Colorado: American flag lowered, replaced with Saudi flag in elementary school

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Here is an occasion for a study in contrasts. Time will tell who is behind this act of supremacist vandalism and violation of federal law, whether it was a student, a teacher, a parent, visitor, or a staff member. But imagine if the shoe were on the other foot in Saudi Arabia.

This act should become a "teachable moment" for the students at this school. There should be an unapologetic lesson in what the flag stands for and the respect it deserves and is afforded by law. One hopes that daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance is not also an issue. "Fury as elementary school lowers American flag... and replaces it with Saudi Arabian one," from the Daily Mail, September 5 (thanks to all who sent this in):

Parents of children at an elementary school in Colorado are furious after the American flag was lowered at the multi-cultural school and replaced with a Saudi Arabian flag.
As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, someone at Bauder Elementary School in Fort Collins appears to have lowered the American symbol while raising that of the Muslim country in its place.

Not just any Muslim country's flag, but one which has the Islamic profession of faith, and conventionally, a sword printed on it.

The flag is thought to have initially been hung at the school as one of many posted around the site in recognition of the various nationalities represented by the young students.
The school's principal insisted the flag was not raised by a member of staff in order to disrespect the American flag - and said the American flag immediately was returned to its prominent position when the issue came to his attention.
But parents argue the display was a direct violation of federal law, which states: 'No other flag or pennant should be placed above, or, if on same level, to the right of the flag of the United States of America.'
They argue it's the result of the effect a growing Muslim population is having on the area.
A photograph of the Saudi Arabian flag was taken by a concerned local and first posted on the Greeley Report blog.
We realise this is an extremely sensitive time with us getting close to the 10th anniversary of 9/11,' the school's principal, Brian Carpenter said.
'Bauder Elementary School serves a diverse international population of students. As a means of recognising the varied nationalities of students, flags from the students’ respective countries fly within the school’s center lobby.
'The American flag always sits highest in the centre of a window alcove with the other nation flags being tilted from a lower position.'
He insisted no one at the school had created the display and added: 'The American flag is very important to us and this country so we treat it with respect."
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"'Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,
But spare your country's flag,' she said."

...hoping for a modern day Barbara Frietchie to proudly defend the American flag against any threat...

It's time to join up the dots. This isn't an isolated incident.

It's part of the ongoing process of Islamic infiltration and subversion of Western education, with the objective of raising a generation who will accept their own dhimmitude.

Here's some of the rest of the picture... http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/islamic-infiltration-and-subversion-of.html

Why is a foreign flag there at all?

A wall poster showing foreign flags is quite common, and educational, but this is unnecessary and over the top.

And who does the flag belong too? Has the school been spending tax-payer's money on buying foreign flags? What other flags are on display?

A good teachable moment would be to either bin or burn this barbarian rubbish.

Don't they know there's a war on?

The flag of Liberty replaced by the flag of tyranny and bondage in an American school? IT'S AN OUTRAGE! Would replacing it with the Nazi Swastika be any worse? No! Especially when every Saudi school child is taught to respect Hitler as God's greatest and most righteous infidel for seeking the extermination of the Jewish race.

The Saudi flag may not be anything special, but flying it may keep the oil flowing which Big O shuts down American energy sources.

Some details about this school and its teachers, principal are needed. Anyone who has researched this please post it! Thanks.

What an utter disgrace! The perpetrator of this travesty should be fired, if a teacher, or if a student, expelled.

The only flags that should be flown at any American school are the American flag and the state flag. And maybe the Elmer the Elephant safety flag, if Elmer is still around. But any islamic flag? NO WAY!

The camels nose in the schools?

No surprises here. Follow the money. Follow the connections. Name them and shame them

Identify the target, freeze it, isolate it and nip it in the butt.

Use the Alinsky tactic against them, just like they use it against us.

In Germany, there is now a new initiative called 'Nuremberg 2' that does exactly that. Those who are in the Islamic camp, those who minimize or deny the threat, those who consistently attack, smear and vilify the freedom fighters and endanger them to reprisals by Islamic assassins will be held responsible, even in retrospect.

We will win this because we must.

And there is some good news, really good news:

Geert Wilders coming to Australia

http://sheikyermami.com/2011/09/06/geert-wilders-coming-to-australia/

Parents need to check carefully what their children are being taught at school, including subliminal supremacist messages such as this flag. Perhaps informal monitoring groups could be set up through churches.

Parents and grandparents, ask yourselves...

What are YOU doing to protect your kids against Islam?

