Here’s a news item from December 7: “San Bernardino school officials tell KPCC that Syed Rizwan Farook visited eleven school sites to inspect cafeterias through his job as a San Bernardino County health inspector. Officials found out less than a day after the shootings that Farook had been at a high school campus two months before the shootings that left 14 people dead and 21 wounded.” If Farook had committed jihad mass murder in a school instead of at a Christmas party, would the Feds still be in full Muslims-are-victims mode? Absolutely. Without any doubt whatsoever.
No schoolchildren should ever be subjected to any actual discrimination or harassment. This focus on the possibility of Muslim students being harassed, however, is just more of the prevailing Orwellianism: Islam is a Religion of Peace. Terror attacks are carried out by a tiny minority of extremists who don’t represent the religion. The focus should not be on educating students about jihad terror and Islamic supremacism, but on teaching them that Muslims are victims of discrimination and harassment who warrant special consideration. The problem with that is that Islamic supremacist advocacy groups such as Hamas-linked CAIR routinely smear legitimate counter-terror efforts as “hateful” and “bigoted,” and work to get them shut down on that basis. This kind of “urging” from the Feds only feeds that mindset and hinders counter-terror operations.

“Feds Urge Schools to Shield Muslim Students From Harassment,” by Evie Blad, Education Week, January 12, 2016 (thanks to Peter):
As public fears about terrorism hit their highest levels in a decade and anti-Islamic sentiment surges, schools should take extra steps to ensure that Muslim, immigrant, and refugee students feel safe and free from discrimination, the U.S. Department of Education said last week.
Schools are always obligated under federal civil rights laws to respond to harassment and bullying of all students, regardless of their race, ethnicity, or national origin, the agency said in a “Dear Colleague” letter. But that obligation is especially important “at this time when fear and anger are heightened, and when public debate sometimes results in the dissemination of misinformation,” said the letter, signed by the department’s former secretary, Arne Duncan, and its acting secretary, John King.
That urging from federal officials comes as a recent Gallup poll shows that American concern about terrorism reached its highest point in 10 years after the mass shootings in Paris and in San Bernardino, Calif., which were both linked to Muslim extremism.
In the wake of those shootings, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump proposed temporarily barring Muslims from traveling to the United States, and some lawmakers and political candidates supported a halt on the resettlement of refugees from Syria.
Civil rights groups, meanwhile, have been reporting heightened concerns from students and parents about school-based harassment of Muslim students and Sikh students, who are often misidentified as Muslim and faced similar harassment after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
“Kids are asking things like, ‘Is my friend Muhammad going to have to leave the country? Where do we get to go see him if he’s made to leave?’ ” said Jennifer Wicks, a lawyer who handles civil rights complaints for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR. “Kids are, unfortunately, hearing that. That’s something that families and schools need to have a discussion about.”
Singled OutMuslim and immigrant students may also feel singled out in classroom discussions about current events, Wicks said, or classmates may inadvertently put them in the position of defending all Muslims, which they may feel unprepared or unwilling to do.
And Muslim students often feel targeted by more deliberate harassment, sometimes even by teachers and other staff members, she said.
In a 2014 survey by CAIR California, the organization’s largest state office, 52 percent of responding Muslim middle and high school students reported being “verbally insulted or abused” because of their religion. And 29 percent of responding girls who wore hijabs reported offensive touching or pulling of their head coverings by classmates.
Students interviewed for the report said they don’t report bullying or harassment because the behavior is sometimes presented in a joking tone, or because they fear adults won’t take their concerns seriously.
The Education Department urged schools not to ignore conduct that may range “from abusive name-calling to defamatory graffiti to physical violence directed at a student because of a student’s actual or perceived race or ancestry, the country the student’s family comes from, or the student’s religion or cultural traditions.”
“If ignored, this kind of conduct can jeopardize students’ ability to learn, undermine their physical and emotional well-being, provoke retaliatory acts, and exacerbate community conflicts,” the letter said.
The department called for schools to ensure that systems for reporting and responding to bullying and harassment are understood by all students and staff members.
Claims of discrimination against Muslim students have made headlines in recent months, and some have drawn legal scrutiny.
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether the Irving, Texas, police department violated 14-year-old Muslim student Ahmed Mohamed’s civil rights when officers arrested him after teachers thought a homemade clock he brought to school looked like a bomb.
