The wave of protests against sexual materials and agendas in schools spreading around the country appeared in Dearborn, Michigan. Islamists in America had long grappled with how to manage both their leftist alliances and the sexual agendas of those allies. Most opted for public expressions of support and private repression. The breach broke out in the open in Dearborn with videos of angry Arab Muslims, among others, speaking out at school board meetings.
They waved signs, booed speakers, and denounced the board members. The same sort of stuff that led Biden and Garland’s DOJ to illegally coordinate a school board association letter preparing to treat them like terrorists.
But they can’t treat Muslims like terrorists.
The sheer awkwardness was captured by the local NPR affiliate’s story on the protests.
.Community members within the Dearborn Public School District have been in heated debate over several LGBTQ-positive books and their availability to students. The debate in Dearborn came to a head at a school board meeting this week.
It’s not the first time a religious, conservative group has opposed the availability of books that include LGBTQ-positive stories and sentiments.
However, unlike we’ve seen before, many of those religious conservatives are Muslim. It’s the first time someone other than Evangelicals and far-right constituents have been a sizeable force in the protests at the school board.
Reporter Niraj Warikoo provided some context on this multifaceted issue. We also heard from someone who’s taken a stand in favor of age-appropriate, LGBTQ-positive books.
When American parents protest sexual materials being inflicted on their kids, it’s terrorism. But when Muslims protest, it’s “multifaceted”.
That’s especially true since the local CAIR appeared to be involved in guiding some parents behind the scenes while cautioning them away from public protests. Others however, with fewer woke alliances, took a more vocal stand.
One of Michigan’s most prominent faith leaders, Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini of the Islamic Institute of America in Dearborn Heights, urged people during his Friday sermon to attend the protests.
“Some of those books are completely inappropriate for our children to read,” Al-Qazwini said. “Some of those books promote pornography. Some of them promote homosexuality. We don’t need this. Go and attend this meeting.”
Al-Qazwini and others said that they have the democratic right to decide what is appropriate in their schools since their faith is now in the majority. Dearborn is about 47% Arab American, most of them Muslim, and Dearborn Heights is about one-third Arab American, according to census data
What’s the Left going to do? Shut up and take it. At least in public. And explain how multifaceted it all is, and double down on pushing this stuff anyway. Publicly, dissent is impossible. And impracticable. The Left hopes to run the same routine that it did with the black community, but it doesn’t understand the territory. Or the players.
They’re the majority and they mean it.
When similar incidents happened in the UK, there was some handwringing and inspectors were sent to investigate Jewish and Christian schools. Expect the media and activist lefties to loudly shift attention back to safer targets. And then call them terrorists.
“When American parents protest sexual materials being inflicted on their kids, it’s terrorism. But when Muslims protest, it’s “multifaceted”.”
There are, by most accounts, about 3 million American citizens who identify as Muslims. It is possible to be American and Muslim simultaneously.
One does see impressive Muslim thinkers here that manage to find an appropriate balance, but they appear to be depressingly rare. Many Muslims in France have long said, “I am Muslim first, and French second.” Here, it must be the constitution first, religious dogma second, yes?
Our form of government requires a moral and religious people. Religion is fine, so long as it comports with the constitution. Our nation was built upon religious and enlightenment principles – the last and best iteration of western civilization. Christianity and Judaism are compatible with our form of government. Islam is not. Islam’s fundamental principles require the destruction of our government and way of life – total, abject submission and slavery or conversion (at the point of a sword).
When a muslim becomes “radicalized” he returns to the root. The word “radical” is cognate with the word “root.,” The root of Islam, the pure form of this religion, requires death to America.
This being so, no Muslim should be permitted citizenship here, radical or not. Islam tolerates no religious freedom for anyone else. It is an unconstitutional religion.
Thoughtful essay.
As one who has studied Islam in some depth, it’s safe to say that most Muslim Americans see the U.S. Constitution — and particularly the First Amendment — as a kind of contract which prohibits them from undertaking literal war against American government so long as that government honors the stipulations of religious liberty accorded to all American citizens and lawful residents. The whole dar al-harb (abode of war)/dar al-Islam (abode of Islam) dichotomy really does not capture the general Muslim worldview, since there are also such concepts as dal al-‘ahd (abode of treaty/contract) which allow for interfaith civility.
This particular concept would describe how most of them see America.
See the following link for further details:
http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/Public/focus/essay1009_jefferson.html
Truthfully speaking, you can try to sugar coat it any way you like but like most of Europe the US has imported an incompatible mess. How soon you forget how Barry’s priority was to lie to the Dearborn mob during the Benghazi crisis.
Amen. Islam encapsulates a fundamental hysteria. that leaves scant room for tolerance. Every place in the world where it’s barged or crept in has quickly or gradually submitted. Why the US should be different is beyond logical conjecture.
You’re being obtuse or dishonest. The ideology of “Submission’s” core tenets are in direct contravention with secular democratic norms and the values of the Enlightenment. Submission as authentically practiced is inherently supremacist, totalitarian, intolerant and belligerent towards non-Muslims. It is therefore impossible to be a devout Muslim who strictly adheres to Islamic teachings and an American, and, by “American,” I refer to a person who believes in separation of religion and state, tolerance for faiths and constitutional rights.
Multifaceted is what every good terrorist strives to be and American parents obviously aren’t multifaceted enough to accommodate gender reassignment and CRM for toddlers quite yet.
Wish it was better on the GOP side but they see us as Hobbits too. Hobbits may have many fine and admirable qualities as well as much earthy wisdom but they are not going to withstand a Mordor invasion, That is just the reality of the situation.
Yesterday on Fox Newt was talking about stuff and then we got a clip of Biden asking what Republicans stand for? It was a good question. Biden had a disingenuous answer obviously.
Newt provided the real answer, Kevin McCarthy’s pledge to America or whatever they’re calling which is worth less than the Constitution of Zimbabwe. They think we’re Hobbits and many are.
“Watch the Exact Moment That Bill Maher Shows How to Bridge the Political Divide” is the latest from the Rubin report.
“8 year olds dude”
There’s no fixing this no matter how many Tulsi Gabbards or whatever other nonsense is supposed to be a bandaid. There’s only self-delusion.
*CRT not CRM amongst many other typos and misspellings. Apologies for anybody that read.
Thanks. I wondered what you were talking about and thought I had missed something.
I see an opportunity here to bring Muslim’s and Christian’s together in a common cause.
Actually, I was thinking the same thing.
It would be nice if the folks here could set aside their difference and learn to build such bridges rather than burn them, but I have no grand expectations about that. This site tends to attract those more interested in bashing Muslims than finding a way to work with them.
APOSTROPHE MISUSE SPOTTED:
It’s time to give the dog its food.
The Left pretends to like Muslims – a textbook case of UNREQUITED LOVE – but most Muslims have nothing but suspicion and contempt for the secularist Left.