Local Muslim school taken aback by letter (Houston)

Houston Chronicle ^ | EDWARD HEGSTROM

[tkathy]

This is why vouchers are such a terrible idea. They will be immediately used by the Islamists to isolate and brainwash their children.

[CindyDawg]

What does "private" mean?

[ClearCase_guy]

"Do you teach your students to 'Make war on them (Christians and Jews) until idolatry is no more and Allah's religion reigns supreme' (Koran 8:37)?" Burleson asked.

Katbi said he was "astonished" by the letter. He did not reply to the questions.

Couldn't answer the question, eh?

[Noachian]

"The TAPPS letter, a symbol of religious intolerance, has no place in a nation that was originally built by those seeking asylum from such intolerance," ...

For muslims to speak of religious intolerance is laughable considering how Christians are treated in muslim countries.

That letter askes pertinent questions about Islam that muslims can't truely answer without showing the dark side of Islam.

[Conspiracy Guy]

In his correspondence, Burleson quoted a verse from the Quran as calling on Muslims to be violent toward Christians and Jews. He noted that most TAPPS member schools are Christian. "Why do you wish to join an organization whose membership is basically in total disagreement with your religious beliefs?"

Sounds good enough to me.

[Texan5]

I thought the whole point of private schools was to avoid all the PC diversity garbage-this person needs to just go away.

[G.Mason]

"It's the venom in that letter that's so disturbing," Hamdani said. While the letter is structured as a series of questions, he said, "they're really more assumptions than questions."

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[OXENinFLA]

He asks about the school's attitude toward "the spread of Islam in America" and the goals of the school "in this regard."

GOOD FOR HIM!!!!

[Kolokotronis]

"This is why vouchers are such a terrible idea. They will be immediately used by the Islamists to isolate and brainwash their children."

Agreed.

[BOOTSTICK]

Once again the Muslim is handcuffed to the Idiotic Koran, and their only tactic is to feign shock at Islams detractors. Too bad!

[Kuksool]

CAIR is a bunch of whiners. I guess that is what the group has to resort to when they have no political influence. Let's hope it stays that way.

[Bahbah]

"It's the venom in that letter that's so disturbing," Hamdani said. While the letter is structured as a series of questions, he said, "they're really more assumptions than questions."

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS!!!!

[NittanyLion]

"It's the venom in that letter that's so disturbing," Hamdani said.

Sounds like the letter mostly quoted the Koran.

Then again, the Koran is a pretty venomous book, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

[OXENinFLA]

Is there any where we can read the entire letter?

[Aquinasfan]

"Do you teach your students to 'Make war on them (Christians and Jews) until idolatry is no more and Allah's religion reigns supreme' (Koran 8:37)?" Burleson asked.

Katbi said he was "astonished" by the letter. He did not reply to the questions.

You'd have to be blind, deaf, and idiotic not to see what's going on here. But I guess that's why we have liberals.

[fishtank]

Diagree completely with you.

NOW, my tax dollars are used by the NEA-Islamo-fascist wannabes to "isolate and brainwash" children.

At least under a voucher program, the parents can CHOOSE which school to send their kids.

I see NO DIFFERENCE between the current public school and an Islamic madrassa.

[Aquinasfan]

This is why vouchers are such a terrible idea. They will be immediately used by the Islamists to isolate and brainwash their children.

1) They're already brainwashing their children.

2) Voucher legislation could be written to exclude institutions where the violent overthrow of the US government is advocated, or institutions that militate against Constitutionally protected freedoms.

3) 90% of the school-age population is sent to government schools. The vast majority of these children will graduate without understanding the threat posed by militant Islam. Under a voucher program, a large number of these children will be transferred to Christian or Hebrew schools where they will be more likely to learn about the true nature of Islam, and be better equipped to deal with it.

[ArGee]

"It's the venom in that letter that's so disturbing," Hamdani said. While the letter is structured as a series of questions, he said, "they're really more assumptions than questions."

So answer them and dispel the assumptions. Without seeing the letter I can't comment on whether there was actual "venom," but I can say that I have been underwhelmed at the chorus of condemnation of American Muslims to the terrorist tactics of Muslims in the rest of the world. This is a great opportunity to tell the members of TAAPS that all of Islam isn't like that.

Unless it is.

Martin B. Cominsky, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, said the letter "assumes some offensive stereotypes about what Islam is all about."

Stereotypes encouraged by such things as the bombing of the World Trade Center, shelling markets, and beheading innocents? Why would anyone hold such stereotypes? Whatever we do, let's not spend a minute looking at where those stereotypes might come from. Blaming the religious group for the impression it has given the world is only allowed for Christians.

Shalom.

[ArGee]

TAAPS = TAPPS.

Shalom.