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Michelle Malkin: Insufficient hatred of Muslims continues to plague our schools.

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Our Lady of the Concentration Camps:

Three years ago, I wrote about a mock terrorism drill at a public school district in Muskegon County, Mich. Instead of Islamic terrorists, educators substituted Christian homeschoolers. Yes, Christian homeschoolers.
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Flabbergasting, but true. In the wake of 9/11 and the jihadists’ carnage against schoolchildren in Beslan, Russia, the school chose to prepare their students for an attack by Christian homeschooling “wackos,” not Muslim suicide bombers.

Unfortunately, little has changed. Last month, New Jersey’s Burlington Township High School held its own mock terrorism drill. “You perform as you practice,” Superintendent Chris Manno told the Burlington County Times. “We need to practice under conditions as real as possible in order to evaluate our procedures and plans so that they’re as effective as possible.”

But the “real as possible” conditions included no bomb-vest-donning jihadists shouting “Allahu Akbar.” No red bandana-wearing martyrs with visions of 72 virgins dancing in their evil heads. No America-hating plotters enraged by the existence of Israel or driven to establish a worldwide caliphate. Nope.

According to the paper, two local police detectives took on the role of hostage-taking Christian gunmen.

“Investigators described them as members of a right-wing fundamentalist group called the ‘New Crusaders’ who don’t believe in separation of church and state. The mock gunmen went to the school seeking justice because the daughter of one had been expelled for praying before class.” Upset Christian students reported on the drill to their parents.

How many other jihad-whitewashing mock terrorism drills have been conducted using tax dollars?

Yes, it is totally unrealistic to think that Christian wackos will shoot up schools, or hurt anyone, when everyone knows that there’s been a rash of suicide-bombing Jihadis chanting some craziness about this “Allah” character while they blow up American schools.

…right?

Now, my memory could be failing me, but if I remember my school shooting stories correctly, they usually involved gun-happy white boys. And Islamic terrorists have attacked American schools, well, never. But that isn’t for lack of school attacks — according to this world-wide time line of school shootings, the United States seems to be beating the hell out of most other countries. You’d think if an Islamic terrorist had ever attacked an American school, it would merit mention in Michelle’s column. And yet she can only point to one Islamic terrorist attack on a school — and that was in Russia.

Which isn’t to downplay the horror and depravity of the Russian school attack, but it’s a little disingenuous to suggest that Islamic terrorists are shooting American schoolchildren when, in fact, it’s generally American schoolchildren who are shooting American schoolchildren. The occasional adult man jumps into the mix, and usually manages to throw some misogyny in there (sense a pattern?).

But, yeah, our schools have clearly been corrupted by Sharia law. Or something.

41 thoughts on Michelle Malkin: Insufficient hatred of Muslims continues to plague our schools.

  1. Clearly, Wikipedia has been infiltrated by bandana-wearing Cybermuslims.

    I bet Conservapedia places the blame for all those school shootings directly where it belongs: Ahmed.

  2. Our Lady of the Concentration Camps

    Nice! Someone needs to make an image for that. You saw the Max Blumenthal video where he asked her to sign a picture from one of the concentration camps, right?

  3. Yeah, I’m totally sure that this kid is going to turn out to be a Muslim terrorist instead of a disgruntled white boy.

    Yep. That’s gonna come out aaannnnyyyy day now.

  4. While I don’t approve of scaring children by running drills about a statistically unlikely scenario (whatever happened to good old fashioned fire drills?) these children are far more likely to die from, say, sexually transmitted diseases contracted because they never learned about condoms than they are to die from a terrorist attack. So I suppose learning to fear Christian fundamentalists isn’t the most absurd lesson they could be taught.

  5. Ahmed? My ahmed…he’s totally the most sexually wanton, shallow and materialistic person ever…So not into terrorism..like at all….Most Ahmeds are like that…too bad Michelle’s never met an Ahmed or a Fatima.

  8. I know that what would have prevented the school shooting in my district when I was in high school would have been keeping semi-automatic rifles out of the hands of emotionally disturbed teenagers. Wonder if Michelle Malkin favors getting the government involved in that safety threat?

