A former teacher at a Muslim school in Philadelphia is suing both the school and its principal for “overt” anti-black racism. Robert Spencer wrote about this here, and more on this welcome development can be found here: “Lawsuit Filed against Philadelphia Islamist School, Alleging ‘Overt’ Anti-Black Racism,” by Sam Westrop, Focus On Western Islamism, July 10, 2023:
A teacher fired from Philadelphia’s Al-Aqsa Islamic Academy has filed a civil suit against the school and its principal, alleging extraordinary anti-black racism at the school.
Arslan Shaikh served as a “general studies” teacher with Al-Aqsa Islamic Academy from August 2020 to April 28, 2023. In his filed complaint, he alleges, throughout his time at the school, he observed “disproportionate allocation of discipline and removal of black children relative to their non-black counterparts.”
Moreover, Shaikh claims that a report he wrote, documenting racist comments aimed at black students by other students, was “edited … to omit [mention of] the overt racism.”
He also alleges that “non-black children were given privileges denied to black children. On one occasion, several non-black students received failing grades. These grades were then changed to ‘passing’ by Defendants. In the three years that Plaintiff taught at Al-Aqsa, he never saw this benefit conferred to black children.”
On April 27, 2023, Shaikh claims that during a conversation with the school principal, Shireen Hammoudeh, he was informed of a complaint lodged against him by students. Principal Hammoudeh reportedly told Shaikh that the complaint was only filed because “they’re black and are trying to manufacture a lawsuit.” She allegedly promised to “find a reason to get rid of [the black students].”
Shaikh informed other administration members at the school about the “display of overt racism,” only to be fired a few hours later.
Was there really a complaint made by black students against Arslan Sheikh, who seems to be the only staff member who was indignant at the unequal treatment they received? Could it have been the principal, Ms. Hammoudeh, who had heard about Sheikh’s standing up for the black students, and made up a story that she thought might cause Sheikh to distance himself from black students at the school? It’s possible.
The school’s 2019 “parent-student handbook” declares that Western culture is “toxic to Muslims.” And the uniform guides for the school require that female students be completely covered.
The school is firm in its anti-Infidel, anti-Western teachings. There is no pretense of encouraging convivencia, of “fitting in,” or of trying to integrate into the larger society. Western culture is described in the parent-student handbook as the “toxic” culture of the West, which the school reassures parents is rejected in its entirety. And of course this makes perfect sense. After all, Muslims are taught in the Qur’an that they are “the best of peoples,” while non-Muslims are “the most vile of created beings.”
The Al-Aqsa Islamic Academy is part of the Al-Aqsa Islamic Society, a prominent Islamist mosque in downtown Philadelphia, closely involved with hardline national Islamist groups.
In 2019, radical imam Abdelmohsen Abouhatab spoke at the mosque, declaring “jews” to be “the vilest people in terms of their moral values, their nature, and their violation of agreements.”
The school belongs to the Al-Aqsa Islamic Society, what some would call an “extremist” or “Islamist” group, failing to realize that it is simply a group that takes its Islam straight up, undiluted. It has welcomed speakers such as Abdelmohsen Abouhatab, for whom all Infidels are “vile,” but it is the Jews who are the “most vile” of all, in everything: their moral values their nature, their “violation of agreements.” That last charge is curious, given that Muslims celebrate Muhammad for his outwitting his enemies in Mecca when he signed the Treaty of Al-Hudaibiyyah in 628 A.D. That treaty was supposed to last for ten years, but after only eighteen months Muhammad, realizing that his side had grown much stronger, attacked the Meccans, in a celebrated “violation of an agreement” that is held up as a model for all subsequent treaty-making with non-Muslims.
In a previous sermon at the mosque, Abouhatab said of the Jews: “The propaganda and the media are controlled by them. They make you see things in an altered and inflated way. They make you think that power lies in castles, fortresses, and weapons – that power lies with 15 million people who own and control the riches of the world.”
