Reader Mail: Bigotry at Fordson High
Hugh Folk writes in with his thoughts on the events described in this article.
Read everything you can on the Fordson High School page, and see if you can deduce from what’s there that Fordson is 95% Arab of Muslim (some of the Arabs are Christian and some of the Muslims are something else. I have read nothing that the Muslims are trying to turn Fordson into a madrassah (religious school). As I read the press, the minister was approaching the Muslim wrestling team members and trying to convert them. He also claimed he was trying to convert everybody. Muslims don’t proseletize and don’t permit their children to apostocize. I doubt if apostates are murdered in Dearborn, but in Pakistan for sure. The coach may or may not have enabled the minister to approach the kids. He may or may not have refused to meet the Muslim parent’s demands. You are right in calling for the coach to sue.
Even if the teachers have tenure and a union to protect them against managerial abuse, as a annual employee who is nontenurable the only hope he has is to exhaust his remedies at the school board and file within 90 days a complaints with the Michigan and antidiscrimination agency and the EEOC. If they don’y sue, they will give him a right-to-sue letter and he can bring suit under CRA64 Title VII and Sec1981. It sounds like a clear cut case of religious discrimination. The principal and school have no defense. I don’t think he has a suit against the complaining parents, unless they lied or exagerated his supposed offence, in which case he colde sue for slander. There should be an ACLU or some right wing Christian legal defence org. He had better hope that that it doesn’t reach the Supreme Court. They believe employers can legally do just about anything they want.
By the way, to infer that anyone with an Arab name is a bigot is bigotry itself. How about “Barack Hussein Obama?”
Selah.
For the record, O Reader, I did note that “I’m not the least bit surprised that a school principal with a name like Imad Fadlallah is an anti-Christian bigot.” Is this bigotry in turn? Some might say so — suffice to say that I intend no bigotry with the remark; it was instead a weary exclamation brought on by yet another example of what appears, both on the surface and after further analysis, to be a more or less clear-cut case of Islamic anti-Christian bigotry.
That’s not to say that anyone is trying to turn Fordson “into a madrassah,” and at no time did I make such a claim. But I agree with Hugh, and he apparently with me, that this was a case of anti-Christian discrimination on the part of, at least, the faculty of the high school, and possibly some of the parents. Yes, the assistant coach did proselytize, but that is hardly something for which the head coach can be punished, until and unless it can be proven that he actively encourage the evangelism.
As to the comment about Muslims not engaging in evangelism, personal experience suggests that the truth is other than what is stated above by Hugh, although he is more or less correct about the fact that apostasy is not permissible. As to whether anyone in Dearborn has been murdered for apostasy, I cannot say, and wouldn’t care to. Then too, I wouldn’t be surprised if such a case came to light.
As to Barrack Hussein Obama, well, that is his real name, is it not? Yes, I use it on the site, in the same way that I always use Hillary Rodham Clinton’s full name. The reason for this has to do with the function of the Wordpress tagging system, not out of any particular desire to highlight a particular aspect of a person’s name. I could simply call him Barrack Obama, as has become the norm, but I don’t want to add more redundant tags to the already massive number of tags I have designated on the site here.
I still hope the coach sues.
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