Is there a line being crossed by a Muslim school in Minnesota that using taxpayers funds? You decide.
Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA) — named for the Muslim general who conquered medieval Spain — is a K-8 charter school in Inver Grove Heights. Its approximately 300 students are mostly the children of low-income Muslim immigrant families, many of them Somalis.
The school is in huge demand, with a waiting list of 1,500. Last fall, it opened a second campus in Blaine.
TIZA uses the language of culture rather than religion to describe its program in public documents. According to its mission statement, the school “recognizes and appreciates the traditions, histories, civilizations and accomplishments of the eastern world (Africa, Asia and Middle East).”
But the line between religion and culture is often blurry. There are strong indications that religion plays a central role at TIZA, which is a public school financed by Minnesota taxpayers. Under the U.S. and state constitutions, a public school can accommodate students’ religious beliefs but cannot encourage or endorse religion.
MAS-MN came to Minnesotans’ attention in 2006, when it issued a “fatwa,” warning Muslim taxi drivers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport that transporting passengers with alcohol in their baggage is a violation of Islamic law.
You read that right. This is the same school that the infamous Muslim taxi drivers attended who refused to pick up passengers who had liquor or Seeing Eye dogs.
Now tell me. What’s a publicly funded school doing issuing religious fatwas?
“A visitor might well mistake Tarek ibn Ziyad for an Islamic school,” reported Minnesota Monthly in 2007. “Head scarves are voluntary, but virtually all the girls wear them.” The school has a central carpeted prayer space, and “vaguely religious-sounding language” is used.
Yeah, right. Mistake. Dumb Kaffir. More mistakes.
Publicly, TIZA emphasizes that it uses standard curricular materials like those found in other public schools. But when addressing Muslim audiences, school officials make the link to Islam clear. At MAS-MN’s 2007 convention, for example, the program featured an advertisement for the “Muslim American Society of Minnesota,” superimposed on a picture of a mosque. Under the motto “Establishing Islam in Minnesota,” it asked: “Did you know that MAS-MN … houses a full-time elementary school”? On the adjacent page was an application for TIZA.
The group is also linked to – hold it – Hamas. Shocker!
Islamic Relief-USA, the school’s sponsor, is compared to the Red Cross in several TIZA documents. In 2006, however, the Israeli government announced that Islamic Relief Worldwide, the organization’s parent group, “provides support and assistance” to Hamas, designated by the U.S. government as a terrorist group.
Meanwhile, MAS-MN offers on its web site “beneficial and enlightening information” about Islam, which includes statements like “Regularly make the intention to go on jihad with the ambition to die as a martyr.”
And what about teaching their students proper family values? The umbrellas organization has that covered with guest speakers.
At its 2007 convention, MAS-MN featured the notorious Shayk Khalid Yasin, who is well-known in Britain and Australia for teaching that husbands can beat disobedient wives, that gays should be executed and that the United States spreads the AIDS virus in Africa through vaccines for tropical diseases.
Yasin’s topic? “Building a Successful Muslim Community in Minnesota.”
That says it all.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackThis is typical Muslim-bashing b.s.
You take the most extreme statements by one Muslim and pretend that all the rest of the Muslims feel that way. Do you want me to hold you accountable for the worst things Pat Robertson said? Or Pat Buchanan?
You draw some tenuous connections between a militant group and a different affiliate of this group, and then you allow the suggestion that this group (MAS-Minnesota) is also militant. That’s baseless, unfair, and lazy logic.
We can feel the anger in your sarcastic comments. You find it easy to direct at these Muslims because they are faceless to you. Not humans. I challenge you to go meet a Muslim. Have a conversation. See if a Muslim is just a regular human being of a slightly different flavor. If you do, I doubt you will be able to direct your hate at all of them the way you do now.
Thank You, for exposing this farce.
This is just another example of the infiltration of Wahabi Islam into our publically funded schools.
The ‘principal’ indicates that the school doesn’t fly the American flag (as required by law), because he can’t operate the flag pole. What Barf!
As you correctly pointed out Shayk Khalid Yasin,is a dangerous fellow, a nut – plain and simple.
His involvement in any enterprise should send up ‘red flags’.
Introducing fatwas from the school???
Funding and support from Islamic Relief, a Hamas front organization???
Wake up Minnesotans.
Your kindness and good nature are being taken advantage of!
And they are doing it on your dime!
If Christians or Jews did this in a public school setting, think of the outcry.
But when it’s Muslims, we are told we must be ‘hands off’ as if they have some sort of privileged status in our society.
The more they push their agenda on us, the greater the backlash will be, and they will have brought it on themselves.
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