This protest was “very embarrassing” for everyone concerned. The far-Left Detroit Free Press pseudo-journalist Niraj Warikoo says that even “a heavy police presence” couldn’t keep the meeting from “descending into chaos,” and this is especially “embarrassing” for local Muslim leaders such as Osama Siblani, as they know that Leftists are their staunchest and most dependable allies. If the Leftist-Islamic alliance splits, events could take an ugly turn, especially given the Left’s increased penchant for authoritarianism.
But this is also embarrassing for the Leftist school board members for they would rather have their teeth pulled out one by one with rusty pliers than appear to be “Islamophobic,” and yet they can’t appease the Muslims in Dearborn in this instance without giving up their cherished gender fantasies and relentless agenda of sexualizing children. So who will give? The appalling Niraj Warikoo is staunchly on the LGBTQ side, as you can tell here from his editorializing at the end of his article, where he says “As Stone walked away, a protester yelled at him a phrase advocates note is often used to make bigoted attacks against gay people based on inaccurate stereotypes: ‘Leave our kids alone.'” What will Warikoo do when all the friends he has made in the Muslim community over the years with his relentlessly biased coverage turn on him because of nasty little digs like that one?
“Protesters shut down Dearborn school board meeting over LGBTQ books,” by Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, October 11, 2022:
Hundreds of protesters packed a Dearborn Public Schools board meeting this week and shut it down with cries of anger over certain LGBTQ books they said are too sexually explicit for children. And now, some community leaders anxiously await a rescheduled meeting set for Thursday night as others call for calm.
A heavy police presence failed to prevent the Monday night meeting from descending into chaos as demonstrators took it over and then various factions within them jostled for control, shouting at each other. Protesters often ignored the requests of police officers to stop interrupting board members.
It was unclear who was in control of the meeting at times. Most of the crowd appeared to be in opposition to the books, but there were also a number of people with the the American Federation of Teachers union who showed up to support inclusion of LGBTQ people and others.
Not until Dearborn Police Chief Issa Shahin arrived later did the protesters stop their agitation. Shahin pleaded with the crowd to relax and not embarrass Dearborn. There was concern expressed by some community leaders that the protesters are making the city and its Arab American Muslim population look bad. But others said that as Muslims, they have to stand up for their faith….
“Vote them out!” the crowd repeatedly chanted during the raucous meeting inside an administrative center where the board holds its public meetings. The room was packed tightly, with many using an overflow room and others standing in the back and on the sides. Several held up signs with anti-gay rhetoric in English and Arabic, making religious references to assert that LGBTQ educational materials and books should not be available in Dearborn Public Schools, the third largest school district in Michigan. Some of the placards held up read: “Keep your porno books to yourself,” “Homosexuality Big Sin,” and “If democracy matters, we’re the majority.”
Most of the protesters appeared to be Arab American and Muslim. But others in the Arab American community strongly objected to the actions of the protesters Monday night.
“What happened tonight at the school board meeting in Dearborn is very embarrassing and is totally rejected,” Osama Siblani, publisher of the Dearborn-based Arab American News and a longtime community leader, wrote on Facebook. “Remember that the loss of any individual’s right to express himself/herself is the beginning of the end of all people’s rights … Remember that Islam is a religion of love, peace and tolerance, not a religion of insults, violence and threats.”
Aya Moughni, a Dearborn resident who is Muslim, also said earlier that Arab Americans should not be attacking the LGBTQ community. She spoke at a previous Dearborn rally in support of the books….
Police officers repeatedly told people who yelled out and interjected to keep quiet. But their efforts failed as the crowd’s anger grew. Part of the frustration was the board first addressed other issues not related to the books that most had showed up to discuss. They also didn’t like what some called a condescending attitude toward them and their concerns….
Brian Stone, who is part of the LGBTQ community, attended the meeting with a poster that displayed two photos next to each other: the one on the left said “1957” with a photo of whites screaming in anger at a Black woman, Hazel Bryan, attending a school in Little Rock, Arkansas that was integrated for the first time; the photo on the right said “2022,” with a photo of a man with an angry face giving the middle finger to Sam Smalley, a transgender person who was a counter-protester, at the Sept. 25 rally at the library against the books.
As he displayed the sign, Stone drew the attention of some angry men, including Chami.
