Sharia in our Schools

First, with a name like Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy did anyone really think that it was a good old, American public school? Really?

Apparently, TIZA (said school) is a charter school that people have believed for some time is Islam based. Mind, this is a tax payer funded school.

TIZA has many characteristics that suggest a religious school. It shares the headquarters building of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, whose mission is "establishing Islam in Minnesota." The building also houses a mosque. TIZA's executive director, Asad Zaman, is a Muslim imam, or religious leader, and its sponsor is an organization called Islamic Relief.

Students pray daily, the cafeteria serves halal food - permissible under Islamic law -- and "Islamic Studies" is offered at the end of the school day.

Zaman maintains that TIZA is not a religious school. He declined, however,
to allow me to visit the school to see for myself, "due to the hectic schedule for statewide testing." But after I e-mailed him that the Minnesota Department of Education had told me that testing would not begin for several weeks, Zaman
did not respond -- even to urgent calls and e-mails seeking comment before my first column on TIZA.

Read the whole story. There's an substitute teacher that's come forward now that says she was instructed to lead her fifth graders in groups of 4 to the bathroom in order for them to preform ritual washing / cleansing, before prayer time. Among other things.