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Is Sharia Law Being Imposed in a Canadian Middle School? Ask the Menstruating Young Girls

Story Highlights:

  • Critics claim Toronto District School Board is breaching Ontario’s Education Law by allowing Islamic prayer during the school day
  • An outside imam comes to the school to conduct weekly prayer meetings
  • Young girls who are menstruating are not allowed to participate and are separated from the group

In America, the debate over prayer and its place in public schools never seems to simmer. But, we’re not alone. The heated discussion over faith in public education is occurring in Toronto, Canada, as well. In addition to general frustration over prayer, advocates and critics are outraged by the fact that young Islamic girls are separated from others during meetings due to menstruation – a provision that indicates Sharia law is potentially being imposed in the public school.

These critics claim that the Ontario middle school is breaching Ontario’s Education Act — a law that provides guidelines for religion’s place in the public school system.

To provide more in-depth details, the Toronto District School Board has been under fire for allowing an imam to hold Friday prayer services for Muslim students. These weekly religious meetings occur in Valley Park Middle School’s (again, a public educational facility) cafeteria. Between 300 and 400 of the school’s 1,200 students take part in the weekly meeting.

While critics remain outraged, the district argues that freedom of religion trumps the Education Act and states that the district has an “obligation to accommodate faith needs.” Since Muslims must pray at a certain time during the day on Fridays, the district believes it is simply providing an avenue to ensure that young people can maintain their religious beliefs and practices. In the past, students would leave the school to worship at outside mosques. This created a variety of attendance issues for the district.

To be clear on the matter, the Education Act reads as follows:

Subject to subsections (2) and (3), a board shall not permit any person to conduct religious exercises or to provide instruction that includes indoctrination in a particular religion or religious belief in a school.

Sections (2) and (3) highlight some exceptions to this rule. Among them, the board may permit a person to conduct religious instruction “that includes indoctrination” if it is not conducted by or under the authority of the board, and if the activities are conducted “before or after the school’s instructional program” (or on a non-school day). Critics maintain that these exemptions have not been met and that the Friday activities are, thus, breaching the law.

Some, including at least one imam, have made suggestions to address the controversy. Since having an outside religious leader come into the school appears to be problematic, students could be trained to deliver their own sermons (though religious teaching would require that only boys do so). But, for now, this suggestion has not yet been implemented and controversy remains. The Toronto Star has more:

Valley Park’s prayer services, which until recently operated without complaint, have raised a debate about the place of religion in an increasingly diverse public system. One Hindu group plans protests, and the progressive Muslim Canadian Congress is contemplating legal action to force the board to comply with the Education Act.

Below, watch a representative of a Hindu advocacy group explain opposition to the “special accommodations” allotted to the school’s Muslim population:

But, it’s not just the existence of the prayer services that have people in an uproar. Surprisingly, the meeting is conducted in Arabic and the school does not monitor what is said. Additionally, boys and girls enter separately, with the girls wearing scarves and shawls to cover their heads and arms.

Valley Park Middle School Sharia Law Muslim Girls Menstruation

Credit: John Goddard/Toronto Star

The most contentious issue, though, is the fact that girls who are menstruating are forced to sit at the back of the pack; they are permitted to listen but cannot take part (see the picture to the left). The New American has more about why this separation takes place:

“Unclean” is the word Muslims use for girls who are menstruating. Sharia law states they must be separated from the “clean” students.

Watch a news report, below, that covers the young girls’ separation due to their menstruation:

On FiveFeetofFury, blogger Kathy Shaidle expresses her opinions on the matter, referencing the now infamous segregation picture:

Yep, that’s part of the caption of the Toronto Star photo [the original caption read, "At Valley Park Middle School, Muslim students participate in the Friday prayer service. Menstruating girls, at the very back, do not take part"].

Yes, the country is Canadaand the year is 2011.

Meanwhile over 150 Canadian soldiers died in Afghanistan to (ostensibly) fight for the rights and dignity of young Muslim women like these.

Mark Steyn also covers about the situation and the image, writing:

Not some exotic photojournalism essay from an upcountry village in Krappistan. But a typical Friday at a middle school in the largest city in Canada. I forget which brand of tampon used to advertise itself with the pitch “Now with new [whatever] you can go horse-riding, water-ski-ing, ballet dancing, whatever you want to do”, but perhaps they can just add the tag: “But not participate in Friday prayers at an Ontario public school.

With the debate heating up over the past month, there’s no telling where this situation will lead. Some commentators claim that this is an opportunity for other groups to request special accommodations as well, while others believe religious activities have no place in public schools during daily instructional periods. Either way, the language barrier and the segregation of young girls are both problems the district will likely need to contend with.

