Forget Pakistan. We need the Marines in Minneapolis-St. Paul. While history-challenged newsies fixate on Christian separatists in El Dorado, Texas, Islamic jihadis move smartly forward in America’s heartland funded by . . . (drumroll) the U.S. government under the aegis of a Minneapolis Muslim charter school, the Tarek Ibn Ziyad Academy.
Kathrine Kersten breaks the story today in the Minneapolis Star-Tribue with her article, “Director breaks wall of silence at state’s Muslim public school.” (Excerpts at end of article.) Hmm. “Breaks wall of silence”? Who created the wall and why? Since when does the federal government fund Muslim public schools?
We could start with a primer on Tarek Ibn Ziyad, after whom the school is named. The Academy Madrassa holds Ziyad up as an ideal statesman and “peacemaker”:
As an inspiration to our students, we have named our school after Tarek Ibn Ziyad, the Ummayad administrator of medieval Spain. Thirteen hundred years ago, serving in the multifaceted roles of activist, leader, explorer, teacher, administrator and peacemaker, he inspired his fellow citizens to the same striving for human greatness that we hope to instill in our students today.
Wikipedia fills some of the Academy’s Madrassa’s glaring omissions in the historical record. Ziyad, it turns out, was no mere “administrator”. He was a brutal, warmongering jihadi who incentivized his thugs with visions of raping the beautiful Christian maidens of the Iberian Peninsula. Here are some of general Tarek’s fightin’ words to his troops on the eve of battle in Spain:
Remember that if you suffer a few moments in patience, you will afterward enjoy supreme delight. Do not imagine that your fate can be separated from mine, and rest assured that if you fall, I shall perish with you, or avenge you. You have heard that in this country there are a large number of ravishingly beautiful Greek maidens, their graceful forms are draped in sumptuous gowns on which gleam pearls, coral, and purest gold, and they live in the palaces of royal kings. The Commander of True Believers, Alwalid, son of Abdalmelik, has chosen you for this attack from among all his Arab warriors; and he promises that you shall become his comrades and shall hold the rank of kings in this country. Such is his confidence in your intrepidity. The one fruit which he desires to obtain from your bravery is that the word of God shall be exalted in this country, and that the true religion shall be established here. The spoils [including, but not limited to the maidens] will belong to yourselves.
This is the “administrator” that the Madrassa’s “administrators” hold up as a role model and “inspiration” to their students. Some administrator. Some inspiration for America’s school children. I wonder how old those “beautiful Greek maidens” were when Tarek Ibn Ziyad and his thugs raped them.
Kersten article excerpts:
Now, however, an eyewitness has stepped forward. Amanda Getz of Bloomington is a substitute teacher. She worked as a substitute in two fifth-grade classrooms at TIZA on Friday, March 14. Her experience suggests that school-sponsored religious activity plays an integral role at TIZA.
Arriving on a Friday, the Muslim holy day, she says she was told that the day’s schedule included a “school assembly” in the gym after lunch.
Before the assembly, she says she was told, her duties would include taking her fifth-grade students to the bathroom, four at a time, to perform “their ritual washing.”
Afterward, Getz said, “teachers led the kids into the gym, where a man dressed in white with a white cap, who had been at the school all day,” was preparing to lead prayer. Beside him, another man “was prostrating himself in prayer on a carpet as the students entered.”
“The prayer I saw was not voluntary,” Getz said. “The kids were corralled by adults and required to go to the assembly where prayer occurred.”
Islamic Studies was also incorporated into the school day. “When I arrived, I was told ‘after school we have Islamic Studies,’ and I might have to stay for hall duty,” Getz said. “The teachers had written assignments on the blackboard for classes like math and social studies. Islamic Studies was the last one — the board said the kids were studying the Qu’ran. The students were told to copy it into their planner, along with everything else. That gave me the impression that Islamic Studies was a subject like any other.”
Full text of Kersten’s article here. Is there any doubt about the ultimate aim of the Tarek Ibn Ziyad Academy? Where are the citizens of Minnesota? Are they sentient? On drugs? What?
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April 38 04.09.08 at 7:14 pm
This sounds more than vaguely familiar. As a boy, Obama attended a “public school” in Malaysia in which they had “Muslim studies.”
Sleep on, America, since you will anyway. But know that your daughters will be part of the spoils, as they have been in Kenya, in Somalia, in Lebanon, in Iraq, etc, etc. In the last couple of decades, not thirteen hundred years ago.