“Some of the Facebook posts the principal is alleged to have shared and commented on include: videos purportedly showing violent ‘Muslim takeovers’ of Paris and London, and one headlined: ‘Must see: Dutch mayor tells fellow Muslims they can f—— if they don’t like freedom.'”
In what way are videos of that kind “discriminatory” in any way? People seem to have lost the ability to think straight. This is just more of the stigmatization of opinions that those in authority deem to be unacceptable. It is a shame that the principal backed down so abjectly instead of standing up for the freedom of speech and the right to dissent.
“Markham principal apologizes for ‘discriminatory’ Facebook posts,” by Noor Javed and Kristin Rushowy, Toronto Star, November 10, 2016 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):
A Markham elementary school principal has apologized for her “discriminatory” social media posts and says she pledges to learn from her actions and create an “open and inclusive” school community.
In September, the York Region District School Board said it was investigating after being notified about anti-Muslim postings on the Facebook page of Ghada Sadaka, a principal at Sir Wilfrid Laurier Public School.
After months of silence, Sadaka’s apology was posted on the school board’s website Thursday, under the weekly message from director J. Philip Parappally.
“As an educator for 26 years, my days are filled with ensuring that the students with whom I am entrusted are given constant opportunities to learn,” Sadaka’s statement said. “In the last two months, I have been the one who has learned a number of lessons about how sharing inappropriate posts on social media has affected those around me, my reputation and the reputation of one of the most diverse school boards in the country.
“I apologize for my actions and accept responsibility for ensuring that I learn from them,” Sadaka wrote.
Sadaka said she “did not intend to be disrespectful towards any group or individual and I sincerely regret the upset this has caused to those who were offended by the posts.
“Upon reflection, I accept that sharing the posts was discriminatory, and should not have occurred. I am committed to improving my understanding of human rights issues, and ensuring that I am more careful, respectful and aware of what I post and share on social media.”
Some of the Facebook posts the principal is alleged to have shared and commented on include: videos purportedly showing violent “Muslim takeovers” of Paris and London, and one headlined: “Must see: Dutch mayor tells fellow Muslims they can f—— if they don’t like freedom.”
Sadaka didn’t respond to a request for comment Thursday.
In his weekly message Parappally, the school board director, said he appreciated Sadaka’s apology and “believe all of us within the Board can use this as an opportunity to learn and grow.
“As one of the most diverse regions in the country, we have a responsibility to continue the work of equity,” he said.
The statement was issued on the same day Parappally and board chair Anna DeBartolo met Education Minister Mitzie Hunter to discuss allegations of racism and trustee transparency, that the Star has chronicled over the past year.
“As previously disclosed, this was the minister’s first meeting with the chair and director and she used this opportunity to discuss her expectations of Ontario’s publicly funded education system to be one of inclusion and opportunity, a beacon of equity and respect, and a strong example of transparency and efficient use of precious student funding,” said spokesman Patrick Searle.
Parappally’s message on the school board website doesn’t clarify the outcome of the investigation into the principal, or say if the policy for such investigations was followed. Last month, two trustees asked the board to confirm if proper policy was followed during their investigation.
The board has said the investigation was a confidential personnel matter. Previously, board spokesman Licinio Miguelo said: “I can confirm that in any case where such allegations are brought forward all applicable policies and regulations are strictly followed.”
York Region parents said that while they welcome Sadaka’s apology, they still have concerns.
“This is a good first step,” said parent Naeem Siddiqi, after speaking to parents with children who attend Sir Wilfrid Laurier Public School. “But what (Sadaka) needs to do is start a dialogue with parents and children, and take steps to show that she is sincere….

Mac-101 says
So will THEY make this Principle enforce FGM in her school now as part of a cultural enlightenment training program?
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What does this do to the LGBT and so ons in the school? Is this problem dealt with Friday Morning after Prayers?
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No LOL!
duh swami says
As long as they have transgender rest rooms, all is well…
Lynne says
I guess free speech is dead in Canada.
Gbox says
It is dead, and now it’s official:
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9296/canada-parliament-condemns-free-speech
Voytek Gagalka says
No. Only there are way too many cowards here willing to submit and surrender for the sake to keep their jobs.
