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Washington school district caught promoting Islam for Ramadan; lawyers send cease and desist letter

May 19, 2019 3:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

A Washington school district “promoted Islam through a Ramadan policy that provides special privileges for Muslim students”, but fortunately a “legal team has dispatched a cease-and-desist letter.”

This is how far the school went,  after CAIR suggested “various changes in policy and practice that would benefit Muslim students”…

The policy directs teachers to create “safe spaces” for Muslims, plan with Muslim students to let them “quietly slip away” from class for prayer, “privately offer information” about nutrition during their Ramadan fast, give “a lesson” on Ramadan and privately ask Muslim students what accommodations they want.

“CAIR also suggested that teachers greet students in Arabic… as part of the Ramadan policy.”

The school’s efforts was promoted through the Diversity & Equity Department. Such programs need to be revamped fast. They serve as the playground for Islamic supremacists to speedily advance their agendas, while the imprudent leaders who run such programs eagerly serve such agendas.  And they do it on your tax dollars.

CAIR did not get away with it this time, but the group is sure to keep trying.

“2ND U.S. SCHOOL DISTRICT CAUGHT PROMOTING ISLAM”, World Net Daily, May 12, 2019:

A legal team has dispatched a cease-and-desist letter to a school district in Washington state that promoted Islam through a Ramadan policy that provides special privileges for Muslim students.

It’s the second district in the state found to have the special policy in just the last week.

The Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund confirmed it has written to Michelle Reid, superintendent of the Northshore School District in Bothell, Washington, to insist that the policy be revoked.

The policy directs teachers to create “safe spaces” for Muslims, plan with Muslim students to let them “quietly slip away” from class for prayer, “privately offer information” about nutrition during their Ramadan fast, give “a lesson” on Ramadan and privately ask Muslim students what accommodations they want.

FCDF warned that if the district does not revoke the policy and begin compliance with the First Amendment, “then parents and students will have a legal cause of action against you and the school district.”

While students are allowed to practice their religion, the team said, and “nothing in the Constitution prohibits public schools from accommodating students’ religious exercise,” public schools are not allowed to have policies or practices that “convey a message that a particular religion, or a particular religious belief, is ‘favored.’

“Administrators and teachers must never be placed in the position of monitoring a child’s compliance with a particular religious requirement, such as prayer, dietary restrictions, or wearing a head covering,” the letter said.

The First Amendment requires, in those circumstances, neutrality on religion, the letter said.

FCDF said the district must “restore the rights of non-Muslim students of faith to be treated equally under the law” and review all instances in which the school’s Ramadan policy was enforced.

The letter followed “multiple complaints” to FCDF from members of the Bothell community as well as a teacher.

It was the district’s Diversity & Equity Department that recently issued the guidelines for Muslim students during Ramadan.

“The school district’s so-called Ramadan ‘accommodations’ run roughshod over the First Amendment and are a blatant insult to students of other faiths,” said Daniel Piedra, FCDF’s executive director. “Under the mantle of ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion,’ school officials have exalted Islam as the state-sponsored religion. Teachers and parents are outraged, and they should be.”

Just days earlier, FCDF sent a similar letter to the Dieringer School District in Lake Tapps, Washington, about the same issue.

The Ramadan policy had been recommended by the terror-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations….

 

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Filed Under: CAIR, Featured, Islamic supremacism, public schools, Ramadan, United States Tagged With: Bothell, Northshore School District, Washington State district school


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  1. gravenimage says

    May 19, 2019 at 3:13 pm

    Washington school district caught promoting Islam for Ramadan; lawyers send cease and desist letter
    …………………

    Glad to see that parents and the community are *fighting back*.

    • Carol the 1st says

      May 20, 2019 at 10:54 pm

      CAIR is contemptibly using the fear of losing their careers and paychecks to induce teachers to FUNCTION as MINI-IMAMS. Teachers who speak out will undoubtedly be “swarmed” and then banished from their “honorary” status. Are there any grown-ups around to stop this bizarre cancer?

  2. Bella says

    May 19, 2019 at 3:46 pm

    We have to demand they change to fit into our way of life not the other way around. If they want special privileges they should go home. So when will the muslim brotherhood/hamas be declared a terrorist organization. Time is now!

  3. abad says

    May 19, 2019 at 3:55 pm

    Islam should not be taught in schools at all unless it is part of a comparative religions course.

    The government is not there to promote religion in public schools.

