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Caught in the act. From the Ottawa Citizen, with thanks to all who sent this in:
Two teachers at the Abraar Islamic school in Ottawa were suspended yesterday pending an investigation into the encouragement or incitement of hatred against Jews expressed in a young student's violence-laden writing project.Principal Aisha Sherazi said the seven-member school board and
administration were "shocked" by teacher involvement in the project that was brought to her attention by the Citizen yesterday morning, and decided at an emergency meeting to suspend the instructors.
I'm sure they were shocked, shocked!
One teacher was apparently involved in the artistic production of the eight-page story of killing and martyrdom. Handwritten in Arabic and titled The Long Road, the cover page was illustrated by a drawing of a burning Star of David beside a machine-gun and Palestinian flag atop the Dome of the Rock, an ancient Muslim shrine in Jerusalem.The other teacher had written comments on the student's paper, praising the boy's story of revenge for the assassination by Israeli forces a year ago of Sheik Ahmed Yassin, a co-founder of Hamas, in retaliation for suicide bombings against Israeli civilians.
"God bless you, your efforts are good," the teacher wrote on the title page.
"The story of the hero Ahmed and the hero Salah is still alive. The end will be soon when God unites us all in Jerusalem to pray there."
On the margins inside the story, the teacher had written a note endorsing the boy's fantasy of a young Ahmed Yassin and his friend, Salah El-Dine, ambushing Israeli soldiers.
"Without thinking, Ahmed took his M16 machine-gun and threw the bombs, and he showered the Jews; this resulted in the killing of the soldiers," the boy's text reads. "Salah said: 'You killed them all.' Ahmed answered: 'Praise be to God.'"
The fantasy heroes are quoted at the end of the story saying: "We promise God and the heroes of Al-Aksa that we will continue the path, we will continue in spite of the difficulties and the hardships until the victory or the martyrdom, we will not surrender; we will fight for the sake of God until the end."
Mrs. Sherazi declined to name the student, for privacy reasons, or the teachers until the investigation is complete. "Then we'll see what action we decide we want to take," she said.
Mrs. Sherazi, a 32-year-old teacher who took over as principal in recent months, does not speak or read Arabic. She expressed surprise about the drawing and the story, even though it had reportedly been displayed in a glass case at the school.
The Citizen obtained two translations of the story before asking the principal about it. She said such a subject was not on the curriculum, but it may have been a submission in a creative writing contest for the Arabic studies class, where students could choose their own topics....
Posted by Robert at March 24, 2005 10:51 AM
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This is a positive sign. First the lady politician in Quebec and now this. Canada had better wake up and fast.
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at March 24, 2005 10:59 AM
During my tenure at the Abraar school I have had the privilege to work with all the Abraar teaching staff and found them to be warm, caring and professional," Ms. Schoones said
When a Muslim is arrested for suspected links to terrorism somewhere in the world, the neighbours and co-workers interviewed are always heard to say something like, "Mohammed was such a nice boy -- quiet, generous, hard working; he couldn't possibly be involved in terrorism...".
Such is the peculiar pathology of Islam that an adherent can be warm and sociable and at the same time harbour muderous fantasies sanctioned by the Qur'an while revealing not an iota of cognitive dissonance.
at March 24, 2005 12:07 PM
Gee hate in a Arabic Canadian school. I so wish I could say I was shocked by this. I wish I could say "Oh my God, this is so shocking!" or shocked exclamations in the same vein.
Unfortunately, I can't. I find it pretty unsurprising that it was displayed in a display case, too. Moreover, if that's what the newspaper was able to learn, what is there that they DON'T know?
Key phrase in the student's 'work': "Without thinking". It helps, I'm sure.
Who do we write to to ask that the school be shut down? I'm not sure a request from a Floridan's going to carry much weight (then again, my stealth program says in the Great White North - does that count?) but I imagine the government would listen to Canadians like ala-sux....
Oh yeah. That's the CANADIAN government we're talking about. Sorry. Never mind.
Geoff
Posted by: Geoff at March 24, 2005 12:10 PM
"the Dome of the Rock, an ancient Muslim shrine..."
