Why are they even getting involved in this matter?
A Seattle area school district has sent a letter to staff asking them to wish Muslim students a happy Ramadan and bless them with a traditional greeting.
What’s outrageous about this is of course no Christian or Jewish student would be offered the same accommodation. Only Muslim students, for whatever reason.
Via Fox News:
A religious liberty advocacy group is threatening to slap a Seattle-area school district with a lawsuit unless it revokes a letter urging teachers to bless Muslim students in Arabic during the holy month of Ramadan and give them preferential treatment, including skipping tests.
The Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund claims the Dieringer School District is officially endorsing Islam and is following a script by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) that urges schools to make special accommodations for Muslim students and to wish them “Ramadan Mubarak,” which means “Happy Ramadan,” or “Ramadan Kareem,” which means “Have a generous Ramadan.”
The CAIR guidelines also instruct teachers to monitor Muslim students fasting and suggests teachers not schedule any tests on the Islamic holidays of Eid Al-Fitr and Eid Al-Adha.
“By urging teachers to bless Muslim students in Arabic, the district is running roughshod over the First Amendment’s mandate of government neutrality toward religion,” said Daniel Piedra, FCDF’s executive director. “A school district would never order teachers to ‘welcome’ Catholic students during Easter with ‘He is risen, alleluia!’ Singling out Muslim students for special treatment is blatantly unconstitutional.”
The defense fund claims Dieringer Superintendent Judy Martinson blindly followed the recommendations of CAIR and “enacted the letter as official district policy.” The defense fund sent Martinson a letter stating their complaints after a teacher and parent complained about the new procedure.
Lets hope this lawsuit succeeds in scaring the school district into at least a more neutral position.
Either no special accommodations for any students religious beliefs or special accommodations for all students.
Cannot have it be a one way thing.
Personally would prefer no accommodations for any students religious beliefs at public schools.
But each district should get to decide based on the desires of the families in the district.
Src: The Federalist Papers
Where do these orders come from. This is absolutely insane. Must be brought to a halt.
Islam is a theocracy and violates many sections of our constitution, multiple wives, murder, torture, beheading, honor killings within the family, how and when to beat your wife, feeling superior by calling non-muslims infidels, and taxing them to live in their communities, marrying within the family to keep the finances in the family, and on and on!!!
bull crap! my tax dollar goes to pay for public school and i will not sit by and allow this nonsense. trust me on that!!!!
This is exactly what has taken over Europe. Sweden now has one of the highest rape rates in the world. This is way beyond equal time for all religions; this is about preserving civilization as we know it!! ISLAM is a cancer, a 7th century evil, which cannot co exist with civilized people!!
These school board imbeciles and ALL THE OTHER PC JERKOFFS will be responsible for the rape gangs , the honor killings, the be headings, just as it is in current Europe!!
I know who is behind this education of Allah and Mohammad and Anti-Semitic education of dilusionarey sickness, and that is Randi Weingardan and Hillary Clinton and CAIR.
Parents of America, get your children out of these schools, Randi and Hillary and CAIR are coming for them. The school’s are indoctrination of death and slavery are indroduced in tent like servitude.
If they want to be treated differently, let them go back to their country, CAIR can assist them getting back home.
With out making a personnel thing out of this, but parents, take your children out of the schools and get them away from Randi Weingardens Teachers Union of sick teaching personality cult of weirdness of sick mentalities. Get this in your head, Islam and Moslems of CAIR have wrecked, destroyed our Judeo, Judeo Christian values and life of our Country.
I hope that they sue the proverbial pants off these So Called Superintendents!
Were not allowed to say the pledge of allegiance, have Xmas trees or Xmas concerts or sny other holiday, but your shoving Muslim crap down our throats, this has to stop now, there trying to take our country over and teacher and schools r ripe for it. Parents pull your kids out of school and take over teaching our children about America and that were a Christian nation and not muslim
What a bunch of nonsense. WHERE are you not ALLOWED to say the Pledge? Or have “xmas trees” or “xmas concerts”? If you actually read this race-baiting article, you would see that teachers were ASKED to wish them a Happy Ramadan — WOW! The ridiculous anti-Muslim attitudes and disinformation infecting Conservatives through Fake News sites like “Capital Hill” is truly hilarious. You people are a sad, pathetic group of losers.
You Are The Loser, Not Us !! This Muslim Phucks Intensions Are In Fact To Take Over, And The Scumbag DemonRats Are Helping Them.. We Are More Aware Then You Sheeple Are !!
