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Robert Spencer in PJM: California Public School Holds Hijab Day, Hilarity Ensues

Feb 4, 2015 11:13 pm By Robert Spencer

Tom RuttenAt PJ Media I discuss a recent example of Islamic indoctrination — one of many — in the public schools.

Thursday was Hijab Day at NP3 High School (Natomas Pacific Pathways Prep), a public charter school in Sacramento, California. Predictably, the school responded to concerns over why a public school would be hosting such an event with charges that critics were motivated by “hatred” and “bigotry.” The whole episode became an illustration of how Islamic supremacists are manipulating politically correct, multiculturalist pieties to advance their agenda.

It all started when a Jihad Watch reader in the Sacramento area who is very close to NP3 High School sent me the flier for the day, which read:

NP3 Hijab Day

January 28, 2015

  • The hijab is a headcovering worn by Muslim women as a symbol of modesty and their devotion to God.
  • GIRLS! Come to the library Wednesday morning and MSA members will assist you in putting your hijab on.
  • You can bring any type of rectangular (or square) that is bought at any store*

*If you do not have any scarves, they will provided for you to borrow for the day

The person who sent me the flier explained that this all started with a student at NP3 High who is an intern for the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), now designated a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates. This student, I was informed, gave a presentation about “Islamophobia” and Islam at what was a mandatory staff meeting that also included an official CAIR representative. The school then decided to sponsor an official “Hijab Day” in cooperation with CAIR. The flier also showed that another Muslim Brotherhood-linked organization, the Muslim Students Association, was also involved.

My source also told me that every female member of the faculty and staff, and students as well, was encouraged to wear a hijab Thursday, and that NP3’s principal, Tom Rutten, strongly encouraged everyone to participate and wear one.

I asked readers of my website, Jihad Watch, to contact Rutten and let him know, politely and courteously, that there were religion-and-state issues involved in this event, and also that public schools should not be working with groups that have demonstrable and proven links to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. I suggested that readers ask him when NP3 Priest Collar Day, Nun Habit Day, and Kippah Day would be — or is it only Islam that gets this treatment? I also said they should ask him when NP3’s day would be to honor women and girls who have been brutalized and murdered for not wearing hijab, and why he was celebrating a garment that is, for all too many women, a sign of oppression and misogyny. I also asked people to write to Scott Dosick, the president of the Board of Trustees of the Natomas Unified School District, of which NP3 High is a part.

In conclusion, I wrote:

Remember that over at Hamas-linked CAIR they will be licking their chops and ready to pounce on any indication that Rutten or Dosick have been getting “hate messages” or “threats.” Do not give them ammunition in their jihad against freedom: be polite, courteous and reasonable in all communications, limiting discussion to asking calmly why Islam is getting this preferential treatment in a public school.”

Predictably, however, the next day Ibrahim Hooper of Hamas-linked CAIR triumphantly posted on his YouTube page this ridiculous “news story” about the controversy. It is indicative of how such issues are always treated in the mainstream media. Sacramento’s Fox 40 interviewed Rutten and CAIR. Rutten wearily said he had been receiving hate messages, although he neither showed nor quoted any. Fox 40 made no attempt to contact me or anyone who wrote letters to the school expressing concern over Hijab Day. The whole thing was dismissed, as always in the mainstream media, as “bigotry.” The Fox 40 story was also riddled with errors: it claimed that I named the student responsible for Hijab Day in my post; I did not, as you can see here. And the principal’s name is Rutten, not Sutten.

But sloppiness was not the worst of it. In recounting CAIR’s remarks, Fox 40 made no mention of CAIR’s ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, the jihad terror convictions of several of its former officials, the fact that the United Arab Emirates designated it a terror organization, etc. But it did go out of its way to say I (without naming me) am “anti-Muslim,” without bothering to note the issues regarding the oppression of women and religion-and-state involved in NP3’s Hijab Day.

