February 18, 2013 by creeping
via Muslim parent proselytizing Islam at Terre Haute, Indiana elementary school - h/t @CausingFitna & SDMatta
Muslim family’s school visit prompts investigation
Administrators at the Vigo County School
Corporation are trying to figure out how a Muslim family managed to go
classroom to classroom Friday morning, handing out religious literature
to most every teacher while school was in session.
“And we are addressing that, we are making changes,” said Ray Azar, the corporation’s director of student services.
Azar told reporters Monday afternoon that
an internal investigation is being launched at Dixie Bee Elementary, the
K through 5 school three girls in that Muslim family attend. Azar said those girls and their father were properly approved to drop off cards, with a religious message,
and a flower for each teacher at the school. But the family, according
to Azar, was never supposed to venture beyond the school’s main office.
The message on the fliers the family
dropped off reads, “Mohammed is a prophet of Mercy. Do not defame
people, lest you make them your enemies.” The school corporation
vehemently denies any claim that it was endorsing a particular religion
by allowing the school visit; rather, according to Azar, it was viewed as a lesson in history.
A history lesson? What are the chances that Mr. Azar (Raymond Saad Azar) is Muslim?
Not one school board member was willing to comment on the incident at Dixie Bee Elementary, and the topic did not come up at Monday evening’s school board meeting.
“Nobody told me to stop,” recalled
Mohammed Alharbi, 34, a father of four. “Unfortunately, they gave me a
visitor’s tag: that means I can go and observe class to class.”
Alharbi’s visit to Dixie Bee Elementary
School in Terre Haute, the morning of Friday, February 8, is stirring
much controversy; it’s even launched an internal investigation behind
the walls of the kindergarten through fifth grade school, according to
high-ranking leaders of the Vigo County School Corporation.
Alharbi told News 10 the Dixie Bee school principal had approved his visit at least a couple days in advance.
More: The school knew the event was planned and let it go as their lawyers feared the legal jihad and potential cries of Islamophobia:
On Monday, the Vigo County School
Corporation announced the incident at Dixie Bee had launched an internal
investigation to find out who “dropped the ball,” in the words of
Superintendent Danny Tanoos.
Tanoos also presented a document
from the corporation’s legal counsel in Indianapolis, advising the
corporation to allow the Muslim family into the school or face the
potential of “viewpoint discrimination” claims.
Despite the corporation’s willingness to
admit the family’s prospective visit was approved, even OK’d by legal,
the agreement was that the visitors would merely leave religious
materials, and a single tulip, for teachers at the school’s front
office. Ray Azar, the director of student services, told reporters on
Monday that the family was never supposed to venture beyond the office.
The small flier passed to most all Dixie
Bee teachers that fateful morning reads, “Mohammed is a Prophet of
Mercy. Do not defame people lest you make them your enemies.”
According to the county website, there are at least four Azar’s employed by the district:AZAR, ADAM SAAD | SOCIAL STUDIES 8 WEST VIGO MIDDLE SCHOOL (462-4361) |
asa2@vigoschools.org |
AZAR, MICHELLE K | CHORAL NORTH VIGO HIGH (462-4312) |
mka@vigoschools.org |
AZAR, RAYMOND SAAD | DIRECTOR OF STUDENT SERVICES ADMINISTRATION BUILDING (462-4224) xtn: 11410 |
rsa@vigoschools.org |
AZAR, STEPHANIE R | LANGUAGE ARTS 7 WOODROW WILSON MIDDLE SCHOOL (462-4396) |
srd@vigoschools.org |
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