Islam, by law, is prohibited from US immigration
The Immigration and Nationality Act passed June 27, 1952 revised the laws relating to immigration, naturalization, and
nationality for the United States. That act, which became Public Law 414, established both the law and the intent of Congress
regarding the immigration of Aliens to the US and remains in effect today. Among the many issues it covers, one in particular,
found in Chapter 2 Section 212, is the prohibition of entry to the US if the Alien belongs to an organization seeking to overthrow
the government of the United States by “force, violence, or other unconstitutional means.” This, by its very definition, rules out
Islamic immigration to the United States, but this law has been ignored by Obama’s regime White House and many Globalist politicians.
Islamic immigration to the US would be prohibited under this law because the Quran, Sharia Law and the Hadith all require complete submission to Islam,
which is antithetical to the US government, the Constitution, and to the Republic. All Muslims who attest that the Quran is their life’s
guiding principal subscribe to submission to Islam and its form of government. Now the politically correct crowd would say that
Islamists cannot be prohibited from entering the US because Islam is a religion. Whether it is a religion is immaterial because
the law states that Aliens who are affiliated with any “organization” that advocates the overthrow of our government are prohibited….
Nice copy/paste job from an anti-Muslim FAKE NEWS website. Do any thoughts originate in your brain, or are you satisfied repeating other people’s nonsense? Asking teachers to wish Muslim students “Happy Ramadan” is no more a violation of the First Amendment than Crooked Donald telling Americans to wish people “Merry Christmas.” You are a loser.
The McCarran Act has been bastardized and revised past the point of recognition. It’s teeth removed.
They were urged, not asked, and it was written as school policy. And schools take winter break and spring break now, not Christmas break, and Easter break. And many school districts don’t allow religion based clubs anymore. You need to educate yourself. You need to read the Quran and learn what Islam is all about. Until then you are an ignorant fool to accept it as a peaceful religion.
And if some teachers refuse to salute to Muslim students by not giving special consideration to Muslim holiday, Ramadan–they will probably be disciplined or penalized by the district administration.
Factchecket, you have a LOT to learn! mOST schools do not allow Pledge,for years the PC group have not wanted anyone to say Merry christmas. Most governmental groups are also not allowed to pray,pledge to flag etc etc. How could
you have .missed all this that’s been going on for years!!?? There are areas now in which you are not allowed to fly the American flag in front of your own home!! How could anyone miss all this??perhaps u should check things out before shooting off your mouth!!!!??
Fuck you Factchecker. You piece of shit.
have moron it was under obozo that Merry Christmas was not allowed to be entertained in public schools. Christmas trees were not allowed to be decorated. We had to say Happy Holidays, thanks to haters and dopes like you for supporting the dumos.
We Christian have asked to be greeted with “MERRY CHRISTMAS” during the Christmas season but they claim it might be offensive to non-Christians.
T hats right!
You are 100% right, these people who gave the orders should be required to see the video of the muslim children saying they will cut the heads off of the infidels. It was scarry as hell.
Schools have no business getting involved in religion of any kind. Any school or district or state that requires pushing a particular religion needs to be punished. Islam is no more important than Catholic or Baptist or any other religion.
Schools for the last 130 years have increasingly taught the Religion Called Secular Progressive Humanism a worship of the State so they have been involved in teaching one religion its name Socialism/ Marxism/ as taught by Dewy and Later Saul Alinsky Alensky .
Your hen house and won’t print anything with the truth in it I won’t be receiving your mail anymore
Common sense has become a thing of the past. It is becoming much more difficult to understand their actions and to obtain their acceptance of discussion. Who is in charge who gave this direction, who and what are their connections. I would not doubt that islamic pressure is the answer.
This is a Christian nation. One nation under God in are pledge !!! If the atheist and muslims and any other religion dosent like it get the hell out of our country!!!
If it is a suggestion/rule year round for all religions– Merry Christmas, Happy Thanksgiving, a Blessed whatever—kind of nice–I’d do it–as long as I could do it for all, with a short explanation of the reason for celebrating.
To force anyone to do this, limiting it to one specific faith—is wrong.
This stupidity needs to be stopped immediately. If not, Christians and Jews should celebrate their special days in like manner.
I think your correct this is going to far an hope you win the case
I thought there were NO prayers offered in schools. Believe it or not – a blessing is just that, a prayer.
