Principal who okayed mandatory CAIR/Muslim assembly is out
Here’s an update on the Texas school that failed to inform parents about a mandatory Islam presentation taught by CAIR officials (background here).
The principal who allowed it has been reassigned. Via the Houston Chronicle blog:
Our neighborhood reporter, Thayer Evans, received this terse announcement from Friendswood ISD late Wednesday:
Robin Lowe, Friendswood Junior High Principal, has accepted another administrative position effective immediately.
The process for a new junior high principal has begun.…Details have been trickling out. In a letter apologizing to parents and community members on Saturday, Superintendent Trish Hanks said the presentation was in “response to an incident that occurred between students at Friendswood Junior High School and the perception and fear that it caused to some involved.” She also said CAIR considered it a “hate crime.”
Take it with a grain of salt.
CAIR hopes to give their presentation at other public schools.
You’ve been forewarned.
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Good news Michelle … at least it is a resonable response to the outrage of many here and elsewhere over this imposition on these children … but in my opinion his “reassignment” should have been to the unemployment line …
Let them come to KC and try this crap in my school district, they won’t like the firestorm that I will create with the administration or the protesters that I know I can get to meet them at the front doors.
Step 1: Remove these administrators
Step 2: Banish CAIR from Public School campuses
Step 3: …..?
Step 4: PROFIT!
More like CAIR hopes to
give their presentationcontinue drumming up support for Hamasat other public schoolsby indoctrinating children without their parents notice or permission not with a historical view of Islam that would normally get taught in a school but with actually proseltyzing and then claiming that Islam does not support terrorism despite the ever growing statistics since 9/11 carried out by Islamic Terrorists since then to the contrary and not to mention CAIR themselves getting caught supporting a terrorist organization.Stay vigilant, and thanks Michelle for doing just that.
This has been going on here in CA for a long time.
I have a request:
Could conservatives from other states move here en-masse (sp) and help?!!!
The weather is great and housing prices are comming down!
Note the need to mention that CAIR considered this a “hate crime”…. slimeballs can’t get enough press, can they? Wonder when others will have the “Steyns” to push CAIR in the face and call them out.
Heh! That would go over like a ton of sh…..fecal matter here.
Christian Soldier,
house prices going from 750,000 to 500,000 is good news for some but it is still WAY to high.
i am SHOCKED!
Ok, so not really. But it was fun to pretend for a minute…you know, the same way these people pretend to be outraged or offended to drum up support.
I didnt really get anything out of pretending though.
On a serious note, the article says it caused fear…did i miss something? Or is this just an attempt to paint people who dissent from having CAIR come in there as hand wringing worry warts that just “misunderstand” Islam?
What part of terrorist ties don’t people understand? On that basis alone should be enough reason to keep these vultures at bay.
“Hate Crime”? Please! Look at the kettle calling everything else black.
Have you noticed how the extreme left always accuse the opposition as being perpetrators of the very crime that the left is actually committing?
CAIR is the hate monger; this was not a hate crime but a propaganda event. Can you just imagine the outrage if kids had been forced to attend a Christian presentation such as this?
It was an attempt at indoctrination and a total outrage. The idiot who okay’d this should have been fired, not reassigned. What kind of judgment does this moron have?
Ah. Texas Justice.
Reassigned? Translation: a transfer to an equal or more likely better paying position in order to placate the parents.
Sorry, that’s not justice.
The principal should not have been reassigned….he should have been fired. Damn Teachers Unions.
Great news. It is good to know parents got involed to stop this crud in their kids schools. Parents need to ask their kids regurally what type of ‘classes’ they are in and being taught.
L
Not that I condone it, but if a principal hosted a KKK
indoctrinationpresentation, do you think he’d be ‘reassigned’?Just found this today.
should have been fired without a doubt!
It’s called “projection”…
You should read the comments in the paper in the article. We’re all just hateful and bigoted and stuff according to the morons populating my city.
who are the letters/comments from, yt1?
