In the seven years (as of next month) since 9/11, have we learned nothing?
This caught my attention, and adds to my deep concern that the State Department just doesn't get it. From the Greensboro NC News-Record:
Muslim, Jewish educators swap ideas in Greensboro
GREENSBORO — Seated around a teardrop-shaped table, the little group talked about Judaism and Islam, science and math, microscopes and computers.
And when Google Maps found the Philippines, Nurjavier Abubakar rose from his seat and touched the southernmost island shown on the high-tech SMART Board display.
Just like that, the three educators from a private Muslim school reached across 9,063 miles and brought Cotabato City to their hosts at the American Hebrew Academy off Hobbs Road.
Part religious exchange, part educational discussion, part episode of MTV’s “Cribs,” the Filipinos toured the private Jewish boarding school’s 100-acre campus on Thursday morning as part of a trip organized by the U.S. State Department.
The three-week tour is designed to show international visitors the role of religious education and cultural diversity in America.
“It’s a chance to swap ideas,” said Barry Lewis of the State Department, who is escorting the Filipinos on the trip.
They spent the afternoon across town at Page High, the first public school on a U.S. tour that also includes stops in Washington; Buffalo, N.Y.; Tulsa, Okla.; and Los Angeles.
Cotabato City is the "seat" of the ARMM, the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao, an area of the Philippines rife with deadly jihad. What ideas exactly are we swapping in this multi-culti interfaith exchange? Their ideas about killing Jews, with our ideas about NOT killing Jews?
This sort of thing could be going on all over the country, sponsored by the State Department and or other well-meaning fools or enemies. It's definitely going on right now in Greensboro, Washington, Buffalo, Tulsa and LA. If you have a child, friend or acquaintance in a school in any of those places, you might want to start asking questions.
Hell, if you want to know if YOU are safe, you might want to find out more about this. You might want to ask your government how in the world it could be that the very same State Department which designated the southern Philippines as a "terrorist safe haven" has now brought a Muslim contingent from that very place to come into and walk the halls of our children's schools in America. Especially Jewish schools!
Like so many of my last 8,000 or so posts, this one boggles the mind and frightens the heart. Let it also motivate us to be truly vigilant. If we do not become active citizens, players in our own history, then surely there is little hope for the children for whom we are responsible.
See also:
Saudi prince donates $500,000 in grants to ARMM areas
(Minda News)
Govt-MILF fighting drives 240,000 to evacuation centers (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines--The ongoing military offensive in Mindanao has affected more than 240,000 people in Mindanao as the death toll rose to 49 and 65 others were reported injured, latest data provided by the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) show.
Of the affected individuals from North Cotabato, Lanao del Norte, and the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), a total of 35,034 families or 175,530 people were displaced from their homes, the country's disaster agency said as of Sunday.
Of the figure, 14,970 families or 75,210 people are now staying in 104 evacuation centers since fighting began in North Cotabato where the 105th Base Command of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) under Commander Ombra Kato forcibly took over several villages in 15 towns.