This is what I don't understand. Even if the people who run this school want to be oh, so "international" and "multicultural" at least post flags of some decent countries which are not tyrannical and are not major violators of human rights! I mean how PC can you be?! Saudi Arabia is one of the most backwards, tyrannical and anti-human rights countries in the world. Why should its flag be there on the school wall at all, higher or lower than the US flag?! In fact they shouldn't even have that damned flag in their storage room either! It simply doesn't belong in the premisses of any public building in any self-respecting free country! It should be boycotted in honor and solidarity with all those women who are stuck under the neqabs and are not even allowed to leave a building without it even if that building is on fire! In solidarity with that brave lady who is now in prison because she dared to drive a car and show that she has the right to! In honor of and in solidarity with all those Christian workers in Saudi Arabia who cannot even read their Bibles in private much less have a church to pray in, and all those sexual minorities and petty criminals who are subject to horrific draconian punishments of Sharia law in that country! That flag stand for all the above mentioned injustices and should not be honored in any way and should be totally boycotted by all freedom loving people of the world! Shame on this school board for even purchasing such a flag with taxpayer money and even giving it a place on the school wall, even when it was flown lower or alongside the US flag! SHAME!

I don't get it. I no longer live in the US, but why are there so many Muslims there now? Has there been any discussion on immigration policy, or is this one of those things politicians and bureaucrats determine behind closed doors? US policies are suicidal.

Sean, you are right, our children and grand children need to educated about the dangers of Islam. I take teachable moments to tell my children and grandchildren about the danger of Islam. I share with them what I have learned in my studies. My children (both over 30) sometimes get angry at me, claiming I'm obsessed with this topic, but that's ok, I tell them anyway. I'm in my "twilight" years so I probably will be gone before the "big challenge" comes but by grandkids will have to I try to convey information w/o scaring them, but I do want them to know the truth about the history of our great nation and the dangers that confront us. May God give them grace and courage to stand for the truth.

"They argue it's the result of the effect a growing Muslim population is having on the area"

Ya think??

I saw this article on the Mail Online yesterday and posted the link on several threads. It's outrageous that this would happen and indicates the extent of demographic Jihad in this country. It reminded me of The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen with a burqa of several years ago.

It's Islam that is flagging. The more people get to know about this bizarre 'religion' the better. It will increase resistance.

If you look at the picture you will see that the staff of the flag is broken off. It looks like someone yanked on the flag and broke it off and someone else just stuck it back up. They could check the hall video and see who did do it. But this shows that the people in charge of the school don't know what is going on. And also the person who broke the flag could be the one who sent the picture? Hoping to cause trouble, you never know..
And as for more muslims in our country you can thank obama for this as he is planning on bring more it, also muslims are planning on taking over America and setting up sharia law, replacing our constitution with sharia, but people will not wake up and see this..All they want to do is feel sorry for the poor muslims. But if there wan't any islam we wouldn't be having the problems we have in the world today. Think about it.

I guess it's just a symbolization (sic) of the US President bowing to the Saudi King.
If it was a student, one could see following and example.
If it was a teacher, we can hardly be surprised, that an example was being set.
If it's a set-up: Time to think about it. How many other counties' flags adorn that classroom?

They argue it's the result of the effect a growing Muslim population is having on the area.
.......................

One might well ask why Fort Collins, Colorado—of all places!—has a "growing Muslim population" in the first place.

One might also think to ask why a "growing Muslim population" always results in Muslim supremacy—including the inevitable violence which follows this.

More:

A photograph of the Saudi Arabian flag was taken by a concerned local and first posted on the Greeley Report blog.
.......................

Greeley, Colorado may ring a bell for some Jihad Watch readers. It was here, in 1948, when Sayyid Qutb, leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood, was 'scandalized' by American behavior—at *a church dance in a dry county*.

Yes—the specter of American church-goers drinking lemonade and iced tea and dancing to the strains of Bing Crosby were too much for the tender sensibilities of this good Muslim.

He soon fled Greeley—and America—in utter horror.

Later, in "The America that I Have Seen", he described the "animal-like mixing of the sexes, which went on even in churches".

But now—sixty years later—Islam has come to Greeley. And it has begun to assert its supremacy. Sure—raising the Saudi flag is a small thing, little more than a prank.

But we can be sure it will not end here...

People, people, why are you so up-set??? With each new incident we react the same way, like this could never happen.

I've been saying it here for sometime now, we elected a muslim president, we tolerate the lies of our news media, the ground-0 mosque will be built, some idiot in Norway kills people and the anti-jihadist are vilified, sharia law is defended not by muslims, but by our leaders, 911 is a sham a digrace to those who were murdered by islam and the list goes on and on.

Did/do you think this and even more than this (that which has not been brought to light yet), would not happen??? This isn't new, and it shouldn't suprise us, this is the same old same old destruction of islam.

Until we start demanding change and accountability this won't even slow down!! RISE UP!! TAKE BACK YOUR FREEDOM!!!
Stop just blogging talking, put feet, action to those words. I'm not inciting violence, there still are non-violent means, use them.