  • Advocates fear outside imam has brought Sharia Law into the public school
  • Comments (412)

    • MikeWinVA
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:53am

      Just picture the outcry there would be in the media if the local Catholic church was allowed to celebrate Mass on Catholic holy days of obligation or hold Good Friday services on the school grounds. I imagine that the mohammedans would also do all in their power to stop it too. So much for equal protection under the law.

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      • love the kids
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:25am

        Heres an idea, this would also help classsize. Muslims go to school on Saturday till wed., with Thurs and fri off, and Christians go to school on Mon. through Fri.

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      • NOTAMUSHROOM
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:32am

        @Lovethekids

        What?????? How about they go back to their desert paradise completely away from all infidels. That would solve the problem.

        Geez.

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      • smithclar3nc3
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:33am

        Australian Prime Minister does it again!!
        This woman should be appointed Queen of the World.. Truer words have never been spoken.
        It took a lot of courage for this woman to speak what she had to say for the world to hear. The retribution could be phenomenal, but at least shewas willing to take a stand on her and Australia’s beliefs. The whole world needs a leader like this!

        >
        Prime Minister Julia Gillard – Australia

        Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks.

        Separately, Gillard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying shesupported spy agencies monitoring the nation’s mosques. Quote:

        ‘IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.’

        ‘This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom’

        ‘We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society. Learn the language!’

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      • BIGJAYINPA
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:59am

        Making lemonade out of lemons. At least when the followers of the Mysoginistic Pediphile Psychotic impose their perverted Sharia upon us we will no longer be plauged by the Wasserman-Schultz, Shelia Jackson Lee, Jocelyn Elders brand of politics any longer. However that is a high price to pay to rid ourselves of these Harpys, maybe we should just VOTE THEM OUT instead…Just sayin’

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      • Caniac Steve
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 12:08pm

        I had to laugh as i have several friends who told me that what has been going on in Canada and the arrest of 2 preachers who were arrested for “Hate” speech ( saying being gay is ok to God) and they both said..oh no that would never happen here ..ha…guess again !!

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      • Hula Calhoun
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 1:23pm

        @Smithclar3nc3: I’ve heard that in order to gain Australian citizenship, you have to pass a test of Australian slang, which is much more in depth than just “shrimp on the barbie,“ ”g’day,“ and ”sheila.” It’s no surprise they insist on people speaking English as opposed to other languages. Too bad this PM can’t be president here!

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      • Steve
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 2:16pm

        Australia is on the right track. Unfortunately it will take allot more then 3000 dead in this country to wake up to the enemy. 30,000 or maybe 300,000. Only then will we see this country stand up and remove every Muslim from our continent. These false claims of terrorists have hijacked the religion and moderate Muslims are the true voice of Islam are completely and absolutely false. All Muslims wish to emulate Mohammad and OBL is as close to Mohammad as anyone ever has come.

        Islam is evil personified. Islam is a political ideology just like a democrat, republican, independent, socialist, or communist They just wrap it in a religion……

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      • pebbles
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 3:57pm

        You’re absolutely correct. Shame on the Toronto school system.

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      • Alky
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 4:03pm

        We need more Julia Gillard’s in this world!!

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      • Marci
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 4:14pm

        They shouldn’t be allowed to conduct this on campus–and their attendance should never be affected either. If Christians and Jews can’t do the same thing, it is not in line with freedom of religion. Furthermore, shouldn’t equality laws take precedence over this? You can’t stop them from treating girls and women like property at their home probably, but you CAN and SHOULD when it is on the campus. Creeping Shariah law is a danger…why is it they are permitted to bypass a nation’s laws in favor of their own? Has to stop.

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      • smithclar3nc3
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 4:47pm

        Marci it’s not creeping sharia…It’s progressive sharia

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      • REPUB1
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 4:50pm

        just what the HE!! are catholic holy day’s ??????

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      • turkey13
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 4:53pm

        I wonder if the school security is taking the iman’s stones away from him. Don’t they realize he may lose it and start stoning the queers and lizzes todeath.

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      • banjarmon
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 5:35pm

        Don’t they serve pork BBQ in Canadian schools…

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      • Edct
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 5:56pm

        Women in free countries will be viewed as the stupidest people on the planet for not stopping the spread of this terrorist infidel cult of Satan which will reduce all women to nothing more than breeding cows to be beaten.

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      • I_Object
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 6:15pm

        @NOTAMUSHROOM – If you hit that nail any harder and drive it any further in, it will disappear.

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      • Jezcruzen
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 6:20pm

        I think that if I were a parent of a non-muslim child I would show up on Fridays and read the Bible in the cafeteria to Christian students.