  4. LadyTess says

    May 19, 2019 at 4:13 pm

    Christians dare not pray in school or read OUR HOLY book but islamist expect us to bend the rules for them? I DON’T THINK SO!

  5. mortimer says

    May 19, 2019 at 4:16 pm

    What happened to the 2nd AMENDMENT? The SEPARATION OF THE STATE FROM AN ESTABLISHED FAITH?

    Islam has been adopted DE FACTO as the ESTABLISHED RELIGION IN THOSE AREAS.

    “All animals are equal (Protestants, Jews, Catholics, etc. …they ‘equally’ have no rights to express their religion in schools), but SOME ANIMALS (the Muslims) are MORE EQUAL than the others” (and the ones that are MORE EQUAL have the right to promote their faith under school board protection.

    THAT’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

    (Apologies to George Orwell re Animal Farm.)

    • Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

      May 19, 2019 at 5:11 pm

      “What happened to the 2nd AMENDMENT?”

      I agree. Muslims have as much right to firearms as any other Americans.

      More Islamically centric, what happened to the 5th Amendment? This amendment says, “… nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb …”. Americans no longer follow a rigorous public policy of loss of limb as punishment for serious offenses. Here we can take a lesson from the Muslims. In fact, we can expect some Democratic presidential candidate to gain attention and respect by adopting the limb-severing ways of our Islamic fellow citizens. A Democratic political consultant offers the following advice.

      Dear Democratic Presidential Candidate:

      In the movie clip below, the Roman commander addresses a group of defeated slaves in a slave rebellion led by Spartacus, calling upon them to identify which of them is Spartacus. Each slave says loudly, “I am Spartacus!” With so many self-identified Spartaci, the commander is taken aback; he cannot tell which is the real Spartacus.

      This is similar to the field of two dozen Democratic candidates for president today. Each candidate presents to the voters basically the same program of illegal immigration, felon voting, and Medicare for all.

      How can you break out of this pack and distinguish yourself with a winning program? Answer: By being the “jeopardy of limb” candidate. Your distinguishing policy will be to advocate that crimes be punished not by (or not only by) a prison sentence, but by an amputation. This proposal is sure to gain attention. It will startle some voters by its barbarity, before you explain how this is in the highest American tradition: limb-lopping is who we are. Consider the advantages:

      (1) There is nothing new about amputation as a punishment for crime. Indeed, the Bill of Rights recognizes it in the Fifth Amendment: “… nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb”.

      (2) This policy is flexible. You can advocate either “soft” jeopardy-of-limb, by which amputation substitutes for a prison sentence, or “hard” jeopardy-of-limb, by which amputation is added to a prison sentence. I recommend the soft version. This will show your soft-hearted, merciful nature, and will solve the mass incarceration problem by out-doing Trump in his advocacy for setting non-violent felons free.

      (3) But even a hard jeopardy-of-limb policy of two amputations per felony will have electoral appeal for the growing number of Muslim-American voters. This is exactly the policy of their favorite prophet, Muhammad (peace be upon him). You need only quote his penal thinking as set forth in the Quran, chapter 5, verse 33 ( https://quran.com/5/33 ):
      “Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment.”

      • FYI says

        May 19, 2019 at 5:41 pm

        First man: I am Spartacus!
        Second man: No, I am Spartacus!
        .
        Fourth man:hey look,we can’t ALL be Spartacus!
        .

        nth man:no,no I am Spartacus!

        Guy at back:Well,I’m NOT Spartacus.I’m not part of your infidel culture.
        I’m Abdool and I come in islamic “peace”{kaKE BOOM}

        • CRUSADER says

          May 20, 2019 at 2:19 am

          Either way, all are SLAVES.

  6. PRCS says

    May 19, 2019 at 5:14 pm

    CAIR recently lost a bid to create an ‘anti-bullying’ policy (primarily for the benefit of Muslim students) in San Diego.

    The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) tried to have it both ways – claiming to be a civil rights organization when it suits its purposes, but admitting at other times that its mission is religious.

    https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/24742/cair-loses-san-diego-schools-partnership

    Same legal team (FCDF) there, too.

