Charter School Run By Muslims in Fresno CA and beyond UNDER FIRE

San Francisco Chronicle | January 17, 2002 | Meredith May, Chronicle Staff Writer

[Saundra Duffy]

Assemblyman Mike Briggs (R-Clovis) is in the process of investigating this mess. Briggs is proposing legislation which will make it illegal for a charter school to establish satellite schools outside the district. Briggs is running for U.S. House of Representatives in the newly-formed 21st District. Go, Briggs!!! For victory & freedom!!!

[Saundra Duffy]

This is scary, huh?

[Saundra Duffy]

Only in California.

[zandtar]

Only in California.

Sadly no, not when the lemmings continue to vote to increase the government more and more with each passing year.

[LN2Campy]

Don't worry, once the Mexicans take over, I'm sure they'll take care of the muzzies. They've got a pretty good track record of that.

[koba]

The Mexicans, however, don't have a good track record at running a state the size of California. If, and when, they take over California they'll probably turn it into...Mexico North. Somehow that idea dosen't sound so apppealing.

[Saundra Duffy]

Good question. I wonder how many enemy camps are out there, too. Actually, this article left out something important: A member of this community recently killed a cop. There was also an article in the Fresno Bee about there being possible ties to terrorists. Ack!!!!!!!

[Saundra Duffy]

This is an interesting point you make. I have wondered why the Mexicans in California aren't absolutely OUTRAGED over this.

[Saundra Duffy]

"This just makes me sick." Me, too, and it's in MY BACKYARD!

[Saundra Duffy]

PING for some pretty darn good reporting by the SF Chronicle (of all people!). Wonders never cease.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

This is scary, huh?

Most of us wouldn't consider it scary if a well-established Christian denomination were doing it. We would of course have questions about accounting practices, and the hiring of criminals . . .

It is always scary to have people of seriously different culture to deal with and to need to trust. Always. That is what makes the First Amendment is so radical. And the framers did call the Constitution an experiment. Established churches/mosques were all that were known, basically, outside of America. The Confederate constitution was explicitly Christian is its orientation, and would have been no barrier to discriminating against Moslems. For that matter, the Mormons made the trek to Utah to escape persecution in the settled parts of the US.

Secular liberals tend to treat Christians with the same suspicion that Christians tend to treat Moslems. That is because--not despite but because--they know that this society came from a Christian/Jewish worldview. They desire to transcend that "limitation"--and view efforts to strengthen Judeochristian culture in America with alarm. Christians and orthodox Jews, OTOH, understand (naturally, to different degrees and in differing ways) that the effort to "transcend" God is idolatry and hubris--that our culture not only came from but is based on Judeochristian principle.

911 was an attack on the 1^st Amendment conceit that people of all religions can cooperate in peaceful society. It is understandable that people accultured to established religion might find the 1^st Amendment to express an objectionable principle. Not only Islamicists but militant secularists (accultured to established atheism) manifest that response, tho the secularist gives it lip service while turning its plain meaning on its head.

[Saundra Duffy]

Fresno CA is the home of Jim Robinson HIMSELF. Jim - this creepy stuff has been going on in our own backyard, for Goodness' sake! By the way, Fresno's Mayor is the actor Alan Autry who played "Bubba" on "In the Heat of the Night!" Mayor Autry has endorsed Mike Briggs for Congress and they have a TV spot. Pretty neat, huh? (Unless you're for one of the other GOP candidates.) Whoever wins the GOP primary will be going to Wash DC. The democraps aren't even bothering. This is the newly-formed CA Dist 21. For victory & freedom!!!

[Saundra Duffy]

What? They were teaching RELIGION!!!

[Saundra Duffy]

Christian schools follow the laws. They go out of their way to follow the laws of the land. (Romans 13.) This school called Gateway Charter School has been thumbling its nose at California public schools and us taxpayers and exploiting their privileges up the wazoo. In addition, they have established an actual community or commune. It's creepy and scary any way you look at it. For victory & freedom!!!

[Redbob]

"...two teachers whose backgrounds were not checked were convicted felons working at one of Gateway's satellite campuses in Oakland. Another employee in Fresno without a background check was recently arrested on kidnapping charges,..."

This is clearly racism on the part of the school board. Don't they know that felonious activity and kidnapping were approved by The Prophet?

[Saundra Duffy]

My son attended private Christian schools and we paid TUITION. No vouchers. No breaking of California laws. It is disgusting and frightening that this group of Muslims thought they could get away with this! Who do they think they are?! And just how stupid do they think we are?!

[TexKat]

911 was an attack by a terrorist group of people, led by a non-religious leader. At the end of the day, it was and never will be about religion.

How unforunate for the brainwashed Holy Jihad sheeples.

[Saundra Duffy]

"Don't they know that felonious activity and kidnapping were approved by The Prophet?" That was funny! (Or was it?)