“This is a community where everyone should be safe and they should be represented,” Stone said as they yelled.
Stone was later escorted to his car by two police officers, echoing the scene after the Sept. 25 rally, where several police officers had to escort Smalley to protect him as he walked to his car.
As Stone walked away, a protester yelled at him a phrase advocates note is often used to make bigoted attacks against gay people based on inaccurate stereotypes: “Leave our kids alone.”
CogitoErgoSum says
Some may use the word “embarrassing” to describe that meeting. I would use the word “entertaining.” Let’s lock them in a room together and see if they can come to some sort of agreement – because these are all “good people.”
somehistory says
the guy with the posters…using the Race of people, which one cannot change, in order to make people feel guilty about any objections to homosexuality, the fakery of “trans,” etc.
That’s been tried before, but I don’t think mozlums will be swayed. they don’t like Blacks, either.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Precisely! All those tactics that they’ve used in other school board meetings across the country – shutting of the mikes of parents – I’d like to see whether they dare do that here w/ the muslim parents! It’s hilarious that Gretchen Whitmer didn’t think this through
somehistory says
Some parents have been handcuffed, arrested and removed from the room; several were just asking a simple question the board didn’t want to answer, and some said the names of the members whom they saw as being responsible for a danger to their kids.
Why were these people not arrested and taken out?
tgusa says
Property taxes fund US schools. Not all property owners are parents and not all parents are property owners while some are both property owners and parents. It is time for parents and property owners to create an alliance and get the schools back to teaching the ABCs and the 123s. US schools are pumping out illiterates by the dozens as the schools descend in to soft porn. That is unacceptable.
“Why were these people not arrested and taken out?”
Wouldn’t matter. Their creepy friends in the courts would just let them off to carry on with their degeneracy. Back in the day these people wouldn’t have been arrested but they may have undergone what was called a “tune up” if required.
milo minderbinder says
This once great nation, the United States of America, is closer to collapsing than at any time in its history. We are on the brink of self destruction. I do think that the USA at one time was an exceptional nation, however, it never was an exception to the God of the Bible and His Word.
It seems that the final step in a nation’s self destruction is rampant sexual immorality. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob has reserved a special place in hell for those who have used and abused the children of the world.
The God of the Bible will not be mocked. Batten down the hatches, the worst is yet to come.
“The Decline of a Nation – History and Christian Values”
https://probe.org/the-decline-of-a-nation/
somehistory says
Well, well. It’s just beginning to happen that the sides are clashing.
Those kinds of materials which are the subject of this clash, are also being rejected in other school districts. Some object and then others insist. Little kids and their minds should not be twisted by such things.
In CO:
“The initial changes were made to comply with a law passed by state legislators in 2019 to have K-12 schools teach students about the experiences of people of color and those in the LGBTQ community in history and civics classes.
Then earlier this year, the committee reversed its changes and removed many references to people of color and those in the LGBTQ community. They stripped mentions that listed minority groups as well as words such as “equity” and “race” in some cases.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/too-extreme-colorado-board-of-education-majority-votes-down-conservative-american-birthright-academic-standards/ar-
haroldpom says
It’s called grooming. Teachers are teaching their students that it’s OK to be gay and it’s OK for girls to believe they are boys and the boys to believe they are girls. You can be whatever gender/sex you want to be.
Fitna says
What is wrong with it Harold? So what if two consenting same sex people want to be together? Firstly it’s nobody’s business, secondly there is no crime being committed.
As for transpeople they believe themselves to be born in the wrong body, so they take hormones to change their gender. Again what is wrong with that? Who is being hurt in the process? Why are some people sticking their nose where it doesn’t belong?
John1 says
Children do not need to be exposed to this lifestyle in public schools. Period.
James Lincoln says
Fitna says,
“As for transpeople they believe themselves to be born in the wrong body, so they take hormones to change their gender. Again what is wrong with that?”
I assume that you are referring to adults.
gravenimage says
Fitna, it is fine if adults do this. It is a different matter if this is being taught to children–especially if accompanied by demands that underage children be coerced into having sex changes while too young to be able to consent to them.
