Posted on 09/12/2013 7:36:20 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
The principal of Concord Carlisle High School is apologizing to parents about the school’s opening ceremony on Wednesday - the 12th anniversary of 9/11 - in which a Muslim poem was recited over the intercom but the Pledge of Allegiance was not.
Principal Peter Badalament said in a statement to parents that the poem was meant to promote "cross-cultural understanding," and that the Pledge of Allegiance was not read because of a mixup with the student reader.
The combination of the two has "outraged a small number of members of our community," Badalament said in an email to the Globe, noting that the school has received a handful of calls and about 10 emails from unhappy parents.
"Yesterday was the first Wednesday of the school year; we were unaware that our student Pledge reader had an internship commitment on this day," Badalament said in the statement.. "This was our responsibility to know. We humbly apologize that this oversight and communication gap occurred."
Badalament said officials were only thinking of the well-being of their students when they chose to read the poem, Mohja Kahf's "My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears." The poem recounts a granddaughter's account of watching her grandmother adhere to the religious Muslim custom of washing her feet five times a day, though it puts the pair in an awkward situation at an American department store.
Kahf writes in a section of the poem:
Respectable Sears matrons shake their heads and frown as they notice what my grandmother is doing, an affront to American porcelain, a contamination of American Standards by something foreign and unhygienic requiring civic action and possible use of disinfectant spray
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
You would think they would have thought twice about this travesty. . Especially after the Patriots Day/Marathon bombing. This Principal should lose is job!!!
Bad Choice and a even worse poem.
salami salami baloney!
Well, I guess that terrorist Tsarnaev was not available to speak at their school for cross cultural understanding and all.
Paul Revere does a facepalm
Everything I needed to know about the muslim culture, I learned on 9/11/01.
I wonder if it ever occurred to Mohja’s grandmother how nasty, inconsiderate, and disrespectful it is of her to wash her feet in a public sink.
Since such considerations are meaningless next to adhering to the Religion of Peace, then it’s yet another in the very long list of reasons not to allow Muslim immigration.
You guys see the ads on Huffpo for “Aljazeera America” ?
What? Their “pledge reader” had another commitment? So only one kid in the school can read the Pledge of Allegiance? And WTF.....the kids aren’t taught it by memory? That school needs to be shut down by the taxpayers.
The principal is operating under the old adage of “It is better to ask forgiveness than permission”.
Unless something comes of this, he will be vindicated for his approach.
Saw a new picture on FR the other day with the caption “Imagine there’s no muslims” and a picture of the Twin Towers still standing.
Read that “poem” and see the arrogance, condescension, and gawd awful Muslimah supremacism:
“In your face, INFIDELS!!! I’ll wash my feet anywhere I damn well please and you BETTER start installing bigger footbaths in this place you no good Jew bastards!!!!!”
The muzzies need to start disarming the `Kuffar’ majority in America. Guess who’s on their side?
Very well put and agree 100 %..
Massachusetts> What did you expect for 9/11? Reverence? Something truthful about who did what to whom on that day?
Common on. They elected Ted “The Swimmer” Kennedy for life and some of his family’s spawn. Barney Frank, Elizabeth The Liar Warren, Ed Markey the Red, and the Soviet spies from Harvard.
Now you know why this crap happened at Concord-Carlise High.
“Cross-cultural understanding.” Sunshine, rainbows, lollipops.
Ofcourse no Christian poems allowed!
You want offensive? THIS is offensive to WTP! What are TPTB going to do about it? WTP demand they do something, not just WHITE wash the entire affair. Disgusting, sick and extremely OFFENSIVE.
Maybe it is time to pi$$ on cross-cultural understanding and start teaching the students about the United States and it is supposed to stand for.
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