SubscribeMuslims Run Off MN Student With Service Dog
You have probably heard about this preposterous situation already. But here are some further details from the Minnesota St. Cloud Times:
SCSU student leaves training at Technical High School
A St. Cloud State University student in a teacher-training program at Technical High School left the school in late April because he says he feared for the safety of his service dog.
The school district calls it a misunderstanding, and officials there say they hoped Tyler Hurd, a 23-year-old junior from Mahtomedi who aspires to teach special education, would continue his training in the district.
Hurd said a student threatened to kill his service dog named Emmitt. The black lab is trained to protect Hurd when he has seizures.
The seizures, which can occur weekly, are from a childhood injury.
The dog has a pouch on his side that assists those who stop to help Hurd.
Hurd said he was unable to finish his 50 hours of field training at Tech. The university waived the remaining 10 hours, he said. He plans to do his student teaching outside a high school setting.
“We came up with a solution because I felt threatened by it,” Hurd said.
The school district and university are working to make sure a similar situation doesn’t happen.
Kate Steffens, dean of the college of education at St. Cloud State, and Tech assistant principal Lori Lockhart met Thursday.
The threat came from a Somali student who is Muslim, according to Hurd, St. Cloud State and school district officials.
The Muslim faith, which is the dominant faith of Somali immigrants, forbids the touching of dogs.
Hurd trained at Talahi Community School and Tech. He said his experience at Talahi was good. The Somali students there warmed to the dog and eventually petted him using paper to keep their hands off his fur, Hurd said.
Things didn’t go as well at Tech, Hurd said. Students there taunted his dog, and he finally felt he had to leave after he was told a student made a threat. Hurd met with Lockhart but said he did not feel comfortable continuing.
Julia Espe, director of curriculum, instruction and assessment for St. Cloud school district, said the school needed to do a better job communicating.
“I think it was a misunderstanding where we didn’t really prepare either side for possible implications,” Espe said.
Espe said the school’s investigation determined the student did not make a direct threat.
“We certainly welcome (Hurd) in our district, and we hope we can get this all resolved so he feels welcome and his dog is welcome,” Espe said.
St. Cloud State places about 1,000 students in 240 schools to help prepare them for careers in education.
In St. Cloud school district, 330 are in the field training program Hurd was in and 94 are in student teaching.
Steffens said it is important to respect different cultures and the rights of disabled students.
“I think this is part of the growth process when we become more diverse,” Steffens said.
Steffens called Hurd a good student and committed young man.
Gary Loch, who is the diversity coordinator for the district, said the situation was an unfortunate case of miscommunication.
“I’m not quite sure where the breakdown comes into play here,” Loch said.
Yes, the Religion Of Peace (and Tolerance) strikes again.
“I think this is part of the growth process when we become more diverse,” Steffens said.
Mr. Steffens is an ass.
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May 13th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
So why don’t we insist that those Somali Muslims be required to take sensitivity training? Where is the ACLU? Why aren’t these hate-crime perpetrators behig hounded from the campus?
Wake up, America! We are being overthrown from within. I can’t wait for “the Movement” to become president. Stay tuned, there’s more to come.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Solution found… Muslim Body Condoms. Big huge condoms that Mooselimbs can wear so they can avoid touching: dogs… pigs… bacon… women… whatever else their religion forbids them to touch…
May 13th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
….”so they can avoid touching: dogs… pigs… bacon… women… whatever else their religion forbids them to touch…”
You forgot to mention reality!
May 13th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Keep pushing yiou refugee scum, I mean you refuse scum. It’s not a right to be in this country, it’s a privelage. Keep pushing and eventually you will get a real piece of what America is made of and you will regret your backwards, ungrateful actions. End of discussion. Oh, maybe except for GO BACK TO YOUR OWN SORRY ASSED COUNTRY.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
One state down, 56 more to go.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Shocking that a liberal diversity coordinator would label a direct threat as merely miscommunication.
By that definition, I’m sure the enlightened school administrators wouldn’t mind if Hurd returned with a starving doberman that just happened to slip his leash while passing by this Muslime.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Where is an angry pit bull when you need one…
May 13th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
This land is their land !
This land is their land !
From Kalifornistan to the D.C. ” island ”
This LAND is no longer for you and me .
Think I’ll quit smoking cigars and start smok’in mooselimbs instead .
May 14th, 2008 at 12:19 am
1st , glad to hear from you . Run out of candy-stripers already ? I mean nurse’s aids . You and SJ. are the angry pit bulls that we’ve come to love . If ya got the choppers it’s time to chew ! Haw !
May 14th, 2008 at 1:20 am
Espe said the school’s investigation determined the student did not make a direct threat.
Well, that’s nice. So instead of saying “I’m going to kill that dog” he said “someone should kill that dog”. I feel better already.
And isn’t it curious that there are no comments from any of the Somalis? I mean, I can understand that they wouldn’t want a comment from the one who made the ‘indirect’ threat, but isn’t it standard practice to have a “we would never threaten someone’s dog” comment from the accused parties? Is it possible they couldn’t find anyone who would disavow killing the dog? Nah - I’m sure that’s not it.
