Does the ACLU Believe in the Separation of Mosque and State?
Posted on April 9, 2008
The ACLU says they are actually looking into this I’m absolutely shocked they would even make a statement like this. I’ll be even more shocked if they actually file suit on this. They usually only apply separation of church and state issues to Christianity.
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.
Students pray daily, the cafeteria serves halal food - permissible under Islamic law — and “Islamic Studies” is offered at the end of the school day.
Just subsitute everywhere it says Muslim with Christian, and mosque with chapel and you should realize exactly how quick the ACLU and like groups would be jumping up and down with lawsuits.
The department is set up to operate on a “complaint basis,” and “since 2004, we haven’t gotten a single complaint about TIZA,” Brown said. In 2004, he sent two letters to the school inquiring about religious activity reported by visiting department staffers and in a news article. Brown was satisfied with Zaman’s assurance that prayer is “voluntary” and “student-led,” he said. The department did not attempt to confirm this independently, and did not ask how 5- to 11-year-olds could be initiating prayer. (At the time, TIZA was a K-5 school.)
TIZA’s operation as a public, taxpayer-funded school is troubling on several fronts. TIZA is skirting the law by operating what is essentially an Islamic school at taxpayer expense. The Department of Education has failed to provide the oversight necessary to catch these illegalities, and appears to lack the tools to do so. In addition, there’s a double standard at work here — if TIZA were a Christian school, it would likely be gone in a heartbeat.
Oh, you betcha! There would be groups like the ACLU and Freedom From Religion all up in arms, threatening expensive lawsuits in order to shut down anything that vaguely resembles Christian doctrine.
I’m all for the 1st Amendment. If one taxpayer funded school is going to focus on Islam, then other taxpayer funded schools should be able to teach Christianity and Bible based lessons, or the Torah, or any number of the various religions which are dominant in this country. All, or none!
The ACLU is looking into it??? What a laugh. It’s not a Christian school so it will be overlooked.
Also see Michelle Malkin
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Could it be that it is a private school? Why are you so scared of your own religion? It seems like your devotion to your religion is being threatened by another faith? Keep your faith in your hearts and in your minds. If your faith is complete, you would not care at all about another religion - for you have your own. If your faith is shaken - or was never there in the first place, I can see where you would be frightened of another faith. I believe you are posers. Posing before God and all who believe. I was reviewing domestic violence statistics the other day, and those who inflict violence on their spouses almost always note that they are religous. Would Jesus beat up his wife? The republican brand is broken - W made sure of that. Future generations will view the republican name as being the same as a criminal enterprise. W sure was a uniter, huh? He united the entire planet against us.
Hey idiot…its not a private school…its a public one.
Tom - thanks for missing the point entirely. While the adults around here are interested in holding everyone to the same high standard, you’re busy equivocating for Muslims who want to impose Sharia law calling for the beating of wives who disobey their male overlords. WTF?
Typical retort from a liberal who hates before it thinks. That’s why the Democratic party has nothing to offer but surrender and vitriol. Who is the party that stands for dignity today? It’s the party willing to fight for it - the Republican party.
It’s sepAration. I love your website, but misspellings, especially in a headline, are a no-no.
Just as a stopped mechanical watch actually displays the right time 2 seconds out of 86,400 in a day, the ACLU actually does seem to fight for actual civil liberties with about the same proportional frequency. This seems to be one of those rare occasions.