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"Muslims sound alarm over schools" from Australia's The Age with thanks to all who sent this in.
The teacher could not believe what he overheard. The "visiting" imam was launching into a tirade against the Jews and Americans that bordered on the ludicrous.But then came the clincher, he recalled. "The imam told the students that the Jews were putting poison in the bananas and they should not eat them."
The imam was told to ease up on the inflammatory language after staff objected.
Werribee College is from all accounts an Islamic school with a difference. According to former staff it was a longstanding practice of the school principal, Omar Hallak, to have Muslim staff sleep on the premises after big international terror attacks such as those in Bali and the London tube bombings to prevent retributive attacks.
The Sunday Age has been told that Werribee College appears intent on exporting its particular brand of Islam to Indonesia, an achievement made possible by generous commonwealth and state grants — estimated to be in excess of $3 million a year.
Canberra's big spending laissez-faire approach to non-government school funding, intended by former education minister David Kemp to boost the numbers of Christian schools, has fuelled an increase in community-based Islamic schools across Australia which qualify for the same subsidies.
Although the vast majority of these schools — established schools such as King Khalid Islamic College in North Coburg or newer schools such as Mount Hira College in Keysborough — are run openly and with regular contact and activities with students from non-Muslim schools, there are a small number, including Werribee, that shun scrutiny and contact...
Posted by Rebecca at August 1, 2005 10:32 AM
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But this article gets 'better' towards the end:
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The teacher was alarmed by what she discovered in the school library. An image of Christ in a book on comparative religion had been defaced.
When she asked students to explain, they told her that another teacher, a devout Muslim, had asked them to demonstrate that Islam was the one true faith by striking the picture with sharpened pencils.
"They told me they had been made to line up and one by one stab the picture," the teacher told The Sunday Age. "As far as I know, the book is still in the library."
It was not the first incident or the last that would disturb this teacher — and several others — during her two years at one of Melbourne's lesser-known Islamic schools.
At the same school, the teacher said, complaints by the science co-ordinator about an incompetent year 12 physics teacher were dismissed by the principal on the grounds that the teacher "was hired to teach about Islam, which he was very good at". At other Muslim schools, The Sunday Age has been told, administrators banned all overt signs of other faiths.
In one case a non-Muslim member of staff was told to remove a crucifix from the dashboard of a car parked in view of the students and a female Hindu teacher was ordered to remove marriage jewellery.
The teacher, who was dismissed from the school because she was "over qualified", is now employed at a Christian faith-based school.
She says she has no regrets about leaving. "The atmosphere at the school was unhealthy," she said. "When you asked children to write about their favourite hero, they nearly always wrote about Osama bin Laden."
Many of these incidents have been reported to the Australian Federal Police, who interviewed the teacher. ASIO also knows about the claims, and is believed to regularly make background checks.
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It is as though a satire was written on the inculcation of bigotry and hatred in the veins of children, injected like a heroin fix straight into their blood stream.
Just imagine what goes on that we do not see or hear about.
Just imagine how much they really hate us.
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at August 1, 2005 11:18 AM
Jews are poisoning bananas! What next?
There's something intrinsically comical about bananas. Wasn't there a headline 'Banana in sodomy case'? This referred to Canaan Banana, whose name was a source of amusement.
'Oranges are Not the Only Fruit', says Jeanette Winterson, who also wrote about 'Sexing the Cherry'. But her fruity interests never went as low as the banana. (Perhaps in secret she played around with puns relating to nice pears and big melons, but decided that was all too Barbara Windsor.)
Anyway, once the Jews have poisoned all the bananas, they'll start on those raisins that the suicide bombers are going to get instead of 'virgins with appetising vaginas'. So be warned, Mr Suicide-Bomber. It isn't worth it.
Posted by: Interested at August 1, 2005 11:30 AM
To the tune of "I'm a Chiquita Banana":
I'm a visiting imam and I'm here to say
Bananas are poisoned in the Jewish way.
Zionist toxins flowing through and through.
What's a devout young Muslim to do?
You can go and eat a mango.
They haven't tampered yet with those.
