MN: Muslims wage legal jihad for more Islam in taxpayer funded Islamic school

It’s been a banner week for both the physical jihad, and the stealth jihad. At least three Islamic schools in the U.S. – (see NYC and Caliphornia), funded with your infidel taxes, steadily implementing and enforcing Islamic sharia law in Dar al Kufr. Next up, it’s back to Minnesotastan, hat tip again Atlas Shrugs who states, “Look how they use our Constitution, our democracy to kill it.”

TiZA families seek to join in legal fight over religion at school
Seeking to protect their rights, a group of TiZA students and parents want to join the lawsuit between the American Civil Liberties Union and the school, which has locations in Blaine and Inver Grove Heights.

In a formal move to join the legal battle over religion at their school, several families at Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TiZA) have asked a judge to let them intervene as parties in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota.

The ACLU claims that the charter school, which has locations in Inver Grove Heights and Blaine, has violated the U.S. Constitution by crossing the line between religion and public education.

But in a motion filed Wednesday, 10 Muslim students and four of their parents argue that the ACLU is seeking to eliminate “democratically and legally obtained” religious accommodations, such as pork alternatives on the lunch menu, a conservative dress code and the time and space to pray at school.

“The accommodations offered at TiZA are the same accommodations the [families] believe are required at TiZA and are the same accommodations the [ACLU] alleges are prohibited at TiZA,” the motion said.

“Basically, TiZA is being sued for the Muslim-ness of its students,” it said.

The families seek to join the lawsuit as parties, which would allow them to conduct discovery, file motions and otherwise assert their rights, said their attorney, Erick Kaardal. They do not propose to file any counterclaims, he said.

The ACLU exists to defend the Constitution, said Teresa Nelson, legal counsel with the ACLU. “For them to suggest that we are somehow trying to get a decision that would violate the Constitution — frankly, that’s unwarranted,” she said.

If families feel that their rights to religious accommodation are being violated, she said, “the appropriate venue for them is to initiate a civil action against TiZA.”

In court documents, parents said they send their children to the school for a quality education, not religion, but still want their families’ religious needs to be met. The school is a “safe, non-sectarian, cultural learning environment for immigrant families” and should not be closed, they said.

Several said they were unhappy because, in response to a state investigation, the school has reduced the time set aside on Fridays for Muslim students to pray, from 30 minutes to 10 minutes.

“The ACLU lawsuit threatens more reductions,” said Javed Mohammad, who has two sons at TiZA, in a court document.

TIZA is the same school that Congressman Keith Ellison reportedly used his powers to get his daughter to the front of long wait list – to enter a school of primarily Muslim immigrants; and an executive of the school escorted Ellison on a trip to Mecca for hajj – where the U.S. and capitalism were denounced and all haji’s were told to defeat such enemies. Oh, it’s also the school whose administrator’s told an employee they could just kill her! Taxation for Islamization!

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