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Storm brewing between state officials and TiZA school

TiZA officials have "taken a confrontational road" in discussions with the department, according to Deputy MDE Commissioner Chas Anderson, the department's No. 2 official.

Anderson says that the two sides have not yet reached an agreement on one key issue and that MDE will be closely monitoring TiZA's performance in future months.

TiZA is a K-8 charter school in Inver Grove Heights, financed by taxpayers. Its students have scored well on standardized tests. But like all public schools, it may not encourage or endorse religion, or favor one religion over another.

A number of facts raise questions about TiZA on this score. Its executive director, Asad Zaman, is an imam, or Muslim religious leader. The school shares a building with a mosque and the Minnesota chapter of the Muslim American Society, which the Chicago Tribune has described as the American branch of the Muslim Brotherhood -- "the world's most influential Islamic fundamentalist group."

Most of TiZA's students are Muslim, many from low-income immigrant families. The school breaks daily for prayer, its cafeteria serves halal food (permissible under Islamic law), and Arabic is a required subject.

School buses do not leave until after-school Muslim Studies classes, which many students attend, have ended for the day.

Tags: creeping-sharia, schools-muslim, minnesota, muslim on 2008-09-12 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Muslim cabbies in Minn. lose round in court

Muslim cabbies whose religious beliefs go against driving passengers who carry alcohol have lost another round in Minnesota courts.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday against the cabbies' latest attempt to block penalties from being imposed when they refuse to transport passengers because they're carrying alcoholic beverages.

An ordinance adopted by the Metropolitan Airports Commission last year revokes a cabbie's license for 30 days for refusing to pick up a passenger for any reason at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. A second refusal brings a two-year revocation.

Tags: creeping-sharia, minnesota, taxi on 2008-09-09 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Inver Grove Heights charter school changing student prayer time

An Inver Grove Heights charter school that came under investigation by the state Department of Education in the spring over allegations that it illegally promoted the Muslim faith will make changes this fall in the way it accommodates student prayer.

Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA) will reduce the length of voluntary Friday prayers and have staff members who wish to pray do so in a room separate from students, according to a letter school director Asad Zaman sent to the Minnesota Department of Education. The school, responding to the state investigation, has maintained that it has been in compliance with state and federal laws.

Tags: creeping-sharia, minnesota on 2008-09-09 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Minneapolis enables sharia law « Creeping Sharia

Not surprising from a state where Muslim cab drivers refuse to pick up passengers with alcohol or dogs, where local colleges install Islamic foot baths, the airport installs Islamic prayer rooms, where Islamic school administrators don’t know how to raise

Tags: creeping-sharia, minnesota, dhimmi, sharia, muslim on 2008-08-11 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Michelle Malkin » Illegal alien van driver arrested in Minnesota schoolbus tragedy

The local Fox affiliate in the Twin Cities finally confirms what the local papers didn’t seem to want to mention about the horrible school bus accident that killed four children. It didn’t have to happen:

Authorities have confirmed that the the drive

Tags: illegals, immigration, minnesota, schoolbus on 2008-02-22 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Minnesota Democrats Exposed

I don't think any blogger in Minnesota has been the target of such a coordinated assault like I was with over 15 posts attacking me on 6 different blogs.

Tags: censorship-left, expose-left, minnesota, soros on 2008-02-19 -All Annotations (0) -About

in list: George Soros

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dare2sayit: Minnesota Somali's Protest Removal of Islamist Government

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dare2sayit: Violent Crime Surges in Minneapolis, again....

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dare2sayit: Muslim Somali Airport Cabbies

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