And where is the evidence for that? The attribution, in the very first decades of Muslim rule, of buildings that must have taken a ong time to build, and of which the architectural style did not suddenly become "Islamic" overnight, to Islam or Islamic style, should not be accepted at face value.
The original Church of the Holy Sepulchre -- before it was destroyed by the Muslims in 1009 --needs to be considered as a model upon which other structures, now described as Muslim, were modelled. And perhaps those other structures, or some of them, were originally Christian -- just as the Hagia Sophia in Constaninople was turned into a mosque, with Islamic decorations, or the Church of St. John in Damascus that became the Umayyad Mosque, and its beauties attributed to Islamic builders, rather than Christian ones.
Much remains, beyond Grabar and Ettinghausen and of course Muslim historians, to be considered. Certainly it is curious that the most impressive "Islamic" buildings in the entire Arab world -- the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, and the Al-Aksa and Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem -- are modelled on, or were added to, or originally were, Christian buildings. The other beautiful mosques in the Islamic countries are all non-Arab -- in Persia, in Turkey, in Central Asia. Just like oriental rugs, that seem to come from every Muslim country except the Arab ones, or where they do come from such countries, they are from the Berbers, or the Kurds. Query: could the Arab supremacist ideology embedded within Islam have something to do with this? And if so, what would it be?
Posted by: Hugh at March 24, 2005 12:54 PM
Actually, this is a positive item. No need to disparage Canada.
Let's give credit to the Canadian newspaper (Ottawa Citizen), for their diligence in locating this story, for translating it, and revealing it. I suspect that, editors normally refuse to publish these items.
It's a challenge for other newspapers to do likewise.
Posted by: Dhimmi at March 24, 2005 12:55 PM
Dhimmi:
The Citizen may be a little more diligent than the Globe & Mail or Toronto Star about such matters as I believe it is owned by the Aspers.
Posted by: waterdragon52 at March 24, 2005 1:06 PM
How many more stories such as this need be printed before unwary Infidels become wary? One? A thousand? Will common sense never make its longed-for entry?
Posted by: Hugh at March 24, 2005 1:30 PM
It is an insult to Islam to call this courageous Muslim youth's inspiring story "creative writing", since this would imply that the Koran itself was "creative writing" (i.e. -fiction). And thereby the infidel principal, and the kafir newspaper spreading this calumny, and the entire Canadian government are all implicated in displaying rampant Islamophobia, racism and p.c. C.A.I.R-lessness.
How dare they!
The student should be apologized to immediately.
And promoted to class president!
Canadians of like mind should march on the provincial government and install a Sharia state to make amends for this quasi-Zionist terror!
I'm busy constructing a paper-mache replica of a suicide belt to mail to the lad in solidarity with his effort to raise the flag of Allah over the Temple Mount.
Er... I mean, the site of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre...
Er... I mean, the place where Mohammad flew on his levitating mule into heaven...
Go Canada!
Posted by: BigSleep at March 24, 2005 3:11 PM
Hmmm. They allowed bulletin-board display and only took action AFTER the public was notified. What does that tell you?
Posted by: epg at March 24, 2005 3:47 PM
waterdragon52:
An addendum to your note. It was reportedly a crappy newspaper until Conrad Black bought the paper (part of the Southam chain but not sure about that). Whether you like Conrad or not he sure can put out a good paper. I believe the Ottawa Citizen was included in the purchase by the Aspers.
Posted by: johnb at March 24, 2005 3:54 PM
You're spot-on, Hugh, about the "ancient muslim shrine" B.S. Your views on "Islamic" architecture are quite accurate, as well.
Just a few weeks ago I learned that the mosaics on the interior of the dome, mosaics that are much vaunted as evidence of Islamic artistic genius, were, in fact, executed by an enslaved Persian Christian.
When dig deeper you find many, many, many similar examples of "Islamic artistic genius"!
Posted by: John Palubiski at March 24, 2005 3:57 PM
JohnB:
Freedom of the press belongs to those who own it. On this issue, Black and the Aspers are on the right side. Unfortunately, at times, I've seen them botch the job because of their own blindspots, or, when they get it right, it gets discounted because of who they are.
