From the San Francisco Chronicle, with thanks to Green:
Three former leaders of a defunct California charter school network have been arrested for allegedly embezzling public funds, the state Department of Justice said Monday after a three-year investigation.The Fresno-based GateWay Academy operated 14 public schools, with some as far away as Oakland and Pomona (Los Angeles County). State agents raided GateWay in January 2002 after The Chronicle discovered a GateWay school in Sunnyvale charging tuition and teaching Islam while taking state funding -- a violation of church and state separation.
Although state officials said the arrest warrant was sealed and they couldn't elaborate on the alleged felonies, almost three years ago state agents were looking at documents obtained by The Chronicle showing GateWay inflated enrollment in Sunnyvale and Oakland to recoup more state per-pupil funding, hired convicted felons to work in the classroom, and withdrew large amounts of money from the school bank account....
Last Tuesday, state agents arrested former GateWay Superintendent Khadijah Ghafur, chief administrative officer Naazim Hamed, and board member Kehinde Solwazi, according to Nathan Barankin, spokesman for the state attorney general.
The state charged Ghafur, 54, and Solwazi, 63, with several criminal counts of theft of public funds and grand theft. Hamed, 57, faces one count of grand theft.
Ghafur also is accused of failing to file tax returns, and all three face special allegations of taking funds and property exceeding $150,000, according to court documents.
All three were taken into custody and released shortly after posting bail. They are scheduled to be arraigned in Fresno County Superior Court on Dec. 9....
In December 2001, The Chronicle revealed that GateWay was charging tuition and teaching from the Quran at Silicon Valley Academy in Sunnyvale. The school maintained a Web site with an enrollment form and fee schedule, which parents in the parking lot confirmed they used to pay $400 a month to send their children to the school....
Ghafur sued the school district for $6.5 million, charging that anti- Muslim sentiment after the Sept. 11 attacks led to her school network's downfall.
Good job. Now if the teaching of Islam/Muslim doctrine can be taken totally out of all the public schools, it will be a benefit.
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August 9, 2004 / 22 Menachem-Av, 5764
Why not say it bluntly? Islam is an aggressive, violent political ideology
By Zev Chafets
The two men arrested in Albany for allegedly taking part in a terrorist plot were men of G-d. So friends and neighbors have been telling reporters. Mohammed Mosharref Hossain was a pillar of the local congregation. Yassin Muhiddin Aref was a prayer leader. They called their mosque the House of Peace.
The mosque belongs to the North American Islamic Trust, which runs many other mosques in the U.S. The trust is funded mostly by the Saudis. It has other enterprises, too, including a book club. One of its featured offerings is "Jihad: A Commitment to World Peace."
Or if you are not a reader, you can express commitment to jihad in action. Like the Albany warriors who, the government charges, signed up to help gun down a senior Pakistani diplomat on the streets of New York City, using a shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile.
The upstate jihadis are not unique. On the contrary, they are just the latest in a long and growing list of local Islamic "spiritual leaders" and national Muslim leaders who have been implicated in terrorist activity.
Take Abdurahman Alamoudi, for example, founder of the American Muslim Council (hailed in 2002 by FBI chief Robert Mueller as "the most mainstream Muslim group" in the U.S.).
Alamoudi faces up to 23 years in prison for "engaging in illegal business deals" with Libya. What kind of deals? According to court documents, he was part of a plot to murder the Saudi crown prince.
Then there are the three leaders of America's largest Muslim charity, the Holy Land Foundation. They are awaiting trial in Dallas on a 42-count federal indictment for funneling millions of dollars to Islamic terrorist groups in the Middle East.
The head of another major Islamic charity, Benevolence International Foundation of Illinois, was recently convicted of sending funds to Islamic terrorist groups in Bosnia and Chechnya. And so on and so forth.
At this point, I'm supposed to add The Caveat: Most American Muslims are peaceable, law-abiding, terror-hating folks. Islam itself is a "religion of peace."
Sorry, but I'm no longer convinced. It may be that Islam in its true form is as gentle as a lamb. But in the real world, it is an aggressive, violent political ideology. It may also be that a majority of U.S. Muslims object to the jihad being waged against infidel Christians, Jews, Hindus, atheists, agnostics and democrats of all denominations. But if so, they are keeping it to themselves.
After Abdurahman Alamoudi's confession of guilt, his lawyer, Stanley Cohen, warned that "there are those people who will seek to manipulate this plea into an attack on the entire Muslim community."
The Muslim establishment in America uses this form of intellectual jujitsu every time one of its leaders gets caught conducting holy war. Mosques and Muslim schools and institutions are hotbeds of agitation and terrorism? Why, just making the charge is a hate crime.
This trick has worked amazingly well on Americans who pride themselves on pluralism and good manners. For years, it kept the feds away from mosques and the politicians insisting against all evidence that Islam is nothing more than another path to the G-d of Us All.
But almost three years after 9/11, this hocus pocus is losing its potency. "There are terrorists among us," Gov. Pataki said after the Albany jihadis were arrested. He didn't specify because he didn't need to.