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      • AmericanPatriot01
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 6:58pm

        If there were to get swerious about it, They would realize that the muslim religion is sexist! It is tolerant of beating and killing women for transgressions like dishonoring the family name, rebelling against the family religion or the the parents in any form. The husband can mary multiple women and is permitted to have prostitutes from time to time, Its in the quaran look it up!. These heathens need to be banned in canada and in every judeo christian society, where killing, raping, beating or other torment to women is not tolerated. I know that if sharia law were to be allowed in the US we would have to release the majority of our violent inmates to comply. Because under sharia law they have not committed any crime. It is amazing that so few people are educated enough to realize what these barbarians are doing and hiding behind the viel of the muslim religion. It would make them sick to find out that some of these middleschool students are endentured wifes and sex slaves and are only going to school because the state requires it.

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      • Pelling1020
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 7:07pm

        OH CANADA, WE STAND ON GUARD FOR YOU! Duh!!!!!

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      • GPS-Tech
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 7:37pm

        Islam was invented by the devil when he visited a perverted, criminally insane wanderer in the desert and told him he was god. Any religion that teaches to lie, steal and murder anyone that doesnt share your religious beliefs is doing the work of it’s father the devil.

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      • jhaydeng
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 8:41pm

        God please help this planet!

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      • kindling
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 9:29pm

        I love her spirit and agree…….‘IMMIGRANTS, NOT AMERICANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It. I TOO am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on The Twin Towers , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Americans.’
        ‘This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom and paid with their lives’
        ‘We speak ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society. Learn the language!’

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      • @ Coyote2
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 9:42pm

        I can not believe it would be any worse then Talmudic law. The Talmud is without question, the biggest works of HATE ever compiled.

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      • SPOT_OF_TEA
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:25pm

        The Sun News Network has been a blessing for getting this kind of information out to the people.I would suggest that anyone who has the chance to subscribe to the channel should do so.Now that Glenn Beck’s show is gone and the new show in its place sucks,I would recommend everyone watch Ezra Levant’s show at 5 pm eastern time on Sun News…very informative.

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      • Favored93
        Posted on July 22, 2011 at 2:31am

        @ Coyote2
        You have either not read it or just want others who are as ignorant as you are to follow you foolish dribble.
        Study before you post your ignorance is showing.

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      • TD Outerbridge
        Posted on July 22, 2011 at 6:38am

        Until all the races and classes and genders of people start reading from the same religious text, there will be no peace in the world. The evolved diktats of present day ceremonial rituals mark deep divisions between genuine revelation, causing division, animosity and confusion. The solution is for all Faiths to surrender to the fifth epochal revelation on our world, and to recognize it’s importance in our evolutionary struggle to advance in an orderly and socially acceptable way.
        If you are still unfamiliar with The Urantia Book, type it into your search engine and absorb the magnificent importance and relevance of the writing, especially Part IV, The Life and Teachings of Jesus. This book is a huge promotion in religious thinking on our planet, and clarifies ambiguities and errors of the Bible and Koran and the litany of other religious texts, books, scriptures, and whatever.

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      • EP46
        Posted on July 23, 2011 at 7:07am

        @love the kids
        How about muslim kids who want a religious education go to a religious school ??? Christian children do, Jewish children do….how about muslims do the same.

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      • Mil Mom
        Posted on July 24, 2011 at 10:57pm

        re : …girls who are menstruating must sit at the back of the room and not take part.
        ***
        Looking at the picture of the separated girls brings a dangerous “Flashback”. I am old enough, that, as a child in a small OH country school, girls who were menstruating were to sit in the bleachers and not take part during PE. In order to help the girls keep their calendar, our PE teacher had a Giant calendar taped on the inside of the locker room door, and each girls expected “monthly” was written on it each month, and crossed off as she reached it. Some busy body girls copied it or made up their own. This led to girls who were not yet regular, having to deal with rumors of pregnancy constantly. IN THE CASE OF MUSLIM GIRLS AND PRACTICING SHARIA, SUCH SPECULATION COULD BE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH!!!
        MAYBE INSTEAD OF JUST,,, “WAKE UP AMERICA!!! WE NEED TO BE HOLLERING…”WAKE UP NORTH AMERICA !!!!”

