Another voice heard from in the ongoing controversy over the Toronto District School Board's policy of allowing Muslim imams to conduct Friday prayer services in at least one so-called public school. Here's part of what the founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress, had to say in an interview with the Toronto Sun.
According to Tarek Fatah, the prayer sessions — traditionally set up with boys in the front and girls behind them — are patriarchal and should not be conducted in publicly-funded schools. "My concern is the Toronto District School Board (is) using tax money to tell girls that they are second-class citizens."
He charged that proponents of the prayer sessions are allowing them to happen because of "white, liberal guilt". Well, imagine that! Isn't that what Walt -- and so many others outside the lamestream media -- have been saying for years! Perhaps now that a beneficiary of the liberal guilt complex says it, someone will listen.
A spokesthingy for the TDSB confirmed today that prayer sessions at Valley Park Middle School are "traditional", with boys and girls as Mr. Fatah says. The spokesperson saying so is Shari Schwartz-Maltz, who, as her name suggests, is ... errr ... not Muslim.
Mr. Fatah also played the race card, with a remarkably fine backhand shot. "Deep inside" he said, "is a racist view that Muslims are not considered equal human beings, and that they can treat women how they want, and it’s nobody else’s concern."
He explained that strict Islamic traditions dictate that young women who begin menstruating must be singled out and sent to the back of the room while the prayer session is taking place. "It’s a fearful time for a young woman to get her first period, and right at that time you have this man (the imam) telling them they are unclean. That should not happen in Canada."
Walt is still waiting for a Christian leader -- any old Christian leader -- to weigh in on this topic.
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