The family of a 13-year-old middle school student in Gwinnett County, Ga., threatened legal action after they said a teacher asked if the student was carrying a bomb in her backpack. A 7th grader in Vandalia, Ohio, faced potential expulsion after he threatened to kill a 6th grade Muslim student he had called a “son of ISIS,” referring to the Islamic terrorist group that controls territory in Syria and Iraq and whose adherents have been responsible for deadly attacks, including the mass shootings in Paris.
And discussions of Islam can be a sensitive subject for schools. In December, a Virginia district closed due to security concerns after a teacher asked students to write the Islamic declaration of faith in traditional Arabic calligraphy as part of a class assignment.
Diverse Points of ViewSchools must address discrimination swiftly, but they should avoid extinguishing sometimes difficult classroom conversations about current events, the Education Department said.
“To be very clear, working to maintain safe learning communities does not, and must not, mean chilling free expression about the issues of the day—this work is about taking thoughtful steps to create space for open and constructive dialogue, while dealing swiftly with actions that create an unlawful hostile environment,” said the letter.
“Protecting free speech means protecting the ability of your students, faculty, staff, and members of the public to hold and express views that may be at odds with your institution’s strongly held values,” the letter continued. “Schools should not ignore the dissonance that this creates, but should instead consciously use these moments as opportunities for reflection, discussion, and increased understanding.”
Wicks, of CAIR, said teachers may be more mindful of how such conversations affect their Muslim students if they have a basic understanding of Islam. The organization has offered training to schools to help them avoid and address classroom discrimination.
Such efforts are not just a feel-good exercise, school climate experts have said. Research shows that students are likely to disengage at school if the actions of their peers or teachers communicate that they don’t belong. And lower levels of engagement correspond with poorer academic performance.
Efforts to include and support Muslim students don’t look much different from those to support and nurture a healthy school climate for all students, school administrators said.
That may mean calling teachers’ attention to situations that may be particularly stressful for certain students. In the case of Muslim students, conversations on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks or after international events may spark concerns, they said.
CAIR applauded the actions taken by educators in the Columbia Heights, Minn., district, where teachers and administrators joined students in a school walkout to protest a school board member, who allegedly posted offensive comments about Muslim people’s hygiene on his Facebook page. The school board member, who denied posting the comments, later resigned.
In Southern California’s Corona Norco school district, about 35 miles west of San Bernardino, administrators have not seen an uptick of bullying or discrimination complaints since the recent shootings, even among its Muslim students, said Reginald Thompkins, the district’s administrative director of instructional support. He credited the district’s ongoing school climate efforts….
Adrian says
maybe the muslim students wouldn’t feel “singled out” if they saw all their mosques instituting programs to educate their fellow muslims on why all the violent, hateful and deadly commands of the Quran are not really violent, hateful and deadly…
Tom says
Wrong. The mosques are telling the attendees to hate us, to take over whenever possible and to procreate as much as possible so that they can ultimately vote us out.
Heed this: the price of crude oil today dipped to $29.93 and closed at $30.69.
The Islamic nations are flooding the market with oil to artificially depress the price of oil so that American oil companies go out of business. North Dakota, our nations #2 oil producer, has shut down most of the drilling wells. Almost every oil company has laid off a significant portion of its workforce.
Once we are no longer producing the millions of barrels a day and we stop exploration, the Islamic states will increase oil to $200/bbl+.
I anticipate gasoline to then go to $10.00/Gallon+
GET IT???
We are being screwed and yet Americans are loving the low gasoline prices.
Today I saw $1.79 per gallon.
This is not good and will only get worse!!
WE Need Trump to step in and stop the madness.
Adrian says
my original comment about the mosques was meant ironically, because of course they will never create such programs….
spartan says
Right on target! I heard the Saudi Oil Minister confirm this – in so many words – yesterday on TV, calling it a “defence of market share”…..
Avenger says
@Tom
Our US State Dept also prods the Middle East oil producing nations too maintain high crude oil production, therefore flooding the world market. This directly damages the economies of Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Mexico and Nigeria. It’s the kindler-gentler Obama presidency.
Aardvark says
If you take all the hate speech out of the Koran you will be left with a small pamphlet containing mostly incomprehensible gibberish!
