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-Lurid Crime Tales-
DHS calls Haitian migrant's alleged rape of disabled teen ‘heinous'
[FoxNews] The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has called allegations that a Haitian migrant raped a disabled 15-year-old girl "heinous."

Cory Alvarez, the 26-year-old Haitian national charged with raping the teen at a Massachusetts hotel that was housing migrants last week, entered the U.S. last summer via President Biden’s controversial CHNV parole program. He was flown into New York City directly from Haiti.

"CHNV" stands for Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The program allows up to 30,000 people each month from these countries to fly into the U.S. and be granted two years of humanitarian parole, which allows them to apply to work in the U.S.

Police in Rockland, Massachusetts, responded to a Comfort Inn on Wednesday night after receiving reports of a sexual assault. The hotel participates in a state and federal program to house migrant families, and Alvarez lived at the hotel.

The Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office said Alvarez went before a Hingham District Court judge on Thursday and pleaded not guilty to a single count of aggravated rape of a child.
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-Land of the Free
Sham Tough-on-Migrants Policies Launch in New York City and Chicago
[Breitbart] Officials in New York City and Chicago are feeling the political heat over their policies giving billions of tax dollars to illegal aliens while taking benefits away from their citizens, and now both cities are pushing policies that may lead people to assume they are toughening their stance on illegals. But a close look at the policies shows what a sham these ballyhooed policies really are.

Both of these deep blue, Democrat-dominated towns have made what might at first glance seem to be an about face on their generous treatment of illegal immigrants. In Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson has been all over the news, pounding podiums and beating his chest over his plans to “evict” illegal aliens who have stayed too long in city-sponsored shelters.

Meanwhile, New York’s liberal Mayor Eric Adams is making political hay over his claim to be revisiting the city’s loose “right to shelter” rules and tightening the restrictions to exclude certain illegal aliens, because, he says, the right to shelter law was meant for citizens who are down on their luck, not illegal aliens breaking our laws to get here.
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Posted by: Skidmark || 03/18/2024 00:49 || Comments || Link || [73 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Chicago to start evicting illegal migrants from shelters Saturday
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Africa North
Egypt strikes deal for billions in EU funding as economy struggles
[IsraelTimes] European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
seeks strategic partnership with Cairo amid rising instability across the Middle East


European leaders were expected to announce a 7.4 billion euro ($8.06 billion) funding package and an upgraded relationship with Egypt in Cairo on Sunday, part of a push to stem migrant flows across the Mediterranean that has been criticized by rights groups. The agreement, which lifts the European Union’s relationship with Egypt to a "strategic partnership," is designed to boost cooperation in areas including renewable energy, trade and security while delivering grants, loans and other funding over the next three years to support Egypt’s faltering economy. That funding is expected to include 5 billion euros in macro-financial assistance, 1.8 billion euros of investments and 600 million euros in grants, a senior EU commission official said. The macro-financial assistance includes 1 billion euros in emergency funding to be delivered this year. The remaining 4 billion euros will be subject to approval by the European parliament, the official said. Most of the money is newly allocated and the funding was drawn up in close cooperation with the International Monetary Fund, the official added.

European governments have long been worried about the risk of instability in Egypt, a country of 106 million people that has been struggling to raise foreign currency and where economic adversity has pushed increasing numbers to migrate in recent years.

Inflation has been running close to record highs and many Egyptians say they struggle to get by. Over the past month, however, the financial pressure on the government has eased as Egypt has struck a record deal for Emirati investment, expanded its loan program with the IMF and sharply devalued its currency.

Diplomats say Egypt’s strategic importance has been underscored by the conflict in neighboring Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
, which has created the world’s biggest displacement crisis, and the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, which borders Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

Egypt has been the main conduit for international humanitarian aid sent to Gaza, and, along with Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
and the United States, has been trying to mediate a truce between Israel and Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
The war between Israel and Hamas broke out following Hamas’s devastating October 7 onslaught, which saw murderous Moslems from Gaza infiltrate Israel, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping 253 while committing atrocities.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is leading a delegation on Sunday that also includes the Italian, Greek, Austrian and Belgian prime ministers, and the Cypriot president.

Egypt’s finance minister has said the government has lined up a total of $20 billion in multilateral support after increasing its loan and economic reform program with the IMF.

CROSSINGS VIA LIBYA
Egyptian officials say Egypt deserves recognition for hosting an estimated nine million foreign residents and largely shutting off irregular migration from its north coast since 2016.

But there has been a surge in Egyptians trying to cross to Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
via Libya, and the European Union is already providing funding aimed at reducing those flows.