If America's Muslims don't want to be identified with America's enemies, they are going to need new leaders and loud voices. Slapping the word "peace" over the door of the mosque just isn't going to do it anymore.
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God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength,Wisdom,Sight and Courage to stay the course to Victory to Destroy ALL Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Open the Worlds Eyes to their Threat Amen
This is unbelievable! Why would parents pay tuition to a public school? Why would they permit muslims to indoctrinate their children unless these charter schools were represented as Islamic schools catering to muslim students? But that must not be the case, since the crooks had the audacity to sue the state when enrollment declined. 9-11 didn't bother muslims; they celebrated it.
This just about takes the cake. Here we have a cabal of muslim criminals charging parents tuition to send their children to public schools, where the children were brainwashed in Islamic filth by deceitful thieves, who sued California taxpayers when their illicit income was threatened by declining enrollment!
This would qualify as a "stupid criminal" story if it wasn't so widespread and reeking of greed and corruption. It is obvious that these illustrious, law-abiding muslims were adept at circumventing our laws to advance the Islamic agenda. To add insult to injury, they file a lawsuit for millions of dollars! Unbelievable!
Where is C.A.I.R.? They should have released a statement by now, accusing the authorities of Islamophobia, bigotry, persecution, and racism, and declaring the innocence of all of the accused. These good muslims were merely performing their Islamic duties, and I'm sure they donated most of the stolen public funds to Islamic terrorist charities.
This is unbelievable! Why would parents pay tuition to a public school? Why would they permit muslims to indoctrinate their children unless these charter schools were represented as Islamic schools catering to muslim students? But that must not be the case, since the crooks had the audacity to sue the state when enrollment declined. 9-11 didn't bother muslims; they celebrated it.
This just about takes the cake. Here we have a cabal of muslim criminals charging parents tuition to send their children to public schools, where the children were brainwashed in Islamic filth by deceitful thieves, who sued California taxpayers when their illicit income was threatened by declining enrollment!
This would qualify as a "stupid criminal" story if it wasn't so widespread and reeking of greed and corruption. It is obvious that these illustrious, law-abiding muslims were adept at circumventing our laws to advance the Islamic agenda. To add insult to injury, they file a lawsuit for millions of dollars! Unbelievable!
Where is C.A.I.R.? They should have released a statement by now, accusing the authorities of Islamophobia, bigotry, persecution, and racism, and declaring the innocence of all of the accused. These good muslims were merely performing their Islamic duties, and I'm sure they donated most of the stolen public funds to Islamic terrorist charities.
This is unbelievable! Why would parents pay tuition to a public school? Why would they permit muslims to indoctrinate their children unless these charter schools were represented as Islamic schools catering to muslim students? But that must not be the case, since the crooks had the audacity to sue the state when enrollment declined. 9-11 didn't bother muslims; they celebrated it.
This just about takes the cake. Here we have a cabal of muslim criminals charging parents tuition to send their children to public schools, where the children were brainwashed in Islamic filth by deceitful thieves, who sued California taxpayers when their illicit income was threatened by declining enrollment!
This would qualify as a "stupid criminal" story if it wasn't so widespread and reeking of greed and corruption. It is obvious that these illustrious, law-abiding muslims were adept at circumventing our laws to advance the Islamic agenda. To add insult to injury, they file a lawsuit for millions of dollars! Unbelievable!
Where is C.A.I.R.? They should have released a statement by now, accusing the authorities of Islamophobia, bigotry, persecution, and racism, and declaring the innocence of all of the accused. These good muslims were merely performing their Islamic duties, and I'm sure they donated most of the stolen public funds to Islamic terrorist charities.
IT'S ABOUT TIME! Atleast the State of California is doing something about the cockroach problem.
They are naturally born liers, parasites and criminals. Sharia law applies! Give them what THEY deserve, don't waste time for court cases. Get some infidels to study islamic law and then apply it: Public flogging, beheading, chopping off limbs etc. And invite the local Imam to witness it... That will do it, That will cut the cake!
Susanp asks:
"Why would parents pay tuition to a public school? Why would they permit muslims to indoctrinate their children unless these charter schools were represented as Islamic schools catering to muslim students?"
Because, like Michael Savage says, "Liberalism is a brain disorder."
They have to bend over backwards to prove they are a broad minded lot. Why, when they hear the word Muslim they 'feel' it's their obligation as the folks who are 'unconditional accepters' of even the most horrendous, low life dog torturing baby rapers -- not to have some small minded knee jerk reaction. Sure, sure there are 'a few' incidences of a Muslim whose been discriminated against acting out against a society who, for the most part has had a hand in their misery by maintaining an oppressive foreign policy. I mean, if you could just walk a mile in their shoes, er sandals you'd know. But more importantly who are we to judge another culture so harshly? How can I say that what another does is wrong just because 'I' come from a repressive society? If we're going to get along in this world we have to reach out to diversity and avoid being judgemental! We were strangers in a strange land once. We can make them feel welcomed by embracing their differences and adopting some of their culture into ours. They'll thank us for it!
