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News crew attacked during report at TiZA charter school

News – In an attempt to report about the new findings from the Department of Education Monday, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS went to Tarik ibn Zayad Academy in Inver Grove Heights.

Tags: Minnesota Department of Education, Tarik ibn Zayad Academy, Islamic studies

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While on school grounds, our crew was attacked by school officials. Our photographer was injured while wrestling with the two men over the camera. Our photographer was examined by paramedics and suffered minor shoulder and back injuries. Why?

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Throw the bastards in jail for assault!

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"While on school grounds, our crew was attacked by school officials. Our photographer was injured while wrestling with the two men over the camera. Our photographer was examined by paramedics and suffered minor shoulder and back injuries. Why? "

Attacked? Confronted? Which is it? Was it on public property? Did you call ahead to ask them if they wanted to comment, or did you just barge into a school to demand one?

Details would be nice.

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How much taxpayer support do charter schools receive while promoting sectarian doctrine? If it is even ONE dollar it is a misuse of education money.....

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Good point, but it has nothing to do with the story.

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What else can you expect from the conservative Islamists?

They believe in Sharia law and will try to fit it in if they can. I heard that this particular group is Middle East centered and is trying to get the non Middle East Muslims in the area to conform to their viewpoint. This group also is the one that issued the Fatwa about their people not having to drive anybody that gets off of a plane with duty free bottles of liqueur.

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I read the artical but I also took the time to read the response from the school and also from the Dept of Education for the state. It was stated that the school has recieved threats but I don't believe beating up a news crew is acceptable unless they are considered trespassers and where being removed. I feel that before we comment on something like this we should make an attempt to get all the facts.

After reading about this I thought back to when I was in school and every morning we started the day with the Lords Prayer and then that was followed with a bible reading, plus there was always a Bible study group that took a camping trip which was sponsored by the school, to me this sounds alot like what is happening in this school except a different religion.

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A charter school is a public school. Media have the right to be on public property. If you are Canadian, maybe your government lets your schools hold "bible studies" and recite the lord's prayer. In America, neither is allowed no matter what the religion. They have to be private schools for that to occur.

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"Media have the right to be on public property. "

Do they? I can think of thousands of times BushCo and his cronies have restricted the Media.

The White House is public property, too. Should we allow unrestricted access?

If your child was in school and a news crew barged in without calling ahead, wouldn't you want your principal to get them to leave no matter what it took if they were violating the rights and privacy of your children?

Disgusting.

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As usual you have no idea what you are talking about. News crews showed up at the high school I went to in Georgia 6 or 7 times during the two years I was there. Not once did they call ahead, and not once were they in the way or distracting the students.

They were also not attacked by the school either.

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I wonder how the justices of the Supreme Court, who have worked very hard to destroy the wall between church and state, will shoepeg this type of case. I assume it's ok with the supremes for the government to benefit Christianity, but not Islam.

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This school is run by an Islamic charity with public funding

This school also shares a mosque with the Muslim American Society of Minnesota

I can't think of another public religious school funded with taxpayer money like this school or a public school that shares a church with a religious organization

You have to wonder where the ALCU is on this

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The SCOTUS and the Aclu will never go after the islamics. They are just another group that you cannot attack without being called a bigot.

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So, what's your point? That these people should have been allowed to storm on campus and disrupt the school day...? Let's try that at whatever school your kids go to (assuming you've actually found someone that would have sex with you, and see how the school reacts, and how you feel about that, then get back to us.

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"assuming you've actually found someone that would have sex with you"

Why ruin your post with a lame crack like that?

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Funny how the poster attempted to sensationalize the actually headline by changing the word "confronted" to "attacked." Actually kind of a pathetic attempt at twisting the story into something it isn't.

Just for openers, where does a news crew get off going on campus, cameras rolling, without permission from the administrators of that campus? Very VERY unprofessional. And tell ya what, you don't get wrestled to the ground by people if you stop filming when they ask. These guys should try storming Bush's place in Crawford next time he's there and see how things go.

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They were in fact attacked. One of them was injured. That s a little more than confronted don't you think?

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After watching the video it looks to me like the news crew was in the street and on the sidewalk when they were confronted. Will be interesting to see if trespassing actually occured.

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Awww... But they are such a peaceful religion. Don't ya know???

Ya right...

Debra...

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So even the school officials try to attack U. And they wonder why they were reported to the Dept of Education. What nimrods!

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