A public school teacher or principal in any state in this nation that forced students to sit through any type of one-sided presentation about the Christian Faith and it’s history would be immediately unemployed and unemployable. And that would be based upon the whinings of only one disgruntled parent.
So this loser has been reassigned. Whoop-de-do. The Catholic priests that were molesting children were ‘reassigned’ as well. Look how that turned out.
Is it true that CAIR thinks global warming mongering is a hate crime.
YES! Unfortunately, tenure prevents the out-right firing of incompetents like Principal Hanks, but at least she will no longer be a position to corrupt the education process for those kids in that school system.
In our school system, reassignment to an administrative post usually entails being “kicked upstairs” to the Central Office and serving out the remainder of one’s contract as a paper pusher, away from the classroom/student interaction until the system can legally sever employment with the individual.
So Bin Laden and 9/11 are succeeding. They are destroying the fabric of American society from the inside. Today a school principal loses his job because he exposed kids to an hour of instruction about Islam.
Maybe next year the same will happen to a principal who lets in a Rabbi.
United States of America, as a nation of laws and conclusions brought by an intelligent thought process is circling the drain. Living at this time in history, we are witnessing the demise of a great nation right before our eyes. Situational ethics has run amuck.
When God was cast out of the European nations they at least still had some national pride. In this country now it seems to be nothing but intellectual and situational anarchy. “Everyone doing what seems right in their own eyes.” Sound familiar?
The enemies of our way of life (i.e. CAIR), make no mistake they are enemies (witness their response), saw this long ago and began to infiltrate while we will still not even admit it to ourselves, let alone take action to stop it. Because that would mean we would have to care about something other than ourselves. We are so wrapped up in our ego-centric, personal daily lives, with our blinders on, not caring about what happens to others, that we can’t see or care about the big picture of what is happening to our nation.
However, its still not too late.
And this person will be a “special commenter” on MessNBC by the end of the month. Brought down by typical white people, how awful ! Heh…………
I may be apathetic but I don’t CAIR? :’)
These purveyors of hate should be relegated to the trash heap they belong in.
I’m still trying to figure out why when some obscure, small group feels they’re feelings are hurt and they complain, the PC police go to work to turn the world upside down to accomodate them and deny rights to the large majority who are enjoying the benefit complained about.
But when someone from the majority complains about the subject the minority is complaining about, it’s brushed off as nothing.
Obviously, complaints have different levels of weighted value. The math is upside down. The 98% should carry more weight than the 2% (or less) you’d think.
Guess we’re in an age where good is evil and evil is good.
Keep your lamps full of oil.
I consider the existance of CAIR to be a hate crime.
I’m hoping they find time to get around to liberal math professors soon.
Except it would be you and your ilk leading the charge against a principal that brought in a rabbi. You would site the mythical “Separation of Church and State” and demand that principal be fired.
Sorry lgm, that’s not what happened - but don’t let anything like the facts get in your way.
LGM:
You must not read the papers or the news sources on the internet. Maybe I should clarify - conservative news sources.
The ACLU will be all over the school if the rabbi, priest or pastor comes to school to give a class on ethics.
Fixed it for our mentally unstable friend.
they sure should have been more careful who they were letting in your school!
Two thoughts…
1) CAIR considers a disapproving glance to be a “hate crime”.
2) Civilizations don’t die, the commit suicide. With our pathalogical devotion to the idea of “multiculturalism”,”tolerance”, hate crimes and identity politics we are in the process of doing just that.
“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (2nd Timothy 3:1-7)
Sound familiar?
You never will get it LGM, you pansy.! They don’t let ANY other religions come speak at public schools because they are scared sh#!less of the Snivel Liberties Union closing them down !!!!!!!!!!!!! Now go back down stairs and finish yer hashish.
Any Principal who had compulsory religious meeting presented by a Rabbi would have been fired before 9/11, and then after he was fired the ACLU would have sued the pants off him. For you to not realize that you’d have to be stupid, psychotic or both.
Which, given your history, I have no problem believing.
Actually, that sounds like human nature since roughly the beginning of time.