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      • Mil Mom
        Posted on July 24, 2011 at 11:16pm

        @outerbridge..
        If you are still unfamiliar with The Urantia Book, type it into your search engine and absorb the magnificent importance and relevance of the writing, especially Part IV, The Life and Teachings of Jesus. This book is a huge promotion in religious thinking on our planet, and clarifies ambiguities and errors of the Bible and Koran and the litany of other religious texts, books, scriptures, and whatever.
        *****
        I remember the Bible talking about THIS BOOK, “…AND IF ANY MAN SHALL ADD UNTO THESE THINGS GOD SHALL ADD UNTO HIM THE PLAGUES THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK: AND IF ANY MAN SHALL TAKE AWAY FROM THE WORDS OF THE BOOK OF THIS PROPHECY, GOD SHALL TAKE AWAY HIS PART OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE, AND OUT OF THE HOLY CITY, AN FROM THE THINGS WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK” Rev 22: 18b & 19

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    • MidWestMom
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:51am

      “… critics claim that the Ontario middle school is breaching Ontario’s Education Act …”

      Yes. Yes it is. No question.

      And if similar crap isn’t already in the school near you – it’s coming soon.

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    • blue_sky
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:48am

      When ̣nine-eleven struck, Dr. Ron Paul suggested to stop issuing all visas to muslim “students” from countries that sponsor terrorism including our “best friend”, Saudi Arabia. Instead, we spend trillions on endless wars, bring thousands Arabs as refugees from Iraq, Afghanistan, etc back to United States and still continue issuing visas to those “students.“ Now the ”students” are busy building mosques in my neighborhood.
      INSANITY done both by neo-cons and progressives, Bush and Obama policies.

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    • Daryn J. Moran
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:47am

      When I get home to the United States from Germany, there will be changes in America. I am a patriot, and I will be calling out every elected person behaving as our enemy, starting with Obama.

      He has a fraudulent birth certificate and has demonstrated no loyalty to America and what we stand for, as well as demonstrating tyranny and Muslim sympathy.

      The entire city of Atlanta, nearly, with it’s cheating teachers. The entire State of California teaching perverted sex to our kids.

      Yes, America will soon have to answer. Get your Bibles. It’s time to remove the stamp on sin.

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      • wise grandma
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:00am

        Daryn J Moran you will not get any politican to listen to you believe me we are trying. We really need term limits on every public office in the USA. They get in and forget who put them there. The big problem in people who will vote democrate no matter what because ( I have always voted democrate and my daddy did to) they do not understand the political climate has changed drasticly. The communist and the socialist have taken advantage of these unthinking brainless wonders..

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      • LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:25am

        Sir, I‘m not sure of what you’re planning to do that many others have not , but i hope you’re planning to use your intellect and not your emotions

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      • CCRYDER
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:26am

        Please tell me, Wise Grandma, that you are no longer voting democrat just because your Daddy did. My Dad was a democrat too but if he were alive today, he sure as heck wouldn’t be voting for them now. There are very few “normal” dems these days as the progressives have pretty much destroyed the dem party and are working on the repub’s as well as proven by the number of “moderate” repub’s there seems to be. I’m with Daryn – we have to step up and vote for true conseratives and we have to call and email and perservere by constantly calling our representatives. I’m a grandma too and I want my grand kids to grow up in a FREE country not a Isamic country. I’ll keep on fighting and I hope you will too.

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      • mossbrain
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:33am

        Are you sure your name isn’t Daryn J. Moron?

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      • loriann12
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:38am

        @ccryder

        Exactly. I was raised a Democrat, and switched when I was in the Navy. My parents (79 and 71) have suddenly proclaimed themselves to be independent with this administration. I think the Progressives moved too fast and lost a lot of Democrat support.

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      • DarthMims
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 2:03pm

        Please, Daryn J. Moran, I live close to Atlanta, so whatever you have planned, don’t go through with it or at least let me know so that I can get my family out of the way.

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    • Rillobymorning
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:47am

      It is the goal of the middle east to take over the west and bring sharia law with it. It has now begun.

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      • SimpleTruths
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:53am

        so says the Rush, Beck, Fox echo chamber.

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      • Shellback
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 12:12pm

        Hey “Simple” the Muslims themselves say it. Knowing that fact would require you to do research and not listen to John Stewart/cnn/pmsnbc/ and et al.

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      • BSdetector
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 12:29pm

        Yep, they all say it because it’s the “simple truth.” Something you have no grasp of, regardless of what you choose call yourself.

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      • DarthMims
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 2:11pm

        Living in the South, I don’t fear sharia law like some of you do because I know how it would be handled here. Oh, I don’t argue the fact that this appears to be an infringement in Canada, and I know there are some that claim it is happening somewhere in the United States, but when you get down to details, it is not. True Southerners know that Muslims have to play nice here because everyone has a gun and knows how to use it. So go ahead and tell me how sharia law is taking hold in your town, or someplace you heard about on radio.

