TIZA Charter School Guilty as Charged! – Attack Cameraman in Celebration

This updates a previous post HERE in which several ‘guest readers’ associated with TIZA got a bug up their arse and went into full on Taqiyya damage control mode and then, predictably, implied that Ronin and I were spreading unfounded rumors and were hate-mongering, etc. etc…

Of course, we now know that not all the charges were founded (no doubt TIZA was able to ‘fix’ most of the discrepancies before state officials paid them a visit), but TIZA was still found guilty of setting aside a 30 minute chunk of time for an adult led Islamic prayer on Fridays, and try as the State Education Department may to minimize the serious implications of all this, it is still a flagrant ‘stretching’ of a government policy which favors the concept of a separation between religion and state…

H/T – Bali Shag Girl

News crew attacked during report at TiZA charter school

KSTP.com

In an attempt to report about the new findings from the Department of Education Monday, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS went to Tarik ibn Zayad Academy in Inver Grove Heights.

While on school grounds, our crew was attacked by school officials. Our photographer was injured while wrestling with the two men over the camera.

Our photographer was examined by paramedics and suffered minor shoulder and back injuries.

The state education department on Monday directed the charter school to “correct” two areas related to religion at the school on Monday.

Tarik ibn Zayad Academy, which focuses on Middle Eastern culture and shares a mosque with the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, came under fire after a teacher alleged that the school was offering religious instruction in Islam to its students.

“The Minnesota Department of Education goes to great lengths to make clear to charter schools and their sponsors that, while schools should appropriately accomodate students’ religious beliefs, they must be ‘nonsectarian’ under the state’s charter school law,” said the state’s education Deputy Commissioner Chas Anderson.

The allegations first surfaced after an article by a columnist for the Star Tribune. The Education Department subsequently began a review of the south metro school and released its findings Monday.

The agency said it was concerned about the school, with about 300 students, accommodating communal prayer and providing transportation to an after-school religious program.

“We have directed the school to take appropriate corrective actions regarding these matters and will continue to provide oversight to ensure that the school is in compliance with state and federal law,” Anderson said.

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