Over at Hotair. Robert Spencer hosts.

Remember that tax payer supported religious school in Minnesota? The one that for 5 years never raised an American flag on its flag pole paid for by the tax payers of Minnesota because the staff said, ‘they did…

“Thanks to our generous volunteer editor, we’ve got a new Jihad Watch. Robert Spencer counters the slick deflection strategy of the “Islamophobia” complainers trying to distract from the public policy debate over Minnesota’s publicly-funded sharia school:”

Thank you Robert Spencer, for your hard work, and dedication for keeping the American public informed about the evils of Islamofascism. It’s important to keep people like Daniel Pipes, Wafa Sultan, and yourself from EVER becoming silenced!

Fox News is running a story today about a Jihadist, anti-American blog that supports Al Qaeda, praises Osama bin Laden, and calls for the killing of American soldiers. What is particularly outrageous is the fact that the blogger is not in the Middle East or Pakistan; he is right here in America.

Samir Khan is a 22-year-old, who lives with his family in an upscale Charlotte, North Carolina neighborhood. He immigrated to this country with his family from Saudi Arabia when he was 7 and began the site when he was a student at Central Piedmont Community College. The blog is called Revolution.Muslimpad.com. Not only does Khan condemn our country, he rails against non-Muslims as well, according to the article. What arrogance!

I have linked the news story to the Fousesquawk site and will keep it up for the foreseeable future. This is just another example of a 5th column that we have allowed to come to this country, reap its benefits, spit in our face, and advocate the killing of our soldiers. If this creep is now a citizen, do we not have sedition laws that could be used here? Or is this another example of free speech accompanied by political correctness and a fear of offending Muslims-no matter how radical and anti-American they may be?

Are we now going the way of the UK and other European countries that are bowing and scraping to a radical presence in our midst-one that is devoted to our very destruction?

This story deserves the widest dissemination possible.

posted by Gary Fouse @ 8:45 PM 0 Comments

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Below is a news release from Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)

Also thanks to Jonathan Constantine and Reut Cohen at Red County blog.

Department of Education Reopens Case Against UC Irvine
Posted by: Jonathan Constantine | 06/06/2008 3:27 PM

ZOA has the details:

June 6, 2008

Contact Morton A. Klein at: 917-974-8795 or 212-481-1500

Attn: NEWS EDITOR

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INITIATES NEW INVESTIGATION INTO

UC IRVINE’S RESPONSE TO CAMPUS ANTI-SEMITISM

By letter to the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) dated April 25, 2008, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has indicated that it will be investigating several incidents of alleged anti-Semitic harassment, intimidation and discrimination that occurred in May 2007, at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). The ZOA had brought these incidents to OCR’s attention almost one year ago, asserting that the incidents show that UCI has continued to respond ineffectively to campus anti-Semitism, in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI). Title VI requires that recipients of federal funding (like UCI) ensure that their programs and activities are free discrimination based on “race, color, or national origin.” If the recipient is found to have violated Title VI, it can lose its federal funding.

The ZOA first brought UCI’s alleged violation of Title VI to OCR’s attention in October 2004, when the ZOA filed a Title VI complaint on behalf of Jewish students with OCR, the federal agency responsible for enforcing the law. The ZOA’s complaint alleged that Jewish students had been facing a longstanding pattern of anti-Semitic harassment and hostility on the campus, and that UCI had failed to respond effectively to the problem, in violation of its obligations under Title VI. After reviewing the ZOA’s allegations, OCR decided that an investigation into UCI’s conduct was warranted.

In the course of that investigation, the ZOA furnished OCR with evidence about several incidents of harassment that had occurred at UCI as late as May 2007. The ZOA repeatedly urged OCR to interview witnesses with pertinent information about these incidents. Even though these incidents were relevant to the allegations of the ZOA’s October 2004 complaint asserting a pattern or practice of anti-Semitic discrimination at UCI, OCR refused to investigate the incidents or to interview crucial witnesses.

OCR typically resolves Title VI complaints within 180 days after they are filed. It took OCR more than three years to issue a decision on the ZOA’s October 2004 complaint. In November 2007, when OCR finally issued its decision, it absolved UCI of wrongdoing. It was plain from the decision that OCR had applied a narrower interpretation of Title VI than the one that OCR had said it would enforce when it issued two policy statements in the fall of 2004. At that time, OCR had made it clear that consistent with federal precedent recognizing that Jews were a racial or national origin group for purposes of affording civil rights protections, OCR would likewise protect Jewish students from anti-Semitic harassment under Title VI. Later, under new leadership at OCR, that policy was whittled down, so that Jewish students would no longer be afforded the protections of Title VI as a racial or national origin group.

