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Michigan Sikhs Want Religious Swords in School
FoxNews ^ | January 7, 2011 | Staff

Posted on 01/09/2011 1:19:46 PM PST by Tennessee Nana

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To: Tennessee Nana

Background... A number of Sikhs and other Temples in Canton. Very Diverse, many engineers ( Ford bedroom Community ) and Doctors, many very smart kids. This was all over the Cover of the Canton Observer today, go find it, no you can’t post, it is on the band list...


41 posted on 01/09/2011 3:43:35 PM PST by taildragger ((Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: Tennessee Nana

Dear Sikhs - this is America. Welcome. F#@k off with your request. Our tolerance only goes so far. Don’t like it? Move back. Seriously.


42 posted on 01/09/2011 3:49:14 PM PST by steel_resolve (Boycott Made In China)
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To: grellis; MichCapCon; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; ...

No problem, as long as students and teachers are able to carry guns.


43 posted on 01/09/2011 4:31:44 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: SunkenCiv
No problem, as long as students and teachers are able to carry guns.

And sit directly behind the muzzies with swords.

44 posted on 01/09/2011 4:37:41 PM PST by gitmo ( The democRats drew first blood. It's our turn now.)
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To: bgill
Oh, so the islamic kid who brings swords to school is merely asked to leave them at home but his non-muslim classmate who forgets there’s a butter knife locked in his trunk gets a criminal record and is expelled for the rest of the year.

My son is in deep 5hi7 because he wore some shooters' gloves. My wife bought them at Salvation Army for the cold and had no idea that's what they are. She was wondering why the fingers were removable.

This is his first year of public school. I think we're going back to homeschooling. It's been a nightmare.

45 posted on 01/09/2011 4:42:37 PM PST by gitmo ( The democRats drew first blood. It's our turn now.)
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To: R. Scott
Sikhs aren’t known for violence.

Reyat testified that when a leader of a Sikh separatist group asked him to collect bomb-making materials in Vancouver in 1984, he agreed to do so “to help people in India.”

“I complied with Parmar’s request because I was very upset with the Indian government's treatment of the Sikh people and I wanted to assist their cause in any way that I could,” he said in a February 2003 affidavit for his second conviction.

http://www.thespec.com/news/world/article/256978—air-india-bomber-accepts-verdict

46 posted on 01/09/2011 5:08:17 PM PST by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: Tennessee Nana

THen I want to carry my pistol everywhere. Guns have been the symbol of most Christians in this country before it was founded.


47 posted on 01/09/2011 5:17:11 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Liberty1970

USED TO. they had common sense not to shoot others with them back then. Teachers USED to be able to kick their ass if they goofed off too, but now they don’t. Parents USED TO not sue the school over every little thing either.

USED TO is not an argument.


48 posted on 01/09/2011 5:20:12 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: gitmo

Nice touch.


49 posted on 01/09/2011 6:02:08 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

The Sikhs should wise up and start their own schools. At least get their children out of public schools before they’re turned into welfare slugs with IQs on a par with lichen.


50 posted on 01/09/2011 7:40:48 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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To: bgill

What islamic kid? Stay on topic.


51 posted on 01/09/2011 7:44:53 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce - Karl Marx)
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To: AdmSmith

Maybe I should have used “not well known”


52 posted on 01/10/2011 3:38:47 AM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: Tennessee Nana

As I understand it, India has more Muslims than Pakistan (13% of 1 billion + people). It really is a bizarre situation there...


53 posted on 01/10/2011 3:40:38 AM PST by kearnyirish2
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To: MsLady

Powder..patch..ball FIRE!

Compare apples to apples please.

The sword is worn under clothes not in the open.

Why would you want your kid to wear a huge cross and carry an open bible around school? as a stunt? Being openly religious doesn’t prove your worth to God.


54 posted on 01/10/2011 3:43:55 AM PST by BallandPowder
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To: BallandPowder

I was being facetious. You know what the left does if Christians even make a peep.


55 posted on 01/10/2011 5:10:00 AM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: Springman; sergeantdave; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; ...

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56 posted on 01/10/2011 5:34:54 AM PST by grellis (I am Jill's overwhelming sense of disgust.)
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I saw the instrument in question on one of the local news casts.

I can say, the last time a student brandished a similar piece and told me, "It's part of my religion," I promptly confiscated the object and advised the youngster he was welcome to pick it up after class to take it to his religious service of choice. [I am a sometime sub, otherwise, providing I had my way (and a non-pansy principal), he and his parents would have picked up the object after school]

The person who was interviewed on the news cast I watched said something to the effect that "you could cause the same harm with a fork or a pencil."

Well, sure, who hasn't been stabbed by a student with a pencil? (The last time that happened to me, the student actually drew blood. Mercifully, I had a non-pansy for a principal. The little darlin' was promptly expelled and the police were summoned to school as well. I really do miss that principal)

A public school is not to be confused with a place of worship. Any object of religious significance (along with MP3 players and other electronic devices) that creates a learning disruption should be stored in the student's locker.

Or at least, put somewhere that I can't see it.

57 posted on 01/10/2011 7:12:46 AM PST by Miss_Meyet (Good bye, tagline! Really, it's not you, it's me. [I have tagline commitment issues])
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To: Domalais

Interestingly, whenever I see a woman wearing an Islamic veil the men and boys in her group are always in normal American clothes. I would guess that there is little if any specific dress proscribed for Muslim men, so the chances are that a man in foreign garb is probably not a Muslim.


58 posted on 01/10/2011 7:24:18 AM PST by TheDingoAteMyBaby
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Are you Sikhs ?


59 posted on 01/10/2011 8:04:17 AM PST by restornu
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To: restornu

You are kidding, right? I am Messianic Jewish.


60 posted on 01/10/2011 12:12:15 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR to pimp your blog!!!)
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