Wellington says
I have no problem, Fitna, with two consenting same-sex adults doing what they want to with each other. I certainly do not want to resurrect any kind of sodomy laws. But this doesn’t mean that such sexual behavior is just as right, proper, good, beneficial, wholesome, etc. as heterosexual behavior, ditto for weird behavior like various fetishes and S&M, the latter being particularly pathetic. There is a hierarchy here of optimal sexual behavior and it is not dispositive of hate or prejudice to think so, to believe so. What I object to is that folks like myself are being told that they are terrible people, even demonized for having core beliefs about human sexuality, and I for one will not acquiesce in this form of intellectual tyranny.
As for that very small minority who think they are the other sex, I sympathize with them but what they have is a sexual disorder that should elicit compassion and not a lifestyle which requires approbation.
And, as both John1 and James Lincoln noted, the indoctrination and recruitment of children into any kind of sexual matters is quite simply a rank form of child abuse, though it is clear that this is occurring in our time, what with even 1st graders being taught about transgenderism, lesbianism, witnessing drag queen performances, etc. This is sick stuff, robs the child of the innocence of childhood, and it is happening across America and elsewhere in the West with an increasing frequency.
Fitna says
Hi John,
Ignorance of sexuality is how we get teen mothers and abortions. If you want to reduce that, sex education is the key.
Though I agree, we don’t want to expose them at too early an age, perhaps when they’re entering the teen years like 12 yrs old. I recall when they taught it to us, the kids laughed, but I think it was an important lesson.
As for the gay/trans people, it’s not a “lifestyle” it’s the way they are, just as those of us who are straight and non-trans.
Exposing kids to information about LGBT won’t turn them into gays unless they were already leaning that way. And if they become gay, what’s the problem? There is none, but religious people have been brainwashed to think it’s evil because of an ancient mythology book…otherwise it’s perfectly normal and fine.
Hi James,
Many trans-kids know at a young age they are in “the wrong body.” So I trust the medical science field on this. If they feel hormones are right for puberty to make them develop in the opposite sex, so be it.
We hear of trans-kids regretting their decision and wanting to de-transition. That ofc is right-wing propaganda who want to make it appear they all eventually regret it. In fact that stats prove well over 97% of trans people are happy that they transitioned into the body they wanted. Only about 3% regretted it, an even tinier fraction detransition.
Ofc to opponents of the LGBT community, facts, science, reason mean nothing. They think they know better and are hell-bent on stopping what they think is wrong with the world.
CogitoErgoSum says
Wellington, did you mean to say that people who believe they are in the wrong body have a sexual disorder? Wouldn’t a person believing a thing like that be a mental disorder – especially if there is nothing physically wrong with the person’s body? But then maybe you are saying that all sex is actually in the mind.
Wellington says
CES:
Yes, I meant a mental disorder and not something physically wrong respecting human genitalia (minus the extremely rare example of someone possessing both male and female sexual organs). Although so much of human existence, including personality overall, is wrapped up with biochemistry that separating mental from physical is arguably often an artificial exercise.
I would like to add something else here and it is this: Either engaging in same-sex activities is just as fine, beneficial, wonderful, normal, etc. as engaging in heterosexual activities or it is not. If it is, then the Judeo-Christian tradition (and many other traditions) is wrong where human sexuality is concerned. If it is not, than the Judeo-Christian tradition on human sexuality is correct. You cannot square the circle here and have same-sex activities and the Judeo-Christian tradition simpatico. Impossible unless you believe words can mean anything you want them to mean. It’s an either/or.
Wellington says
“…then…” and not “…than…”
James Lincoln says
Fitna,
Thank you for your reply.
Unfortunately, the practice of medicine has become highly politicized – especially when it comes to things such as transgender issues. The science regarding transgender issues is far from settled – and it’s unknown what the long-term effects of transgender hormone treatment / surgical treatment in large numbers of minors will be in decades to come.
And minors have not developed enough physically, mentally, and emotionally to make irreversible decisions that will affect them for the rest of their lives. That being said, if individuals have reached the “age of majority” and want to “change their gender” I have no problem with that.
Just for the record, I would never “marginalize” a transgender person – regardless of age – and would treat them with the same dignity and respect that I would treat a non-transgender person.
somehistory says
Wellington,
Only one way can keep humankind in existence. The other would eventually burn through everyone and leave nothing of a future.