OCR’s decision in November 2007 engendered deep concern from Members of both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, which was expressed in powerful letters to U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings. In the letter from U.S. Senators Arlen Specter (R-PA), Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Sam Brownback (R-KS) – all three of whom are Members of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary – they questioned the decision that OCR reached in the ZOA’s case against UCI, and the interpretation of Title VI that OCR had applied in the case. According to the Senators, OCR’s conclusion in the ZOA’s case “is inconsistent with its prior policy statements.” The Senators asked probing questions of Secretary Spellings, including why there were witnesses “that the ZOA proffered . . . whom OCR did not interview.”

The letter from Members of the House also raised troubling concerns about OCR’s decision in the ZOA’s case, and demanded answers from Secretary Spellings about whether OCR’s policy for enforcing Title VI was affording Jewish students the protections they need. U.S. Representatives Brad Sherman (D-CA), Linda Sanchez (D-CA), Steven Rothman (D-NJ), Allyson Schwartz (D-PA), Robert Wexler (D-FL) and Shelley Berkley (D-NV) emphasized that OCR’s conclusion in the ZOA’s case “reversed OCR policy, as clarified in 2004, of protecting Jews against anti-Semitism.”

The leadership of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the umbrella group for more than 50 national Jewish organizations across the religious and political spectrums, also criticized OCR’s decision in the ZOA’s case against UCI. In a letter to Stephanie Monroe, the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education, the Presidents’ Conference urged OCR to reconsider its decision in the ZOA’s case. The decision “will affect Jewish students not only at UCI, but also at other colleges and universities across the United States. At a time when reports of anti-Semitic harassment and intimidation on college campuses is [sic] increasing, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), whose mission is to redress racial and ethnic discrimination, should be seeking to expand the protections of the law.”

When, in the April 25, 2008 letter, OCR notified the ZOA about the new investigation of incidents that occurred at UCI in May 2007, OCR indicated that it had determined that several of the ZOA’s allegations “are appropriate for investigation under the laws enforced by OCR. . . . We will contact you soon to discuss the allegations and complaint resolution process.”

Morton A. Klein, the ZOA’s National President, and Susan B. Tuchman, Esq., the Director of the ZOA’s Center for Law and Justice, said, “We are pleased to know that the Office for Civil Rights is finally looking into incidents that the ZOA brought to OCR’s attention almost one year ago. The witnesses who were ready and willing to come forward at that time are just as eager to furnish information to OCR now. As we did during OCR’s first investigation, we stand ready to assist the agency in every way possible.

“Since the time that OCR issued its decision in November 2007, OCR has gotten the clear message from Members of the House and the Senate, and from the Presidents’ Conference, that OCR’s narrower interpretation of Title VI is of deep concern. We hope that OCR will rethink that more restrictive policy. When it conducts this new investigation, we urge OCR to keep an open mind and apply the policy it clarified in 2004 – that OCR would protect Jewish students from anti-Semitic harassment under Title VI. As the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights recognized in April 2006, Jewish students are entitled to the protections of Title VI, and the Office for Civil Rights should be vigorously enforcing the law to ensure that they are protected.”

Fousesquawk comment: This is certainly good news. Hopefully, they will also go into 2008.

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CAIR’s double talk equals double cross. Beware before buying into CAIR’s version of islam, the penalty for speaking the truth is the same as martyrdom.

You are kidding, right?

Johan Klaus on June 7, 2008 at 12:16 AM

Nope. Look at his response to me. That’ll tell you everything you need to know.

thuja on June 6, 2008 at 9:42 PM

I’m pretty sure that more than 5 Clintonites have read both our posts, as well as the starting thread (probably including you). Furthermore, I never mentioned him smokescreening islamofascism: YOU did (”…explain to five people who have a high opinion of Bill Clinton how Bill Clinton used bluster to avoid talking about real issues and by the way Islamofascism is a real threat…”), genius. I specifically said that it wasn’t uncommon for him to use bluster to cover issues that he didn’t want to get into (”…Clinton used bluster and bullcrap to avoid answering interview questions, hiding them under a cover of false righteous indignation…”). YOU, with your profound lack of reading comprehension (which got this whole thing started, in the first place) tried to turn this into an issue of Clinton using his decietful nature to prevent people from realizing “…Islamofascism is a real threat…”. However, it’s obvious you want another example of Clinton’s blustery bullcrap, designed to prevent him from answering questions. I’ll give you two.