None of the Al-Aqsa Islamic School’s inculcating hatred of Infidels, especially Jews, will lead to any trouble for the group. But Arslan Sheikh’s charges of systemic anti-black racism at the Islamic School is much more worrisome. As the school’s principal, Ms. Hamoudeh, and her teachers will soon discover, Black Lives Matter.
tgusa says
Anti alphabet people and now anti black people. Who would have thunk it? Vote democrat, for the future. Ok, so the future is hell, do it anyway.
Violet says
The first paragraphs describes the ‘racism’. I had to question the truthfulness in the accusation. Far too often the claims are false. …;. ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’
But these claims are likely true, so I have to ask…who is so naive to think that a people with a thousand years in a culture and religion that tells them that everyone except them are scum of the earth, who could possibly think they’d live peacefully within our culture?
If our so called leaders & teachers don’t wise up fast and acknowlege that we have inherited the most enlightened, free and prosperous culture since the beginning of time, our western civilization, it will be gone soon.
the autistic says
preciesly. skill testing question of all the major and lesser religions in the world in 2023, which one is notorious for its extremist fringe causing death and destruction on a horrific scale. here’s a hint : http://www.thereligionofpeace.com citing 100s of news sources since some time after 9/11 happened.
here’s another hint, it isnt christians they got over it finally in ireland
it aint jews they have enough on their hands defending their homeland.
it aint catholics, bhuddists, hindus, rastafarians, flat earthers etc etc.
its muslims and their psychopathic interpretation of their quran
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The quran is psychopathic: muslims ain’t wrong in interpreting it that way
E T says
The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa by John Alembillah Azumah
The most inhuman and diabolical institution of the Black African slave trade, was implemented by the Muhammadan Arabs.
The Arabic word for slaves is abeed. The Qur’an allows for taking of slaves as “booty” or reward for wars of aggression against any Unbelievers.
The death toll of 1400 years of Arab and Muslim slave raids into Africa could be over 112 million. When added to the number of those sold into the slave market, the total number of African victims of the trans Saharan and East Africa slave trade could be over 140 million.
The complicity and reality of Mohammadan Islam in the slave trade is staggering. The Islamic slave trade took place across the Sahara desert from the coast of the Red Sea and from East Africa across the Indian Ocean. There were 6 major slave routes.
In the 1800s they transported 77.2 million slaves. Eight million more were calculated to have died before reaching the slave markets.
Most male slaves destined for the Middle East were castrated and children born to black slave women were killed at birth .
“The negro nations are as a rule, submissive to slavery, because they have attributes that are similar to dumb animals.”
History
Walter Sieruk says
On the topic of the real spirit of Islam toward black people, two Christians who are also authors revealed in the book about the prophet and founder of Islam, Muhammad, the person who all Muslims greatly admire and view and a perfect example for them to emulate was man that “He personally owned two ‘black slave…he endorsed sex slavery as a gift from Allah.. In the every next page of that same book I also informs the reader that “Islam had enslaved more people than any other culture.” [1]
Likewise , a scholar on Islam who is an Arab woman and speakers and reads Arabic and uses to live in one the those countries on the Middle East had exposes in her book that the prophet of Islam ,Muhammad referred to Blacks as “ ‘raisin heads’ several time in the hadith [1:663:9:256]”Her book also reveals that “Throughout the hadith blacks are also referred to as abeds, which means ‘black in Arabic and is also synonymous with the word “slave’ and filth.” In fact ,Arab Muslims have enslaved blacks for 1,400 years and the Black slave trade is still thriving in Sudan and Mauritania.” Further in her same book the author reveals that “Most interesting, though, is the even though black slavery by Muslims began long ago , almost no descends of those slaves are alive today in the Muslim world. Why is there no black culture in the Middle East ? Most slaves were either killed or died from being worked to death.” [2]
[1] JESUS AND THE JIHADIS by Craig A. Evens and Jeremiah J Johnson , pages 125,125.
[2] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel , pages 82, 183.