    Do they do the drills with the kids there? Because they’re better off doing a generic “intruder drill” (similar to a fire drill; instead of sweating details, they just have an annoucement, the teacher locking the door, and everyone gets away from the windows) rather than expose kids to the stress of a full on attack simulation. And that way, you don’t have to worry about having trained the kids to respond to screaming Jihadis and getting a disgruntled parent with a weapon.

    If it’s law enforcement and staff, on the other hand, they could have every reason to be just as worried about militas as Al Quaeda, and have far more reason to worry about disgruntled parents going after the staff/school with a weapon than suicide bombings.

  9. On school shootings, I’ve only heard of one that was done by a girl (Brenda Spencer in 1979). Aside from that, are all the perpetrators male?

  10. Hey, we just called them lockdown drills. And they happened regularily as there was a rather large school shooting at our local high school a few years ago. It was just as normal as an earthquake or fire drill.
    Also, lockdown is also easy to remember should the need occur. Ya know, lock, get down, and stay away from the windows. Exactly what it sounds like.

  11. Maybe there should be a drill in case crazed right wing racist journalists attack the children with ridiculous nonsense arguments.

  12. I remember intruder/terrorist drills! They used the same signal as for tornado drills, which was quite stupid, as for one you were supposed to stay in the classroom, and the other you had to go out into the hall.

    Anyway, Ms. Malkin is speaking at my college soon. I don’t know whether or not I want to help keep attendance low and not show up, or read up and go to the thing with some tough questions ready.

  13. can you NOT quote such long portions of her stupid rants.

    That lady is ignorant and adds nothing to the conversation.

    Just ignore that loser.

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  16. OH MY FUCKING JESUS!

    My mom works at a high school, my sister goes to another.

    Mom’s was on lockdown ‘no we’re not, but don’t leave the classrooms’. because a terrible rumor had been started on myspace about this smart, but emotionally disturbed kid that he’d bring a gun to school over a weekend a couple weeks ago.

    The kid had no gun, no plans to bring one, but they were still on lockdown, and my mom wouldn’t say lockdown in her text messages because they ‘weren’t in lockdown’.

    Sometime this year (I’m sorry, my pills make me fuzzy), my sister’s school went on lockdown twice in one day. Because of gay muslims?

    No.

    Some (probably Christian – they were from the more rural county to the north) carjackers were in the neighborhood and the school is an open campus. During the second lockdown, she was stuck in the cafeteria for 2 hours. There are two roads through the school, one kids regularly cross (built for buses). The carjackers were there.

    Yeah, we’re by a base, but shit, we don’t have Muslim drills. We have more tornado and boring fire drills than anything else. The lockdown drills were as funny as ‘duck and cover’ in my mom’s day. We have to go to the wall opposite the window, along the wall of the door, and crouch or sit down and keep quiet. The only lockdown drill I had was in my too fun for school 11th grade English class. Trying to stop giggling was as hard as the pose you must hold during a tornado drill.

  17. My second post got gobbled by the evil that is Compuserve. I can’t click on your tags, so I tried to type them, and that got me kicked off before I could save the post. *bonk bonk bonk*

    My point was paranoia based on Columbine and Jonesboro (the 2 kids from JB are out of jail. They could only be held until 18 on the ‘shooting 10 people’ charge, then until 21 on gun charges. One found Jesus, of course.) has led to little windows and outdoors for children – and yes, I am saying high school students are kids who need sun.

    The ‘old building’ was torn down when I was a junior. We’d moved into the new building around election ’04. The old building was so windowed it wasn’t funny. Every outside wall in every classroom had windows that went up to the high ceilings. Everyone loved them, ven when wasps made a nest at the top of one when I was in 10th grade.

    Then progress showed up and we got a new main building with one window per class if lucky. A number of first floor rooms had none – like the art room.

    But we still had to go outside to eat lunch – ours was the first high school in the area, and buildings were added as the population grew. So the caf’s on the other side of campus. Long walk, long wait for crappy food, but we got to go outside.

    Not so at my mom’s school. Brand new – only been open 3 years – no seniors. One window per class, yes, and the gym and caf and library are all in one building. *goggles* I still don’t believe it.

