SubscribeTV News Crew Attacked At MN Muslim School
From the local ABC affiliate in Minneapolis, MN, KSTP:
News crew attacked during report at TiZA charter school
05/19/2008
By: Nicole Muehlhausen, Web ProducerThe state education department on Monday directed a Minnesota charter school to “correct” two areas related to religion at the school on Monday.
Tarik ibn Zayad Academy, which focuses on Middle Eastern culture and shares a mosque with the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, came under fire after a teacher alleged that the school was offering religious instruction in Islam to its students.
“The Minnesota Department of Education goes to great lengths to make clear to charter schools and their sponsors that, while schools should appropriately accomodate students’ religious beliefs, they must be ‘nonsectarian’ under the state’s charter school law,” said the state’s education Deputy Commissioner Chas Anderson.
The allegations first surfaced after an article by a columnist for the Star Tribune. The Education Department subsequently began a review of the suburban Inver Grove Heights school and released its findings Monday.
The agency said it was concerned about the school, with about 300 students, accommodating communal prayer and providing transportation to an after-school religious program.
“We have directed the school to take appropriate corrective actions regarding these matters and will continue to provide oversight to ensure that the school is in compliance with state and federal law,” Anderson said.
In an attempt to report about the new findings from the Department of Education, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS went to TiZA. While on school grounds, our crew was attacked by school officials. Our photographer was injured while wrestling with the two men over the camera.
Our photographer was examined by paramedics and suffered minor injuries.
Shocking, is it now?
(Thanks to Rakkasan for the heads up.)
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May 19th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Watch how CAIR will try to spin this to a “hate crime” by the media. If that video gets out first, that would do a lot to blunt their lies. Will it?
May 19th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
where are the assault charges? oh, thats right, the school officials are probably muslim, so they could not possibly be guilty of assault. Heck, to even suspect them is a profiling hate crime. Got video evidence? nope, must have just been a misunderstanding. thats not a video of an assault, they must have thought the reporters were there for a demonstration of the new wrestling coach’s prowess.
May 20th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Why does the state ed dept. give them a warning to correct things? They ought to just yank the funding. In the unlikely event the school turned into a normal school, theycould reinstate the funding.
May 20th, 2008 at 4:10 am
Ah, so this is where Keith Ellison D-Mn went to school. Glad to see my tax dollars being spent wisely on the “Religion of Peace”. Shalom all of you tolerant dumb @$$es. Multiculteralism to the grave.
May 20th, 2008 at 7:07 am
see arkansaw? This is why.
May 20th, 2008 at 7:16 am
Tarik ibn Zayad Academy has an hour of communal prayer on Friday and the buses don’t arrive until one hour after school is out - after an hour of Muslim study. This is another case where you can replace a word with Christian and we have a national crises of separation of church and state in our public school system.
Any school, even mainstream universities, may teach or preach if the message is America and it’s Christian culture should be hated and eventually overthrown. Teachers may defy normal academic discipline while pushing wild conspiracy theories as long as the lesson instills resentment of this country. Any enemy is given the same liberty and we see this pattern in all walks of life, which is why they will get away with this even if they have to make some fake appeasement gestures. The Minnesota Department of Education (along with our media and government) are the reason this school exist to begin with.
May 20th, 2008 at 7:31 am
Now imagine, just for a moment, that there was a Baptist charter school, somewhere down here in Alabama, that was holding services in the school and attacking reporters.
GuppyNBlue only touched on the beginning of it–we’d have a national crisis if we were lucky enough not to have a fire.
May 20th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Take it one step better Redneck. Imagine if the reporter and cameraman were Black!
Would Al Sharpton show up?
May 20th, 2008 at 10:16 am
–Would Al Sharpton show up?–
I dunno. If a crime’s actually been committed, he’s not all that eager. It’s the fake crimes that he’s got a real hard-on for.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:24 am
This one really should blow up in their faces.
;)
May 21st, 2008 at 1:25 am
Pun not intended, I hope….