It has been an ironic day up in Lake Wobegon: one week after Charles C. Haynes, a senior scholar at the First Amendment Center in Washington, blamed me for death threats supposedly received by the operators of the Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy, an Islamic school that receives public funding, there has indeed been a violent incident at the school.
Wretched Islamophobes terrorizing poor pious hijabbed schoolchildren? Nope. It was school officials who attacked a news cameraman, giving him minor injuries. Marisol posted the story here last night.
Cameramen were there because the Minnesota Department of Education asked the school to change two of its practices regarding the teaching of Islam at the school -- indicating that the allegations reported by Katherine Kersten in the Star-Tribune, which I commented on in my column, were correct.
Will Charles C. Haynes, senior scholar at the First Amendment Center in Washington, retract his defamatory claim, apologize, and address the question of why school officials would react to publicity in a violent manner?
Let's just say I won't be waiting by the phone.
A little provocation here, a little provocation there; prety soon we'll have hot spots flaring up all over the nation.
Publicly funded or extorted?
The assault was caught on video to the extent that the perpetrator is identified and there were several witnesses.
The thug who came out and attacked the TV cameraman should be arrested for assault and battery. From what I can see, the cameraman was on a public sidewalk and represented no physical threat to the attacking thug.
The interviewed officer at the scene tried to play it down (keeping the peace) but when this tape is reviewed, police authorities have a duty to arrest this guy if the cameraman wishes to press charges or not.
Economist (UK) concludes US more violent than Libya, Cuba, Syria
/slightly?'why school officials would react to publicity in a violent manner?'
It is because they don't consider it a public school, they don't consider us infidels have any business in their dealings, they have something to hide, they have created a propaganda machine at tax payer expense while they want the money they want us to shutup, they are busy creating brainwashed students and they don't like the publicity.
And because violence and Islam go together.
Link to original video report released yesterday.
Notice at :38 marker reporter Chris O'Connell states:
One hopes the police have taken statements and requested video from the other media present.
More exposure - via media and the court room - is what is needed to shut this abomination down.
When reading about this madrassa, always remember that the man for whom it is named, Tarek ibn Ziyad, was the Muslim marauder who led the Moorish conquest and subjugation of Spain in 711, beginning an Islamic occupation that would last more than seven centuries.
Clearly the school officials are trying to live up to his spirit -- and to such Qur'anic mandates to the faithful regarding comportment toward infidels as "let them find in you a harshness" (9:123) and the exhortation to be "hard against the unbelievers, merciful one to another" (48:29).