On Feb. 15th FOX News reporter, Perry Chiaramonte, published an article about a group of angry Tampa parents who have been responding to their children being exposed to the Muslim terror-linked civil rights organization known as CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations).
Tuesday night dozens of parents showed up at a Hillsborough County school board meeting to voice their concerns. This is a video from that meeting:
The speaking engagement took place last fall at Steinbrenner High School in the History class of the Social Studies Department Head, Kelly Miliziano. The man who came to speak to the class on behalf of CAIR was Hassan Shibly.
From AtlasShruggled on Dec.4, 2011:
According to IPT: Hassan Shibly has a track record of defending terrorist groups and acting as an apologist for militant Islam. Following the 2006 Israel-Lebanon War, Shibly granted legitimacy to Hizballah by characterizing it as a “resistance movement” that provides valued social services to the Lebanese people. “They’re absolutely not a terrorist organization,” Shibly said, and “any war against them is illegitimate” moe on that here.
The complaint that many of the parents have, in addition to the history of the chosen speaker, is also described in FOX’s article from Wednesday:
They cited the group’s past connection to a terror financing case involving the terrorist group Hamas. The group, which purports to promote diversity and tolerance of the religion, has met a similar reception in Texas and Georgia in recent years.
CAIR is also sited as a co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) HAMAS terror funding trial. The story of the original CAIR speaking engagement at Steinbrenner High School was also reported back on December 4th on AtlasShruggled:
SO what is so wrong with CAIR’s involvement in our children’s education? Review this video clip about CAIR taken from the movie “The Third Jihad:”
CAIR has even gone so far as to protest the legitimacy of this documentary despite their documented links to terrorist and terrorist-complacent groups. This video describes the ongoing battle between radical terror-linked Muslim groups and the New York City Police Department:
From the Florida Family Association:
Several organizations including local Tea Party leaders challenged the Hillsborough County School Board on February 14, 2012 to stop local CAIR officials from addressing students.
School board member Dr. Stacy White offered a motion to have CAIR and a committee “discuss” this situation with no specified stated resolution. Susan Valdez seconded the motion. April Griffin tried to gut the inane motion by requiring that all groups be included in the discussions thereby extending the issue to a non-issue.
School Board Chairman Candy Oslon, Poster Child for Ultra Progressive Politics, gave another one of her extremely biased bashings of reasonable thinking people. She proclaimed that “Most Muslims are moderate” to justify CAIR officials speaking to students and scolded rational thinking concerned Americans who criticized Steinbrenner High School teacher Kelly Miliziano for inviting CAIR officials to speak to 500+ students. Chairman Olson also lost her cool during the January 24, 2012 meeting when she took a low shot at conservative Americans concern regarding CAIR talking to school children by saying “I don’t think we can protect our children from the fact that there are extremists in every religion.” Click here for the Tampa Bay Times report. Olson was quoted on tape saying that if you don’t like the actions of this school district then you can always move to another county.
AtlasShruggled also published back on Jan.5th one parent’s account of this school-mandated indoctrination into Sharia Law.
Kelly R. Miliziano, History teacher of the Social Studies Department, Steinbrenner High School, announced yesterday that they have scheduled additional religious speakers to counter the CAIR operative they had speak in November. I am not sure if it will be a Hindu Priest or a Christian Pastor.
The problem with that is that CAIR’s Hassan Shibly is a political speaker. A Hindu priest or Christian Pastor won’t counter the poisonous propaganda that Shibly spews to our impressionable young minds. Robert Spencer, myself, Nonie Darwish, Wafa Sultan must be given a chance to speak to counter the lies of Hamas-CAIR.
Hamas-CAIR should not be speaking at all, but if the public school shills insist on presenting jihadi views, they must provide freedom lovers with the same opportunity. Further, political speakers should be off limits on school grounds.
The email exchanges between CAIR and Steinbrenner High School are revealing. Kelly Miliziano, a World History teacher at Steinbrenner, wrote this in a November 14 email: “Every year I invite a representative from CAIR to speak to our AP World History Students.” After CAIR-Tampa responded favorably, Miliziano wrote again: “Over the years I have had many speakers from CAIR come to my classes, and it has been such a good learning experience for the students.”
According to Kelly Miliziano (history teacher at Steinbrenner High School), she “regularly asks” Hassan Shibly of CAIR to speak. Shibly has a track record of defending jihad terrorist groups and acting as an apologist for the worldwide jihad and Islamic supremacism. Ms. Miliziano’s refusal to respond to parents’ requests to vet the notorious Mr. Shibly, and instead attack the parents, should be grounds for her immediate dismissal. Ms. Miliziano further went on to call parents’ concerns about CAIR “baseless and Islamophobic.” I urge you to politely demand that the school principal, Brenda Grasso, move to remove Ms. Miliziano at once. Brenda Grasso, Principal: email, brenda.grasso@sdhc.k12.fl.us Phone 813-792-5131.
Candy Olson confesses her recognition of ‘religious extremists,’ yet supports exposing children to their beliefs. Olson further tried to cloud the issue and the argument of those against having terror-linked speakers at the school in the Feb.15th article of the Tampa Bay Times by expressing that:
..she (was) worried that teachers would be afraid to teach about the Holocaust, the Vietnam conflict or other topics that might appear controversial. “I’ve had some teachers say, ‘I don’t want to be the next target,’ ” she said.
The solution is simple; don’t support terror-linked or terror-complacent organizations PERIOD. If you’d like to voice your thoughts to those who support this complete disregard for exposing children to these indoctrinating terrorist elements, you can reach them here:
Kelly Miliziano, Social Studies Department Head – kelly.miliziano@sdhc.k12.fl.us
813-792-5131 Ext. 264
Candy Olson, School Board Chairperson – COlson@sdhc.us
813-272-4000
MaryEllen Elia, Superintendent – maryellen.elia@sdhc.k12.fl.us
813-272-4000
