Islamic school Established with Minnesota Taxpayer Funds, Run by Organization Linked to Terrorists
Courtesy of Ristin, the following, by Katherine Kersten in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune:
http://www.startribune.com/local/17406054.html
Tarek ibn Zayed Academy (TIZA) is a K-8 charter school.
Recently, I wrote about Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA), a K-8 charter school in Inver Grove Heights. Charter schools are public schools and by law must not endorse or promote religion.
Evidence suggests, however, that TIZA is an Islamic school, funded by Minnesota taxpayers.
As Kersten goes on to relate:
TIZA has many characteristics that suggest a religious school. It shares the headquarters building of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, whose mission is "establishing Islam in Minnesota." The building also houses a mosque. TIZA's executive director, Asad Zaman, is a Muslim imam, or religious leader, and its sponsor is an organization called Islamic Relief.
And, as Kersten relates in another article
http://stopthemadrassa.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/islamic-public-charter-school-in-minnesota-supported-by-the-muslim-american-society/
Islamic Relief has been linked to Hamas, the same terrorist organization that runs the Gaza Strip and is firing rockets into Israel. Most of the students at TIZA are the children of poor Somali immigrants -- ripe for ideological indoctrination into the jihad.
Is TIZA being run as a religious or a secular school? As Kersten points out in the first referenced article:
Students pray daily, the cafeteria serves halal food - permissible under Islamic law -- and "Islamic Studies" is offered at the end of the school day.
And a teacher, Amanda Getz, has come out to reveal how this is run:
Arriving on a Friday, the Muslim holy day, she says she was told that the day's schedule included a "school assembly" in the gym after lunch.
Before the assembly, she says she was told, her duties would include taking her fifth-grade students to the bathroom, four at a time, to perform "their ritual washing."
Afterward, Getz said, "teachers led the kids into the gym, where a man dressed in white with a white cap, who had been at the school all day," was preparing to lead prayer. Beside him, another man "was prostrating himself in prayer on a carpet as the students entered."
"The prayer I saw was not voluntary," Getz said. "The kids were corralled by adults and required to go to the assembly where prayer occurred."
Mandatory school prayer, in any faith, in a public school is a direct violation of the principle of Separation of Church and State. Such has been repeatedly and successfully argued against Christians. Surely it also applies to Muslims?
We are funding our own destruction, and few seem to care.
http://www.startribune.com/local/17406054.html
Tarek ibn Zayed Academy (TIZA) is a K-8 charter school.
Recently, I wrote about Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA), a K-8 charter school in Inver Grove Heights. Charter schools are public schools and by law must not endorse or promote religion.
Evidence suggests, however, that TIZA is an Islamic school, funded by Minnesota taxpayers.
As Kersten goes on to relate:
TIZA has many characteristics that suggest a religious school. It shares the headquarters building of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, whose mission is "establishing Islam in Minnesota." The building also houses a mosque. TIZA's executive director, Asad Zaman, is a Muslim imam, or religious leader, and its sponsor is an organization called Islamic Relief.
And, as Kersten relates in another article
http://stopthemadrassa.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/islamic-public-charter-school-in-minnesota-supported-by-the-muslim-american-society/
Islamic Relief has been linked to Hamas, the same terrorist organization that runs the Gaza Strip and is firing rockets into Israel. Most of the students at TIZA are the children of poor Somali immigrants -- ripe for ideological indoctrination into the jihad.
Is TIZA being run as a religious or a secular school? As Kersten points out in the first referenced article:
Students pray daily, the cafeteria serves halal food - permissible under Islamic law -- and "Islamic Studies" is offered at the end of the school day.
And a teacher, Amanda Getz, has come out to reveal how this is run:
Arriving on a Friday, the Muslim holy day, she says she was told that the day's schedule included a "school assembly" in the gym after lunch.
Before the assembly, she says she was told, her duties would include taking her fifth-grade students to the bathroom, four at a time, to perform "their ritual washing."
Afterward, Getz said, "teachers led the kids into the gym, where a man dressed in white with a white cap, who had been at the school all day," was preparing to lead prayer. Beside him, another man "was prostrating himself in prayer on a carpet as the students entered."
"The prayer I saw was not voluntary," Getz said. "The kids were corralled by adults and required to go to the assembly where prayer occurred."
Mandatory school prayer, in any faith, in a public school is a direct violation of the principle of Separation of Church and State. Such has been repeatedly and successfully argued against Christians. Surely it also applies to Muslims?
We are funding our own destruction, and few seem to care.