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      • GPS-Tech
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 7:49pm

        @Simple turd
        Ever work with a Muslim co-worker, or maybe several muslim co-workers? If the topic of discussion isnt about how Jesus was just a prophet for islam and not God‘s son then it’s about how evil the United States of America is. In between that you will be offered multiple invitations to join their islamic cult, no matter how many times you say you arent interested. These people arent playing games, they are lying in wait for the oppurtune moment to start their conquest here. If you think I am full of crap then check out the ******* protesting Catholicism in right front of churches when mass is letting out. Religion of tolerance, what an effin joke.

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      • Ajohn
        Posted on July 22, 2011 at 9:27am

        Darthmims:
        I consider Tennessee in “the south” as do they. You do know an 52,000-sq. ft. Islamic Center is under construction in Murfreesboro’s (just southwest of Nashville) Tennessee as we write?

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      • C. Schwehr
        Posted on July 23, 2011 at 1:03am

        DARTHMIMS: And yet a male islamist (I refuse to call that animal a man) killed his own two teenaged daughters in Texas and has escaped back to his native hell hole country. He executed those two lovely young ladies because they refused to see islamist males instead of the boys they preferred to date (normal young Texas men). Even the South is affected by these animals….and yes, I do know what you mean about Southern people knowing how to handle the islamists. Any Southern judge or politician who contemplated enacting islamic law in the South would be ridden out of town on a rail post haste! But they still live amonst the good people of the South, and will be a curse on the entire nation until they are either converted away from their sick faith, or are removed from the country…PERIOD.

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      • Mil Mom
        Posted on July 24, 2011 at 11:27pm

        @SimpleTruths
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:53am
        so says the Rush, Beck, Fox echo chamber
        ***
        And your eyes if you’d watch the World news with the sound & “close captioning” turned off!

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    • det45
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:45am

      Wtf!

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    • kickagrandma
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:44am

      Did you see that man? Holy moly! satan alive and well and coming to a mosque or school near you.

      AMERICAN CHRISTIANS AND JEWS, stand up now, or be silenced forever.

      These people ARE NOT GOOD. They are godless and follow satan, I don’t care what they tell you because THEY LIE. Helllllooooooooooooo! Does this sound like anyone else we know????????

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      • DarthMims
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 2:21pm

        Well, you sound a little like Glenn, but I don’t know what relevance that…Oh, you were talking about the guy on the video. Nevermind.

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      • Favored93
        Posted on July 22, 2011 at 5:08am

        @kickagrandma
        I think kickagrandma has the right idea posting her prayers so I will follow her in it.
        My Lord Jesus we love you and long to see your face.
        Tonite I ask that you would instill in us the courage not to pick up a gun but to pick up the sword of the spirit which is the word of the living God and take it to the nations of Islam and the Muslims living here near us. Give us wisdom while we talk to them so that the words “you are going to hell” will not leave our mouths to insult or abuse them in your name.
        You said in your word that you have not given us the spirit of bondage again to fear but the spirit of peace, love and a sound mind. You also said that perfect love casts out all fear. and so we ask for the courage to see the Muslims as you see them. To love them because you died for them and that gives them GREAT value!
        Help us to bring your loving peace to a hurting world.
        Help us also to bring your truth with us as we go so that we have a ready answer.
        Show us how to study to show ourselves approved a workman unto ever good work.
        You are good O’ Lord my rock and I thank you for it!
        Now help us to mirror your character showing the world your heart which is grace,mercy and love even to those who would not do the same for us because while I was once your enemy you loved me and did not take vengeance on me for my rebellion. We want to act as you do because you did it for us.
        In the MIGHTY name of Jesus I pray!
        AMEN

        Forgive my many misuses of the

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      • Favored93
        Posted on July 22, 2011 at 5:09am

        I posted that prayer on page 9 but thought you would enjoy it.
        Keep it up Sis!

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    • I Love both Jesus and Israel
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:43am

      I guarantee that if a Christian student had a problem with this that they would be called a Muslim hater. I was called a Muslim hater in my social studies back in 10th grade simply because I am a Christian. This school would probably never do such a thing for a Christian, but of course for the Muslim. It’s the normalcy bias!

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      • minnierv
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:05am

        Instead of complaining and doing nothing about it, Christians and Jews need to do EXACTLY what they are doing. If they want to force themselves into our schools then EVERY TIME AND AT EVERY PLACE they are allowed to do it there should be Christian and Jewish groups demanding that they be allowed to have prayer time AT THE SAME TIME WITH STUDENTS OF THEIR FAITHS. NO EXCEPTIONS. NO SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS FOR MUSLIMS! We can not just sit back and let them force this lie of a religion upon us. We have to be there at the same time to counter them. Christians and Jews, if you know of an upcoming event the demand from the school the same admittance into the school to let Christian and Jewish students pray. If you don’t know in advance but find out about it while it is going on they get a group from you churches and synagogues that are ready at a moments notice to get in their cars and go down to the school and demand the same privileges that they are giving the muslims.

