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Puyallup School District says Islam instruction request is bogus
Sep 15, 2011
Parents in Puyallup were outraged after word got around a Muslim advocacy group (The Council on American-Islamic Relations) wanted to teach students in the Puyallup schools about Islam and made a formal request to the district.
KOMO TV reported it even sparked an angry town hall meeting where outraged parents spoke out against it. "Muslims are welcome here, but if you're going to be here, you get in line and become American first," parent Lisa Hedger told KOMO. She said as a parent, she doesn't want any part of the Muslim religion taught in her daughter's public school.
"And I actually told her teacher she was not going to write this," she said in the report.
But Karen Hanson with the Puyallup School District says the outrage is unfounded. "The report is absolutely not true," she told us on the Dori Monson Show on 97.3 KIRO FM.
Hanson says CAIR did not make any request to teach Islam in the schools, and "if we did, we would not comply with that request just as we would not be teaching any religion to our students."
Hanson says the school district had no involvement with the meeting held Wednesday night at the Puyallup library.
Ibrahim Hooper, with CAIR, tells me the organization merely requested special accommodations for students observing Ramadan, and to be able to provide some information about Islam to students in hopes of increasing understanding and reducing bullying and discrimination. But he says they never requested any special instruction in classrooms.
"We have received a request that we allow students to observe their religion and we have done that for years. If parents make a request that their student fast or whatever their request would be for any religion, we would always accommodate that parent's request if it was within reason," Hanson says.
Hanson says she has since spoken with KOMO TV and they have corrected their story.
It only takes a small rumor for them to start their witch hunt...
Sep 15, 2011
Parents in Puyallup were outraged after word got around a Muslim advocacy group (The Council on American-Islamic Relations) wanted to teach students in the Puyallup schools about Islam and made a formal request to the district.
KOMO TV reported it even sparked an angry town hall meeting where outraged parents spoke out against it. "Muslims are welcome here, but if you're going to be here, you get in line and become American first," parent Lisa Hedger told KOMO. She said as a parent, she doesn't want any part of the Muslim religion taught in her daughter's public school.
"And I actually told her teacher she was not going to write this," she said in the report.
But Karen Hanson with the Puyallup School District says the outrage is unfounded. "The report is absolutely not true," she told us on the Dori Monson Show on 97.3 KIRO FM.
Hanson says CAIR did not make any request to teach Islam in the schools, and "if we did, we would not comply with that request just as we would not be teaching any religion to our students."
Hanson says the school district had no involvement with the meeting held Wednesday night at the Puyallup library.
Ibrahim Hooper, with CAIR, tells me the organization merely requested special accommodations for students observing Ramadan, and to be able to provide some information about Islam to students in hopes of increasing understanding and reducing bullying and discrimination. But he says they never requested any special instruction in classrooms.
"We have received a request that we allow students to observe their religion and we have done that for years. If parents make a request that their student fast or whatever their request would be for any religion, we would always accommodate that parent's request if it was within reason," Hanson says.
Hanson says she has since spoken with KOMO TV and they have corrected their story.
It only takes a small rumor for them to start their witch hunt...