DP111 says
The media tell us that less then 10% of Muslims are Islamists. The authorities feel that we should be re-assured by that.
Now assume that a typical Muslim family has ten members. This means that every Muslim family has one Islamist within it, waiting to show his true colours. Its not so re-assuring now. It also meas that virtually every Muslim family knows that one of theirs is going to do the “right” Islamic thing. It is the reason that every time a Jihadi goes Infidel hunting, the family tell us the same old ” He was so devout, a good boy, they never knew what was going on ” etc etc.
We can play around with the figures, ands see which figure is the most re-assuring and one can live with, so to speak.
SoCalMike says
Or burned down and leveled.
There should be no mosques permitted here or anywhere.
They are bases for Islamic holy war.
PlayGod says
If they say they are Muslims, then they should be able to defend their religious beliefs, just as Jews should be able to defend the HYPOCRISY of whining about THEIR genocide at the hands of the Nazis while ignoring the genocide of the Canaanites in Deuteronomy 20:16-18, the genocide of the Amalekites in 1Samuel 15:7-8 & 1Chronicles 4:42-43 , and especially the genocide of the Midianites in Numbers 31:14-18 [Note that the Midianites do NOT whine about their genocide nor do they demand a Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. Why? Because the Jews aren’t a bunch of half-assed Nazis—the Jews got ’em ALL]. And how about the Christians who worship Jesus the “Peacemaker”. Not only does Jesus DENY being a “peacemaker” in Matthew 10:34 & Luke 22:35-38, but also it’s hard to explain why a “peacemaker” who based his ministry on criticizing HYPOCRISY did NOT decry the open-season on Gentiles in the Old Testament. After all there IS a Commandment against KILLING. But apparently this Commandment is only applicable to and for the “Chosen People”. It doesn’t apply to mosquitoes, barnyard animals, or Gentiles. Jesus makes this distinction very clear in Matthew 10:5 when he FORBIDS teaching his message to the Gentiles.
MUSLIMS HAVE ALOT MORE PROBLEMS IN THEIR HOLY BOOK , THE QURAN, THAN THE JEWS AND CHRISTIANS PUT TOGETHER.
If these students call themselves Muslims, then they must believe in the ubiquitous HATRED for infidels in “ETERNALLY APPLICABLE” & “FLAWLESSLY CORRECT” Quran 98:6, 2:98, 3:56, 3:85, 3:178, 48:29, 5:33, 2:257, & 9:29-30, and in the mandate to NEVER BEFRIEND infidels in Quran 5:51 & 9:23, to LIE to infidels in Quran 3:28 & 9:1, to KILL infidels in Quran 9:5, 2:191-193, 4:89, 8:39, 48:29, 47:35, 2:216, 4:95, 9:19-20, 9:44, & 49:15, and to FORCIBLY TAKE infidel women for SEX SLAVES in Quran 4:3 & 23:6.
The ENSLAVEMENT of females is not only important because it is symptomatic of how all women, infidel and Muslim, are treated in Quran 4:3, 4:11, 4:15, 4:24, 4:34, 2:223, 2:228, 23:6, 2:282 & especially Quran 65:4 [where PEDOPHILIA is institutionalized in Islam; the mentally-challenged ALLAH mistakenly mandates the testing of divorced PREMENSTRUAL little girls for the BIOLOGICAL IMPOSSIBILITY of Pregnancy (?!)], but also it highlights perhaps the biggest driver of Holy Jihad–a shortage of females in Muslim society. Since Muslim males can have FOUR WIVES, there is always a BIG shortage of females in Muslim societies. This is probably why Muslim males are so infamous for “marrying” little premenstrual girls. “Marrying” little girls is a sign of how desperate Muslim males are, but Pedophilia won’t solve the problem because Pedophilia only robs the next generation of females. The good news is that ALLAH does have a “solution”. The bad news is that the Nazis called this “solution” THE FINAL SOLUTION (a.k.a. MURDER). By declaring “Holy” Jihad [more accurately “Horny” Jihad], Muslim males can KILL infidel males [see Quran 9:1, 9:5, 2:191-193 etc. above] and FORCIBLY TAKE the widows, sisters, and daughters for SEX SLAVES [see Quran 4:3 & 23:6]. The only drawback is that the Muslim males might die in the fighting–But WAIT! If Muslim males die in fighting for Horny Jihad, then they automatically get 72 BEAUTIFUL, YOUNG, VOLUPTUOUS VIRGINS in Paradise!! WIN-WIN!!! What a Machiavellian scheme for World Conquest!!!!
