we might easily prevent and nip this threat in the bud but refuse to do so in the name of “equality” is, well, delusional. It will lead to our own destruction.
My opinion only. I realize others’ may be different.
-——Islam does not, cannot, must not deserve nor receive the same Constitutional protections as do the other religions — precisely because Islam is MORE THAN just a “religion”, but is a political and behavioral cult cloaked beneath the guise of being a religion.———
Properly interpreted, the First Amendment can allow restrictions on Mohammed religious practice, at the state level. At the national level, immigration from Mohammedan countries must be stopped.
We must do this if we are to survive as a free people. Religious tolerance cannot include violently intolerant religions.
As to amending the First Amendment. I knew a law professor who specialized in drafting constitutions esp for Third World countries. He freely admitted the following story.
Because he was a Jew educated by the experience of the holocaust, he drafted wonderful constitutions and then included a provision outlawing any party with goals of destroying the principles in the constitution.
In numerous countries, the worst dictators used that provision to outlaw, imprison, and kill all opposition parties.
Amending the First Amendment is not the way to go.
Can’t imagine; I hear their cheerleaders are a real “blast” (drumroll).
I see your point but i don’t think this action by TAPP will create anymore terrorists than if TAPP allowed the muslim school in.
They are going to hate us and want to kill us NO MATTER WHAT
this action by TAPP doesn’t accerately the desire to kill us IMO
These leagues need to require the balls be made out of real pig skins.
“Butts up!”
Some religion.
“At least two other Islamic schools declined to respond to the questionnaire.”
To do so would have implicated them.
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