Muslim group CAIR has hijacked Michigan school system

[Roger Bacon]

Muslim group CAIR has hijacked Michigan school system
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/06/06/muslim-group-cair-has-hijacked-michigan-school-system-74914
June 6, 2013 by Michael Dorstewitz 17 Comments

The Council on American-Islamic Relations apparently believes in freedom of religion for itself, but freedom from religion for all other faiths, and has the audacity to impose this cockeyed reasoning on Michigan’s public schools.

In April, CAIR’s Michigan chapter demanded that a Detroit-area school district essentially advocate one particular religion — Islam — over all others.

CAIR lodged its complaint against the Dearborn School District, claiming that the school system didn’t accommodate Muslim students wishing to participate in prayer on school grounds.

After CAIR staff met with Dearborn Public Schools Superintendent Brian Whiston, the district “implemented a policy which fully accommodates student-led prayer in all the schools,” according to the Arab-American News.

After the Dearborn public school system rolled over to its demands, CAIR is expanding its efforts. “CAIR-MI is currently in discussion with Melvindale Public Schools to get similar accommodations for students that are now in place for Dearborn Public Schools,” according to the same report.

Making CAIR’s demands to allow for in-school prayer especially hypocritical was an even that took place in October.

The very same Michigan chapter of CAIR sent a letter to the Roseville Public School system complaining that permission slips were being handed out so that students could attend Bible classes, according to a CAIR press release.

The classes were not held on school property, but rather at a local Baptist church. In addition. the school didn’t provide transportation to or from the Bible classes, and attendance didn’t excuse the students from keeping up with their regular school work.

Nonetheless, CAIR-MI Executive Director Dawud Walid found the practice objectionable, and wrote:

"School staff and teachers are not to serve as advocates for one particular religion or congregation within a religion by passing out slips inviting parents to give permission for their children to attend religious instruction. . . According to the United States Supreme Court, the First Amendment clearly requires that public school students and their parents are never given the impression that their school/school district prefers a specific religion over others or sanctions religion in general."

[GigantorX]

This is why we have a separation of church and state.

No religion in public school. I wonder what would have happened if a group of Christians came to the board and asked to be allowed to pray an hold bible classes and not the Muslims.

We must "accommodate" Islam, everywhere and every demand. What a joke.

If you want religion in public schools move back to the M.E.

[Archer77]

Dearborn is a mini-middle east.  You'd be surprised what its like.   A lot of Arabs Muslims but also a lot of Chaldean people.

[Roger Bacon]

I wonder what would have happened if a group of Christians came to the board and asked to be allowed to pray an hold bible classes and not the Muslims.

That's happened before I believe, and the left went berserk.  MSNBC and the ACLU were on the case within 24 hours.