tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10563856.post8364391168916261866..comments2023-10-23T11:10:05.945-04:00Comments on Karen Duncan: Life in the Time of Coronavirus: Election Silly Season Attacks Launched Against Gerry ConnollyKaren Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954405672195734097noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10563856.post-14197482947632437362008-06-24T13:54:00.000-04:002008-06-24T13:54:00.000-04:00I find your blog disturbing. Overall, for the fac...I find your blog disturbing. Overall, for the fact that you are all right with supporting the rights for innocent children to be taught, in their textbooks, in OUR schools, that WE are infidels, Christian's and Jews are "apes and pigs" (it says this on the Koran) and that homosexuals should be thrown from cliffs (also in the Koran). Where were our rights...as Americans...when THESE people hijacked four airliners and killed thousands of our citizens on September 11, 2001? Do you remember that day? Were you proclaiming their first amendment rights and proclaiming thier need for religious freedon on that day? It is people, like yourself, that are so bound up in these people having their "rights" and "religious freedoms" that will be the downfall of our country. <BR/><BR/>Catherine Martin<BR/>ACT!For America -- Northern Virginia<BR/>www.actforamericanorthernvirginia.com<BR/><BR/>actforamericanova@gmail.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10563856.post-28020341398785095792008-06-17T14:27:00.000-04:002008-06-17T14:27:00.000-04:00Thank you, rfdah, for coming on my site with this ...Thank you, rfdah, for coming on my site with this information. Please don't apologize for typos. We all make them in comment sections, without benefit of Spellcheck and all :)<BR/><BR/>You raise important points and I will be the first to admit there are problems with ISA. They bear monitoring.<BR/><BR/>But I am also reluctant to shut down a school, because of issues with academic freedom and religious tolerance. When we become like them, they've won.<BR/><BR/>Also, Islam is now at a cross roads, as I've already said, where marginalizing moderates might radicalize them. We should, instead, engage them in dialogue and demonstrate that tolerance and respect are better methods of dealing with differences of opinion, including our religious differences. That is what I applaud Connolly, Hyland, Gross and the rest of the board for.<BR/><BR/>But hate speech, lessons in intolerance, and child abuse, especially, must never be tolerated. There I agree with you.Karen Duncanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13954405672195734097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10563856.post-4363436592605243472008-06-17T13:24:00.000-04:002008-06-17T13:24:00.000-04:00Please pardon the typos. I recognize they are in ...Please pardon the typos. I recognize they are in there.RFDAHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17992695168166838163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10563856.post-79158293204451477222008-06-17T13:21:00.000-04:002008-06-17T13:21:00.000-04:00Though I appreciate the spirit of fairness with wh...Though I appreciate the spirit of fairness with which you have approached this, the facts, unfortunately do not support you. <BR/><BR/>A June 11 report validated the concerns presented before the Board. It is not bigoted or slanderous to quote facts from government sources. The ISA was raised as a concern based on USCIRF reports, Congressional letters, and news stories. Trust me, I'd rather spend my time doing something else than sifting through government reports.<BR/><BR/><BR/>We have no record of what Supervisor Hyland did. During his May 19 testimony, he elaborated on the various means as to why there is nothing from his investigation to find. Since the June 11 USCIRF report has proven him dead wrong, his judgments are rightly called into question. We therefore have a lack of transparency upon which we cannot determine due diligence did occur.<BR/><BR/>Supervisor Hyland, and Chairman Connolly are rightly singled out for the lack of transparency, lack of due diligence, and lack of accountability regarding the ISA.<BR/><BR/>Fundamental questions for Chairman Connolly? <BR/><BR/>Does he still support the ISA now that a review of their textbooks indicates they still contain passages that promote murder as a religious right?<BR/><BR/>Does he still support the schools General Director, who has been arrested for Obstruction of Justice for his alleged role in hiding child abuse?<BR/><BR/>Chairman Connolly went over the top to apologize to the ISA and its Director General at the May 19th hearing. Does he know recant those apologies?<BR/><BR/>We based our testimony on government reports. The Board based there's on how well the school cuts its grass and the now proven faulty undocumented investigation that may or may not have occurred.<BR/><BR/>Further, it is the governments responsibility to evaluate the textbooks of a school that is an official extension of a government the US Treasury Dept still considers a leading financier of terrorism, maintains the death penalty for leaving Islam or preaching any other faith, has had multiple chairties in FXCO closed for terrorism ties, had a senior superlative of Most Likely to Be a Martyr, disregards a two year old mandate to delete offensive passages from textbooks, and produces a valedictorian convicted on terrorism charges. <BR/><BR/>There is no religious interpretation required for sanctioning murder for adultery, apostasy, and unbelief in Islam.<BR/><BR/>Hate and Murder are not issues of religious freedom or cultural sensitivity, they are issues of self preservation. If you have any doubts, I suggest you discuss this issue with an Arab Christian. They were a lot more of them before the religion of peace and the sunna of the sword.RFDAHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17992695168166838163noreply@blogger.com