WAKE-UP AMERICANS, WAKE-UP WORLD!! WAKE-UP ALL THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN "FREEDOM"

Don't go looking for who did this. Even if they are discovered, no one will be proscuted (or at least not with any zeal). Remember the Ft. Hood murders?? They haven't even set a trial date!!!!! He murdered our citizen's our soldiers!!! Where is the cry for accountability for our murdered citizen/soldiers?? Who morns for them, they have all but been forgetten. And he is getting free counsil and still collecting his check. We, you and I are paying him for his murdering of these honorable people.

New Yorkers and the official's who will hold the 911 cermony are dishonoring the victims of "911" - see they are all smiles. New Yorkers and these official's have in effect "pissed" on the "911" victim's graves. Pam Geller, and others are planning an unofficial memorial (which shows not only their patriotism, but their courage), but where in the name of God Almighty or that which is higher than you and I, is the cry of anger by American's, that nothing has been done????

This should not suprise anyone, this is islam slowly creeping into our lives, erroding our freedoms. They haven't done this all at once, but slowly, as our senses have numbed we have become adjusted to islamic law. As Daisy Khan said, to acclaimate us to islam. Simple put, to show us who we are and what (how low we need to bow), we are in islamic society (nothing).

We need to stand up in mass and demand accountability! We have the non-violent means still in place to accomplish this, but 1 or 2 won't do. There is strength in numbers!! Divided we fall, united we stand and we win!!!!!!!

WAKE UP, STAND FOR FREEDOM, UNITE - CRY OUT, DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY!!!! THE CHOICE IS TO LIVE AS SLAVES!!!!

I'm reminded of the song ... "Bbbaby you ain't seen nothing yet" - and you haven 't people!!!!

You who think the storm clouds are beginning to darken or are just getting darker,are wrong, the truth is:
.... it's midnight, all is black, as the darknes of the desent of islam/hell incompasses us, the hurricane winds are howling, blowing in the winds of islam, it's death/destruction, the evil of islam has soaked the land and the flood waters are rising drowning the truth, toronado's are sucking up "our freedoms", the the earth is shaking groaning from the weight of the hate of islam !!!

I'm being melodramatic, right??? I'm a doom and gloom sayer???

It isn't a phobia if they really are trying to kill/murder you!!! And they are!!! They even wrote it down - they shout it to us, but we're duped by the thought that - Hey! we've still got time, no we don't. Time ran out along time ago. Get up and get moving.

"Bbbaby you ain't seen nothing yet" - and you haven 't people!!!! This is just the tip of the evil, death destruction of islam. Look at what they've done already, the millions in the middle east (the used to be Christian middle east), who were murdered, enslaved, raped, India with it's over 30-60 million genocide by muslim conquerers! But this isn't a history lesson and I've prattled on too long now.

So, either stand up in-mass or put the chains of slavery on!!


Official 'Muslim Outreach' policy of the State Department: http://www.state.gov/s/srmc/index.htm

... Red-carpet into 'Dar Al-Harb'!

If you want to take a crash course in Islam all you have to do is look at the Saudi flag. A green flag with Arabic script that reads "There is no god but Allah and Mohammed is his messenger." That statement is underlined with the image of a sword. There you have it, that's all you need to know.

... vandalism and violation of federal law, whether it was a student, a teacher, a parent, visitor, or a staff member.

Coulda been the whole dang lot of 'em, a small crowd of fervid globo-socialist racist sexists quivering with the pre-orgasmic pleasure of piety who did it. It felt reel reel good, so good that they had to have a cigarette after to relax in the afterglow. Including the 12 yr olds who were brought along as an class exercise.

This is beyond ridiculous. American public schools should fly the American flag and no other. Period.

So now we can see the truth in all of this. Islam fully expects to relocate in America. And then domenate America little by little.
Once again I ask "when will Muslims start policing their own criminals". Every other free nation polices their countries so what is Islams problem?

Let me see if I can answer that question. Islam has is own set of rules and laws called Sharia. Islam takes this law very very seriously. In fact no other law even matters to Islam. Another words if it doesn't break the laws of Sharia then it doesn't count as a law at all.

Its clear to me that a local Muslim choose his or her Sharia law mentally over local law and then took it physically over local law by relocating the flags.

The danger here is also clear. If this goes unpunished (as in political correctness) then it endorses Sharia teachings and approves such behavier.

Some of us see the American flag as much more than just colors on a piece of cloth. Some of us see flashbacks, comrads, destruction, chois, honor, allegence, bravery, courage, and freedom. That's right freedom. Freedom from oppression, freedom from have to submit, freedom of civil choices, freedom of religious choices, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, fredom from any other ideology but our own.

I don't expect foreigners to understand what some of us Americans do when they see our flag. But I do expect they leave the American flag alone and not even touch it. Americans don't have to submit to Islam just yet. In fact we Americans may never submit to Islam.

When Americans finally wake-up and learn about Islam and Sharia Law they will most certainly remove themselves from ignorance and start to fight back. Until then Muslims should consider themselves blessed.

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