Beck Outs Islamic School in Virginia

Just out of curiosity, I flipped over to Glenn Beck’s Fox News show this afternoon.

I was just in time to catch what appears to be a regular segment in which he claims to report news that the “mainstream media” ignores (Fox News is the number one cable news network owned by a powerful global media conglomerate — yeah, it doesn’t get more mainstream than that, but okay).

The first story out of the shoot was about an Islamic private school in Northern Virginia which received a zoning permit to expand it’s grounds. No big deal, right?

Beck proceeded to make it a big deal by using his brand of comedy (googly-eyed sarcasm, but no actual jokes) to underscore how the school teaches Islamic law and that two former students went on to be apparently, according to Beck, convicted of terror-related charges. He also invoked the fallen WTC towers and 9/11.

Of course this means the school is evil.

Well, it’s no more or less evil than any private religious school. But what’s really awful here is that Beck outed this school — a place where dozens of children go every day — in front of his audience of 2 million gun-toting Fox News wingnuts. A school!

I don’t care whether Beck did that CYA speech on his show the other day. This is perhaps one of the most irresponsible bits from his psychotic excuse for a show. Schools are especially defenseless and loaded with innocent people — American people who happen to be Muslim.

Here’s to hoping that one of the many whacked out Glenn Beck wingnuts doesn’t take matters into his or her own hands.

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  • Allonfla

    Until some crazed fan goes after Beck, he won’t stop.

  • http://zirgar.blogspot.com ZIRGAR

    Yeah, and Beck will just keep railing against the evil influence of Hollywood and video games on the minds of Americans, all the while denying his own culpability in influencing anyone. All without irony.

  • JG

    OT–What the F is up with our MSM?–now they’re running loops of the Obama/Joker thing–These “posters” have been around in L.A. for years–there were tons of Bush and Cheney ones (albeit not the Joker)–where was the “liberal” media then?–Plus, these stories are SO dangerous as they reinforce the the crazy notion that this moderate, beautiuful, courageous man is a VILLAIN who needs to be stopped.

  • http://www.osborneink.com/2009/07/malkin-malevolence_31.html Matt Osborne

    Bob, you can be SURE the school will receive threats. And when they do, I hope they send the FBI after Beck. This is just unconscionable.

  • http://nanotyrnns.blogspot.com/ Nanotyrannus

    Next he’ll have Crazy Thom Paine Guy on to sternly warn us about how they founded this country on Christianity and totally doesn’t remember anything about that amendment guaranteeing freedom of religion. That was Jefferson’s idea and we all know he was a communist!One of his wingnuts will act. We just heard the other day of a crazy that was convinced her local military base was a FEMA concentration camp-in-waiting.Interesting, too, that Murdoch is worried (allegedly) that the Bill-O/Keith feud will hurt the bottom line, but he’s not at all worried about Beck inciting violence with his irresponsible behavior.

  • eve

    what a horrible excuse for a person

  • http://oneceltsview.blogspot.com/ Wolfe_Tone

    Off-topic, but meanwhile, back in Virginia

  • laddieluv

    Nothing will stop this flaming bigot!Even (god forbid) someone gets hurt/killed as a direct result of his bile-spewing, he’ll deny it.Just like Billo did when the Dr. Tilly was murdered. Billo had incited people to kill him, remember?These bigoted, racist, braindead Fox hate-mongers are just plain frightening, IMO, because the faction of the “Deliverance” public that buys into the lies/bigotry/hatred they spread is terrifying x 10!!!

  • Iftikhar

    Children from minority groups, especially the Muslims, are exposed to the pressure of racism, multiculturalism and bullying. They suffer academically, culturally and linguistically: a high proportion of children of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin are leaving British schools with low grades or no qualification.In the 1980s, the Muslim community in Britain started to set up Muslim schools. The first was the London School of Islamics which I established and which operating from 1981-86. Now there are 133 schools educating approximately 5% Muslim pupils. Very few schools are state funded.The needs and demands of Muslim children can be met only through Muslim schools, but education is an expensive business and the Muslim community does not have the resources to set up schools for each and every child, and only eight Muslim schools have achieved grant maintained status.This leaves a majority of children from Muslim families with no choice but to attend state schools. There are hundreds of state schools where Muslim pupils are in majority. In my opinion, all such schools may be designated as Muslim community schools with bilingual Muslim teachers as role models.Prince Charles, while visiting the first grant maintained Muslim school in north London, said that the pupils would be the future ambassadors of Islam. But what about thousands of others, who attend state schools deemed to be “sink schools”?The time has come for the Muslim community – in the form of Islamic charities and trusts – to manage and run those state schools where Muslim pupils are in the majority. The Department for Education would be responsible for funding, inspection and maintenance.The management would be in the hands of educated professional Muslims. The teaching of Arabic, Islamic studies, Urdu and other community languages by qualified Muslim teachers would help the pupils to develop an Islamic identity, which is crucial for mental, emotional and personality development.In the east London borough of Newham, there are at least 10 state schools where Muslim pupils are in the majority.The television newscaster Sir Trevor McDonald is a champion of introducing foreign modern languages even at primary level in schools in Britain. The Muslim community would like to see Arabic, Urdu and other community languages introduced at nursery, primary and secondary schools along with European languages so that Muslim pupils have these options.In education, there should be a choice and at present it is denied to the Muslim community. In the late 80s and early 90s, when I floated the idea of Muslim community schools, I was declared a “school hijacker” by an editorial in the Newham Recorder newspaper in east London.This clearly shows that the British media does not believe in choice and diversity in the field of education and has no respect for those who are different.Muslim schools, in spite of meager resources, have excelled to a further extent this year, with two schools achieving 100% A-C grades for five or more GCSEs. They beat well resourced state and independent schools in Birmingham and Hackney.Muslim schools are doing better because a majority of the teachers are Muslim. The pupils are not exposed to the pressures of racism, multiculturalism and bullying.Iftikhar AhmadLondon School of Islamics Trustwww.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk