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To: Bonefish who wrote (720938)	6/13/2013 1:15:47 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1583750

Teacher assigns students to write suicide notes for class ........................................................................................................ 4 hours ago - By Colleen Kane of MSN News An assignment at a Manhattan prep school to write a suicide note from the perspective of a fictional character raised at least one parent's eyebrows. "How would you justify ending your life? What reasons would you give?" Those questions made up an assignment given to ninth graders asked to write suicide notes from the perspective of a fictional character who killed herself. The assignment was given at York Prep in New York City in May by English teacher Jessica Barrish. She required the students to write a first-person account from the perspective of character May Boatwright from "The Secret Life of Bees," justifying why she decided to end her life and imagining how she wanted to be remembered. The morbid task stunned one parent quoted in the New York Post. "We thought this was such an outrageous assignment for a 14-year-old to get," the parent was quoted as saying. "We pay a lot of money to send our kids to the school." York tuition will run $41,200 for the next school year. York Prep Headmaster Robert Stewart told MSN News there was not a single parental complaint about Barrish's assignment. "The purpose of the assignment was very clear: she told them to look at this through the eyes of the character in the book. But the parent [who complained to The Post] wasn’t in the class. I teach ethics to seniors and I’m sure parents would be upset if I told them what we talk about. Good teachers talk about real things. Are we supposed to censor that?" snip link ********************************************************************* First of all, Robert, you might want to take a refresher course in mathematics because there IS a single parent complaining about the assignment, which is why you were giving the interview to the MSN reporter. Secondly, good teachers teach the courses they are hired to teach, NOT INDOCTRINATE their students with their own personal beliefs. What a complete moron, and he's the head of the prep school... Nice. And from the article: Quote And in April, an Albany, N.Y., teacher was put on leave after giving students a writing assignment in which they had to argue why "Jews are evil."** More good teachers talking about 'real things', Robert? And this: Quote Barrish, meanwhile, has been in the news before. In May, she filed a $2 million lawsuit against a party guest for killing her Siamese cat, property theft and damaging her apartment. She was part of the NYC Teaching Fellows Program for three years before joining the faculty at York, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The parents forking out $40k to this school should to a little digging into the faculty who are going to be teaching their children... But then again, these are supposed to be the wealthy and intellectual elite who inhabit those pricey city streets so perhaps they are happy to have their children turned into sheeple. As long as they're rich enough to not have to live with the consequences of their actions, it's all good.

To: Bonefish who wrote (720938)	6/13/2013 1:20:28 AM
From: joseffy	2 Recommendations Recommended By allgoodmen FJB Respond to of 1583750

Islamists 'staking claim' with Maryland 'cultural center' .............................................................................................................................. by: Michael Carl WND.com 6/10/13 On his visit to a new Turkish-funded mosque in Lanham, Md., Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erodogan said his government chose the site because of its location in “free territory.” He said when he attended the groundbreaking of the 15-acre, $100 million mega-mosque that the Turkish-American Cultural Center likely will become “the largest and most striking examples of Islamic architecture in the Western hemisphere when finished in 2014.” But those seemingly innocuous words are alarming to a number of analysts, including former Palestinian operative Walid Shoebat, who says the West doesn’t realize the significance of what Erdogan was saying. Shoebat said Erdogan’s true mission is to claim the land for Islam, and the evidence is in his words. “The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers,” Shoebat said, quoting Erdogan. “The West is unaware that in Islam, a mosque is an embassy and Turkey is acting stealthily, which is why the project is not arousing much alarm,” Shoebat said. Islam analyst and Atlas Shrugs blogger Pamela Geller agrees. Most Americans don’t know that the plans showcase Turkey’s long-held territorial dream, she said. “The Turks are trying to restore the glory of the Ottoman period. They may be staking a claim to be the leaders of Sunni Islam worldwide, as they were in the days of the last caliphate,” Geller said. Clarion Project intelligence analyst Ryan Mauro noted that Turkey’s influence is largely under the radar. He said Turkey is quietly spreading its influence in the U.S. Shoebat said the Turkish plan coincides with a plan by Fethullah Gulen, reported by Der Spiegel. Gulen is an operative who has been establishing charter schools around the U.S. Shoebat cited a statement from Gulen: “Move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence until you reach all the power centers. Until the conditions are ripe, they (the followers) must continue like this. If they do something prematurely, the world will crush our heads, and Muslims will suffer everywhere. “You must wait until such time as you have gotten all the state power. Until that time, any step taken would be too early – like breaking an egg without waiting the full 40 days for it to hatch. It would be like killing the chick inside.” WND reported in February 2011 that Gulen was the leader of a 27-state, 100-charter school network that subtly teaches the students to hold a favorable view of Islam. Koinonia Institute President Steven Elwart believes the indoctrination is subdued but intentional. “There is a certain amount of an Islamic-centered slant to their teaching. One place they really start bringing in the slant is through their after-school programs and what they call their outside programs,” Elwart observed. “For example, they’ll have Turkish festivals and the kids can compete in making costumes, writings and the like. Many times the prize for these in these competitions is a cultural trip to Turkey,” Elwart said. Elwart believes that the Gulen charter schools are going largely unnoticed by the American public. Mauro wrote in an analysis of the event that it’s significant that two members of Muslim Brotherhood front groups were also in attendance, Naeem Baig, president of the Islamic Circle of North America, or ICNA, and Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America, ISNA. A 1991 U.S. Muslim Brotherhood memo lists ICNA as one of “our organizations and the organizations of our friends.” The memo says its “work” in America is “a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within.” Mauro noted the memo even refers to meetings with ICNA in which there was talk about a merger. ISNA was also an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case, the largest Islamic terror-funding trial in the history of the U.S. Shoebat saidt Erdogan’s ambitions clearly extend past Maryland. (Excerpt) Link