What those awful Jews are up to
Only Allah really knows...
at August 1, 2005 11:49 AM
Now it can be revealed: Carmen Miranda sent a generous contribution to buy some of the guns that were placed aboard the Altalena during its ill-fated mission in 1948. Apparently Carmen took time out from doing the chicachica samba and the batucada samba and even the mambo during one of her early Las Vegas appearances for a bit of romance with Hank Greenspun, the Las Vegas publisher who helped run guns to the Jews in Mandatory Palestine. Persuaded by him of the justice of the Israeli cause, Carmen told her agent Sid Korshak to cut a check and to send it to Peter Bergson, with instructions to "buy as many bananas as the boys need." "Banana" was the code-word, in those circles, in 1948, for "gun." As you will find in the memoirs of Eliyahu Lankin, who commanded the Altalena, those aboard the ship were instructed, if stopped by the British or by the Haganah, to immediately form a conga-line and start singing at the top of their lungs "Yes, we have no bananas."
Strange, but true -- or at least a good deal more likely to be true than the Imam's Tale of the Poisoned Bananas.
Posted by: Hugh at August 1, 2005 11:49 AM
Geez, I suppose that this means Gwen Stefani's latest single is indicative of her role as part of the Zionest conspiracy.
(And no, I'm no aging hipster; we have a teenager in the house...)
Posted by: Doug at August 1, 2005 12:25 PM
scaramouoche,
Man, I wish you hadn't done that. Now, I can't get that jingle out of my head.
Posted by: PRCS at August 1, 2005 12:55 PM
So, that's why,
"yes, we have no bananas..."
at August 1, 2005 1:12 PM
Well I'll be a monkey's uncle!!!!
Posted by: Shy Guy at August 1, 2005 1:53 PM
a good chance missed to laugh this clown out of the building.
"what? bananas? did he say bananas? no he didn't, did he? BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
left out was the report of the look of sheer relief when the imams were assured that the melons were just fine.
Posted by: t-ham at August 1, 2005 1:57 PM
- now I know who has been saying Jews cause earthquakes
Posted by: goesh at August 1, 2005 2:29 PM
- now I know who has been saying Jews cause earthquakes
Posted by: goesh at August 1, 2005 2:31 PM
Muslims need to stop taking hits of acid and start eating good wholesome Pork sausages.
Posted by: Gorkhali at August 1, 2005 2:42 PM
Obviously, telling the imam to "ease up on inflammatory language" falls pretty short of what any decent educator should have done.
Also interesting to note in this article:
"As with all non-government schools, Werribee College is subject to few checks. It is not a member of the Australian Council for Islamic Education in Schools that has a charter to promote tolerance, oppose violence and condemn hatred. Although children at year 12 perform well above average, there are concerns among former teachers and members of Melbourne's Islamic community about the overall quality of education the 600-plus students receive.
The treatment of female staff and students has become an issue over recent years, with attempts to pay female teachers less, prevent them from sharing offices with male teachers and the imposition of strict dress codes."
And this is funded, to what extent, by Aussie taxpayers?
Posted by: waterdragon52 at August 1, 2005 3:13 PM
I don't believe that the imam actually thinks they are poisoned.I think that he lied on purpose.I think he sees the Banana in a very different way.
The bannana bears an obvious resemblence to a human penis and actually eating one invokes an even more sexually explicit image.
This is nothing new.When bannanas were originally introduced to America around the turn of the century it was considered unseemly for a woman to eat a bannana in a normal fashion,rather they would place the peeled bananna on a plate and consume it with a knife and fork.
I'll bet if you asked the imam,you'd find that the Jews also poisoned all the kelbasa,corn dogs and pickles as well.
JLP
at August 1, 2005 4:21 PM
Imams are Totally Bananas! Say Jews
-would be the accurate follow-up headline.
(Somehow I just can't picture how a Muslim women gets a banana through the hole in her burqa without poking herself in the eye.)
Posted by: BigSleep at August 1, 2005 4:48 PM
(Somehow I just can't picture how a Muslim women gets a banana through the hole in her burqa without poking herself in the eye.)
Posted by: BigSleep at August 1, 2005 04:48 PM
LOL ;)
Posted by: Carolyn2 at August 1, 2005 4:57 PM
Bigsleep: you are assuming that it's in her moutha that she wants it.
Posted by: Paolo at August 1, 2005 5:39 PM
Pin the poison banana on the Hijab and win free tickets to a public execution....
Posted by: DCWatson at August 1, 2005 5:45 PM
Pin the poison banana on the Hijab and win free tickets to a public execution....
