Anti-dhimmitude from an unexpected source: the mayor of New York. Bloomberg unexpectedly bucks the politically correct tide and points out that New York City public schools can’t possibly observe every holiday that may be observed by any given student. The holiday initiative, in any case, is an attempt further to undermine the Judeo-Christian character of the nation (which remains as a pivotal influence upon our legal system and society even as belief has waned), and to force further acceptance of the highly dubious proposition that almost everyone already accepts anyway: that Islam has no political, violent or supremacist character about which anyone need be concerned, but is rather simply a religion like other religions that fit easily into the framework of American pluralism and the non-establishment of religion. And all they’re asking for, by golly, is to be treated like everyone else — after all, Christmas is a day off from school, isn’t it?
Meanwhile, unnamed, unmentioned, unacknowledged, Sharia supremacism remains in the background.
“Bloomberg: Schools Can’t Observe Muslim Holidays,” from AP, June 30 (thanks to Pamela):
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s City Council has passed a nonbinding resolution asking the Education Department to observe two important Muslim holidays. But Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the city is so diverse schools can’t observe every holiday.
The city has the nation’s largest school system. A 2008 study by Columbia University’s Teachers College estimates at least 10 percent of its 1.1 million students are Muslim….
What? “At least 10 percent” of New York City public school students are Muslim?
This shows you yet again how trustworthy trusted news sources such as AP really are. Even if the Columbia Teachers College study did say that, it is absurd, and AP should not have passed it on uncritically.
Why would the percentage of Muslims in New York City public schools so much higher than even the most generous estimate of the Muslim population in the U.S.? Even if you take the most inflated figure of all that Islamic advocacy groups bandy about, it makes for nine million Muslims in the U.S. That’s three percent. Of course, one may expect that they would congregate in cities and that therefore New York’s total would be higher than the national total, but three times higher?
And there aren’t nine million Muslims in the U.S., anyway. Even Obama, who claimed in Cairo that there were seven million, revised it down to five million soon afterward. The Pew Research Center a few years ago found 2.3 million — less than one percent.
The inflated figures, of course, are designed to magnify the appearance of Muslim political clout. And apparently this is an effective tool, as it is frequently employed.