If CAIR is successful and the MN madrassa maintains it's state funding, what justification can the state possibly put forth against funding any other religious school? All parochial schools - any and all yeshivas & christian academies should immediately seek and gain equal public funding.
Anonymous, Equal public funding for other religious groups sounds fine in theory. But considering today's atmosphere of Islamophilia, I wouldn't count on such a development.
The battle over equal funding could get very interesting, I admit.
I've always thought that the Conservative idea of school vouchers would lead to a cacaphonous society.
Here we can see the beginnings of what I have always believed.
As much as we conservaties believe in the free market of ideas, there are some ideas that need to be taught to all of us, among those being the ideas upon which our nation and Western Civilization is founded.
Therefore, we need a school system which teaches those ideas to all children, whatever there own families personal religious beliefs are.
Yes, America has to relearn what is important about America.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:46:00 am
According to this at Powerline Blog (citing the Star Tribune), CAIR has come along to defend the Minnesota madrassah being funded at taxpayers' expense: The Minnesota chapter of a national Islamic civil liberties group has asked the FBI and local law enforcement officers to investigate reported threats against a Twin Cities charter school as possible hate crimes, while a Jewish organization deplored the threats.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) made the request Monday after the director of Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy in Inver Grove Heights told police that he and the school had received threatening and harassing phone messages and e-mails.
The group is concerned about the safety of the school's students, many of whom are Muslim, said CAIR chapter coordinator Chris Schumacher. Tagging the threats as possible hate crimes also makes it clear that prejudice could have prompted them, and "we wanted to bring that to light in case that wasn't already obvious to people," he said.Powerline's comment: It is remarkable that CAIR found time to advance the cause of TIZA this week. It has otherwise been engaged working on behalf of convicted Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist Sami al-Arian, who is being held in contempt of court for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury....
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3:08:00 pm
What do you expect?
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 4:32:00 pm
If CAIR is successful and the MN madrassa maintains it's state funding, what justification can the state possibly put forth against funding any other religious school? All parochial schools - any and all yeshivas & christian academies should immediately seek and gain equal public funding.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:30:00 pm
Anonymous,
Equal public funding for other religious groups sounds fine in theory. But considering today's atmosphere of Islamophilia, I wouldn't count on such a development.
The battle over equal funding could get very interesting, I admit.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:37:00 am
I've always thought that the Conservative idea of school vouchers would lead to a cacaphonous society.
Here we can see the beginnings of what I have always believed.
As much as we conservaties believe in the free market of ideas, there are some ideas that need to be taught to all of us, among those being the ideas upon which our nation and Western Civilization is founded.
Therefore, we need a school system which teaches those ideas to all children, whatever there own families personal religious beliefs are.
Thus spake Pastorius.
;-)
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:03:00 am
Pastorius,
You're exactly correct about the importance of teaching values to the next generation.
Now, if only we could convince the school bureaucracis of the above!
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:43:00 am
Yes, America has to relearn what is important about America.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:46:00 am