Will the souls of Muslim martyrs get laid???
“A soul? Give my watch to a savage and he’ll think it has a soul.”
–Bonaparte Napoleon
“A blow to the head will confuse a person’s thinking; a blow to the foot has no such effect. This can NOT be the result of people having an immaterial soul.”
–Heraclitus of Ephesus
In other words, it is very, very, VERY likely that the only “virgins” in the Islamic Paradise will be the BRAINWASHED Muslim martyrs themselves. In my opinion, all Religions are the BRAINWASHING of little children before they are old enough to know any better. Simply put, RELIGION is CHILD ABUSE. The way Thomas Edison put it was, “The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from 6 to 7 years of age, and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them. Incurably religious–that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people. Incurably religious.”
Are YOU convinced? Probably not. As Jonathan swift pointed out, “It is useless to attempt to reason a person out of what they were never reasoned into.”
Attempts to convince YOU gentle reader will probably fall on BRAINWASHED ears. As will attempts to convince the above BRAINWASHED Muslim school children. On the other hand, confronting True Believers with the inconsistencies and blatant stupidities in a religion [such as the ETERNALLY APPLICABLE and FLAWLESSLY CORRECT Quran saying that the sun sets in a muddy oasis in Quran 18:16, and that a human embryo consists of male sperm and a BLOOD CLOT in Quran 23:14—women make NO genetic contribution (?!)] might serve to start them thinking. If only parents taught their children to THINK FOR THEMSELVES instead of obediently following made-up stories about “Gods”.
The Gods are INVISIBLE because the Gods are NON-EXISTENT.—Tom Lang [“See” Steve Eley’s Faith Of The Invisible Pink Unicorns as described in the informative and rather amusing book THE QUOTABLE ATHEIST edited by Jack Huberman which includes quotes by Dave Barry, George Carlin, Woody Allen , and Mark Twain. Western apologists for Muslims should take particular notice of the quote by “Ibn Warraq”, the life-saving pseudonym for an Islamic scholar who is understandably concerned that his tolerant, peace-loving Muslim neighbors will KILL him. How can Muslim “refugees” desperately want to integrate, assimilate, and join Western societies when these same Muslims are NOT even allowed to make infidel FRIENDS? You have to remember that ALLAH encourages Muslims to LIE to infidels. There are NO “moderate” Muslims, only “moderately” good LIARS.]
Western Canadian says
You really are a dirty muslim, your post makes that very, very clear.
mortimer says
MOST MUSLIM YOUTH ARE RADICALIZED JIHAD SUPPORTERS ALREADY
Islam is an ideology. Muslim who adhere to that SUPREMACIST POLITICAL IDEOLOGY defend certain doctrines that are irreconcilable with modernity and pluralism. It is no wonder American children want to challenge Muslims about their loyalties.
Most Muslim youth are already ‘radicalized’…but no one is allowed to say so for fear of offending political correctness.
Singh the Sikh says
This is nauseating. How about taking some genuine steps to shield innocent citizens from terrorist attacks, both from home-grown and imported jihadists? After all, it’s kaffir blood that is actually being spilt. Has the Dept considered why the surge in anti-Islamic sentiment in the first place? Could it be because of gratuitous acts of barbarism by adherents of islam? Clearly it’s a problem within Islam, so why hold kaffirs responsible? All they get for extending a welcoming hand is ungratefulness, murderous attacks and mass sexual molestations rape for good measure. Islam is responsible for its own poor image, and with good reason. It’s up to them to clean up their act. What to do if they even refuse to acknowledge that a problem exists? Pampering by the state, which refuses to acknowledge islam is the problem, has made the situation only worse.
Department says “Schools should take extra steps to ensure that Muslim, immigrant, and refugee students feel safe and free from discrimination”…how about taking some extra and needed steps to stop jihadists spilling the blood of innocent citizens? At the moment, the US continues to import future terrorists and swell their numbers through its flawed refugee while bleating about discrimination against muslim students, who are actually quite privileged, assertive and even aggressive on campuses.
EYESOPEN says
Right you are, Singh.