        Or at the very least, show up in groups and protest when the muslims are allow to do this. If prayer isn’t allow in school it shouldn’t be limited to Christian and Jewish prayers.

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      • Dismayed Veteran
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 12:24pm

        @MINNIERV

        Excellent idea. Every denomination of Christian, Hindu, Buddist, and Jewish should go to the same room at the same time and conduct their respective religious service. They would only have to do it once.

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      • RedEagle1
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 4:33pm

        What Americans do not understand about Canadians, and what Canadians do not understand about themselves, is that we are raised to believe we have no real power to change anything within the government system. Therefore, only a few go out and fight, making change slow and exhausting. If you can survive the wait, someone might hear you. The system is not designed to work. For example, the judges are under a set of rules, but without an enforcing agent. They are free to do whatever they want, even tho they are not supposed to. “Implied consent” has permitted the government into every facet of our existence… a brochure from them this week on the subject of water INSTRUCTS us to have “shorter showers.“ Harper is supposed to have scoffed at ”global warming” yet I now pay a carbon tax on my hydro bill!!! When did THAT happen??? If you want to change anything here, you have to go through a chain of command better described as a bridge to nowhere. We need to fight sharia law in this country, but I fear we will not. I have never before been an isolationist, but I’ve learned nobody has my back. Families of like mind need to gather together and do life their own way… according to our LAWS. The public system is going to hell, and there’s no stopping it. Canada has lost its plumb, trying to please everyone… and screwing them, instead.

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    • RightPolitically
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:42am

      Sounds as though Canada might soon be overrun by The Religion of Peace. Go ahead, placate, appease and accommodate and see where that gets you in fifty years. The Free World is yielding its liberty slowly but surely to a fanatical religious fascism. Let’s NOT DO IT here in the USA.

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      • agameofthrones
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:23am

        Political correctness just opened the door for the new caliphate to be established and for this 5th century backward religious cult to take over the world. That is their goal and we are bending over backward for them to come on in and take our country. This is what the next world war will be fought over. Ridding itself of the plague of Islam. It is the cult of hate, bigotry, power, and death.
        Christians, Jews, atheists, agnostics and every other type of belief system out there: If you don’t want to be forced to pray to Allah or die, you had better fight for your right to believe the way you do and stop any more of their intrusion into our way of life.

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      • The_Hut_In_Co
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 12:31pm

        I hear those sand jockies don’t play hockey to well there A!

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      • usnpops
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 3:11pm

        Here’s a good read on the subject. The idiot from the south with his gun talk is so out of touch it’s pathetic. The goal is to take over the Government, and then You will comply.

        http://townhall.com/columnists/frankgaffney/2011/07/20/anti-american_activities_a_cold_war-style_effort_to_root_out_civilizational_jihad/page/full/

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    • Oh My God
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:36am

      Into your tent they will creep. Islam is determined to invade the west.

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      • ILUVAMERICA
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:10am

        My thoughts exactly. I told my husband a long while ago that they would attack us through Canada and now I see it is going to happen just that way.
        Be prepared, stock up!

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      • wesleyapril
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:39am

        At that point it doesn’t matter they are attacking us north and south – just like at Dearborn MI – and that is in the US – look at our courts that have shariah compliant laws – we are doomed -

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      • Edct
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 5:59pm

        Of course they will invade the west since the liberal morons and racist angry nigros elected a muslim half black terrorist infidel imposter in my white house.

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      • Mil Mom
        Posted on July 24, 2011 at 11:45pm

        @Oh My God
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:36am
        Into your tent they will creep. Islam is determined to invade the west
        ***
        Oh No ! Do you mean that REALLY isn’t a stuffed camels head on the wall !!! I thought it would make a nice hat rack, until it’s snorted and the tent nearly fell down!!!

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    • thegreatcarnac
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:36am

      A Christian minister should arrive and start having services in school for all the Christina children. You would see the state step in and stop him. Why do Muslims get this special treatment? Enough is enough.

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    • rienheart
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:35am

      Islam is not a Religion. It is a Oppressive Government Intity desquised as a Religion to impose Governmental Laws on the World, Including Murder and Slavery.

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    • sWampy
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:34am

      Backwards animals that refuse to change, why do the liberals worship everything bad for the world?

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      • BrotherWill
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:40am

        Because liberals are backwards animals that refuse to change.

