Anonymous
Post 06/27/2024 12:32     Subject: CAIR complains of incident at Damascus ES
jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The big issue here isn't just that some bigot decided to engage in Islamophomic bullying, it's that the administration sat by and did nothing. There will always be bullies and bigots but when folks with power choose to side with them, then you have a court case on your hand.
what words did they read? Is it bullying if the readers were speaking words calling for the destruction of Israel? Why don’t they name the poem?


Are you seriously attempting to justify an adult interrupting and intimidating a 2nd grader?
Was the 2nd grader calling for jihad?
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2024 12:19     Subject: CAIR complains of incident at Damascus ES
Anonymous wrote:So it would be wrong to interrupt anyone reading Kipling’s “the white Man’s burden”? That’s a very famous poem


I would not heckle a kid who was reading it. I would file a separate complaint with the school. And they are hardly analogous situations. Most reasonable people agree that what is happening to the Palestinians is horrific even if they disagree about what to do about it
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2024 11:38     Subject: CAIR complains of incident at Damascus ES
So it would be wrong to interrupt anyone reading Kipling’s “the white Man’s burden”? That’s a very famous poem
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2024 11:35     Subject: CAIR complains of incident at Damascus ES
jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The big issue here isn't just that some bigot decided to engage in Islamophomic bullying, it's that the administration sat by and did nothing. There will always be bullies and bigots but when folks with power choose to side with them, then you have a court case on your hand.
what words did they read? Is it bullying if the readers were speaking words calling for the destruction of Israel? Why don’t they name the poem?


Are you seriously attempting to justify an adult interrupting and intimidating a 2nd grader?
so if a second grader read something anti lgbt you’d be upset if anyone interrupts?
jsteele
Post 06/27/2024 11:25     Subject: CAIR complains of incident at Damascus ES
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The big issue here isn't just that some bigot decided to engage in Islamophomic bullying, it's that the administration sat by and did nothing. There will always be bullies and bigots but when folks with power choose to side with them, then you have a court case on your hand.
what words did they read? Is it bullying if the readers were speaking words calling for the destruction of Israel? Why don’t they name the poem?


Are you seriously attempting to justify an adult interrupting and intimidating a 2nd grader?
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2024 10:12     Subject: CAIR complains of incident at Damascus ES
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The big issue here isn't just that some bigot decided to engage in Islamophomic bullying, it's that the administration sat by and did nothing. There will always be bullies and bigots but when folks with power choose to side with them, then you have a court case on your hand.
what words did they read? Is it bullying if the readers were speaking words calling for the destruction of Israel? Why don’t they name the poem?


The poem was presumably vetted by the PTA or the administration. Further, you may not like CAIR but they are savvy political operators. They would not be setting this case alongside the attempted drowning of a Palestinian child in Texas if the poem were "calling for the destruction of Israel."


Does the PTA vet poems and readings from international night? I truly don’t know. Is the school by school? I have never heard of the PTA approving material for international night.
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2024 10:01     Subject: CAIR complains of incident at Damascus ES
What does no one know this "well-known" poem?
If it was worth reading at International Night, it's worth sharing.
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2024 09:56     Subject: CAIR complains of incident at Damascus ES
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The big issue here isn't just that some bigot decided to engage in Islamophomic bullying, it's that the administration sat by and did nothing. There will always be bullies and bigots but when folks with power choose to side with them, then you have a court case on your hand.
what words did they read? Is it bullying if the readers were speaking words calling for the destruction of Israel? Why don’t they name the poem?


The poem was presumably vetted by the PTA or the administration. Further, you may not like CAIR but they are savvy political operators. They would not be setting this case alongside the attempted drowning of a Palestinian child in Texas if the poem were "calling for the destruction of Israel."
so if it were vetted why as they mad at Mcps? Mcps is very left wing so the poem must have been very bad if Mcps isn’t siding with the Palestinian family


It seems CAIR would like the administration to take responsibility for not protecting this child, who was heckled "as he began reading the poem." I don't think it is too much to ask that a school administration protect a 7 year-old over a bigot.
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2024 09:53     Subject: CAIR complains of incident at Damascus ES
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The big issue here isn't just that some bigot decided to engage in Islamophomic bullying, it's that the administration sat by and did nothing. There will always be bullies and bigots but when folks with power choose to side with them, then you have a court case on your hand.
what words did they read? Is it bullying if the readers were speaking words calling for the destruction of Israel? Why don’t they name the poem?


The poem was presumably vetted by the PTA or the administration. Further, you may not like CAIR but they are savvy political operators. They would not be setting this case alongside the attempted drowning of a Palestinian child in Texas if the poem were "calling for the destruction of Israel."
so if it were vetted why as they mad at Mcps? Mcps is very left wing so the poem must have been very bad if Mcps isn’t siding with the Palestinian family
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2024 09:52     Subject: CAIR complains of incident at Damascus ES
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The big issue here isn't just that some bigot decided to engage in Islamophomic bullying, it's that the administration sat by and did nothing. There will always be bullies and bigots but when folks with power choose to side with them, then you have a court case on your hand.
what words did they read? Is it bullying if the readers were speaking words calling for the destruction of Israel? Why don’t they name the poem?


The poem was presumably vetted by the PTA or the administration. Further, you may not like CAIR but they are savvy political operators. They would not be setting this case alongside the attempted drowning of a Palestinian child in Texas if the poem were "calling for the destruction of Israel."
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2024 09:51     Subject: CAIR complains of incident at Damascus ES
Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know which poem was read?
no idea but the fact CAIR doesn’t name it kinda indicates I’d we knew this heckling would likely be seen as less bad
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2024 09:44     Subject: CAIR complains of incident at Damascus ES
Does anyone know which poem was read?
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2024 09:41     Subject: CAIR complains of incident at Damascus ES
Anonymous wrote:The big issue here isn't just that some bigot decided to engage in Islamophomic bullying, it's that the administration sat by and did nothing. There will always be bullies and bigots but when folks with power choose to side with them, then you have a court case on your hand.
what words did they read? Is it bullying if the readers were speaking words calling for the destruction of Israel? Why don’t they name the poem?
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2024 09:32     Subject: CAIR complains of incident at Damascus ES
The big issue here isn't just that some bigot decided to engage in Islamophomic bullying, it's that the administration sat by and did nothing. There will always be bullies and bigots but when folks with power choose to side with them, then you have a court case on your hand.
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2024 09:26     Subject: CAIR complains of incident at Damascus ES
https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-calls-for-investigation-public-apology-following-anti-palestinian-incident-at-maryland-public-school/

A parent and child at an international event read a “famous Palestinian poem” and another parent heckled them. I’d be curious to know what the words being read were