SoCalMike says
Many more.
Easier to let Americans get mass murdered than to even have to listen to reason.
The thought police run our schools and media and infest our government like maggots and lice.
Democrats aside, just listen to Paul Ryan , John Kasich and Mitch McConnell.
They would easily watch millions of Americans get murdered and sacrificed on the altar of their beliefs than ever stop and think for a second and dare risk changing their enslaved brainwashed minds.
abad says
Muslim and being singled out?
How about not dressing like a Muslim and deliberately provoking attention to being Muslim?
There is nothing worse than self-whoring one’s religion.
Sick.
particolor says
At least You can see the Threat in your Midst when they are in Uniform !! 🙁
spartan says
Taqqiya, the strategy of war advocated by The Prophet, (“Peace-be-upon-him”) urges deception when the faithful insinuate themselves into Kaffir society, excusing dress and behaviour that is un-Muslim, in order to operate more effectively under the radar. IS literature even advocates the wearing of a Christian cross at border crossings in order the smooth the path of jihad. Those who flaunt their Islamic faith are not (at present, anyway) the ones to watch most closely……
Hope says
Ah, yes. Muslims. The most highly protected of all the endangered species on the planet. I have taught my kids about the stealth jihad, the plan to destroy our country from within. I have trained my kids to steer clear of them. Don’t look at them, don’t talk to them, give them plenty of space out in public, lest one find oneself on the wrong end of a civil rights lawsuit.
billybob says
“Kids are asking things like, ‘Is my friend Muhammad going to have to leave the country? Where do we get to go see him if he’s made to leave?’ ” said Jennifer Wick
Self-serving fantasy. Muslims are forbidden to make friends with kafir.
Hope says
Excellent point.
somehistory says
A person of discernment can tell when something is made up and this is a made up scenario. No teen is going to ask that question, nor the follow-up “where do we get to go see him…”
If there were real questions being asked by infidel kids, they could use them to make their point, but since it isn’t happening, they get all *creative* and try to write dialogue that makes the little infidel worry about his moslim friends.
So, they want us to think that the moslims are being bullied, are made to be afraid, are looked at and talked about and clothing pulled by other kids in school….but the *kids* are also worried about the moslim kids who might have to *leave* the country.
Which is it? Picking on the moslim kids or worrying about them?
Poorly written lies to mislead and make people feel *shamed*…the hillary effect.
JeffSmith says
I would really like ONE Kid to come forward who asked such question. …..
Crickets. That line is so full a BS it is almost laughable. I read somewhere. Maybe Gatestone that not even the MUSLIMS like CAIR. A full 88% don’t recognize CAIR as legit org. I really can’t stand these sue happy.
Carolyne says
That’s such nonsense. Nobody ever said anything like that. I challenge that idiot to give one truthful example where any student said this. In fact, I know of no actual incident where a Muslim was discriminated against. Quite the opposite, in fact. They are the bullies.
Tom says
Can you believe what transpired today in Iran with of Naval vessels? I am willing to bet our Government initiates a Court Marshall case against the sailors and officers.
Mike says
This integration German style.
http://pamelageller.com/2016/01/german-muslims-hating-on-nonmuslims.html/
Rob says
Latest FBI stats I can find.
5x more likely to be targeted if Jewish than Muslim.
Any school programmes to combat anti-Jewish bias?
“Religious bias
Of the 1,340 victims of an anti-religious hate crime:
62.4 percent were victims of an offender’s anti-Jewish bias.
11.6 percent were victims of an anti-Islamic bias.
7.5 percent were victims of a bias against groups of individuals of varying religions (anti-multiple religions, group).
6.4 percent were victims of an anti-Catholic bias.
2.6 percent were victims of an anti-Protestant bias.
0.9 percent were victims of an anti-Atheist/Agnostic bias.
8.6 percent were victims of a bias against other religions (anti-other religion)”.
eduardo odraude says
Thanks Rob. What is the date on those stats, do you have it?
Rob says
2012
Here’s the link.
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2012/topic-pages/victims/victims_final
I doubt things have materially changed since then.
Best
pongidae rex says
The most dysfunctional groups in America are placed on the highest pedestal and declared above and beyond any criticism whatsoever. Any criticism that does occur, regardless of its factual basis, is instantly denounced as racism and bigotry. No nation can survive this magical thinking indefinitely.
dumbledoresarmy says
And what happens when the *Muslim* ‘kids’ – whether in elementary or in secondary school – ATTACK the non-Muslim kids?