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      • aepp001
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:51am

        And where are the feminists?? Women’s rights advocacy is a joke – it only cares when their agenda is threatened…

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      • Mil Mom
        Posted on July 25, 2011 at 12:09am

        @swampy
        re : why do liberals worship everything bad for the world?
        ***
        In a word …”POWER!!!!!!”
        Haven’t you noticed, Bad and Force usually go hand in hand, thus, the liberals want to harness that force to bring themselves into complete power, Always, they think that because of their “Greater brain power” once they‘ve got complete power over everyone else’s lives, they’ll be able to outsmart the evil ones and destroy them.
        I’m praying that my reading of Scriptures is right, and we Christians will be taken out of this world, “Pre-Trib” because I certainly don‘t want to be around and watch their surprise once they’ve succeeded in Global Governance and discover “Brute Force” beats “Superior Intellect” a whole lot more powerfully than “Rock, Paper, Scissors!”

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      • cosmic dogma
        Posted on July 25, 2011 at 2:15am

        Because they are Godless, and worship satan with the islamist. Same religion. Game plan, eradicate Christians, via political correctness, ignorance and cowardice.
        They will be very surprised when they are stoned to death.

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    • last frontier
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:34am

      Well if that’s not a Canadian Camel in a tent.

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      • BuckOfama
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:44am

        Democrats would always be pulled from the prayer since they are always on the rag…….

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    • Carol Ingian
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:32am

      Why are the parents of students, and the school administration allowing this to happen?

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      • concealled9mms
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:59am

        Cowards

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      • Juan Gault
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 4:01pm

        Here’s an idea, vote the current school board out!! Elect a board who believe as the majority in your school district,or have they?

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:31am

      Canadistan, this is the same country that brings you “Little Mosque on the Prairie.” Whining muslims always trying to get their way and screw everyone else.
      Good post, smithclar3nc3. That woman has more balls than all of the Obama administration and UK. We need more like-minded people in power, before sharia becomes law of the land.

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    • PrfctlyFrank
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:30am

      Just another thing about this religion that doesn’t make a bit of sense!! This is the religion of men.. The lowest, filthiest, most brutal, cruel, and hate driven group of men in the World.. What woman in her right mind would ever follow this madness.. Heads up Ladies.. The God I know has instilled His most sacred responsibility on women, Motherhood.. That demands respect, of which these ****** pukes have none at all.. Not even for themselves..

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      • Favored93
        Posted on July 22, 2011 at 2:53am

        Just another example of how Islam and Christianity are polar opposites!
        The Bible verse libs love to quote as saying that Christians mistreat our women is found in Ephesians chapter 5:22-26 but they love to stop at v.22 saying we keep our wives under our boots. I will cut and past it for ya :)

        22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
        25 Husbands, LOVE YOUR WIVES, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,
        We are comanded to love our wives as Christ loved us. How did Jesus love us HE DIED FOR US! Contrast that with the peace full and loving Islamic cult the contrast is stark!
        When a husband leads lovingly you watch that wife she LOVES following a man like that. It is a thing of beauty. And the children in that house grow up happy and secure. I have seen it.

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    • drbage
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:29am

      Are they accomodating or abdicating? With the plethora of religions and creeds that exist in both Canada and the US, how will they ever accomodate for everyone including those who choose to wear strainers on their heads? We will end up like pre-Islamic Revolution Iran where, on average, I worked only one 5-day workweek each year due to Pavlovian. Christian, Moslem, Zorastrian, etc holidays.

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      • momprayn
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:37am

        Yes – I hope enough ppl will please wake up about this HUMONGOUS problem that is growing HERE. Check out Dearborn, MI, the “Muslim capital of the U.S.” – they’re pushing their Sharia laws & doing pretty good folks. This is what they do – it’s all predictable!!!! And we have a huge problem b/c of our “freedoms” and they know it and take advantage of it. They’re using “stealth” tactics to gradually invade & take over. They’re already in OUR public schools, govn’t positions, etc. You have to prove “sedition”/violence before anything can be done – America is way too “PC” & they are using that too. Look at UK, Europe. ALL need to read:”The Terrorist Next Door: How the Govn’t is Deceiving You About the Islamist Threat” by Stakelbeck
        Site for info and get active: http://www.actforamerica.com

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      • BIGJAYINPA
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:38am

        Easy fix: Change the school week to Sunday-Thursday. After all Christians won’t be offended and if they are, tough. It is permissable to insult Christians but we must bend over backwards to placate the followers of the Mysoginist, Pdeophile Psychotic who heard “voices” telling him to kill anyone who didn’t agree to follow him…After all we don’t need offended followers of this POS strapping bombs to their persons to register there displeasure….Just sayin’

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      • moriarty70
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:58am

        It’s accomodating to a single school that has a majority of students that practice Islam. Students who don’t practice, don’t attend the service. It’s not a widespread policy. And the reason it‘s hard for most of Ontario to muster any outrage over this is because we’re publicly funding an entire Catholic School System as enshrined in our Constitution.