    Our old building had a loose sort of courtyard field with the science wing on top of the library to the north, the caf to the south, the main 3 story building to the east, and the auditorium to the west. It wasn’t secure of course, but it felt nice.

    Our high schools need courtyards now. The windows can all be facing the courtyard, and the library and caf can be on the bottom floor – with the back end of the caf sticking out into the parking lot/not the courtyard.

    But that doesn’t fit NCLB standards, so…. ::sigh::

    It was great fun when I wasn’t hungry my senior year to sit in the sun and just… sit. My sister still has that, and I know I’ll have it at college in the fall.

    But the kid’s at mom’s school don’t. And that sucks. Especially since she’s working with a special ed girl with schizophrenia who likes to walk. At our school, the special ed class walks around the track. Michelle can’t go outside – no one can unless they’re checking out.

    Same in the psych ward for depressed adolescents. 16th floor, lots of windows, no outdoors. I’m no shrink, but I felt ten thousand percent happier when I got home and sat in the backyard with a dog on my lap and the sun in my face.

  18. As to the security of the schools, Mom’s is safer – the doors can only be opened from the inside, except for the ones at the front by the office.

    My school… not so much. “open campus” means classes in different buildings.

    When I was homebound my senior year, I had to come in to get homework. It was hot. I was in flipflops, shorts, and an untucked shirt. (All banned to make the school safer – they have to tuck in their shirts to prove they’re not hiding guns. Seriously. Flipflops are not banned if they look expensive. No shit.)

    Anyways, I was able to visit a classroom and many others were easily accessible – doors open, it was hot, but past the ‘AC’ date.

    And they have to tuck in their shirts and wear waist-length jackets to prevent another Columbine or Jonesboro.

    However, since it’s an open campus and there’s thing called rain, backpacks are used freely, and never inspected.

    And a couple months ago, I walked straight through the building after getting my transcript.

    But! Less windows – windows that don’t open and a stricter dress code make us safer.

    My sister is a terror to her teachers, we know she talks back. But she (and I) ace those NCLB tests, so they can’t touch her.

    BAH.

  19. just a thought…that it’s pretty much just american boys killing american schoolchildren. but ‘kids killing kids’ is catchier. alliteration and all.

  20. keeping semi-automatic rifles out of the hands

    Goodness. A liberal who knows there’s a difference between a semi-automatic and fully automatic rifle. Now I’ve seen it all.

  21. I know that you don’t touch daddy’s guns, you’re not even supposed to know where they’re kept. (Daughter of policemand who got his cheating ass kicked out at 10)

    As for lockdowns, not only did they not tell us the reality of what was happening on September 11th, we didn’t go into lockdown. “Oh, kids, you’re stuck in English. But I can’t say why!” (English was the period I was in.)

    I mean really, we’re not by a an ocean base, but still. Only one of my military friends checked out – and he didn’t even live on the base!

  22. Er, when I was 10, not him. (though anything’s possible)

    Now I know where he keeps the guns (his house) and I still don’t want to touch them.

  23. My school didn’t have lockdown drills – just bomb scares, which were treated like fire drills. They got to be very routine after a while. And the school is still standing!

    It’s funny. When I read the line about hostage-taking Christian gunmen, I instantly remembered the man who killed the girls at the Amish schoolhouse last year. Muslim terrorists in our schools?

    …

    …have there been any incidents like that? At all?

  24. Since America owns the whole world, yes, Nomie there have been Muslim terrorists in our schools.

    Actually, the American Taliban from the liberal cesspool town in California went to American schools growing up – so yes, we had a (potential) Muslim terrorist in our schools.

    When we did lockdowns, it was assumed it was a nut with a gun in the school, or someone holding students prisoner with another weapon. No religion.

    But I guess since our lockdowns are only based on threats of any kind, and you had ‘duck and cover’ drills because the commies would kill you, we need to have a specific enemy we’re hiding from or something. *eyeroll*

  25. The most logical approach is to have the police officers play digruntled white high school students. There, problem solved.

    Next, I propose we lock up all white males of high school age in camps. Just in case.

