Posted on 10/02/2006 11:59:58 AM PDT by 300magnum
A Muslim advocacy group's successful argument that a 9th grade student from a Virginia public high school did not have to wear regulation gym attire because of her Muslim religion, has fired up a critic of Islamic radicalism.
The 9th grader at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Va., was "threatened with failing the class if she did not wear shorts," according to a statement released by the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).
"The student's family contacted CAIR (of Maryland and Virginia) for assistance in resolving the issue. Following discussions with school officials, the student was moved to a different gym class and will be allowed to dress in attire that meets her religious needs," stated CAIR.
The group stated that initially, the girl's teacher told her "the law required that the student wear the shorts."
In light of the dispute over the gym class attire, CAIR also noted that it would conduct diversity training for Lake Braddock's newer staff, as well as "visit local middle and high schools to review their policies for accommodating the religious needs of Muslim students during Ramadan, Eid and throughout the school year."
But Daniel Pipes, a frequent critic of CAIR and the director of the Middle East Forum, told Cybercast News Service that the gym shorts are part of a "campaign" by CAIR to replace rules in the U.S.
It is a campaign "to adapt public schools in the United States to Islamic norms," Pipes said, and "is an integral part of its effort to adapt the country to the Shari'a, or Islamic law."
"Its success in getting the gym rules changed at Lake Braddock [Secondary] School, plus its success in providing 'diversity training' for school staff, have inspired it to become more bold and to 'review the policies' in other middle and high schools in an attempt to bend them too to the Shari'a," Pipes added.
I think cair is well on the way to making anti muslim terrorists if this crap keeps up
All I said was that students should be *allowed* to wear sweats or other suitable long pants/long sleeves if they want. Not forced. Allowed. Unless there is some sort of safety issue with long pants in the class.
We had a mandatory-shorts rule in gym class as well (back in the Paleolithic Era when I went to high school) and I never got the point--we were outside in some temperatures where I would've MUCH preferred to be wearing long sleeves and sweats!
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This has nothing to do with standing up for their faith. And don't believe for one second that this girl wasn't put up to this by CAIR.
Well, you certainly are teaching this kid a thing or two. Keep up the good work!
mild example: child points chicken drumstick at classmate and says bang. The shooter is suspended because of the zero tolerance policy about guns on school property.
Extreme example: Your example. The girls burn to death because of the zero tolerance policy about girls going outside uncovered.
What's scary is we have those zero tolerance mentality people in this country, not islamics, but, you know, us, or someone close to us.
The zero tolerance mentality is part of the human condition, has afflicted all of mankind since the beginning, the spanish inquisition is a fine example. Some in our society are still afflicted with it, but we have been able to free ourselves from it somewhat. The muslims, especially from the East, suffer from it greatly.
If we can figure out how to put some common sense in the zero tolerance types here (maybe beating it into them), maybe it will also work on the islamic zero tolerance types.
One thing is sure, we should not be encouraging any zero tolerance of anything. We should be in all instances encouraging.....you guessed it: thought.
Final note: it does us no good to be tolerant of islam when we know it is not tolerant of us. There has to be genuine reciprocity or else muslims can stay in the muslim world.
I was 22 when I went to my first movie. I felt it was "safe", since I had just moved to Alaska, and Dad was back east. 5,000 miles between us seemed like a reasonable distance so that I wouldn't get in to trouble. And... guess what? The ceiling didn't fall in on me!! Go figure.
ok no shorts, what was wrong with sweat pants or something like that?
fake outrage and only 1/2 the story.
To me the bigger example was in Michigan where they got an exemption from noise ordinances to broadcast (over loudspeaker) muslim calls to prayer throughout the day (first call to prayer at 6am and last call to prayer at 10pm).
This is beyond the churchbell thing (which is music/not words, non-amplified, and is not done before sunrise or after sunset).
wait I don't get it-shouldn't the ACLU be involved here taking up the case of the school district. If district policy is "gym clothes" for gym class and a religion does not want to comply on the basis of religion, shouldn't the ACLU be involved sighting their "separation of church and state" mumbo jumbo.
After reading most of the comments on this subject I am under the opinion that the sooner we get these religious misfits back to their sandbox the better for our country. Religious subversives we don't need.
One of my favorite directors/screenwriters didn't see a movie until well into his teens -- strict calvinist upbringing.
I'd be interested to know if you think it's influenced your taste in movies...
Wouldn't it be easier to just kick them all out of the country?
Bowling?!
Wouldn't it be easier to just kick them all out of the country?
No, much more difficult considering many are U.S. citizens and kicking people out of the country based on religion sounds very, very un-American.
Yup. Bowling. If you know how to BOWL, you go to a BOWLING ALLEY. If you go to a BOWLING ALLEY, there is BEER. Where there is BEER, there is SIN. Sheesh! Do you believe it? Hard to believe that my siblings and I grew in to (relatively) sane and productive adults.
We don't have separation of mosque and state. Ya can't define a mosque as a church. ;-)
I've done all kinds of school. Private, public, and home. Seems to me the right answer depends on the school, the parents, and the child. And it varies from time to time and place to place.
They should conform to OUR culture. It is, as Daniel Pipes and CAIR have stated, one more implementation of shari'a law in OUR country.
And, by the way, where is the ACLU in all of this? If Christians were wanting some special something, they'd be ranting to high heavens about freedom FROM religion.
Too bad they caved.
"Wouldn't it be easier to just kick them all out of the country?"
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