The usual [bigoted] suspects are likely gonna yadda-yadda about the signficance of this story because of who owns the paper. Now, maybe this is a good thing because it will finally unmask those who claim they are only legitimately criticising Israel and not anti-Semetic, but as Dershowitz puts it, the bias reveals itself in the silence about human rights abuses, etc. perpetrated by those countries that rail the loudest about Israel and against its right to exist.
I guess we will see.
Posted by: waterdragon52 at March 24, 2005 4:01 PM
As usual,Canadian Christians and jews will
be very forgiving,but CAIR will exploit this tragedy to prove there is a need for building bridges with other faiths and learning about Islam and the Quran should be taught in schools
as to avoid "Islamophobia" from isolated case
that don't reflect the peaceful ways of Islam.
Blah blah,blah blah,blah blah blah blaaaaa.................
NO ISLAM - KNOW PEACE
Posted by: ala-sux at March 24, 2005 4:27 PM
Hugh, et al. Not only is Muslim architecture cribbed from the Byzantines (like the Domes on their mosques, even the Mosi Star bridge in Bosnia) but according to ibn Warraq (The Quest for the Historical Muhammad or was it The Origins of the Koran). The brass plates in that mosque have Qur'anic inscriptions that are either at odds with the Koran as we know it, or have verses not included in the Koran as we know it.
By the way Muslim "science" is cribbed from the Greeks as well, for instance the Qur'an says that sperm comes from between the backbone and the ribs (which happens to be where the prostate gland is located), which was the Greek belief.
Or is it because stimulation of the prostate gland will cause an orgasm and an ejaculation. (Eas Muhammad bisexual? If he didn't get it from the Greeks he got it from personal knowledge).
The testes provide only sperm and testosterone (just as ovaries provide only ovum and estrogen), but sexuality, orgasm and ejaculate originate in the prostate gland - hence Viagra is hawked for guys who have suffered removal of the prostate.
Posted by: Giaour at March 24, 2005 6:23 PM
I'm sure they're sorry they got caught.
Posted by: Mike at March 24, 2005 6:40 PM
I have a university level degree in the arts, and I can assure you that in all my years studying painting, sculpture and architecture, I'd be suprised if I spent more than 10 minutes reviewing the virtually non-existent history of Islamic art. What's there to study? About the only innovation that comes to mind is the pointed arch.
And name for me the artistic geniuses - where are the great masters like Michelangelo and Picasso? Where are the painters rivalling Caravaggio and Monet and Pollack? The sculptors? Where are the Berninis and the Rodins?
There are none. There is the pointed arch. There is the calligraphy and the abstract motifs that had long since been mastered by earlier cultures.
*Yawn*
Where are the galleries of Islamic art rivalling the Louvre, the MOMA, the Gugenheim or even that wonderful little hole in the wall, the Phillips? Heck, our Senior Show at the Anderson Gallery at VCU produced more plentiful and impressive works of art than the entire history of Islamic "art".
at March 24, 2005 7:08 PM
"TADA"
As I guess in the posting above,CAIR exploited the issue and explained away the hatred of Jews
by saying the boy's family lives under the brutal occupation of Israel.
Here's the part that justifies the hate,and judging by the denouncing of the article going public,CAIR once again is upset the information went public and caught Muslims expressing a view we all knew about for years now.
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"The school in question has, to our understanding, immediately attended to this matter. There must be a thorough investigation and concrete steps must be taken to ensure that a similar situation is never repeated.
"While the contents of the story are unacceptable, it must be kept in mind that the piece in question is the fictional work of a young Canadian boy of Palestinian origin whose extended family is living under a brutal Israeli occupation. The writing of the story by this child must be understood in that context.
"Blah blah,blah blah,blah blah blah blah..................
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Here's the actual disclaimer from CAIR.
http://www.caircan.ca/itn_more.php?id=1498_0_2_0_C
Note the time of posting as 4:50p.m. ,my about posting is 4:27p.m. EST.
I knew CAIR would do their usual damage control and twist it to blame "The Jews" for the
antisemitism, what's more absurd is that the School has demanded 24 Hour Police protection
to insure they don't become a victim of a hate-crime.
NO CAIR - DON'T CARE
BTW,CAIR seemed pretty mute on the issue until the Education Minister Gerrard Kennedy was humiliated into taking action from this "Private" Islamic School that operates under different rules from Provincial laws that prevent teaching hatred to children.