Kaos says
Well Voy, I totally agree. I figured she was doing great up until she kissed their azz. But since liberalism has taken over, most conservatives are the silent majority now. We are called racists, bigots, and many more names that I don`t have the time to type. And let`s face it, if your standing in the middle of the gymnasium and all are exhibiting gang mentality screaming RACIST, I don`t care who you are, you`re going to be affected with your decisions. You go under and hide your inner beliefs, grudgingly. Now add on the financial aspect and who knows, maybe she`s a single mother with bills and aspirations for her kids like the rest of us. This gal TRIED! I`m bettin`it took a lot of guts to do WHAT she did. She gave the other side that NO ONE else did, let a lone try to. We`ve got way too many libtards in our education system across the western world, This lady tried to educate others, where the battle is- the school room! Now if she is independently wealthy, then she`s a bitch!
David says
Free speech only when you praise Islam.
Mike says
It doesn’t seem that people are getting fined/jailed yet like in Europe, but the social/employment death is probably even more real, and in effect, that operates in a manner equivalent to a very large fine.
gravenimage says
I’m sure this school principal was heavily pressured to apologize.
john spielman says
there is a massive anti islam ground swell beginning in Canada that is reflected in the changes made by leftist CBC ( the national broadcasting system paid for by taxpayers), that is evidenced by the fact that it no longer allows comments on article about islam and muslims ( too many negative ones) and just like the USA where its islamic ass kissing politicians have received a rude awakening by Trump followers, I hope and pray the same change in govt will come to Canada too!
eduardo odraude says
Hey Canadian sellout pols, conformists, cowards, and ignoramuses about Islam: get the f’ out of the way.
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside raging
It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changing
Learn about Muhammad and Islam
http://www.quotingislam.blogspot.com
gravenimage says
I hope you are right, John.
eduardo odraude says
Wake up Canadian Pols!
In the earliest Muslim biography of Muhammad, he orders the torture of a man in order to get hold of a treasure. Not only that, but after having the man beheaded, he “marries” the man’s beautiful wife, Safiya, whose father and brothers have also just been killed by Muhammad’s men.
LINK: http://quotingislam.blogspot.com/2011/06/muhammad-orders-torture-of-man-in-order.html
Angemon says
Abject appeasement.
Marc says
Give her a break. It’s odds-on that she backed down because she and/or her familty were theatened.
Would you be willing to hold the line under threat?
Remember she has no tangible support from the education system, nor from a Leftist/Socialist/Islamaphile Canadian government….
Marc says
Sorry, spelling: that should be ‘threatened’ and ‘Islamophile’…..
billdeserthills says
Well in that case she takes it back–Tell those muslims that they Can’t F uck off, there
now they’ll like her comment, for sure!!
eduardo odraude says
Agreed, I don’t blame her, but the ignoramuses, cowards, conformists, and stealth jihadists who came down on her.
gravenimage says
True.
Kay says
In public schools in US, at least my district, what she did (as much as all of us might think it was ok) would have been grounds for dismissal. I’m not even sure an apology would have kept the job.
Free speech has been curtailed in public schools. Discrimination has already been defined as being “in the perception of the one perceiving it” entirely apart from the intention of the speaker (or presumably of the truth).
People, you cannot expect school personnel to fight this fight. We have already had our wings clipped. Examining issues of Mohammeden violence and supremacy will not and cannot happen in public schools, at least not now nor in the foreseeable future. It has nothing to do with individual school personnel.
Kay says
Also, we have been told explicitly that “free speech” does not protect us from charges of being discriminatory.
JOHN SPIELMAN says
we need President Trump to parcon all those convicted of ‘ hate speech by the intolerant hateful left!
Mark A says
More censorship.
Your Facebook posts don’t conform to the politically correct message so you must be forced into silence or into conformity.
St. Michael Defend Us says
I went looking on the internet as I wondered if Sadaka was an Arabic name. I found this excellent article about this situation.
https://noxious.ca/2016/10/29/ghada-sadaka-is-the-subject-of-a-witch-hunt-by-muslim-parents-in-markham-ontario/
t. says
Thanks for sharing this energizing and refreshing to read article with us, S. M. D. U.!