Meanwhile, Rutten’s own response was passive-aggressive. On the one hand, he denied that Hijab Day was a school event: it was just a student’s presentation, he said, and he denied encouraging anyone to participate. On the other, he circulated an attack on those who had concerns as “hate-filled” and “irrational.” One exchange he had with a woman who was concerned about the program was illuminating in several ways. The concerned citizen wrote to Rutten:

I am a taxpayer, Girl Scout leader, and public education advocate in Southern California, and I am writing to express my shock, dismay, and disappointment at learning that a school in your district, the Natomas Unified School District, held a Hijab Day today, encouraging all girls and women to wear hijabs. This is outrageous.

It’s outrageous primarily because it brought religion into a public school in a way that directly conflicts with the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, which prohibits school-sponsored prayer and religious indoctrination.

Encouraging girls and women to wear hijabs for “modesty” is clearly an example of religious indoctrination. Can you imagine the public outrage if a Jewish student requested “Yarmulke Day” and all men and boys at the school were urged to wear a head covering of the type that Jewish men and boys wear? It’s unimaginable.

For your future use, here’s a guideline on Religion in Schools produced by the ACLU: www.aclu-tn.org/pdfs/briefer_religion_in_public_schools.pdf.

Additionally, it’s astounding because, per the flyer, “Hijab Day” was organized by, or encouraged by the Muslim Students Association, which is considered by many national security experts to be tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. In other words, tied to terrorism. I could provide you a dozen links to articles about this, but perhaps you’d like to do your own google search. It’s out there.

I know that you are a busy man, Mr. Rutten, but I really would like to understand why the NP3 thought this was acceptable. If you’d please reply to me, I’d appreciate that.

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  1. Salah says

    Feb 4, 2015 at 11:35 pm

    Hijab Day in Dusseldorf, Germany.

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2011/03/garbage-bagsac-ordures.html

    • Georg says

      Feb 5, 2015 at 12:00 am

      Damnit… I’m wondering how coordinated this all is. Germany needs hijabs like a hole in the head.

      • M S case says

        Feb 5, 2015 at 1:37 pm

        Looks like our school leaders are no better than our national leaders. What can you expect though muslim teachers muslim professors radicalized schools and colleges is coming or is it here already???

        • George says

          Feb 5, 2015 at 10:36 pm

          I can assure you the atmosphere and tone in some college classrooms is alarming (at least to those of us who’ve decided not to be masochistic doorstops). It’s not hard to find a full semester of anti-American, anti-Western, anti-European, anti-Christian smear. Some day when I’m on death’s doorstep and have no use for self-preservation I’ll release the list. There is a low-grade assault being waged against the US in many classrooms. Why these people are allowed to come over here and spew this stuff I can’t understand. Diversity, I guess? I’d think we could find just as much “diversity” without all the hatred, but I guess that wouldn’t be cute, cool and groovy, now would it?

  2. Georg says

    Feb 4, 2015 at 11:56 pm

    I don’t know much about litigation, but I’d be shocked if this doesn’t impinge upon the establishment clause. Perhaps he/they will say, “It wasn’t mandatory” or something similar. The opportunism of their culture is particularly irritating to me as it’s shameless. The principle seems like a bit of a putz, and I’d bet this was noticed and latched onto by those who could make something all about Islam.

    How unsurprising that “Islamophobia” was brandished about in order to quell any [“racist”] opposition. Islamists’ sanctimony regarding ethnic prejudice is laughable as they are literally/demonstrably, via the Koran, Kaffirphobic and Islamosupremicist, which offends 6.6 BILLION PEOPLE!!!!!!!- to use their histrionics. So their own hypersensitivities best exemplify the absurdity of the hysteria.

    There won’t be a Yarmulke Day or Wear a Cross Day or Atheism Day because… that would be racist.

    And I am anti-Islam. What dolt would expect a non-believer to be pro-Islam, or Islam-neutral given its disparaging and genocidal stance against her/him. How offensive to expect me to condone wanton libel and slander against myself and my loved ones.

    Get a clue and a life.