Prayers for all or prayers for none.
Whatta ya kiddin me?
Hypocrites!
If the schools cannot address other religions they should not address Muslims either! This is the problem with the UK right now where people cannot use or address Christian events or holidays but are expected to honor Muslim concerns and what might be offensive to them. A double standard is not acceptable!
When will they promote Sharia Law that’s next
They already do!! I’m some places they have already legalized the saria law in terms of allowing the procedures of destroying female genitals! I’m some areas in Europe they already have “saria courts”!
If the Muslins are going to come in here and go to our schools, then they should go by our rulers, not us change for theirs. If they don’t like it let them go back where ever they came from.
Not to my children if they aren’t Islam or they will be looking forward to a lawsuit.
Fire every last teacher, administrator and board official that even remotely considers this. No hearing, trials or excuses.
No Jew or Christian would favor this. Christians believe that Jesus is our savior and find Islam offensive. When you wrote Catholic you would be more accurate to either spell the word with a lower case see or write Christian. Christ is risen, he is risen indeed alleluia is common among Lutherans and other Christians not just Roman Catholics
Total B.S. Bring back The Lords Prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance and teach our students that instead. My child would not be attending school on these days. School at home on those days.
How stupid can we get? These people want to take over our country and we get one chance to either become Muslim or be killed. That’s the teaching of the Quran. Why are we running to the slaughter house and trying to force our children to do the same. Learn or be damned.
This is a Christian Nation! We’re prohibited from saying “Merry Christmas” so why are these unwelcome hate mongers getting preferential treatment?? They shouldn’t even be here. They are not welcome here. Send them back to the hell holes where they belong!
SIMPLE, as OBUMA said christians get off your high horse, but he didn’t Finnish it “and bring back the crusades” let’s all use this as the new call to arms, such as remember the twin towers.
These are the same people who insist on separation of church and state when it comes to anything Christian. This is appalling!
These Schools in Philadelphia and in many other States are brainwashing our Christian children into Anti-American Muslims. Islam is evil and they do not belong in The United States of America because they hate Christians and Jews. It is written in their Quran to kill all Christians and Jews as well as anyone that does not believe in Mohammed and Ala. This is an evil cult and not a religion.
If our teachers are required to give Ramadan blessing for the Muslin students then it SHOULD be not issue giving Jewish or Christian blessings. This one side political correctness is destroying or trying to re-write the blessing our country has been given!
All Muslems must recognize that the US has many Religious groups in this country and the Schools should not get involved in any one’s Religious beliefs. They must learn what is lawful so that they will know what’s required here. Break our laws, pay the penalty.
Close down that school district. They need to turn into a private Muslim academy. It does not belong in usa
What the hell are the DemReps uptown now. They them self’s passed the law of separating church and state now, it’s ok for one religion get special treatment, what the hell !
When confronted, the school district is claiming this is a fraudulent story, which I doubt. It also states that Fox created the story, which is also not necessarily accurate. What’s the story?
Oh please, Seattle, a disgrace to humanity. Traitors to America. Have no morals at all. Just stupid fools . Another state that could fall in the ocean.
Tell Cair where to go. HELL
F*CK THEM. Christians & Jews don’t get his privilege so why the f*ck should those animals get preferential treatment
Islam, by law, is prohibited from US immigration
The Immigration and Nationality Act passed June 27, 1952 revised the laws relating to immigration, naturalization, and
nationality for the United States. That act, which became Public Law 414, established both the law and the intent of Congress
regarding the immigration of Aliens to the US and remains in effect today. Among the many issues it covers, one in particular,
found in Chapter 2 Section 212, is the prohibition of entry to the US if the Alien belongs to an organization seeking to overthrow
the government of the United States by “force, violence, or other unconstitutional means.” This, by its very definition, rules out
Islamic immigration to the United States, but this law has been ignored by Obama’s regime White House and many Globalist politicians.
Islamic immigration to the US would be prohibited under this law because the Quran, Sharia Law and the Hadith all require complete submission to Islam,
which is antithetical to the US government, the Constitution, and to the Republic. All Muslims who attest that the Quran is their life’s
guiding principal subscribe to submission to Islam and its form of government. Now the politically correct crowd would say that
Islamists cannot be prohibited from entering the US because Islam is a religion. Whether it is a religion is immaterial because
the law states that Aliens who are affiliated with any “organization” that advocates the overthrow of our government are prohibited….