In recent months, the Greek islands of Crete and Gavdos have seen a steep rise in migrant arrivals — mostly from Egypt, Bangladesh and Pakistain — raising concern about a new smuggling route in the Mediterranean.

Activists have criticized Western support for President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who came to power a decade ago after leading the overthrow of Egypt’s first democratically elected leader, Mohammed Morsi, who was affiliated with the Moslem Brüderbund.

Rights groups say tens of thousands of people have been tossed in the slammer
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
in a crackdown that has swept up dissidents from across the political spectrum.

al-Sissi’s backers say security measures were needed to stabilize Egypt after the turmoil of the 2011 "Arab Spring" uprising and pave the way for providing social rights such as housing and jobs.

EU moves to offer financing in return for migration curbs in other countries including in Tunisia have run up against obstacles and criticism.

"The blueprint is the same as the flawed EU deals with Tunisia and Mauritania: stop migrants colonists, ignore abuses," Human Rights Watch said of the plan to enhance ties with Egypt and provide new financing.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [52 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  EU moves to offer financing in return for migration curbs

So they're paying 'protection'?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/18/2024 7:41 Comments || Top||

#2  So they're paying 'protection'?

Do they actually get any?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/18/2024 7:49 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Anger rises over South Africa making millions in US benefits while cozying up to Iran, Russia and Hamas
[FoxNews] South Africa is under fire for spending millions of dollars talking to terror group Hamas and sending delegations for cozy negotiations with U.S. adversaries Russia and Iran. Some critics say the money would be better spent tackling the "chaos" back home.

South Africa has the highest unemployment rate in the world, rampant crime and widespread corruption, which has led to large parts of Johannesburg having no water for 12 out of the past 13 days, and, nationally, power blackouts between four and 11 hours a day.

The U.S. helps South Africa gain billions of dollars a year in trade benefits through the African Growth and Opportunity Act, or AGOA. Orde Kittrie, law professor at Arizona State University and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital it’s time for South Africa to be thrown out of the program.

"The ANC-led South African government has, in its relations with both Russia and Hamas, violated the requirement that AGOA beneficiaries not undermine U.S. national security and foreign policy and, with regard to Hamas, violated the requirement that AGOA beneficiaries not "provide support for acts of international terrorism," said Kittrie, who also served as a State Department attorney and policy officiaL
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#1  The world is NOT Baskin-Robbins.
You don't get to taste all 31 flavors.

Posted by: Skidmark || 03/18/2024 6:45 Comments || Top||

#2  The Mexican Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice has published its annual ranking of the 50 most violent cities in the world – with Nelson Mandela Bay (Gqeberha) leaping past Cape Town and Durban to be ranked as the most dangerous city in South Africa. The report has been compiled annually for over a decade and lists the 50 most violent cities by the number of murders per 100,000 people – only considering cities with populations exceeding 300,000, where murder statistics are available. In the 2023/24 ranking, four South African cities again feature in the top 50, this time led by Gqeberha, which jumped nine places in the ranking and now features within the top 10.
Cape Town was previously the only South African city to have the dishonour of being in the top 10, when it ranked 8th in 2019, and 9th in 2015.
Posted by: Huputle Cherelet4131 || 03/18/2024 7:22 Comments || Top||

#3  The Mexican Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice

They should know.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/18/2024 7:28 Comments || Top||


Arabia
UAE setting up mercenary force to be deployed in Somalia and Yemen
What odds the mercenaries try to take over?
[ShabelleMedia] A former French special forces officer wants to create a highly-trained mercenary force for the United Arab Emirates, comprising at least 3,000 foreigners.

The mercenary forces that will be created for the UAE will be in charge of the mission abroad, and the places that will be deployed include Somalia and Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, according to the Intelligence Online website.

The government of the UAE has decided to establish a mercenary force, which will carry out operations abroad, and the process of recruiting soldiers will begin in July this year, and it will end in the middle of next year 2025.

The recruits were promised a higher salary, and promotions every 3 years, with the training contract awarded to a French security agency led by a former commando officer.

The mercenary forces will be sent to the countries where the UAE has interests and those who are fighting in the region, such as Yemen, where since 2015 the Khilaj Coalition has been conducting an operation against the Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s.

Last month, four UAE soldiers, including the head of training, were killed in a shooting attack at the General Gordon base in Mogadishu. The attack was claimed by the al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
group.