When they attack the visibly Jewish kids? The Christian kids? The black (non-Muslim) kids and Asian kids?
I remember coming across an account of British-resident Muslim *schoolgirls* mob-attacking a Jewish schoolgirl.
What happens when (as *happened* in one schoolyard in Australia; and it was reported, and discussed here at Jihadwatch) the Muslim kids *attack* some poor non-Muslim kid who happens to be eating a salami sandwich? When, during Ramadan, they *attack* the non-Muslim kids in the playground for…eating food or drinking from the bubblers in front of their holier-than-thou ostentatiously-fasting-in-daylight-hours precious selves?
When the big brothers of the Muslim girls attack the little primary-school Infidel girls or prey upon them?
When the sweet lil lying Muslimah invites her infidel schoolfriend to a sleepover…and the Muslim girl’s brothers and cousins are lying in wait?
What happens when the Muslim boys gang up on some poor little six or seven or eight or nine-year-old Infidel girl behind the bike shed and sexually molest or *rape* her?
ALL of these possibilities are real. Because children learn from their parents and older siblings and what Muslim kids are going to learn, in general, from the rest of the Ummah ‘community’ as the proper attitude toward Kuffar is…total contempt and total entitlement and a will to *hurt*, to frighten, to cause harm, to subjugate.
And then…there’s campus dawa. Remember the Toronto 18? There was this Canadian high school with a fair few Muslims in their student body, and the stupid Islamopandering principal (not a Muslim) let the Muslims have a special ‘prayer room’…and a Hindu-background boy got lured in and converted to Islam (much to the horror of his Hindu parents, who did their best to dissuade him, and in their distress, tried to persuade the principal to shut down the ‘prayer room’)…and he ended up as one of a group of wannabe jihadis who plotted to blow up buildings and attack the Canadian parliament and behead the PM. And there was that Aussie kid, Jake Bilardi, who got converted to Islam by contact with the Muslim mobsters, and then ran off to Syria and became a human bomb.
But we’re all supposed to worry about the poor little persecuted Muslim petals….it’s all about them, and not about all the other kids – Jewish, secular, Christian, Hindu, you-name-it – who are surely going to cop HELL from those enabled and entitled muslim kids, sooner or later…..
eduardo odraude says
What you are talking about happens more often the larger the percentage of Muslims in a population (as you know of course). Muslims now might be only 1% of the US population, so it’s not happening here that much yet. And things may in some ways develop somewhat differently here than in Europe and Australia, for a number of reasons — First Amendment, Second Amendment, and more successful efforts (so far) at integration.
ballotcode says
Isn’t that a publicly funded organization taking a “stand” on religion? Where are the atheist groups protesting and filing law suits?
eduardo odraude says
It is taking a stand on religion if the policy gives special treatment to Muslim kids. If Muslim kids are not getting more harassment than other groups, for example, yet get more protection, that would seem to be taking a stand on religion.
madmemere says
Well, sure, by all means, protect the little bisquiks from harassment; just expel them permanently!
No Fear says
When I am feeling particularly depressed about the state of the world I like to view this video of the Australian atheist convention and the muslims chanting in protest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCfwcd_Ajg4
I always enjoy the moment when the atheists start chanting back to the muslims “Where are the women?” a reference to the complete lack of women in the muslim camp.
The highlight of the video is when the atheists chant “ZZ Top, ZZ Top ….” which refers to the number of beards on the muslim men. I bet that really flew over the heads of the muslims!
Never fails to make me smile…..
Rob says
Thanks.
I feel physically ill when I read some of the outrageous stuff Muslims are perpetrating world-wide.
We need clips like this. Thanks again for posting.
Charli Main says
Muslim kids need to be taught that their ” prophet” Mohammed was a completely insane sociopath who flew to heaven on a winged horse to chat with angels and whose best friend was a talking donkey.