The Islamic School will not be able to sweep this under the rug,the Police have been asked to
take on the issue under our "Hate" laws that were meant to prevent this display or bigotry,but lately Muslims appear to be exempt from these laws and maybe their not able to live by the same moral standards as non-Muslims.
Just wait until they get the approval to use Shariah-Law in Canada,while they insist the Canadian Shariah is based on Canadian values here's a link to a Saudi Funded Shariah program
website asking Canadian Muslims to take the courses on Arabic and Shariah which is said to be
from middle East Madrassa's in Muslim States that agreed upon their version from the Quran.
at March 24, 2005 9:41 PM
Geoff:
Muslims in Canada have been using Taqiyya
for awhile now,they denounce violence when it suits them and yet stay mute on serious issue
that affect the safety of canada,below is the JW
article of a protest by Muslims demanding an Islamic State in Canada.
The photo is from the Southern part of Toronto City hall right near the skating rink/reflecting pool,the white Carrera marble tower in the background is the Bank of Montreal at Bay and King st. ,the polished metal tower to the left is the Bank Of Commerce King and Bay st.
While most of the media ignored the yahoo's
it might be a bit late when the Rent-a-Mob
Jihadists number in the thousands and threaten Terrorism if they don't get their Islamic Kalifah
in Canada.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/001269.php
Our Liberals are actually looking at allowing Shariah Courts in Canada for female Muslims in family disputes,of course that's only if she isn't a victim of a Honour-killing by Daddy-Dearest.
at March 25, 2005 1:59 AM
The liberal West is coming up against a very hard choice between either admitting that the values of the enlightenment are far from universal (the acceptance of Sharia courts would be a tacit admission of this) or that toleration has necessary limits.
Then again, the real origin of the _jus gentium_ was that the ancient Romans regarded a person's ancestral law following him wherever he went; and hence the laws of various nations were applicable to their members living as non-citizens in Rome.
Posted by: Kepha at March 25, 2005 2:57 AM
Their architecture is of Persian or Christian origin, their science Greek and their religion is a distorted version of Judaism and Christianity. Is there anything else to know about these plagiarisers?
Posted by: iconoclast at March 25, 2005 3:29 AM
Good point, Kepha, about the dilemma facing the Liberal West. I might point out that the postmodernists (who get labeled "liberal") will never see the dilemma as the metaphysical underpinnings of their philosophy are deconstructionist. Facing the dilemma involves what Hugh so aptly labels "common sense." This step would involved constructionism; and thus, the postmodernist fantastical sophistry would evaporate. Indeed, postmodernism is a nihilistic philosophical death spiral, and those whose minds are seized by it maintain that system of belief at their own peril.
Posted by: ted at March 25, 2005 11:46 AM
The major flaw in Canada's official "Multiculturalism" policy is that
newcomers practise a self-segragation and focus
on retaining all the laws and behaviours from the old country,this creates a Micro-economical
paradox by forcing locals to seek employment
among "Their own" people.
When National Corporation base their HQ in
these cities the hiring "Quota" system doesn't work because Canada's official two languages are French and English,a recent survey showed that about 16% of Canadians "Felt" they were a victim of Racism,this is a perception that becomes a reality in the minds of the person surveyed.
Basically the current issue dealing with conflicts among Muslims seems to be from
an attempt to re-plant their "Religious"
mindset from the middle east to western nations,Jihadists are a real threat and Islamophobia and Racism rants by a "Religious"
sect only fuel the rage in young Muslims
that see Khalifah's as a entittlement to be
fought for according to Allah's message in the Quran.
Muslims are ordered to be on a crusade to claim the Earth for Islam and apply Shariah law to make the World a more just society,Canada will rue the day when it caved into the Muslim taqiyya's that
used the "Race Card" to bring Saudi Arabia and Whahabbism to our shores.
The Constitution and Charter mean nothing
when the people in comtrol tear it up and
enforce Islamic rule under the threat of death for the non-compliant.
at March 25, 2005 3:47 PM
See it can be done - it's time these pagans were persecuted as they have been persecuting us Christians.Well done! Though saudi-arabia will probably declare war on you now. Regards, numbat
Posted by: numbat at March 26, 2005 12:04 AM
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