At Friendswood ISD?
CAIR’s little speech to students at an assembly notwithstanding, I think that the case for homeschooling has been made here.
So iamsaved #28 that’s why a Christian cross in public view is removed because it offends a small group of heathens where as me being offended by the public view of all Muslim mosques is always ignored.
Somebody call the ACLU!
Oh, that’s right, it’s not a Christian thing here…nevermind.
“CAIR considered it a “hate crime.””
CAIR is a hate crime.
#42/ Thats the liberal view of demacracy again. The needs of the few FAR outweigh the needs of the many, or minority rules etc…………….
#45……..demOcracy. Sorry, 12 yrs of public school y’know.
DLTDHYOTWO!!!!!!!!
Right on BlameAmericaLast, right on!
I would like for LGM to give me ONE example of the aclu ever going to bat for a christian cause. NEVER !
It seems to be the liberal way or the highway. I am sick of the blindsightedness (if there is such a word) of him and his ilk.
God Bless America
There’s a place for CAIR- SAUDI ARABIA!
You sly dog
It’s biatch when you put your pic in the public domain. 
I forgot Barry F., lgm is in disguise in your pic here is what he really looks like
Agreed #48
I’m sick of it.
But for all of the hard working Americans who have removed their “spot vision” glasses… GOD Bless America!
And so we need more Blind_Mules all over this country and in every school. Too many of us, me included, get upset and merely write letters to the editor or post on MichelleMalkin(dot)com. We have to shake these so called educators a little to get the stuff our of their ears.
Maybe. Inviting groups into schools to “state their differences” has become a propaganda racket; perhaps it always was. But these young parents do not send their children to school to learn to submit to sharia law, the joys of annal sex or to join lgm’s Moonbeam Brigagade.
I prefer my children learn about Christanity so I take MY children to MY Church. I prefer MY children to learn ethics and morals I believe in so I teach them. That may not square with the ‘It takes a village’ bunch but that is fine. Perhaps ‘It takes a gulag’ would be the correct phrase Miss Hillary was looking for.
And good morning lgm. Don’t you have an Obama Moma rally to attend?
ok lgm, if you come up with something and post it, don’t think I’m ignoring you. I’m leaving for my weekly bible study, I’ll check back here when I get home. This is no joke, I go to bible study once a week, church three times a week, and attend prayer meeting. I’m sure in your mind this makes me weak, but in my mind, it makes me strong.
Every week at bible study, I request prayer for this country God has blessed and pray for his continued blessings.
Thank you englishqueen01. After verifying the definition, I believe this fits a majority of the extremists. However, for many others it is a conscious “projection” of their own actions in order to deflect attention from themselves. Is there a term for this?
#55, Yes, its called Liberalism.
So a government no load screws up and gets to move to a $100,000 plus position shuffling papers. This is supposed to be a victory? Note: $ amount guessed at but seems like a ballpark figure.
LOL.. Thanks spo-con, I needed that
They supplied the link to the presentation they gave at the school.
http://blogs.chron.com/schoolzone/presentation.ppt
Yes, I would be upset if it was my kid being force to watch this.
Never happen lgm. Rabbis, pastors and priests need not apply. They never get in the door.
I just checked to see if there is a CAIR chapter here in the Bluegrass. (I’m ashamed I never bothered to check before.) Found out that not only is there a chapter, but my allergist is on the Board. Ugh!! Time to search for a new doctor. (Or would that be considered a “hate crime” too?)
pressto #59: Seems innocent enough, but they sure do leave a lot of things out, don’t they? Hmmm… 5 pillars. They conveniently leave out the 6th, or for some, 7th — jihad. Dispicable how they gloss over it all and make it seem a little glamorous — complete with the “Muslim Girl” magazine.