    • Lilith Wept says

      May 20, 2019 at 12:47 am

      CAIR is the propaganda arm of the Muslim Brotherhood and if Trump succeeds in getting the Muslim Brotherhood declared a terrorist organization, then CAIR needs to be disbanded and eliminated. If you look at the different Moslem organization in the US , they are all interconnected …..and connected to Terrorist organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, AlQuida , Taliban etc.
      They are like the mythical hydra, if you eliminate one, cut off one head, then two grow back to replace it.
      The lowest command denominator is Islam….the core, mainstream, Islamic doctrine that says that moslems should fight against the unbelievers until there is no religion but Allah’s…..that jihad is obligatory and necessary.
      We keep treating Islam like it’s just another religion…..and it’s not. Islam is a totalitarian theocracy, with the goal,of world dominance …..
      We need to acknowledge and understand the things that make Islam different ….
      stop the appeasement and the constant giving in to moslems demands, stop &allies g for the Islamic propaganda of moslems being Victims, and victims in need special treatment, of of Islam accusing others of the very things it is doing.
      We need to take a long honest and truthful look at the doctrine as expressed in the Koran , Hadith and Sira……

      • DJ says

        May 20, 2019 at 12:28 pm

        +1

      • PRCS says

        May 20, 2019 at 11:33 pm

        Step one (IMO): challenge politicians and ‘journalists’ to begin a national inquiry into Islam’s true teachings.

  7. Keys says

    May 19, 2019 at 6:01 pm

    Regarding “the District’s Diversity & Equity Department”:

    It’s a damn shame that a high school has such a useless “Department” wasting taxpayer’s money and contributing nothing to the education of students and good of the School District.

    Many Universities and Colleges in the USA have “Diversity Directors” (or similar positions) making big salaries and contributing nothing. What a waste of money and manpower in education due to political pressure.

    Get rid of all of them and it would make no difference in a student’s preparation to work in the real world and contribute to society. Put the money to better use.

  8. Lydia Church says

    May 19, 2019 at 8:59 pm

    Good!!!

    And where, oh where, pretel I ask… was all of this fanfare during Christian holidays?
    Ah. Right. Nowhere. Absent. Because the left hates Christianity, but loves any groups that hate us.
    And THAT explains a LOT!

  9. NotALibNoMo says

    May 19, 2019 at 10:10 pm

    Offer coupons to Allahu’s Snackbar for ramadamadingdong fast breaking meals. They have a pulled pork that’s fit for a prophet. Mohammedelicious……to die for!

    • CRUSADER says

      May 20, 2019 at 2:00 am

      “Hit-It!!!”

  10. Ricky says

    May 19, 2019 at 11:06 pm

    Unbelievable want happened today with Tommy Robinson those Muslim thugs are ready to take that country down

    • CRUSADER says

      May 20, 2019 at 1:25 am

      Beasts !

    • PRCS says

      May 20, 2019 at 11:49 pm

      We all know that Islam teaches this (see at 3:28) and why it has no place in a democracy governed by man-made, secular law.

      ISLAMIC ATTACK: What REALLY Happened Yesterday In Oldham

      https://www.tr.news/islamic-attack-what-really-happened-yesterday-in-oldham/

    • Carol the 1st says

      May 21, 2019 at 1:15 am

      Nigel Farage was treated to a full frontal milkshake today while on the election trail in Newcastle.

  11. na says

    May 20, 2019 at 6:53 am

    Dubai based Jihadists have a new idea, they use a carrier(lottery winner -a commission based agents) to transfer money to various place and to avoid customs and tax like Binami and Hawala.

  12. Dj says

    May 20, 2019 at 12:12 pm

    If the Muslims want to stay in the U.S., then they need to assimilate into American culture, otherwise they can return to Middle Eastern Muslim countries.

  13. Tom says

    May 20, 2019 at 2:24 pm

    So when is CAIR going to be declared a terrorist organization? For too long we have heard and read that CAIR wields much power in the USA and is using that power to subvert and malign western values.

    CAIR MUST be declared a terror supporting organization and forced into bankruptcy and their executive tried for subversion and possibly treason.

    People must stand up to such organizations at every opportunity.

    • NotALibNoMo says

      May 21, 2019 at 7:26 am

      They ARE a terrorist organization. It’s officers and members are terrorists. Straight up.

  14. PABLO says

    May 21, 2019 at 10:05 am

    A lot of schools have renamed their annual Christmas concerts to winter this or that so as not to offend non Christians and some how this school district found it fitting to promote Islam. According the District’s school calendar for 2019/2020 the Christmas break is called Winter Break, there is also a Mid-Winter Break. All involved should be forced to resign.

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