  3. tjhawk says

    Feb 5, 2015 at 12:24 am

    I wonder if any guys asked if they could borrow a hijab for the day? Would it be discrimination if they were refused? If everybody got to wear one, now that would be funny.

    I don’t know what NP3 is like, but if everybody got to go around with their identity obscured at the schools I have been associated with, there would have bee some strange and funny shiite going down.

    • Georg says

      Feb 5, 2015 at 12:31 am

      The thought of all the guys wearing hijabs definitely made me laugh, but it’s a great point/question. I could only imagine what would transpire were burqas permissible high school garb…

  4. Georg says

    Feb 5, 2015 at 12:26 am

    Here are some seemingly pertinent aspects of the Establishment Clause: “[The Establishment Clause] prohibits government actions that unduly favor one religion over another. It also prohibits the government from unduly preferring religion over non-religion…”

    I don’t see what’s equivocal here. This disrespect for the constitution angers and worries me. I can’t help but ponder the fact that Muslims did not contribute to the founding of this country(I know, how racist and antiquated and evil and vile and xyz123 of me), nor have they, generally, been here for particularly long. How about some humility and respect for our culture and tradition?

  5. tjhawk says

    Feb 5, 2015 at 12:35 am

    The reason I posted about the guys in hijabs above is that if they gain a victory, we need to think of ways to make their victory seem ridiculous. I bet plenty of guys would jump at the chance to disrupt the proceedings by demanding that they want to wear one too.

    • ron8072 says

      Feb 5, 2015 at 6:20 am

      I am an old bearded man that would gladly participate in an area-wide (or national) men’s hijab day! We do need to exhibit our total disdain for Islam, their rampant supremacist attitude, which they promote at gunpoint or worse in all corners of the world in ways that can only be described as wanton terrorism. America needs to play some serious catch-up ball now that jihadists have infiltrated our country!

      And yet we allow them to gather in this country; twist our laws to where they can operate almost as an entity that lives above and beyond our laws! Obama and some governors have promoted some Muslims to the highest levels of government up to and including our judicial branch of government and the Department of Homeland Security. If America keeps listening to Obama describe the world he sees rather than the world in which we live, we are done!

      Remember, Obama and his leftist friends have their heads up their nether regions where they imagine they are smelling rose petals, seeing rainbows, and witnessing unicorns prancing around a meadow! You, who see reality, see beheadings, mass murders, even execution by burning!

      Don’t waste time reminding me that this is about the requirement of wearing of hajibs at a public school. Requiring religious indoctrination in any religion is against our laws! Many earlier dominoes were required to fall before this latest one could. Let there be no more!

      • George says

        Feb 5, 2015 at 11:03 pm

        Great point, Don– it is against the law.

        • Georg says

          Feb 5, 2015 at 11:04 pm

          *Ron

          Sorry about that.

  6. William Lucas HarveyJr. says

    Feb 5, 2015 at 12:48 am

    “…critics were motivated by “hatred” and “bigotry”….The whole episode became an illustration of how Islamic supremacists are manipulating politically correct, multiculturalist pieties to advance their agenda.”

    This Jihad Watch statement is 100% Correct. THIS seems to be the STANDARD Tactric, when someone cannot Dispute the FACTS.

    When the Islamist’s are unable to Dispute the FACTS, with their own Reasonable, Intelligent Arguments, their only available Recourse for “Dispute” is via the Tactics of Mislead, Manipulate, Bully, Name Call, Degrade, etc.

    Critics are also called “closed Minded”, “bigoted”, legislating “fear”, and on and on, and sometimes also called “Islamophobes” suffering from “Islamophobia” (that Statement IS a circular violation of Logic) http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/10/international-civil-liberties-alliance-blasts-use-term-islamophobia-illogical/

  7. duh_swami says

    Feb 5, 2015 at 5:43 am

    ‘Hey teacher, leave those kids alone’…just do the 3-R thing and quit social engineering, or religious engineering in this case..