Since CAIR classifies cartoons as “hate crimes”, my opinion remains unchanged that such a mandatory presentation, especially without prior notice to parents, was wholly inappropriate.
swmbo said (#48):
I googled “aclu christian”. The first hit was
The second hit was
From the fourth hit:
Continuing (#54)
Jews have lots of holidays, including 4 in one month, Rosh hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkhot, and Simchat Torah (They’re in tSeptember/October, but in the same Hebrew month). People ask: “What’s the most important holiday?” The correct answer is the Sabbath. Weekly prayer and renewal is our source of strength.
Agreed, our country is blessed. One of our blessings is a drive to improve ourselves. We’ve gone from keeping African slaves to electing an American of African descent President.
I think I found something!
Open up the PowerPoint presentation:
http://blogs.chron.com/schoolzone/presentation.ppt
Click File
Click Properties
The Author of this file is “Shafath Syed”, who is Group Product Marketing Manager at Adobe Systems, Inc.
So either this Adobe Employee used Company time and company software to create this presentation, or CAIR is using an illegal pirated copy of Microsoft PowerPoint. I would guess that Adobe, like most corporations, bans the use of company owned software for employee’s own personal use.
Plus, CAIR is using copywritten images within the presentation without persmission. The photos of Malcolm X, Muhammed Ali and Hakeem Olajuwon are all copywritten and protected.
Also: Syed has donated $250.00 to the 2008 DNC Presidential Fund raising effort:
http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?type=name&lname=Syed&fname=Shafath
Here’s pictures he took at a CAIR event he attended:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shafath/
Does Adobe know their employee or their software has been stolen away by CAIR?
Who was it that predicted that the liberals, upon the chance he got the nomination, would already be calling him the President? I owe you lunch whomever made that statement.
alaskangrizzly said (#65):
OK, he hasn’t been elected yet, but he’s ahead in the polls and it’s not going to be a good election for Republicans.
Let us not wring our hands on this, we will most likely all be attending CAIR indoctrination classes during the Obama administration.
if Obama-nation wins, it will only be because the RINOs nominated a liberal who tried to and still wants to sell out this country to illegal invaders.
thus, he is no different than the leftist with the D on the ballot
Drug sellers in our neighborhood had a house burn down around their ears…no one know a thing about how it started.
If the authorities don’t clean up messes like this people will.
I noticed that he “accepted another admin. position” and didn’t get his butt fired. If it was a Christian presentation, he would have been “drawn and quartered”. He probably gets no change in salary and no loss. Just takes another position. Sad.
I consider CAIR to be a hate crime!!
lgm, I stand corrected. I went to each link and became enlightened. The Christian Today link, #4 was especially interesting. I frequently make judgements about liberals and lump them all into the same box of intolerence but I will try to do my homework before I make another blanket statement. I appreciate your homework on the ACLU.
post by LGM #25
They better let in a Rabbi…The last time I checked LGM, this country is Judeo-Christian
You don’t see Christians or Jews strapping a chestful of dynamite to their chest to protest your way of thinking, now do ya, LGM?
“CAIR considered it a “hate crime.””
Well as a parent I don’t “CAIR,” and neither will my kids.
swmbo (#72) Thanks. I owe you one. I’ll read some links if you post them.
Why would they do that, LGM? Jews don’t blow people up.
If they did, the ACLU would be all over the place.
What you need to understand about CAIR is that they are trying to convert all Americans to Islam to put us all under sharia law.
Getting you to believe terrorists in Iraq are freedom fighters is step one.
Speaking of indoctrination, Americans should not forget Slick Willy for selling out American children to Islam: http://www.blessedcause.org/clinton.htm
See other thread:
Pretty much sums up CAIR’s credibility on islamaphobia and illegal profiling wallowing.
As well they should if the presentation is given by a group shown to be associated with radicals and terrorists, and do not inform the parents. It was the ACLU that taught us that any religion in the classroom or associated with any state or federal function was verboten.
You are wrong on another count: the liberal Democrats, the party of jihad, is destroying the fabric of American society from the inside. From their domination of the eroding schools to their domination of the very media that both creates a cancer in our society and inflames the sensibilities of those in Islamic societies that abhor Western values in their society (THAT is why they hate us so much: liberal Hollywood).