This insane push for Muslim preference is surely going to arouse the ire of the basic freedom loving americans.
This school committee should take a permanent lunch break. Come on residents, hold you school committee responsible and stop this nonsense.
They don`t have the pledge of allegiance to the flag anymore? In GOD we trust they want to remove that from our currency? They want to remove the 10 commandments from our courthouse buildings? Now they want to teach this Muslim crap to our children while we pay for it. Ask yourself why?
They want to remove the Confederate flag and statues of the men who transformed this country from the dark ages. Tell me when will the shooting start after there is another 100 million of these greasy cork sucking maggots show up? Yet these rats in cotton dresses can stop an assembly line to pray 6 times a day to Mohammad? I have to say this to all of you, government legislators, any other country would be calling this treason. In Iiran you would be given a quick trial either burned alive in a cage or had your head severed off. To all American citizens, this is exactly what they said they were going to do. To take over the world in small increments and they are doing this in plain sight. Take a good look at who`s behind this and you will find Islamic fundamentalist pulling the strings. This has got to stop now with bullets if necessary. These people will not assimilate and Thomas Jefferson our third president of our United States of America clear back in 1801-1809 realized this. They don`t belong here this is the land of the free. What happened to the = HOME OF THE BRAVE?
They won`t assimilate they expect you to bow to Allah or your head will be removed.
very prejudiced
Either recognize all religion is schools or none. In California schools there are no more holiday celebrations for Christmas and the rest. Easter holiday is now spring break. So no one, teacher s or students, should be forced to use Ramadan greetings or prayers. If Christians or Hebrew prayers are not permitted then no Muslim practice should be allowed either. You can’t have so called tolerance for one group and ignore another group, majority or minority.
I agree we should shut ALL Muslims from coming to this country, just shut it down, look at London and Paris, they are overrun and they are planning on taking over. If you are not a Muslim you are an infidel and death to all infidels. come on you stupid democrats and liberals you all are blind not seeing the truth here, I am a muslimphobe and proud maybe if there were more of us 911 may have not happened or any of their terrorist attacks. You demoncrats and liberals do not care unless it effects you, so the next time they strike or an illegal alien kills people I hope and pray that it is one of your loved ones, maybe then you might think it may not be a good thing to allow any of these sick people in.
This means my Catholic child is legally excused from school during Ramadan or any day Islamic ideology is taught. Since we are forbidden to worship false gods under the First Commandment, the school is abusing my child. Therefore I respectfully demand a home tutor at the district’s expense.
Anyone supporting muslims, will be in for a shock
when sharia takes hold of every inch of life.
Then America will wake up, and say we don’t want you here anymore.
Read the quran, it’s a real wake up call.
This crap is happening everywhere in America.
I totally agree with the blessing. Give them one. A LEAD one.
Piss on those worthless bastar**.This is still America, I think. We don’t owe them a damn thing.
Islam is about me, myself and I first and foremost, not about unconditional love as described in 1 Corinthians 13
don’t waste you time with these lice two in the head!
hello my reply won’t be shown – pu##ies!
I can’t believe what I’m reading! In America Muslims want their children to be taught their beliefs but a Christian can’t say a prayer or the pledge of allegiance with the word “God “! We are being invaded by people that don’t respect or even like Americans! Our country has been so accepting of different cultures but taking advantage of Americans, this has to stop!! Assimilate the American ideology or leave. We are being insulted in the name of “diversity “ – Please do not give in by saying people in districts have a right to teach their children what they want – WRONG – I pay taxes and it’s a public school!! Because a child is born in America does not give a child or person the right to dictate their way of living or culture! They need to leave and go to their country of acceptance for their ideology! America has a Constitution founded on Christianity! District is not a reason to to change policies or the rules of all Americans to accommodate the Muslim population!
I am an American who loves her American way of life! It’s scary to think my grandchildren will not have a life in America as I have had. Muslims goal is to make America another Muslim country as they have in all of Europe!!
This is not approtate as we are a Christian nation. what will they want next. No to this
This is absolutely crazy. Why and who wants to give them preferential treatment when Christians and other religions don’t receive this type of B. S.
Where is the ACLU? Why aren’t they suing for separation of church & state?
I think this is disgusting. We a judeo Christian country. Those are our roots. If the muslims dont like our ways they can leave. Judeo Christian students should not have to deal with this nonsense. School curriculum should not be based on Muslim holidays. Shame on this district and the muslims. This needs to be stopped now.