This is my preferred part:
“I’d like to call on the Muslim families and all other families to formally put out a statement with their full names, and links to all of their social media pages, as well as statements saying they will not remove any posts. Then I’d like the public to check all of their social media pages, and if they can’t find a single post or share or retweet or tweet that is questionable, then I will personally write them a check for $1,000,000.00. However, if even one post is found that is any level of questionable, I’d like them to formally apologize to Ghada Sadaka, and all of her supporters, for what they’ve done on this witch hunt. In fact, an apology on behalf of all Muslims who don’t support terrorism would be great too, (even though something like 70% of all Muslims do).”
gravenimage says
Thank you for that important link, St. Michael Defend Us.
Lucia Bartoli says
The F Bomb should ALWAYS be used when speaking about jihadists or TO/ABOUT this principal. Home schooling, people!!!
Cretius says
You have to be politically correct to save your public service job. Truth and facts take a back seat.
Custos Custodum says
Note the undisguised gangland tone of the supremacist parent.
gravenimage says
Surpemacist, indeed. *Ugh*.
gravenimage says
“Supremacist”
No Fear says
She needs to be more subtle in her posts. Maybe she could stick to quoting Winston Churchill. Oh , wait a minute, no one is allowed to do that anymore either…….
Pierre says
lol
Cretius says
Note to Facebook ………..
“Re Fair Comment on Islam. Canada’s Criminal Code Section 296
“(3) No person shall be convicted of an offence under this section for expressing in good faith and in decent language, or attempting to establish by argument used in good faith and conveyed in decent language, an opinion on a religious subject.”
Canada’s Blasphemy Law |
Canada’s Blasphemy Law Did you know that Canada still has a blasphemy law in its Criminal Code? Blasphemy is currently regarded as the act of showing contempt (or failing to display reverence and respect) for religious symbols or persons. It is well…
centreforinquiry.ca
Is this Facebook’s policy and if not then why not? As an historian I constantly comment on revisionist history that is nothing more than propaganda. I see FB has censored comments by Winston Churchill. That is a slippery slope downwards and FB should be ethicly required to justify it’s position as reputation is always a concern. I look forward to reviewing your position.”
No Fear says
The lesson for me from this article is …. anyone who works with, works near Mohammedans needs to understand that Islam is designed to PREVAIL over non Islam. Speak out against ANYTHING Islamic and you are toast. Once you understand that then you can proceed. NEVER GIVE UP! CONTINUE the FIGHT AGAINST ISLAM! Just do it carefully. Do not libel. Attack the ideology not the people. Never say anything about any actual person. You can mercilessly attack Mohammed or the Quran. Ceaselessly point out the vileness of the ideology and the filth contained in the Islamic texts. Just stay away from making statements about living people. If you libel then they can sue.
Pierre says
What a beautiful woman! She’s stunning and smart. If I didn’t have a gf, I would love to meet her. She has more courage than most women. She’s a true human being. Not just another sheep like most of you…!
Too bad she was FORCED to apologize. After all, everybody needs $ to pay for their groceries and lodging.
What she said was right. Too bad we can’t say what we believe in this country. Very sad. But thanks to Mr. Trump, our rights might get back soon. We just need to stop electing liberal governments from now on. Haven’t you learned your lesson yet?
John Stefan says
I wonder whether this Markham principal lady would think of reading all of these comments. It would be good if someone would mail them to her. Also good if her email would be printed here and we would write to her directly. God help us all to learn what the truth is and spread it. When we speak the truth about what the Qur’an and the Sunnah teach, then we need not apologize. Easy for us to say. We would not be sending her any money were she to get fired. Bad world.
Marie says
People and student must learn that Islam is not a peaceful religion and some Mussulmen are dangerous. To many examples are existing in host Country Europe. And every body is better prepare for those people. Those Mussulmen who are offended by this comment ( freedom of speech) rather to ask apology from those comments they should apologize for their “brothers hood” that kill Christian, rape so many women in their host country !!! People have a duty to make aware of the danger against some very bad behavior from some immigrant Mussulmen. This is not defamatory to report some facts .
Theo Prinse says
“Must see: Dutch mayor tells fellow Muslims they can f—— if they don’t like freedom.” This Maior of Rotterdam is Ahmed Aboutaleb. Mayor Aboutaleb (Moroccan) is with chair of the Generaals-Procureurs and member of the Dutch Moroccan funds Herman Bolhaar behind the political showproces against Freed Fighter Geert Wilders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Aboutaleb
That's PRESIDENT Trump to you! says
Ah, boy, here we go with this ‘diversity’ bull again… If anyone can prove to me there is diversity in islam, then I will believe diversity is a good thing. Until then, forget it! I’ll stick with my own kind and you stick with your own kind and we’ll all get along. Non-moslem countries have minorities. islamic countries have none! Do you seriously want to give your country to islam? If I were she they’d be waiting an eternity for my apology.
t. says
Congratulations President Trump on being elected the next president of the US! Don’t forget to keep your promises regarding Islam’s threat.