I believe in the Judea-Christian way of looking at life and how to live it…for success and happiness. the *nuclear* family works best. It’s the only one that actually works. The others don’t
Wellington says
somehistory: Again I see that we have no disagreement. I an agnostic and you a devout Christian see eye to eye on the efficacy and wisdom of the Judeo-Christian tradition.
One need not necessarily accept the theology of Judaism and Christianity, though still embracing its ethic, anymore than one has to accept everything about ancient Greek culture (e.g., its love of war) to nonetheless admire it in its entirety and try to emulate so many aspects about it.
Wellington says
Excellent reply, James. Yes, indeed, the science is far from settled on many sexual matters, just as it is not on such things like climate—if one is truly honest.
Moreover, as I know you know only too well, pc nonsense has crept into science and medicine as it has for half a century or more in the liberal arts. When an ordinarily reliable organization like the American Medical Association (AMA) has so descended that just this year it has put forth an absurdity, to wit, that newborn babies should no longer be designated as boys or girls, you know that we have indeed entered into a nonsensical age, where even science and medicine are no longer off limits to the harm that Leftthink, which ruins everything it touches, can do.
CogitoErgoSum says
There are some who believe that the purpose of sex is for pleasure. I think it is pleasurable because those who find it not to be so tend to avoid it and therefore produce few children or none at all. Those who do enjoy sex produce more children and those children inherit a tendency to enjoy sex (heterosexual sex). Sex being pleasurable insures propagation of the species. This is why sex is such a major driving force in the lives of most people. It’s natural.
Gay sex is not natural. Gay sex does not produce offspring. Seems to me it defeats the whole purpose of sex. The only way to make gay sex appear to have a purpose is to view it as being for pleasure. So even aside from the religious aspects, there also seems to be a scientific aspect to it. The thing that most puzzles me about homosexuality though is how it continues to pass from generation to generation and even seems to be becoming more common. It should be something that becomes less common as time pases. So it seems to be more of a result of nurture than of nature.
In the end nature will always win though. It seems to me we are in the midst of some kind of gay sex fad. I would think that too much homosexuality will eventually cause the collapse of our society due to a natural decline in population. The people of the past may have been ignorant of a lot of things we now know but they do seem to have known something we have forgotten.
somehistory says
thank you, Wellington. and it’s true that we do not have to agree on everything in order to make the right choices about life and ethics. It reminds me of the man Job, who was not Hebrew, did not have Law, but lived according to the Law…in a different land.
Many who don’t claim Christianity, actually live a better Christian way than some who do claim to be.
somehistory says
homosexuals can not…by their practices…produce offspring; so to have a *family,* they must depend on heterosexuals if they wish to raise…and teach…children. they must rely on the children of others who are unable, through death or illness, etc. or are unwilling, to care for the children they produce.
To have children by way of adoption is not wrong, but to reject the normal way of having a family, and then insist on a *right* to adopt, imo, is.
to me, that one solid fact, is proof that there is no good, no benefit, in male with male or female with female. It makes sense to me that the God I worship has condemned the practice.
somehistory says
Ami Horowitz found out that there are a lot…a whole heck of a lot…of idiots out there who are all in with this evil insanity.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/ami-horowitz-video-how-young-is-too-young-to-transition/
milo minderbinder says
somehistory says
Oct 14, 2022 at 10:54 am
Ami Horowitz found out that there are a lot…a whole heck of a lot…of idiots out there who are all in with this evil insanity.
…………………………
Thank you for the video.
The knee jerk reactions are not surprising. Notice how easily, and thoughtlessly, people signed the petition? This is the end game of the “global elite.” They have infiltrated the education system and are churning out “obedient” citizens of the world. People who have been thoroughly indoctrinated into a “One World” mentality.
What we are witnessing is Romans Chapter 1.
Sadly, this is the tip of the iceberg, the situation is going to much worse, before it gets better.
somehistory says
thank you, milo. Yes, it is going to be so much worse. Jesus said “the days will be cut short, or no flesh would be saved.”
We are living in the time He meant.
James Lincoln says
I was wondering when this was going to happen…
PRCS says
You’re not alone.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
This is a hilarious story! One more from the ‘Queers against islamophobia’ series
I wonder whether any MSM people approached Ilhan, Rashida or Linda for comment?
somehistory says
On a similar topic out of MI reported by the
Washington Examiner
“UMich fired physician’s assistant who objected to transgender procedures: Lawsuit”
She refused to use “preferred pronouns” or refer people for gender disfiguration.
somehistory says
and this guy should not be teaching kids anything, anywhere. why are parents not protesting this?