    • Georg says

      Feb 5, 2015 at 11:09 pm

      Exactly, leave them alone. If my daughter was coerced into wearing a hijab I’d be apoplectic; it’s a few degrees below asking Jews to participate in Yellow Star Day.

  8. Angemon says

    Feb 5, 2015 at 7:49 am

    From that link:

    “Sarah Willis, 19, claimed BT engineer Bilal Saddique hated when she wore “tight and short clothing” because “other men looked at her” and wanted her to comply with Islamic standards of dress by covering up.

    (…)

    Mr Saddique, 29, …

    (…)

    …their three year relationship…”

    Has she turned 19 this year or will she turn 20? And what’s the age of consent in Britain?

    “Mr Saddique, who came from a strict Muslim family, had also been very private about his relationship with Willis with one lifelong friend unaware of him dating a white girl.”

    So they overlook her age, and the age difference, but have a problem with her skin colour?

    “Miss Day said: “He wanted her to cover up because other men looked at her. She wore Western clothing but always covered her arms and legs. She said she had never been introduced to Bilal’s mother and she was conservative and wouldn’t accept her. She said they loved each other and were going to get married. He didn’t like her wearing tight clothing and short clothes.””

    Gee, who could have seen that one coming?…

    “He became suspicious of her platonic friendship with a male work colleague after they were photographed together at the office Christmas party in 2013 and he found text messages and read her Facebook account.

    In a police interview, Willis said she had a “difficult relationship” with Mr Saddique and claimed he had hit her and cheated with another woman.”

    Or that one?…

    “Her account is that during this argument Mr Saddique was sitting on the work surface in the kitchen area and Mr Saddique has started to say ‘come on hit me, come on f***ing stab me if you hate me’.”

    Yeah, not a smart thing to say to someone you beat and cheat regularly…

  9. William says

    Feb 5, 2015 at 10:57 am

    Instead of shrugging it off, why aren’t lawsuits being filed?

    • William says

      Feb 5, 2015 at 11:00 am

      How do you think the Left got Christianity removed from public places? How do you think the leftists got abortion legalized? How do you think they got homosexual marriage legalized?

      • ayatollahowmany says

        Feb 8, 2015 at 12:33 am

        You sound just like a muslim…

  10. Lioness says

    Feb 5, 2015 at 12:09 pm

    Today hijab day, tomorrow beheading day. Islam coming to a town near you.

  11. mach37 says

    Feb 5, 2015 at 2:39 pm

    Would the NP3 school also hold a “Crucifix Necklace Day” in response to Muslim and atheist objections toward Christian beliefs? And, to be perfectly fair, there should be a “God is Dead Day” to respect atheist beliefs. Rather than a “Hijab Day” the school ought to hold an “Anti-Jihad Day,” except that would be counter to Islamic beliefs.

  12. Ihor Staruch says

    Feb 5, 2015 at 3:08 pm

    What about something inspirational for the boys?
    How about Lashing Day, Stoning Day and Beheading Day?
    The boys could bring lashes, stones and swords.

  13. truth says

    Feb 5, 2015 at 7:13 pm

    I was just wondering, does anyone who reads this, atlas shrugs, madworldnews, etc have kids that go to school in this district/school? If so then why not have the children propose the “wear a cross”, or Yarmulke day? If the school turns the proposal down then there is even more justification for action against the principles involved (including lawsuits). If hijab day gets pasted but none of the others then there is a truly significant problem. Also all of these have been proposed but from what I see no one has encouraged taking action.

  14. Carlos Danger says

    Feb 5, 2015 at 9:17 pm

    “Educators” like Mr.Rutten will have a number of bosses. Who does he report to? Who does his immediate supervisor report to? Since Mr. Rutten was too rude, too busy, or too cowardly to respond to Mr. Spencer’s accurate and thorough letter, did his boss(es) receive a carbon copy? If not they certainly should. I suggest that Mr. Spencer, or his associates, pursue this up the chain of command until they receive a response.Make Mr. Rutten squirm, and both he and others will think twice about keeping religion out of a public school.

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