Matthieu Baudin says
“…As public fears about terrorism hit their highest levels in a decade and anti-Islamic sentiment surges, schools should take extra steps to ensure that Muslim, immigrant, and refugee students feel safe and free from discrimination, the U.S. Department of Education said last week…”
This official response is parroted the world over; the ever present apprehension of a backlash from the public. It seems the public are an entity to be feared, contained and never trusted to use judgement instead of impulse. But the longer this moronic ‘public management’ approach continues the more frustrated we become. An alternative would be for the authorities to act as servants of the public and speak directly and honestly about the threats we face. But unfortunately, in our brave new Post Modern State, we are thought to no longer have ‘a public’ to address but a ‘multitude of publics or cultural entities’ to address, all in differing ways, and so our public officials remain distant, acting the role of umpires, while we wait and wonder where the next attack will take place.
spartan says
Thank you Matthieu for a highly articulate and insightful assessment of the disfunctionality of public office faced with “a multitude of publics to address”.
Legal and media pressures lead them to pander to the publics most likely to benefit from intervention which could harm officials’ public image, or expose them to legal liability. Meanwhile, there are no advocacy groups pressuring them to act on behalf of groups – be they in the majority – who are PROVEN victims of hateful and violent jihadi action. No upside there, and with certain blowback from special interest advocates.
“Distant, acting the role of umpires” indeed!
spartan says
So much concern for Muslims who may – or may not – be the victims of anti-Muslim retaliatory attacks in the US and Europe! Such as the burning or bombing of mosques in the US or Europe.
But wait. There has been only one in the US (1994), despite the monstrous murder of 3000 civilians on 9/11 – after which the Islam-is-a-religion-of-peace brigade promoted the construction of a mosque on the site with Saudi money. Hmmm. Scratching my head over this one.
Meanwhile in the land of Umma mosques-bombings are an almost daily event, with spectacular attacks usually scheduled around religious festivals to maximize murder and media coverage. Are the culprits Westerners bent on destroying the Religion of Peace in its homeland?
No. Muslims, usually Sunni vs. Shia or vice versa. Which makes them Anti-Muslim bigots, right?
Michael Copeland says
Evie Blad writes of “Muslim extremism”.
MEMO:
Muslim extremism is ordinary basic Islam.
http://libertygb.org.uk/news/extremism-%E2%80%93-there-problem-within-islam
Jay Boo says
The reason that Muslims have hated us for the past 1400 years is obvious.
It is because of Donald Trump saying — Let’s keep out Muslims until we know what the hell is going on.
Hillary will back this up.
steve says
Yes hillary looks at least that old! She’s a reincarnated witch!
David says
Is any one, any where asking that the majority CHRISTIAN STUDENTS be shielded from abuse also?
What do you think?
steve says
Christians get bullied for brownie points in heaven!
خَليفة says
Sounds like government is “establishing” a religion.
They should have just given a reminder, ( not mentioning any religion) that ALL people have rights, and NO person’s rights should be violated. Your “right” to punch me in the nose, ends where my nose begins.
All civilized people ( id est, non Muslims ) need to be aware that Muslims are like the Herpes virus which hides in your body’s cells, never goes away, and will eventually kill your cells and produce its sores, and likely further spread its corrupting influence.
DP111 says
schools should take extra steps to ensure that Muslim, immigrant, and refugee students feel safe and free from discrimination, the U.S. Department of Education said last week.
How about the authorities doing something to protect us from Islamic terrorism.?
Tom says
It is due time for Law & Order Programs. We need to triple our police force and increase our military by a factor of five. Where will the funding come from? Change our tax structure to a National Sales Tax, and stop 75% of foreign aid. Charge countries will get involved with by securing their natural resources.
Our country will not survive the current path. Welfare alone, another Democratic pitfall established by Lyndon Johnson and his Great Society concept, will soon ruin our economy.
Please rally everyone to first register to vote, second, vote Republican, and third Vote TRUMP. He is the only voice of reason in a sea of chaos that reigns on the vast ocean of our political acid pool.
Jamie says
Ihe 3rd paragraph ends… “[shootings] linked to muslim extremism” How about a bit more accurate…. “attacks carried out by muslim terrorists”. It seems our officials are primed by PC to protect the killers and scold Americans… I wonder why that is? Is it because our President is firmly on the side of the terrorists in just about every case? Obama seems to think he is the leader of the muslim world instead of the leader of the USA!
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could trade him in and get Bibi Netanyahu for our president? Obozo has been a staggering failure and a total loser. Bibi makes him look really pathetic.