Australia: School allows Muslim students to leave the room to avoid singing the National Anthem

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Australia: School allows Muslim students to leave the room to avoid singing the National Anthem

October 24, 2015 12:25 pm By Robert Spencer 45 Comments

Cranbourne Carlisle Primary School’s slogan is “Many Cultures, One Community.” But in reality, they’re not one community at all — not when they allow Muslim students to opt out of singing the National Anthem. “But Cranbourne Carlisle Primary School Principal Cheryl Irving stood by the decision, telling Star News on Tuesday it was made in adherence with Muharram – the Islamic month of mourning associated with Shi’a Muslims in which they do not participate in ‘joyful events.'” Are all the Muslim students at Cranbourne Carlisle Primary School Shi’ites, then? Shi’ites are only ten to fifteen percent of Muslims worldwide, so that’s extremely unlikely. Much more likely is that Cheryl Irving received complaints from Muslim parents, who told her that singing the Australian National Anthem was offensive to their religion, and being a good multiculturalist, readily agreed to allow them to opt out.

But what will become of these students in the future? They have been taught that they need have no allegiance to Australia, and that Australian authorities allow and respect this. How will they acquire that allegiance in the future? Does Cheryl Irving really think that there will be no negative consequences of their failing to do so?

Cranbourne Carlisle Primary School

“Kids opt out on anthem,” by Lachlan Moorhead, Cranbourne News, October 21, 2015 (thanks to Kenneth):

    A CRANBOURNE primary school raised eyebrows during an assembly last week when its Islamic students were given the choice of leaving the room to avoid singing the Australian National Anthem.

    But despite concern from parents, the principal of Cranbourne Carlisle Primary has strongly defended the school’s decision to allow its Islamic students to leave the Year 2-6 assembly, citing a religious month of mourning.

    Lorraine McCurdy, whose grandchildren go to Cranbourne Carlisle Primary, contacted Star News after attending the school’s assembly last week and being concerned by the staff’s decision to give Islamic students the option to not sing the national anthem.

    Ms McCurdy said she attended the assembly every week and had never seen this before.

    “We were first welcomed to the assembly by two Grade 2 students, then as we were about to stand up for the national anthem, a teacher stepped in front of the school and asked that any student for whom this was against their culture to leave the hall and join a teacher waiting for them outside the hall,” she said.

    “About 30-40 children left, all of Middle Eastern appearance.

    “When we had finished singing the National Anthem, they all reappeared into the hall and sat with their classmates.

    “A lot of the parents at the assembly were saddened as this was the Australian national anthem and not to do with any religion.”

    But Cranbourne Carlisle Primary School Principal Cheryl Irving stood by the decision, telling Star News on Tuesday it was made in adherence with Muharram – the Islamic month of mourning associated with Shi’a Muslims in which they do not participate in “joyful events”.

    “Muharram is a cultural observation marking the death of Imam Hussein,” Ms Irving said.

    “This year it falls between Tuesday 13 October and Thursday 12 November. During this time Shi’a do not participate in joyful events as it is a period of mourning. This includes listening to music, attending parties, wearing nail polish or make up, etc.

    “Prior to last week’s Years 2-6 Assembly commencing, an announcement was made advising anyone participating in Muharram, that it was an opportune time to leave the hall as music was about to be played (the National Anthem).

    “Anyone who was unable to listen to music due to this cultural observance was given adequate time to comply with their religious belief.”

    Ms Irving said the school demonstrated “great tolerance and understanding of the heritage and cultures of others”.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/10/australia-school-allows-muslim-students-to-leave-the-room-to-avoid-singing-the-national-anthem

[Fishrrman]

It doesn't matter whether they were allowed to leave the room or not.

They would not sing.

Most muslims do not assimilate with The West.
The quran forbids it.

Those that -do- seem to "act Western" are behaving at odds with islam, not in accordance to it. And there is no guarantee that at some point in the future, when islam gains strength in numbers, that they will not suddenly grow "more aware" and become supporters of "the believers".

A saved quote:
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In medieval times, people created fairy tales and magical creatures to make sense of their world. One of the most endearing is the unicorn, a horse with a single horn that symbolized purity and wholesomeness. In our modern times, people in Europe and the United States consider themselves more sophisticated and rational than people from the Middle Ages, but we still create myths, albeit more subtle ones.

Daily we hear reports of violent acts committed by Islamic terrorists on every inhabited continent. We try to wish it away with the myth of the "Moderate Muslim", telling ourselves the Islamic agenda has been "hijacked" by a "tiny minority of extremists" and that soon the huge, silent, "moderate" majority of Muslims will take charge and change things. However, post 9/11 very few Muslims have condemned terrorist actions. We are still waiting for moderates to stand and deliver, identifying and removing extremist thugs from their mosques and their communities. Waiting for this self-correction is our modern version of searching for unicorns.

"Moderate Muslims" will not be able to wrest control of the agenda for several reasons. First of all, Mohammed, the Messenger of Allah's eternal word, was not moderate. No moderate can legitimately tell another Muslim to stop doing the extremist things Mohammed himself did. Also, the Qur'an condones violence and coercion to further the Islamic agenda. People whom we call "moderates" are labeled hypocrites by Allah Himself in the Qur'an. Moderates will always lose the argument because, as ex-Muslim author Ibn Warraq says, "There may be moderates in Islam but Islam itself is not moderate."

Islamic expert Daniel Pipes and others estimate ten percent of the Islamic world to be militant. In 1933 when the Nazi party took control of Germany it had 2 million members, comprising only three percent of Germany's sixty-six million citizens. A tiny minority of extremists can control a vast number of moderates, making them irrelevant. Placing hope in "The "Moderate Muslim" is like searching for unicorns in the forest.