David says
It would seem that, anyone trying to teach the TRUTH about mohammed and his founding of the “CULT OF BLOOD DEATH and PENIS WORSHIP” , will always be a target!
The story of Mo and the treasure is horrific. And it’s recorded in islams own sacred texts!
But, making it public knowledge is some how being “Anti-islamic”?????
Mo built a fire on the chest of a sick, injured old man! To torture him into telling the location of a “treasure”. What could possibly be more VILE, EVIL or SADISTIC then that?
An this is the, so called PERFECT MAN that muslims want to emulate? What could possibly be sicker?
davej says
The tragic aspect to this story is that after reposting factual and accurate information about Muslim violence, double standards and opposition to free speech she gets threats to her job and reputation, organized by both her dhimmi employers and supremacist Muslim parents, then is forced into abject apology. Her only personal comments added to the retweets seem to be “Agree or disagree?”, which is the approach of an educator and is not “discriminatory”.
We all need our jobs and reputations so that is a very effective lever to use. It also reinforces the problem that she originally raised. Hope she retains her private intellectual honesty about this.
The Canadian resolution condemns “all forms of Islamophobia” (and only “Islamophobia”) without defining the term or what “all the forms” might include. It is plainly an open ended attack on free speech and one that favors and rewards only Muslims. They work very hard on demanding and receiving special treatment from “the vilest people” so they can continue their delusion about being “the best of people”. And don’t you dare to disagree.
Jacinte says
We can see exactly what happened? The principals were coerced to provide an apology. Either the door and they will make their lives miserable or they apologize. What we see in France and Italy, the videos of muslims attacking people in the streets and creating chaos are real. And we need leaders like principals of schools to be aware of this and tell that it is not acceptable. What can we do? We cant find videos of
indians or whites doing that? Just the muslims. They are the ones who expose themselves for what they are. So they have to bear the consequences of their actions.
Thunderstorm says
With Justin Trudeau, the Islamisation of Canada will only get worse.
UNCLE VLADDI says
If only the school board had the brains and guts to admit:
“We consider muslim students to be perpetual victims – OF ISLAM – because it is to their vast misfortune that they were born into the global crime-cult. So we think it was insensitive of this teacher with the muslim surname to hurt their feelings by pointing out islamic evil without offering them condolences and counselling first.
Now that she has realized the errors of her ways and contributed to our de-programming “LEAVE ISLAM!” program and directed them to its cult-deprogramming expert staff, we all feel much safer here in Ontario.”
But libtards don’t even have the brains to have gone that far, and have in stead instantly Submitted to the crime-gang’s historic extortions without giving it even a first thought.
Rob de Villiers says
Woeful. These days it has become as much a matter of Dhimmini Watch as Jihad Watch. These Libtards are hell bent on preemptive submission and surrender. They will surrender to any Islamist demands far quicker than a peasant village in surrenders to ISIS.
pbay says
A couple of jihad massacres will help get that fixed.
citycat says
Blessings to the Dutch Mayor for at least pointing out a difference between the constraint of Islam and infidel freedom.
Personally i would have said the same to the tyrant who harassed the Mayor,
F— —!
And then start a new life free from living a lie that can make a person ill.
citycat says
Just a thought.
There are a number of countries on Earth.
There is Islam.
When the number of countries ‘owned’ by Islam, reach a certain ratio, the game is over.
Each infidel country must stand firm, on its own, with 24/7 help available from the others.
If a bully is confronted with enough opposite numbers then the bully can’t act.
Islam will try to reduce the odds against it by craftily befriending one of the infidel countries, then another, and another, and its gets easier with every new ground Islam takes.
Untill the ratio is reached, then goodnight Vienna.
gravenimage says
Canada: Principal apologizes for Facebook posts criticizing Muslim migrant influx
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Now championing freedom is “discriminatory”?
Well, I suppose it is–not offering equal praise to Shari’ah savagery…