I agree, but it's only right to capitalize some of moHAMmed.
OINK, OINK!!!
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.
If your kids can't follow public school rules and customs, don't send them to public school. Home school them.
Yeh, but the Muzzies WANT her to be restricted, don't you see? Because then she'll be more compliant when her husband-by-forced marriage beats her; or when her future mother-in-law maims her genitals; or when ....
I think the Muzzies have to be assimilated or they can LEAVE. If they cannot do gym shorts or our laws or our ways, then they won't be very happy here and WE won't either.
Line in the sand?? If not here, where? What of sharia law IS asking too much then? Where do you stop it? "We believe in gang rape, it's part of our religion." Is THAT too far? I don't know, I've just about had it.
BS. Folks will just grumble about it on Free Republic.
I agree, but it's only right to capitalize some of moHAMmed.
OINK, OINK!!!
Muslims cannot conform to US laws since it is against their religion. So why are they here if not to destroy us?
Exactly, something like that has a "snow ball" affect.
Luckily for the U.S. the muslim community, excepting detroit, really isnt large comparatively to Christian communities...for us the question is Do we learn from Europes sad example and curb any efforts of islamic radicals trying to legislate Sharia or any advocacy to comply with Islam in the country?
Perhaps, a religous war is necessary...politicians shy away from that...but if a radical religion has declared war on your country, has contempt for your nations culture, and tries to force conformity through a free countries legal system...seens like plenty reason to Declare All Out War for religous reasons to me...
(I fully understand we're at war now, but I am going one step further.)
I, too, was brought up in a 5-point, TULIP, Calvinistic home. It's hard to tell whether that influenced my taste in movies; I think it's pretty normal. I like some and hate some (hate aliens popping out of stomachs). Hate stuff with bathroom humor. I like both chick flicks and Dirty Harry.
To a point, I agree with you.
But there is a tipping point, when the civilian "christian" majority sees it's rights being "restricted" through it's legal system by religous fanatics...bent on sending a culture back to the seventh century...well...I think there will be more than grumbling going on.
Maybe an extreme point of view, but time will tell on this.
The problem with islam is that it must be blindly accepted as the word of allah and any thought or examination of it is, accordingly, an insult to allah and the prophet.
That was the very point the Pope was getting at when he suggested that "reason" (critical examination) should be used in all religions. He knew full-well that islam prohibits thinking about itself and that's why it is mired in the deep, dark past.
Christianity and Judaism are dynamic equations which can be as easily applied in Roman Times as in the distance future. Islam is a set of man-made rules which can't be changed and are applicable only in the time of their origination, if even then. Any rational examination would expose islam for what it is.
I believe it is safe to say islam is in a war with reality...ergo, it is insane. Like any drunk or addict in denial, it refuses to reconcile itself to life and truth...hence its obsession with death and deceit.
"...I agree, but it's only right to capitalize some of moHAMmed...."
Thanks for pointing that out. That should be the only exception to the rule.
If I have to endure a muslim call to prayer 6am every day and 10pm every night, I am being asked to submit.
They can be obedient to their faith but I do not need to be woken up to acknowledge their religion.
You realize she will soon complain that she feels singled out by wearing the 'garb'. So the school will force the others to also dress in RagTop drag!
We WILL be assimilated into islamofascist culture by 2010!
It is a false path aped from previous religious texts. It IS at war with reality and truth.
It is a political theocracy, not just a religious faith.
A different time I guess.......
Careful. Next a muslim student is going to claim that tossing around the 'pig skin' football is an unbearable offense.
I don't have a problem with her wearing sweats, etc. I do have a big problem with this BS diversity training, and muslims being allowed to travel to various schools to tell them how to accomodate their religious needs.
didn't an Afgani woman compete in the track and field events at the Olympics? Seems she wore some kind of full pant length gear. Why not let modest people or people who object to exposing their legs wear something appropriate yet athletic. Seems there are some faiths in the US that were/are rather modest. Minonites comes to mind.
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