Very funny!!
What is it about bananas? They're just a joke, aren't they?
They're wonderful flambeed with rum and apricot puree, served with whipped cream sprinkled with almonds.
My favourite dessert - really easy to do and people think it's clever when it isn't!
Mmmm!!
at August 1, 2005 6:38 PM
I knew a man that would only eat bananas sideways. Silly guy.
Posted by: Carolyn2 at August 1, 2005 7:06 PM
I have always wondered where the supermarket tabloids got their story ideas. Every week the headlines are more outrageous than before. Looks like at least some of them come from muslim science and forensics.
Posted by: texan at August 1, 2005 7:15 PM
Texan-
Now that's a GREAT idea!
An "INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC INQUIRER" tabloid! (Known simply as the "Eye-Eye-Eye"?)
Unlike the regular trashy fantasy papers of the "National Enquirer" ilk, one could use REAL stories -like this 'banana fiasco' or the "TEAPOT TEMPLE TRASHED BY INDONESIAN TALIBAN" tale elsewhere, etc., etc. etc.
JW/DW is a good source for some of their outrageous numbskullery, but it would be nice to have a real-looking little paper at the supermarket checkouts chronicling the wondrous weirdness of the Wahhabi wannabes. (It would clue in the average person faster about the real nature of extremist Islam than all the clever propaganda you could ever devise.)
Who could make up things as irridescently inane as the Islamicists' own absurd acts? Or obsessions? Or fears?
A "THIS WEEK'S KORAN QUOTE" blurb would be instructive, starting with Sura 9:5.
I hope someone with the means runs with this nifty notion!
[:?)]
Posted by: BigSleep at August 1, 2005 11:01 PM
The "Cat"- check this out! From LGF
Cat Says: More Islam is the Answer
Former “Peace Train” singer Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam) has a piece for The Independent, picked up by ArabNews, in which he argues that the only real solution to the problem of Islamic terrorism is a lot more Islamic education. You know, for the kids. Especially in the prejudiced West. The Problem Is Not Too Much Islam but Too Little. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
Education is crucial. Here in Britain, the education system has been slow, at best, in allowing Islamic teachings to be taught in their full breadth. There is a lack of commitment to the rigors of traditional learning. In the West, where Islam is denigrated and prejudice abounds, where headlines designed to shock and mesmerize dominate people’s minds, the real teachings of the faith are left for people to fall upon by chance. In terms of spiritual and moral nourishment, it has been left to largely irregular and inadequate models of religious education to deliver the goods.
An hour-long mosque sermon, once a week — which most Muslims attend — or a lecture by a visiting scholar who barely speaks English and has little understanding of British and European life, are never likely to deliver the balanced curriculum necessary to build the conscientious believer, one who not only knows his duty to God but also to the society and world he lives in.
The July 7 bombers attended state schools in Britain, not faith-based schools. Some of them, we are told, briefly visited madrasa schools in Pakistan. This may or may not be relevant, but it suggests that they felt they had had insufficient Islamic education in Britain. By going abroad, they laid themselves open to influences outside normal scholastic parameters.
If we fail to provide authentic and traditional spiritual values within everyday schooling, we allow rogue ideologists to distort the essence of religious concepts. We also exclude invaluable wisdom and repress the strong spirit of devotion that many believers naturally feel.
When I saw this guy some years ago on TV herding 9 year old hijabed Somali girls to a madrassah I knew everyhting!
I think if he was a Catholic he would be in jail by now. In Islam its legal. Since Aisha... The prophet could do no wrong...
at August 2, 2005 7:20 AM
BigSleep:
The International Arabic Inquirer may seem like a novel idea, but given the content of a lot of Arab media items that MEMRI translates with some regularity, I'd say it already exists. Over there, however, such "reportage" is considered mainstream and not "tabloid press".
Posted by: waterdragon52 at August 2, 2005 8:41 AM
I've figured it out! It was poisoned bananas that staged 9/11.
Posted by: Balrog at August 2, 2005 9:44 AM
Bananas in pyjamas are coming down the stairs etc.
http://www.abc.net.au/children/bananas/default.htm
I often wondered what this pair were on. Now I know, too much potassium rots the brain
Posted by: Granny Weatherwax at August 2, 2005 10:35 AM
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