See what I mean? Sick, a real mental disorder ...
Not all Muslims are terrorists..
But all terrorists are Muslims....
Way to go California! That's "not being a girly-man" about this business! Zero-tolerance! The rest of the states need to follow suit and get with it!
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This is exactly what should be done -- all over the country, and in a thousand ways, little and big. Where there are legal infractions, swift action is necessary. And even without the government, there are many cases where boycotts by private parties can do much to constrain the power of Islam. Think, for example, of what a sustained and organized boycott of Super Stop Petroleum (the landlord of Universal Heritage Foundation, and harasser of Pastor Wasson in Kissimmee, Florida) could do to bring down a source of Muslim funding.
The absolutely monomaniacal effort that many Muslims put into spreading or protecting the faith, by all means that they can possibly come up with, in order to establish beach-heads in the Bilad al-kufr, has to be met with uunwavering vigilance by Infidels, aware of what Islam is all about, and what is being attempted. Americans, fortunately, have the horrible examples of Europe and Israel before them, where the demography-is-destiny fatalism seems likely to undo both. But we know better, or should. And as France and other countries become ever more unpleasant, difficult, and dangerous places for Infidels to live, Infidels in this country will draw the obvious conclusions, if not led astray by the siron-songs of apologists, including all those academics now devoutly trying to convince us that there are just different "discourses" about "Islam" that "merely reflect different agendas." How true. Some of us insist on looking at what is in Qur'an, hadith, and sira -- that's becuase we are dead set on viewing Islam in a bad light. Others, of course, are dead set on seeing Islam through rose-tinted lens, and consuequently refuse utterly to read, much less study, Qur'an, hadith, and sira.
Which of the two do you think has a better claim on our attention? Those who study, and adduce textual evidence, or those who persist, without the slightest reference either to the canonical texts, as received, or to the 1350-year history of Jihad-conquest and subsequent imposition of the dhimmitude status on non-Muslims?
Who would you trust? Frank Vogel, "The Custodian of the Two Holy Places Adjunct Professor of Islamic Studies" (hmm-- any Saudi money involved in that?), or someone who is earning nothing from anybody, but has simply investigated what Islam is all about -- or, like Ibn Warraq and Ali Sina and Ayaan Hirsi Ali and tens of thousands of other apostates, has acquired his knowledge of Islam from being raised as a Muslim?
This crackdown on the use of taxpayers' money to fund the Jihad -- for madrasas are part of the Jihad every bit as much as RPG's in Fallujah, or hijacked planes over New York City -- is welcome, and a model for future efforts. Boycotts, litigation -- all the weapons that can be employed -- should be. There are many who will take their custom elsewhere rather than support those who, directly or indirectly, support the JIhad. And there are plenty of lawyers, looking for pro bono work, who will be happy to do their part in the war effort -- filing motions too, can indirectly help homeland security, and the defense of the West.
Sure, we should bow down at the altar of phony Islam, while the anti-Christians brazenly march on.
ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY EXPLODES AT VILLAGE VOICE
Catholic League president William Donohue called attention today to the anti-Christian explosion under way at the Village Voice:
*The day after the election, James Ridgeway confessed, “The dream has become a nightmare.” By that he meant “the dream of a secular, liberal democracy.” Why? Because, he said, “the Christians are stronger than ever.” On 11-16, Ridgeway blasted “the self-absorbed, selfish Christians who take sanctimonious pride in wrapping themselves in the banners of the civil rights movement, missionary work abroad, giving old clothes to single mothers,” etc. He then blamed Christians for not challenging the Klan in the 1980s, noting it is Jews who fight racism outside the South.
*On 11-15, Sharon Lerner warned of “an army of bloodthirsty archconservatives” who constitute the pro- life movement. So bad are things for the pro-abortionists that she says, “the sky could really fall.” She makes it clear that it is the Christians she fears.
*On 11-16, Sydney H. Schanberg wondered aloud if the election meant “we’re having a second Civil War.” Though he doubts we are, he nonetheless concludes that “there’s a feel of holy-war fever in America.” He also makes it clear that it is the Christians he fears.
*On 11-16, Michael Feingold shows he’s crashed: “The spoliation of our national forests by Bush-based economic interests, joined with the accelerated melting of the polar cap…will bring on what must surely be an increasing parade of natural disasters, pandemics, outbreaks of disease….” He warns that “as the sun gets more dangerous, the air less breathable, the water less drinkable, the hurricanes more frequent,” even the rich will suffer. How did this happen? He says, “this is the election in which American Christianity destroyed itself. Today the church is no longer a religion but a tacky political lobby….” Indeed, “Christianity as currently preached and practiced in Middle America is virtually Satan, by the standards of anyone who strives to follow the teachings of Jesus.”
NOTE: It would behoove the 85 percent of Americans who are Christian not to treat this outburst of anti- Christian bigotry lightly.