1: His tyrade against Chris Wallace, when asked about bin-Laden. (The example that you were whining about, in the first place.)

2: “I did not have sexual relations with that woman”.

There.

Now get yourself a dictionary, grab an encyclopedia, open wikipedia, read this over a few days until you finally understand it’s content, and go back to school. Maybe after that, you’ll learn that you can’t twist other peoples’ words (like Clinton would) and get away with it.

hat the hell was that photo of Bill Clinton, still admired and revered by many Democrats and Independents, doing at the end of the video? thuja on June 6, 2008 at 6:35 PM

You are kidding, right?

Ok, Virux-X, I invite you to put ideas in practice. Why don’t you go explain to five people who have a high opinion of Bill Clinton how Bill Clinton used bluster to avoid talking about real issues and by the way Islamofascism is a real threat, Please return with a report of your success in convincing them of the Islamofascist threat. Or if that’s too hard explain to five people who like Bill Clinton why he’s horrible person and try to get them to buy ice cream from you.

HA TV, welcome back!

shooter on June 6, 2008 at 12:27 PM

Ditto,
It’s only been a year and 12 day’s. It seems like a lot longer than that.
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Thanks Robert, not only for your wisdom but for your bravery.

thuja on June 6, 2008 at 6:35 PM

You can’t be as unintelligent as you sound. It was quite obvious as to why Slick Willy’s picture was displayed, and it even SAID why the picture was used, IN THE VIDEO. The lamentations of the islamists involved in the alleged “…death threats…” are a smokescreen that’s being used to deflect from the real issue: spreading a corrosive, false religion on America’s soil, with American money, and obeying not a one of America’s rules of law. Clinton used bluster and bullcrap to avoid answering interview questions, hiding them under a cover of false righteous indignation, just as these muslim 5th Columnists in MN. are doing, right now. Geez, get a clue, genius, and go back to Democratic Underground and Daily Kos, or something.

If Robert Spenser is merely using the specter of Islamofascism as a cheap political ploy for political gains for the right, I strongly urge him to quit his job now. Let someone take his place who actually cares about the dangers of Islamofascism and wants to the win the war the Islamofascists and not today’s political battle with the Democrats.

This country was founded under Christan principles….
the first amendment speaks to “Freedom of religion…not freedom FROM religion”….it never ceases to amaze me how that FACT is lost…to so many well meaning people…

Cut off all funding immediately. If people want to train their kids as live ammunition they should do so with their own money.

Another plug for either elimination of government funding of schools or a voucher program that lets people spend their education dollars as they see fit. These situations are avoided when the government stays out of private decisions.

Mark Jaquith on June 6, 2008 at 12:49 PM

I have no problem with private schools, or vouchers, as long as no tax payer money is used to support religious training. The madrassa under consideration here is supposed to be a public school and thus devoid of religion.

On the other hand if one wants christian school prayer in public schools then prayer rugs and foot baths must also be allowed.

I say, deport them all now before it’s too late!!!!

The FBI are pretty sharp, it won’t take long for them to determine the threats were not real and just a diversion from the real issue, Minnesota’s publicly-funded sharia school.

One of the local radio hosts thought that it was “great” for the kids to be exposed to “all religions”. Yeah, it would be great if that were actually what was happening but the current environment of Islam being more equal than all the others makes the situation a little more complicated than that.

Sorta reminds me of Mrs. Obama: “For the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country.”

ps. Our anonymous video editor has a sense of humor! Well done.

From:
Charter school makes changes after Islamic accusation
KSTP-TV Ch. 5, 04/10/2008
http://kstp.com/article/stories/S408718.shtml

A Twin Cities charter school is making changes after accusations that it endorsed Islamic studies at taxpayer expense. Since 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS investigated TIZA Academy in Inver Grove Heights on Wednesday, the school’s attorney has said several changes would be made. The most noticeable — an American flag now flies over the school for the first time since the academy was founded in 2003. The attorney told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS that it was a difficult day for staff and parents, as people from across the country inundated the school with threats and messages of hate after hearing what substitute Amanda Getz, of Bloomington, said she observed at the school. TIZA Executive Director Azad Zaman insisted the school follows state and federal laws. “Frankly I actually don’t know how to work that flagpole. For five years it has sat empty,” he said Wednesday. Minnesota state law requires all public schools to fly the American flag while school is in session. Even though TIZA Academy raised the flag on Thursday, its lawyers insisted the flag law didn’t apply to charter schools.

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