        Since that won’t be changed (polls show the numbers aren’t there for a referendum), I say let other groups pray if they have a large enough group to make it worthwhile. Let them have Jewish prayer in Jewish communities, let them have Hindu paryers in Hindu communities, and yes let them have Christian prayers in Christian communities. If the population in the school warrants it, I don‘t care what you’re doing in what is, for all practical purposes, a community group.

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    • Mandors
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:27am

      There are three issues 1) Is the “prayer meeting” held during regular school hours? If so, it’s wrong. Got to mosque before or after school kiddies. 2) If not, does the school allow secular meetings on its grounds? If so, no problem, they can’t discriminate based on religion (Campus crusade would be allowed to meet too.) 3) Is the “period” rule, enforced by the group or the school. If it’s the group, no problem their rules are religious based, they are a religious group and they can make and enforce them. If it’s the school, problem. It’s not a school rule, and unless there’s a significant school interest in enforcing the rule (unlikely), the rule is the imam’s problem.

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    • UBETHECHANGE
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:27am

      Get this radical muslims the hell out of North America NOW!!!!!!!!!!! Lock and load people we are in for a fight.

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    • jerdawge
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:27am

      Islam is a cult. Cultists are notorious for being non-persuadable. Therefore the answer is to separate them from society. I recommend the sands of Saudi Arabia.

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    • LadyIzShy
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:26am

      coming soon to a school near you.. and WHY are the womens groups NOT screaming about this

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      • CamoJan
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:07am

        Exactly my thought. Where ARE they??!! Shame on them for their absence on this issue!

        How totally embarras$$ing it has to be for those menstruating girls. God help them (cause allah sure won’t)

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    • TexasConservativeCowboy
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:26am

      AWESOME!!!!! America wake up and follow her lead!

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    • MrButcher
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:25am

      How do they know if they are menstrating or not?

      That was a good jab from Mark Steyn.

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      • GhostOfJefferson
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:38am

        Clearly sir, you are not married! :)

        j/k

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      • NJTMATO
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:05am

        @ GHOST
        Very funny!!!

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      • Mil Mom
        Posted on July 24, 2011 at 11:58pm

        @MrButcher
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:25am
        How do they know if they are menstrating or not?

        That was a good jab from Mark Steyn
        ***
        Again, I refer to my earlier post about how 1950′s PE classes handled this problem, with the teacher keeping a calendar, so the girls who were were to “sit out” PE class. Also “Helpful” teachers pets, volunteered to keep their own calendar to help the “other” girls tell if they were coming on that time.
        I thought then from all the rumors, and wise remarks from the boys, that it was a way for teachers to figure out if a girl [was] pregnant or not. For muslim girls, (since Middle School students often are not yet regular) The punishments of Sharia could easily cost some girl her life, just because someone wanted to make that life miserable and started a rumor!!!!

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:21am

      Subject: Australia says NO, again !

      Australian Prime Minister does it again!!
      This woman should be appointed Queen of the World.. Truer words have never been spoken.
      It took a lot of courage for this woman to speak what she had to say for the world to hear. The retribution could be phenomenal, but at least shewas willing to take a stand on her and Australia’s beliefs. The whole world needs a leader like this!

      >
      Prime Minister Julia Gillard – Australia

      Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks.

      Separately, Gillard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying shesupported spy agencies monitoring the nation’s mosques. Quote:

      ‘IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.’

      ‘This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom’

      ‘We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society. Learn the language!’

      ‘Most Australians believe in God. This is not some C

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      • Epic Fail
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:35am

        I completely agree. You have to ask yourself, Why are all these muslims in all of these other countries? They go to these other countries and want everyone there to accomidate them. I say if you want to have a muslim culture, then go to a muslim country! If you want an American culture, then go to America. If you want an Australian culture, go to Australia. etc.

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      • Hiswill
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:54am

        Where are the parents from this school, especiallly the mothers. Get out in droves to that school and picket and rally until the prayer service is stopped. .
        Come on Canada, don’t you see what is happening to your way of life. You won’t go out with a bang, just a whimper.
        Get out and protest, save your country!!

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      • nanabee
        Posted on July 21, 2011 at 3:54pm

        Yes, & No. If you will research this “quote”, you will find that it cannot be attributed totally to Ms. Gillard. The quote is actually a compilation of quotes from past PMs & the Secretary of Education. All quotes did originate in Austrailia from persons of authority. Great quote(s). Wish there were SOMEONE of authority in our beloved US of A that was so succinct, honest & outspoken.

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      • Rowwdy
        Posted on July 22, 2011 at 6:11pm

        WOW….I LOVE this woman. Talk about real guts. Please bring her to the U.S.

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