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Muslims Erupt As School Board Refuses To Shut School For Islamic Holiday
Breitbart ^ | 4-24-2018 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 04/24/2018 9:59:39 AM PDT by blam

Muslim parents recently erupted when the Jersey City school board announced it would not suddenly cancel classes for all students to mark Islam’s Eid al-Adha holiday, due Sept. 24. The Muslim parents loudly protested even though the board said students “can continue to take days off for religious purposes without penalty,” including Sept. 24. But the parents wanted the state to accept their religious event, and to impose their holiday on other students.

One Muslim woman who attended the September 17 meeting said, “‘We’re no longer the minority, that’s clear from tonight. We’re going to be the majority soon.”

According to Daily Mail, the Jersey City school board had “originally proposed” cancelling classes on the 24 but “voted to keep Jersey City schools open so as not to cause disruptions for non-Muslim families.” Board member Gerald Lyons explained that deciding to close the school “on six days’ notice…[would] cause undue hardship on 5,000 to 10,000 people, who are going to have to scramble to [make arrangements] for…children” being at home instead of school.

When the board announced this decision “several of the Muslim parents and children screamed in rage and openly wept.” Eid al-Adha is one “of two religious holidays celebrated by Muslims around the world to mark the end…of Ramadan.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: education; eidaladha; geraldlyons; islam; jerseycity; muslims; newjersey; protest; publicschool; ramadan
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1 posted on 04/24/2018 9:59:39 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Give them a whiff of the grape.


2 posted on 04/24/2018 10:00:37 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: blam

Islam is a cancer.

And the world needs chemo for it. Stat.


3 posted on 04/24/2018 10:01:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: blam

One MORE good reason to allow people school CHOICE. Let Muslims have their own schools.


4 posted on 04/24/2018 10:01:13 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: blam

Never ever forget how wonderful diversity is.

Just keep saying it over and over.


5 posted on 04/24/2018 10:01:29 AM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: blam

Fine. Close it down and throw a RibFest in the gym.


6 posted on 04/24/2018 10:01:33 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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To: blam

Hey you native born Americans. You know, the ones we’ve been telling you for decades this was going to happen

Now it’s here and your do-goodism and self guilt has created this monster

Thanks for nothing, jerkoffs


7 posted on 04/24/2018 10:01:52 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Hey brainwashed students . . . where's your "outrage" @FBI? @BrowardSheriff? DO SOMETHING!!)
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To: blam

“several of the Muslim parents and children screamed in rage and openly wept.”

Great. Just what we need - more snowflakes.


8 posted on 04/24/2018 10:03:02 AM PDT by pinkandgreenmom
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To: ClearCase_guy

They have no idea what they are in for.


9 posted on 04/24/2018 10:03:19 AM PDT by x_plus_one ( I pray Gods eyes may once again gaze upon me and remind me that I am still His child.)
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To: blam

Here we go- it’s just a stepping stone to them demanding we as a nation celebrate islamic holidays with paid time off


10 posted on 04/24/2018 10:03:33 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: blam

I’d be happy to see the end of Ramadan.


11 posted on 04/24/2018 10:03:36 AM PDT by Paladin2
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Are they going to accept Christmas, and Easter? Not just the days off, but the entire spirit and customs of OUR religious holidays.

I notice middle easterners who run convenience stores are ALWAYS open, on their holidays, and ours.

They are slowly seeping into cities and trying to gain control, just like the guy who is now mayor of London.

We gotta say “no” now, or in 20 years, we’ll be in Germany’s shoes...a nation of Islam.


12 posted on 04/24/2018 10:03:37 AM PDT by FrankR (An armed society is a polite society.)
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So, it’s not good enough that the students can take the day off without penalty, they must force their religious beliefs on others.

Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Taoists and all the others must soon band together to fight this plague...................


13 posted on 04/24/2018 10:07:39 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: blam

A September 17th meeting from last autumn.
Well their attitude is as true now as it was then.
“Openly weeping” over not closing the schools down over this?
Even though their kids won’t be penalized? Just deal with it!
Stop being a spoiled baby.


14 posted on 04/24/2018 10:08:21 AM PDT by lee martell
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Board member Gerald Lyons explained that deciding to close the school “on six days’ notice…[would] cause undue hardship on 5,000 to 10,000 people, who are going to have to scramble to [make arrangements] for…children” being at home instead of school

Not that I would want to accommodate the Muslims but here Board member Lyons has revealed the true purpose of these "schools" which is to warehouse children.

ML/NJ

15 posted on 04/24/2018 10:08:27 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: FrankR

Exactly...Why do we allow minorities to run roughshod over our country???


16 posted on 04/24/2018 10:09:03 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: rovenstinez

Why did George HW Bush start bringing in Muslims? Why does the USA continue to bring them in? Why is the world bowing down to Islam?


17 posted on 04/24/2018 10:10:02 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: pinkandgreenmom

With lefty snowflakes it mostly stops with the tantrums. With muslims it progresses to throwing rocks and molitiv concktails, then blowing things up, then murdering people outright. This is how it begins, they are “good moderates” until they have sufficient numbers and then the begin to make demands that the rest of society conform to them. Eventually it turns violent until then you have 0% non mulsims there.


18 posted on 04/24/2018 10:10:19 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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To: pinkandgreenmom

With lefty snowflakes it mostly stops with the tantrums. With muslims it progresses to throwing rocks and molitiv concktails, then blowing things up, then murdering people outright. This is how it begins, they are “good moderates” until they have sufficient numbers and then the begin to make demands that the rest of society conform to them. Eventually it turns violent until then you have 0% non mulsims there.


19 posted on 04/24/2018 10:10:23 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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To: blam

Pork for lunch!!


20 posted on 04/24/2018 10:10:33 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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