A day off on a dhimmi holiday? No way! And don’t miss the part about the hand grenade: they don’t even do that at Evander Childs, a famously lethal school located in my old haunts in the Bronx.
“Iraqi students protest day off on Jewish Sabbath,” from AP, with thanks to Charles Martel:
It’s not that the Iraqis do not want time off – they just want the extra day moved to Thursday.
“We don’t want Saturday! It’s a Jewish holiday!” students chanted as they marched in protest last week to the governor’s office in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad.
A high-school student pulled out a hand grenade and started waving it, and police fired into the air to disperse the crowd. At least three students reportedly were injured in the ensuing scuffle.
At Baghdad’s University of Mustansariyah, a statement issued by a student union believed to be allied with the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr described Saturday as “the Zionist holiday” and said the government order should not be followed.
“We declare a general strike in the University of Mustansariyah to reject this decision and any decision aimed at depriving Iraqis of their identity,” the statement said.