The schoolboard decided to keep schools open during Eid al-Adha. See video here – the usual overly emotional hysteria.
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This is a very telling story, because – contrary to my assumptions at first – it was not about the Muslim children themselves being forced to go to school on this major Islamic holiday. The school board speaker said they could be excused school on parental request that day without any penalty!
Why then should the parents be getting steamed up? It was purely and simply a throwing-weight-around exercise. They seemed to want the other parents and children and school teachers to be inconvenienced for no reason at all but to show that Muslims have the right to impose on others. The Jews, it was noted, did not impose in this way. Basically, with no one proposing to stop them keeping their own children at home, it was about forcing non-Muslims to de facto “observe” their festival.
This by the standards of incidents reported here is relatively trivial, but it perfectly encapsulates the arrogance, narcissism and aggression typical even of low-level, allegedly non-extremist Islamic integrism.
very astute analysis, Sarka.
There was only one reasonable demand that Muslim parents could have made,, and that was that their children be allowed to miss school without penalty.
The school board granted them that but it wasn’t good enough. Let’s hope the larger community there and beyond begins to see how supremacism lies at the heart of the Muslim identity of too many Muslims.