It’s almost like finding out what happens when an irresistible political force meets an immovable political object. In recent years, parents have been tarred as “terrorists” and targeted with an intended DOJ investigation for vociferously complaining to school boards about the classroom sexualization of their children.
In those cases it was clear which side the pseudo-elite establishment was on. But it may not be so clear in Dearborn, Michigan, where some parents have savaged their school board for the same reason. Even though they expressed un-woke sentiments such as homosexuality is a “big sin,” they’re relatively immune from criticism because they have a quality the other parents don’t:
They’re Muslim.
And what’s the result when this Democratic constituency clashes with another, the sexual devolutionaries?
Answer: crickets from the feds and national media.
Anything but silent, however, was a Monday Dearborn school board meeting. As the Daily Caller reported Tuesday:
Protestors chanted “vote them out” and held up signs reading “Homosexuality Big Sin” and “Keep Your Dirty Books In The Closet” before the board determined the full meeting room was a fire hazard and decided to suspend the meeting before the public comment period, according to a video of the event posted by the school district. The school is currently reviewing six books in its school library including, “This Book Is Gay,” a book that gives the “ins and outs of gay sex,” and “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” a descriptive memoir of a queer, [black] boy.
“You see this frustration growing all across the country and in Dearborn we’re not tied to the left or the right on this issue,” Hassan Chami, a Muslim parent of a Dearborn student, told the Daily Caller News Foundation….
Dearborn Islamic Institute of America leader Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini encouraged the community to attend the school board meeting in a sermon on Oct. 7…. Dearborn is nearly 47% Arab American, many of whom are Muslim.
“We don’t need those books in Dearborn and Dearborn Heights,” Al-Qazwini said…. “Take them somewhere else. The majority rules. If you are the majority of people in Dearborn, you decide for your children.”
The tweets below illustrate how robust protester turnout was at Monday’s meeting.
And these videos illustrate how rancorous it was:
So, due to the “fire hazard” (yeah, the board members’ ears were burning), the meeting was postponed and resumed Thursday — and the blaze started anew. Even though the reconvened affair “came with more rules,” Firstpost reports, the signs and rhetoric were the same. Additionally, the site writes (poorly):
Parents asserted that LGBTQ+ educational materials and books should not be available in Dearborn Public Schools, the third largest school district in Michigan.
However, nothing seemed to be peaceful on last evening’s meeting at Dearborn Schools. Pro-LGBTQ speakers were booed and shouted out insults.
Speaking at the meeting, a gay man said books don’t make people gay. He called for unity between Muslims and gays. “The far right in this country” hates both of us. He is booed and laughed at by crowd,” he said.
Perhaps for good reason. As The New American reported Monday, 23 percent of undergraduates over all — and as many as half the students at liberal arts colleges such as Smith and Wesleyan — “identify” as “LGBT.” “Identify” is the key word, as this means something different from “are.” Unless one believes some inexplicable genetic sea change has transformed the population, it’s clear that assuming a sexual devolutionary status is a fad. And whence come fads?
If you answered, “Largely from entertainment and school influence (including peer pressure/example), and teaching and books are a part of this,” go to the head of the class.
Of course, if anyone disputes this, feel free to put Mein Kampf, white supremacist literature, porn films, and snuff material in school libraries. And, by all means, restore Amos ‘n’ Andy (canceled for allegedly advancing black stereotypes) to television. It’s only inborn qualities and the “values” taught at home that matter, right?
Speaking of sophistry, establishment pseudo-elites responded to the Dearborn controversy. To wit: “Muslim leaders and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union members, earlier, had released a joint statement saying, ‘Everyone believes that our schools and classrooms should be safe, welcoming, and supportive environments that are free from discrimination and bullying of any kind…. and that includes young people who [identify] as LGBTQ,’” Firstpost also informs.
Yet while the pseudo-elites asserted “Everyone believes,” it was not reported whether they polled everyone.
“The statement further read,” Firstpost continued, “Having resources and books in our classrooms and libraries that speak to the diversity of our students and the broader world we share is critical to providing a quality and supportive education.”
Whether they have resources that “speak to the diversity” of students who believe homosexual behavior is sinful, “transgenderism” is an abomination, critical race theory is racist, and white privilege is myth also was not reported.
In reality, this all reflects our Great Sexual Heresy, our obsession with the carnal. So-called “sex education” doesn’t belong in schools, period. Note here that it was born of the discredited “work” of bug researcher-turned-self-proclaimed sex expert Alfred Kinsey, a pedophile who believed children are “sexual from birth.”
As for the Left’s Muslim constituency waging jihad (hey, they say the term means “spiritual warfare”), there’s an irony here: Liberals have invited Muslims into the West in the thinking that Third World newcomers will empower them. (In the U.S., there has been more Muslim [im]migration since 9/11 than during our whole history before it.) Yet as in Sweden — where the left-wing Social Democrats recently lost their long-held power because many Muslims, who’d previously supported them, voted for a new Muslim party — liberals may be getting an object lesson in the truth behind one of John F. Kennedy’s warnings (I’m paraphrasing):
Those who foolishly seek power by riding the back of a tiger, he said, may end up in its belly.