May 14th, 2008 at 1:23 am
Ah, something else to add to my idea for my new airline:
• Aroma of frying bacon on all flights
• Pork rinds served as in-flight snacks
• Dogs on all flights
I wonder how it would go over with safety-conscious Americans…
Though admittedly I’d enjoy seeing a religious liberties vs. the ADA case go through the courts on this.
May 14th, 2008 at 3:08 am
Rules For Muslims: Touching dogs: Absolutely not! (Kill them if necessary!) Killing your own 17-year-old daughter/sister, because she shamed you by talking to someone unlike you: Splendid idea! Now we know you’re one of us. Purchasing above-mentioned Body Condom: By all means, as long as profits go to Al-Qaeda.
May 14th, 2008 at 7:34 am
“Miscommunication?” “Indirect threat?” You mean like someone hanging a noose from a tree? Isn’t that an indirect threat? We all know how that one turned out.
Our country’s true patriots need to understand that the Liberal agenda isn’t one of tolerance, it’s purely an assault on the very foundations of the USA. They want to destroy our country as we know it. Muslims are just a tool to accomplish the destruction of our society. They hate America and they hate those of us that love it.
May 14th, 2008 at 7:55 am
This could have been easily solved~! Send the Somali student back home without graduating because his religious intolerance wasnt “diverse” enough.
OR…….Send the Somali student to the local dog pound, strip him naked, smear him in bacon grease, duct tape a sausage pizza to his winky, and throw him in the “bad dog” cage.
OR…….Show the Somali muslim the beauty of diversity by caving in his effing skull with two different kinds of tater sticks. Show him that we are tolerant of everyone but death loving muslims.
May 14th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Those filthy scum would not be allowed to touch my dog through paper. That’s just freaking stupid. Then again, I wouldn’t want their filthy hands touching my dog’s fur. I guess they would just have to stay the hell away from my dog. Freaks.
May 14th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
This is what we face.
This is what the Democrats will surrender to, given the chance.
If this guy had faced a threat because he buggered goats on Main street in a negligee, the school would have bent over backwards to make sure nobody dared even speak a cross word to him. If he’d claimed to be threatened by a Christian, no matter how obviously false the claim, the school would be going bugnuts right now and the Anti-Christian Litigation Union would be filing lawsuits already–look at how much press that idiot Mirecki got with his BS. But since it’s anti-American people threatening him, they get a pass.
Democrats DO realize that Islam’s goal is the destruction of America. That’s why they give it a pass.
May 14th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
-”Wake up, America! We are being overthrown from within.’- So the moral of this sorid story is that the disabled American born citizen is forced to leave his education/Americandreamgoal/life because some islime foreigners threatened the one thing that gives him independance and assistance. . .
I will dash off an email to that insane and stupid ‘college’ for allowing this to happen.
And yes, JohnMG - you are right - there is a difference between tolerance and absolute insane stupidity. . .which is going to get us killed.
Vote Libertarian - none of the big 3 ‘presumptive’ candidates will stop this erosion of our Constitution and American sovereignty - heck they all want to sell us out, it will just be a matter of degree as to how fast.
May 14th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
So when does the prosecution of the Somalis for a hate crime begin..??
Oh damn, my bad, Mr. Hurd isn’t one of the liberals precious protected classes so therefor, viola, no hate crime exists. In this case, the Somalis are the protected class. Being mooselimb, they can do no wrong in the eyes of the libtards.
Deport these a**clowns back to Somali so they can hate dogs all they want in their own little cesspool of a country.
“Sausage pizza on his winky”, that’s a nice touch SJ, LOL.
May 14th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Gary Loch, who is the diversity coordinator for the district, said the situation was an unfortunate case of miscommunication.
“I’m not quite sure where the breakdown comes into play here,” Loch said.
“I think this is part of the growth process when we become more diverse,” Steffens said.
How PC of these two capitulating cowards, and how nice the article is to print Mr. Hurds name and leave out the Muslimes name!
Maybe a few gun clingers could give the muslime a visit if they had a name and address!
May 14th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
That’s it! The time has arrived to start dipping my ammo in pig’s blood. The ONLY thing missing from this story would have been finding out that Hurd’s father or mother is a disabled veteran.
What ever happened to the American’s With Disabilities Act? “Section 504 states that “no qualified individual with a disability in the United States shall be excluded from, denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under” any program or activity that either receives Federal financial assistance or is conducted by any Executive agency or the United States Postal Service.” Unless I’ve missed something St.Cloud University receives Federal Funding, therefore this and many other parts of the ADA apply to them.
What a load of …
May 15th, 2008 at 12:09 am
When will the rule of law apply to illegals or libtards ? Gosh ! When you make a living by breaking our laws , why not start making your own too .Hell , is that hat your wearing 3rd world enough ? We don’t allow animals to better our lives either . All this from a make believe religion of peace , and those that profit from this kind garbage . I would have taken Habeb’s goat to the woodshed on this one . Two go out , only one comes back . Are we all to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to this maddness ?