In recent years, the United Arab Emirates has been heavily investing in ports in East Africa, including those in Somalia, such as Bosaso and Berbera, and it has an impact on the country’s political and military affairs.

Somalia’s security issues are of concern to the UAE as they are connected to the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea. Somali pirates have recently returned after several years of attacks by Houthi rebels in Yemen on ships passing through the Red Sea.

Somali-Source: UAE to form Emirati foreign legion with 3000 recruits to boost military capabilities in Yemen Somali
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/18/2024 2024-03-18 02:13 || Comments || Link || [70 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What odds the mercenaries try to take over?

It can't be worse than the current regimes.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/18/2024 3:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Who could possibly be behind such an effort ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/18/2024 6:08 Comments || Top||


Britain
London venue cancels Eurovision screening over Israel’s participation
Cutting off their nose to spite their face.
[IsraelTimes] The Rio Cinema in London has canceled what Variety magazine says is the city’s "biggest screening party" for next month’s Eurovision Song Contest, in protest of Israel being allowed to take part in the competition.

"We firmly believe that the Eurovision Song Conest has the power to bring people together across the world, and when its core values of inclusivity, equality and universality are upheld, it can be a genuine force for good," the venue writes in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

It also notes that it will continue working with pro-Paleostinian nonprofits.

Earlier this month, Eurovision organizers approved Israel’s revised song entry for this year’s contest after it disqualified an earlier version, securing the country’s spot in the competition amid a wave of boycott calls.

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#1  London has fallen
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/18/2024 8:35 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
State Department Planning Charter Flight for Americans from Haiti but Warns Trip to Airport Is Dangerous
[Breitbart]
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#3  It's dangerous to go to the airport. It's dangerous not to go to the airport.
Choose one.
(My choice: stay the hell out of Haiti.)
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/18/2024 9:36 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 Can I use that?
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 03/18/2024 10:33 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Cousin of Hamas captive Shiri Bibas says TikTok deleted video calling for family’s release
[IsraelTimes] A cousin of Shiri Bibas, who was kidnapped with her husband and two young children on October 7, says a video calling for the family’s release was removed from TikTok.

The world is now familiar with the Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
video that captured Shiri’s look of sheer terror as she gripped her two redheaded boys, Ariel, 4, and Kfir, then-9 months, close to her chest as they were captive from their Kibbutz Nir Oz home on October 7. Her husband, Yarden Bibas, 34, was taken hostage separately.

In a post on social media, Yifat Zailer says the video was shared on the official Hostage and Missing Families Forum profile and removed as "political."

"Saying ’bring the Bibas family back’ is political. I am shocked by the one-sidedness of their position. I am shocked that the struggle to bring home a one-year-old boy, a four-year-old boy and their parents from the captivity of a terrorist organization is a political struggle and not a crime against humanity for them. I’m finished with TikTok," she writes.

The Walla news site quotes a response from TikTok that says the issue was a "technical fault" and that it would be fixed "as soon as possible."
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Iraq
Around 2,000 Iraqi families repatriated from Syria camp: Official
[Rudaw] The spokesperson for the Iraqi migration ministry on Thursday told Rudaw that about 2,000 families have been repatriated to Iraq from northeast Syria’s (Rojava) al-Hol camp over the years.

“Until now, through 14 batches, around 2,000 families numbering about 8,000 individuals, have been repatriated from al-Hol camp and the repatriation process will continue,” Ali Abbas, spokesperson for Iraq’s ministry of migration and displaced, told Rudaw.

The families will first be transferred to Nineveh’s al-Jada camp for rehabilitation before they’re sent back to their homes, according to Abbas.

Al-Hol camp is located in northeast Syria’s Hasaka province and houses over 50,000 ISIS-linked people. The camp has infamously been branded a breeding ground for terrorism, with authorities describing it as a “ticking time bomb.” The camp residents come from around the world, but the bulk are Syrian and Iraqi.

Iraqi National Security Advisor Qasim al-Araji earlier this month said that around 20,000 Iraqis below the age of 18 are still at al-Hol, describing them as “time bombs for the future.”

Iraq has repatriated thousands of ISIS-linked people from Rojava in recent years, including fighters from the group who were detained by the Kurdish forces. United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in August commended Baghdad for repatriating nationals.

Kurdish authorities in the region have repeatedly called on the international community to repatriate their nationals from the camps, but their calls have largely gone unanswered as most countries are unwilling to bring back their nationals due to security concerns.

Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom on Wednesday said that Stockholm will not be offering aid to repatriate nationals from Syria camps, stressing that the remaining Swedes in Syria had over the years been given the opportunity to return to the country but had repeatedly refused.
Fair enough. Will the refuseniks be put up against a wall and shot?
“Sweden has no legal obligation to act for these individuals to be brought to Sweden. This applies to women, children and men," he told AFP.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/18/2024 2024-03-18 03:58 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
French paper: Former MK Azmi Bishara ‘strongly influenced’ Paris outline
[IsraelTimes] French daily Le Figaro reports that former Balad MK Azmi Bishara played a role in talks between the US, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, Israel and Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
in Gay Paree in February to build an outline for a potential hostage deal with Hamas.

A source quoted by the French paper says Bishara "strongly influenced the drafting" of the outline, which would see a temporary pause in fighting in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
and the release of hostages held by Hamas since October 7 in exchange for the release of Paleostinian security prisoners and provisions for the entry of humanitarian aid to the Strip.

The report adds that Bishara serves as an adviser to Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.

Once a Knesset black sheep over his pro-Paleostinian stance, Bishara left Israel in 2007, accused of spying for Hezbollah, a charge he denied.
It was a little more than merely spying: he was accused of advising Hezbollah and directing its rocket fire against Israel during a month-long war in 2006.
He is now a major personality in Qatari media and has a following of more than 1.7 million on social media platform X.

The Gay Paree proposal is still in the midst of negotiations, with Israel expected to send a delegation to Qatar tomorrow.
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Hamas fears Israel will extract Marwan Issa’s body from Gaza to use as bargaining chip – report
Oh? How very interesting.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
believes the body of Marwan Issa, deputy commander of the terror group’s military wing, is buried in the rubble of a destroyed tunnel in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip and that Israel will try to extract it to use as a bargaining chip, according to a Hebrew media report citing Paleostinian sources.

Issa was targeted and believed killed in an Israel Defense Forces strike on central Gaza’s Nuseirat last week.

The Kan broadcaster also quotes the sources as saying the body of a Hamas brigade commander is also buried in the rubble and that his body could also be extracted.

Hamas is hesitant to extract the bodies in case the rescue team is attacked by the IDF, the report adds.

Issa serves as the deputy of Mohammed Deif, the head of Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Together with Hamas’s leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, they are believed to have criminal masterminded the group’s October 7 massacre in southern Israel that triggered the war.
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PM blasts international community amid pressure over war: ‘Did you already forget Oct. 7?’
[IsraelTimes] Speaking at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasts those "in the international community who are trying to stop the war now, before all its goals are achieved."

Netanyahu’s Hebrew-language comments are likely a reference to calls last week for elections in Israel from US Senator Chuck Schumer
...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 48.28029 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017...
, and growing criticism from the Biden White House over Netanyahu’s conduct of the war.

The prime minister says that those who wants to stop the war do so "by making false accusations against the IDF, against the Israeli government and against the prime minister of Israel. They do this by trying to bring about elections now, in the midst of the war."

Turning to Israel’s "friends in the international community," Netanyahu asks pointedly: "Is your memory so short? Did you forget so quickly October 7, the most terrible massacre committed against Jews since the Holocaust? Are you so quickly ready to deny Israel the right to defend itself against the monsters of Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
? Did you lose your moral conscience so quickly?"

He calls for international pressure to be put on Hamas and Iran, rather than Israel.

"No amount of international pressure will stop us from realizing all the goals of the war: eliminating Hamas, releasing all our hostages and ensuring that Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
will no longer pose a threat against Israel," insists Netanyahu.

"We must not give in to these pressures, and we will not give in to them," Netanyahu stresses.

He also promises that the IDF will operate in Rafah, "carefully."

"It will take a few weeks, and it will happen," he says.

"Those who say that the operation in Rafah will not happen are the same ones who said that we will not enter Gaza, that we will not operate in Shifa, that we will not operate in Khan Younis and that we will not resume fighting after the [weeklong November] ceasefire," Netanyahu says.
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Olde Tyme Religion
US schools becoming more supportive of Muslim students fasting during Ramadan
[IsraelTimes] In Dearborn, Michigan, where half of population is Arab, fasting students are accommodated with separate activities during lunchtime

While Moslem students remain a rarity in many US school districts, they are a major presence in some communities, prompting public schools to be more attentive to their needs during the holy month of Ramadan when dawn-to-sundown fasting is a duty of Islam.