FOX News
“Alabama middle school teacher doubles as drag queen in free time, tells children ‘Everybody loves a big bone'”
“One event Miller promoted on his Facebook pag,(sic) is titled “Drag Us to Hell.””
I say, off you go.
Wellington says
No honor among thieves. And both Muslims and Leftists are thieves of the spirit, mind and body, though in different ways of course. They deserve one another and it is fitting that they will eventually try to tear the other apart (I’m betting on the Muslims prevailing; Leftists are lambs being led to the slaughter).
The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of August 1939 comes to mind as a comparable example respecting how thieves try to steal everything decent. Thieves create wastelands, literally or figuratively. Always has been the case, always will be.
PRCS says
GOP unites with conservative Muslims in Dearborn>/b>
https://www.axios.com/local/detroit/2022/10/13/gop-unites-conservative-muslims-dearborn-michigan
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, I was afraid of something like that happening. By itself, the Left and the jihadists splitting was a sight to behold, until our side had to spoil it by picking one
Hank says
It is obvious that the Leftist School Board members are severely disillusioned and perverted. A gauge that indicates the level to which society has fallen. They don’t seem to know their left hand from their right. They have entered the cycle of rejecting Biblical truth and receiving more delusion. The cycle of Romans 1:17-32.
It is common sense that you don’t want the LGBTQ+ agenda for schools and children. Young people should be out playing basketball, football, swimming, baseball, vacationing with parents. Not encouraged and misguided to ponder about something as silly as being in the wrong body and other sexual fantasies.
“ Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?” (Isaiah 29:15)
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! “ (Isaiah 5:20)
“ … Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.” (Isaiah 66:3-4)
“Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. “ (Rom 1:32)
“But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.” Matthew 18:6
shortfattexan says
Historically, when leftist leaders have been forced to choose between Islam and homosexuality, they have generally chosen to side with Islam (e.g., Pulse nightclub). It appears there is a hierarchy of victimhood, and Muslims seem to rank higher on it than gays.
Is that going to change? My first guess would be no, but who knows? My prediction is that the left will do everything they can to avoid having to choose, and that this incident will be quietly swept under the rug and forgotten. Which, ironically, would have the same effect as choosing gays over Muslims, but it would keep the left’s leadership from having to appear “bigoted”, and leftists have always been more concerned with appearance than with actual effects.
The part of the article that really jumped out at me was this:
“They also didn’t like what some called a condescending attitude toward them and their concerns….”
Welcome to the club, I suppose. We Christians have been dealing with that for decades.
somehistory says
‘”Guns Pointed at Me’: FBI Arrests Father of 11 in Front of His Children for Pro-Life Work”
“EXCLUSIVE: Jim Jordan Launches Congressional Inquiry Into FBI Raid on Mark Houck, DOJ’s Political Enforcement of FACE Act”
source; The Daily Signal
https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/10/07/fbi-arrests-father-of-11-in-front-of-his-children-for-pro-life-work/?utm_source=TDS
https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/10/07/exclusive-jim-jordan-launches-congressional-inquiry-into-fbi-raid-on-mark-houck-dojs-political-enforcement-of-face-act/
Wellington says
This occurred, somehistory, right in my backyard. It’s an utter disgrace and why the present DOJ and FBI are traitors to America. Meanwhile, over 50 attacks on pro-life centers have occurred since the Dobbs decision of June and not a single arrest to date.
Merrick Garland is reprehensible and loathsome in the extreme. Ditto for his nominal boss, Joe Biden, who on an almost a daily basis is making a mockery out of the Presidency.
somehistory says
Two fathers who have many children…one with seven and one with eleven…arrested in front of their children, and allowing those committing arson and making death threats are allowed to go free. I agree, Wellington, with your description of these loathsome creatures.
Andy Anderson says
Nearly all MN Muslim students don’t attend public school from what I recall. Rather, they attend Islamic charter schools – funded by the American tax payer. So I cannot help but wonder how many of these Muslim parents/agitators actually have children who attend this school.
tgusa says
Call me a racist if you choose but I prefer heterosexuals because heterosexuals are not in my face about their private lives of heterosexuality 24/7/365.