Students Taunted, CAIR Whines

CAIR has not been getting the number of Anti-Muslim incidents it feels exists, but some Minnesota Muslim high school students are more than willing to assist:

Anti-Muslim slurs pepper students at Blaine middle school, rights group alleges

A girl who wears an Islamic head scarf says a fellow student at Blaine's Westwood Middle School called her a terrorist.

Two other Muslim students say food and milk were thrown at them in the cafeteria. And an assistant principal who talked with a Muslim student about the lunchroom spat allegedly made inappropriate references to Islam

According to CAIR chairwoman Lori Saroya, on Sept. 11, 2006, a student who wears the hijab was told by a boy she didn't know that "Muslims are terrorists." She reported the incident to a counselor but no action was taken, Saroya said. Westwood Principal Paula Hoff and a counselor met with the girl's parents and told them that it was an isolated incident and that sensitivity training would be considered.

An isolated incident (on the anniversary of the worst Islamic attack this country had ever seen) but CAIR needs those numbers, and going after the children involved is not enough:

Two other Muslim students say they have been taunted about their religion through the school year, and last month had food and milk thrown at them in the cafeteria, Saroya said. When a confrontation followed, only one student -- a Muslim who had "tried to defend her friend" -- was sent to the office, Saroya said.

There, "the assistant principal said, 'Do Islam and the Qur'an say it's OK to call people bad names?' " Saroya said. "It's hard to imagine a Christian kid hearing that about the Bible."

I fail to see the problem with this question. Why wouldn't a Christian child be asked a similar question about the Bible to illustrate the morality involved in how the child treats others? This is nothing more than CAIR trying to force their agenda on the school district by taking months old isolated incidents and blowing them out of proportion to create the appearance of Islamophobia.

The Irony of Jefferson

We all recall that Congressman Ellison used the Koran of Thomas Jefferson for his inauguration in January, sparking a flurry of articles, but what you may not know is the Spirit of Thomas continues as the source for Congressional legislative information. The invoking of Jefferson, in light of the War on Terror and the Iraq funding bill, is particularly ironic and seemingly lost on Democrats and Ellison specifically- Jefferson was no Islamic appeaser.

At the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, tribute was paid to the Barbary Pirates in the Mediterranean to quell the seizure of American vessels and crew. In 1786 Jefferson and John Adams were to negotiate the tribute paid to the Barbary States. In his report to Congress Jefferson stated:

The ambassador answered us that [the right] was founded on the Laws of the Prophet (Mohammed), that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman (or Muslim) who should be slain in battle was sure to go to heaven.

Upon Jefferson's inauguration, Tripoli demanded $225,000 in tribute. Jefferson refused, and thus the First Barbary War ensued. Jefferson understood, as early as 1785, that appeasement would only encourage more attacks- a lesson lost on our current Congress.

But invoking Jefferson can be a double edged sword. Congressman Ellison used Jefferson's Memory with his inauguration stunt, but today the Spirit of Thomas tells me that thus far Ellison on his own has done nothing. Considering his knowledge and understanding of Islam, perhaps Tom would approve.

Neighborhood Hijab Watch

Since it's a slow Shari'a news day, I'll share a personal observation I had the other day:

While taking a walk around my neighborhood I went past the house of an Islamic family, their car in the drive way complete with Islamic bumper stickers. I had seen their young daughter on occasion, but on this day it had been the first time I'd seen her in hijab. I'd guess this girl is about 6. Her mother was getting into the car and drove off, leaving the child to play with her bike. On my return trip past the house, the girl was still outside riding her bike around on the street- she'd removed her hijab.

I find it interesting that this girl, with her childlike innocence and honesty, would reject hijab. Islamic apologists would have us believe that it is the woman's choice to wear hijab. I highly doubt this six year old girl was given a choice to put on hijab, but when given a chance to remove it, she did. Only fools and children tell the truth as the saying goes. If that's the case, then the truth is little girls don't want to wear hijab. My little neighbor proved it.

Anti-Semitic Moonbat Theatre is Lame

Two "IDF soldiers" with rifles stood outside the door, a blindfolded and hand bound "Palestinian" on their knees faced the wall beside them. "Let's see some ID", one of the soldiers barked. I walked in and was greeted by a young woman. "Welcome to Palestine," she said to me and I was shown to a table in a fairly small room with about 15 tables spread about with pitchers of water and cups on each one, as well as a piece of tag board with either an Israeli or Palestinian flag taped to it.

While photographs were projected onto the wall, a young woman read from a journal of an American human shield's account of her visits to "Palestine". Another young woman read off various "statistics" concerning the lack of water for the Palestinians. While she did so, other women came and collected all the pitchers and cups from the Palestinian tables and placed them onto the Israeli tables.

We went back to the human shield's journal, and heard of her journey to Gaza City where she joins a Palestinian man for lunch at a "five star" restaurant. Our greeter and a young man came out to dramatize their meal which was interrupted by the "soldiers" when they arrested the Palestinian.

The statistics reader continued, this time discussing the wall on the West Bank. A group came in, carrying a length of white fabric, weaving in and out of the tables while the "statistics" were rattled off. At the end of the reading, they lifted up the fabric to symbolize the wall, blocking off the Palestinian tables from the Israeli ones. After a few moments they dropped the fabric to the ground.

We heard more from the journal, and the soldiers walked back into the room. "Curfew! Everyone, curfew!" There was a pause in which no one seemed to know what was going on, and then the soldier said, "Show's over. Lights on." That was it. We all looked at each other, still unsure of what was going on until the journal reader confirmed it was the end of the program and that we could now mingle.

What was billed as an "intellectual salon with inter-active theatre" scheduled for two hours was completed after 45 minutes. I was a bit taken aback- that was it? There was no information hand outs, no discussion, no inter-action. They read from a journal, repeated Palestinian talking points, took away my water, and held up a sheet. Lame.