For example, in Dearborn, Michigan — where nearly half the 110,000 residents are of Arab descent — public school teachers and staff strive to make things easier for students observing Ramadan.
When a significant minority of the student population are doing something that impacts their attendance or performance, public school districts bow to the inevitable. The public school district where I went was about 10% Jewish, so the teachers didn’t bother with tests or key lessons on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur (the Jewish New Year and the Day of Atonement), because we all were in synagogue instead of class. Also, with so many students of Polish descent, there was some silliness on Dyngus Day.
"We allow students on their own to practice their faith as long as it’s not a disruption to the school day," said Dearborn Schools spokesperson David Mustonen. "We also try to find other spaces or activities in the school during lunch for those students who may be fasting."

But he stressed that these students are still required to complete all assignments.

In St. Paul, Minnesota, East African Elementary Magnet School has set aside space in the library where students who are fasting and don’t want to be in the cafeteria can spend the break doing other supervised activities like reading, said principal Abdisalam Adam.

The 220-student school opened last fall as part of St. Paul’s public schools system, and shares that curriculum, but it also aims to reinforce cultural and linguistic connections with Somalia and other East African countries. Adam said about 90 percent of the students are Somali Moslems.

Adam, who has worked with the district for nearly 30 years, said he tells his staff that accommodating observance of Ramadan fits in with an overall goal of caring for students.

"All needs are connected," he said.

For school districts less familiar with Moslem traditions, resources are available. For example, Islamic Networks Group, a Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,-based nonprofit, provides, among other things, online information for educators about Ramadan and its significance to Moslems.

Many districts "don’t know very much about Islam or any of our holidays," said Maha Elgenaidi, the group’s executive director. "If they don’t know very much about it, there’s not much they can provide to students in terms of accommodation" until they learn more and the parents are actively involved in asking for accommodations.

She says fasting students may need to be excused from strenuous activities in gym class, and should be allowed to make up for tests missed due to absence to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday that follows Ramadan.

"If they’re not accommodated at school or the school doesn’t know anything about this, they’re kind of living dual lives there."

Fasting is not required of young children, but many Moslem children like to fast to share in the month’s rituals and emulate parents and older siblings, according to ING. Educators also need to know of the typical changes to Moslem families’ routines during Ramadan, such as waking up for the pre-dawn "suhoor" meal and staying up late to possibly attend prayers in the mosque, Elgenaidi said.

When Dr. Aifra Ahmed’s children were younger, the Pak American physician and her husband would share insight about Ramadan with their classmates, reading to them a Ramadan story and distributing goodie bags with such things as dates.

"I realized that the Moslem families in school have to do a lot of education," said Ahmed, who lives in Los Altos, California.
I did the same for the trailing daughters’ classes when they were in elementary school, though only for Hanukkah because it shares attention with Christmas. Credit to their teachers for trying, but none of them properly understood the material. An Indian mother similarly talked to their classes about Diwali.
Ahmed’s husband, Moazzam Chaudry, said goodwill gestures, such as when educators offer a Ramadan greeting, send a message of inclusivity.

For immigrant families, "that’s the first thing that... naturally comes to your mind, ’Are we integrated into this society? Does this society even accept us?’" he said. "These little, little things make such a huge impact."

Punhal, the couple’s daughter who attends a charter middle school, said she takes part in physical education during Ramadan but skips running when fasting because she would need water afterward.

She said a few non-Moslem friends told her they would like to fast with her in companionship.

Naiel, her brother who’s in a public high school, said he was pleased when a teacher talked to the class about Ramadan and told him that, if he needed, he could take a nap.

In Dearborn, 14-year-old Adam Alcodray praised the faculty at Dearborn High for their understanding during Ramadan.

"A lot of the teachers are just like more lenient, allowing us to do less," said Alcodray, a 9th grader. "They don’t get mad because they realize we are hungry."

Alcodray says he fasts from 6:20 a.m. until around 8 p.m.

"It’s not that bad to be honest," he said. "When you know you can’t eat, something in your brain clicks."

At the East African magnet school in St. Paul, Marian Aden — who trains other teachers there — makes it a priority to encourage Ramadan-related accommodations for fasting students.

Minnesota has been home to growing numbers of refugees from war-torn Somalia since the late 1990s. Several school districts have recently made Eid a holiday.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [102 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Experience shows that appeasing Muslims never works - the more you give them, the more they want.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/18/2024 2:42 Comments || Top||

#2  They're fasting? Good, BBQ pork back on the lunch menu boys.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/18/2024 8:43 Comments || Top||

#3  I suppose this is in support of starving Gazanians.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/18/2024 12:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Pigs are quick. Pork is fast.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/18/2024 20:20 Comments || Top||



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