Maybe she needs to go back to school to study the Constitution? Muslims are given preferential treatment in many school districts. Why I have no idea, other than the PC crowd, and why it is PC is also beyond me?
In the 60’s schools insisted they had to remove God and all religion from the classroom. They declared the schools could not be in a place to teach or advocate any type of morality or code of conduct. At the time, many of us said, “You don’t have a choice between teaching/enforcing a moral code and not doing so. The only question is WHAT moral code are your going to teach?
History has proven which group was correct in their assessment.
Islam is a religion of violence and requires its followers to kill Americans!!! Anyone who follows Islam cannot be an American citizen because they would have to kill all non Muslim Americans!!! The only way they should be allowed to enter our country is when they publicly denounce Islam and Allah!!!
Parents grab your kids and run
I am glad to see that a law suit has already been filed in this case.
That should this in its tracks.
However, this kind of thing is happening all over the USA right now.
In this case someone brought this to the attention of somebody who got it the attention the Freedom of Conscience organization, but, there needs to be more awareness by parents, teachers, school staff workers and students on this stuff so that this kind of intimidation and lawlessness can be addressed.
The schools have to be fair for everyone.
No group is owed any type of special rights over any other group.
I do believe there is room in our schools for God.
But, with everything that is happening in the USA these days there would be no time for anything else but religion.
Our schools would do much better to concentrate on the STEM curriculum and forget about all the “Social Justice” nonsense, which they usually screw up anyway.
Make our schools Great again and make our kids the smartest in the world again.
As the saying goes, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.” If teachers are urged or required to give greetings and blessings in Arabic or Farsi to Muslim students for Ramadan, they should also be urged or required to give greetings and blessing to Christian students for Easter and Christmas (in Latin for Catholics and English or Spanish for Protestants, depending on their native language) and in Hebrew during Hanukkah, Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.
We need to start with the Lords Prayer instead of Rmadan Blessings! Are you people gone nuts! Muslims hae been terrotizing our country for years, and now we accept their faith! Who is the idiot who thought this would be a great Idea ? Omar herself!
The first duty of islam is to take over the world, no religion has a priority in my United States, no one is forcing muslims to live here, if you don’t like our laws and the way we live, go home……. separation of church and state is our law!
absolutely NOT. seattle school board needs to be re-vamped and replace these traitorous idiots. This is NOT the middle east and we don’t bless anything that has nothing to do with Christian values. The really either conform to the US Standards or GET OUT of America….PERIOD
Get used to this and numerous other abominable practices. This is just another display of what is known as “Marxist social philosophy” that has invaded our lives and has been treated as being wonderful (“progressive”) by subversives, the deceived and the ignorant. . 3- basic goals are #1 Illimination of private property # 2 Illimination of middle class # 3 Destruction of Christian church. Our country was formed upon the Judaeo / Christian foundation. Marxists must elevate the Muslim religion. They must break down our country into various groups and create major division and strife between them. Patriotism is a totally foreign idea.
Carl hit it right on the nose. If we don’t WAKE UP to what’s going on around us, one day SOON there will be NO GOING BACK! They will have FULLY TAKEN OVER, and that is their goal. Look at what they are accomplishing in the White House. We NEED to COME TOGETHER as a nation and not let them continue to separate us. USA ALL THE WAY!
They must follow the state rules and don’t allow the Muslims to change the rules in our schools. Muslims should not be able to pray in our schools since Christians are not allowed for prayers in our schools for our students. Muslims are not different than our children!!!
Folks You can “thank” Barack Obama for bringing thousands of Muslims to this country. Thousands more were slated to arrive before the present Administration started enforcing immigration restraints. Thank the Good Lord. they did. The Muslim agenda is to take over the world. It has been since the 700’s. Fortunately, the Holy Crusades put a stop to it back then. Non-Muslim citzens of this country need to start educating their family and friends about the Muslim theology. Anybody can google articles about the Koran and Shiria Law to educate themselves. I am truly afraid we are on our way to another Civil War in this country. Non-Muslim against Muslim. People if you have young persons in your home talk to them about what Islam stands for. If they are in school they are not too young to know why we don’t worship Allah. Talk to your teenagers tell them why we need to vote against people who want to take away “our rights” and force us to accept their way of life over what our Forefathers fought and died to preserve. Tell your teenagers why Socialism is a pipe dream and is no way substainable. Above all start praying for this country and encourage everyone you know to do the same.