via GAFFNEY: How Muslim proselytizing creeps into public schools – Washington Times.
…the Loudoun County School Board is
expected to hear from Mary Addi on Tuesday, in the course of its last
public input session on the application for the Loudoun Math and
Information Technology Academy. Ms. Addi and her Turkish husband,
Mustafa Emanet, both formerly taught in a Gulen school in Cleveland.
They have courageously made public their insights into issues sure to
afflict the Loudoun County school system if the current application is
approved: systematic mismanagement; use of Turkish teachers who are
unqualified to teach, do not speak English comprehensibly or both; visa
fraud; financial irregularities; chronic deviation from the curriculum
and other rules and regulations meant to govern its operations; and so
on. These issues have affected other Gulen charter schools around the
country. Ms. Addi and her husband have even contributed to an ongoing
investigation of the Gulen Movement and its schools by the FBI.
In a letter previously submitted to a
select committee of the Loudoun School Board that — to its credit —
actually recommended rejection of the Gulen charter application, Ms.
Addi wrote:
“According to my husband, in addition to garnering as much taxpayer money as possible, the Gulen movement’s other agenda is to spread Islam though subliminal indoctrinations. More specifically, the mission is to spread Islam by means of the Turkish events such as trips to Turkey, the Turkish Olympics, other cultural events and teaching Turkish as a second language.It creeps like this too:
“Although the Gulenists are careful not to speak directly about their religious beliefs, it is their hope that by indoctrinating American students and parents with their culture and hospitality, that the students will likewise be more susceptible to religious conversion.”
Such behavior would, of course, fall afoul of prohibitions in the Virginia code barring proselytization in public schools. Like the rest of the Gulen program, however, unless the application is rejected, it is predictable that Loudoun County will find itself wrestling with what other school systems have confronted elsewhere: an entrenched school, indifferent to its obligations and responsibilities — and exceedingly difficult to discipline due, in part, to the Gulenists’ intensive efforts to buy political protection from county supervisors, state legislators, governors and others.
If the mere prospect of those sorts of vexing problems were not grounds enough to reject the application, this passage from the Loudoun County School Board code of conduct should be: “I must never neglect my personal obligation to the community and my legal obligation to the State, nor surrender these responsibilities to any other person, group, or organization; but that, beyond these, I have a moral and civic obligation to the Nation which can remain strong and free only so long as public schools in the United States of America are kept free and strong.”
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