  26. Huh. Apparently, my high school was a death trap. No dress code, unlocked doors everywhere, big windows for classes that faced the outside (some were in the middle of the building), students allowed to go outside whenever they wanted, no lockdown/tornado/natural disaster drills…

    It was all one building, though. I’ve never seen a high school that was more than one building. Then again, it would have been a little mean to make kids go outside between classes when it’s winter on the prairies.

  27. My high school had a number of portable classrooms, the gym and weight room were in a separate building, the auditorium and music classrooms were semi-detached, and a good number of the windows faced outside. My middle school had so many portables, you could have shot one of those tension-filled, slow-motion-hunting-the-terrorist-between-rows-of-buildings scenes from 24 in the back. I’m surprised I lived through grade school.

  30. Burlington?

    There’s a store in Raleigh less than 10 miles away with that name..

    Burlington is a cold name – Burlington, Vermont.

    Memphis, Tennessee. Yuck.

    We had plenty of fights though – we have two middle schools coming in to one high school. The middle schools hate each other, hate each other!

    So the froshies are in their own bulding most of the time, have their own gym, and their own lunch time – for the most part.

    The biggest fights are always among the freshmen – the middle school rivalries.

    Now that my sister’s a sophomore, the rivalry stayed with the froshies.

    And last year, on April 20 – 4/20 – there was a major drug bust at my school. Most busted were froshies, and the seniors that were got to graduate, while I was told I couldn’t because I missed too many days thanks to a fucking surgery.

    A 9th grade girl was caught selling ecstasy to a cop.

    But, according to people other than the cops and the media “That’s why they call it *high* school”, it wasn’t just the kids. the cops apparently pushed one student into selling to him – “I know you have it, etc.” And in the fall, a cop was busted for dealing drugs.

    But it happened on 4/20 – ha!

    Our cops are worse – they beat a black man to death ro resisting arrest. He had anger problems and there’s a belief he had seizures (and a low IQ), so when he was knocked down, he continued to twitch. They continued to beat.

    Some asshat not from the town trotted out the old cliche in a letter to the paper – “White cops killed a black guy. But where’s the outrage over black people killing black people?”

    Some woman I don’t know – no idea what her race is – wrote back and said, “Screw you. It’s not that he’s black and was killed, it’s that he was killed! We have very little murders in this town.”

    Which is so true – later, the paper ran a thing on expansion in our area – number of murders in our town and the unincorportated part of the county surrounding us in the last year – 1.

    And we all still remember a murder-suicide from when my sister was in elementary school. Because it happened outside the elementary school, they went into lockdown.

    Ha! I managed to get back on topic.

  31. Then again, it would have been a little mean to make kids go outside between classes when it’s winter on the prairies.

    My freshman year of high school in Illinois (north of Chicago), they canceled school one winter day because it was too cold for us to walk between buildings. With the wind chill factored in, it was -70. That’s right, 70 degrees below zero.

    There’s a reason I live in Southern California now.

  32. Hey something about the man’s death – the ME won’t release everything, they won’t know anything for a couple of months, officially.

    I know CSI is fictional, and it’s not that fast, but it’s not that slow.

    They know he had a seizure or something, and they’re afraid to release the info.

  34. FFO, it’s populated and controlled by humans.

    If it was normal and fair, I’d be worried that I’d finally snapped and was sitting at Lakeside in a padded room.

    What was that joke? “We know Saddam has WMDs, we’ve got the receipts!”

    I missed the cold war, was it really worth arming despots that had committed genocides?

  35. Your statistics are fudged. They don’t include the Beslan incident and therefore can be presumed not to be an accurate tally of worldwide “terrorist” school killings. The report only claims to capture “shootings”. Note, there were people killed at the Beslan school with guns so these numbers are obviously slanted in some way. What else is missing?

    That’s 365 fatalities missing from one side of the equation if we take the broader meaning of terrorist killings (not just shooting deaths).

    BTW, your link included shootings whether fatal or not. Over 300 people died and 700 were wounded at Beslan. That’s approximately one thousand casualties, vs. the tally for your list which doesn’t distinguish between terrorism, and other reasons such as personal grievances. Nor does it distinguish between Christians and other groups, nor whether the killings were motivated by Christian ideology, separatism, or bigotry against non-believers.

    Christians can and do murder others on the basis of their ideology, be it homosexuals or doctors. Such ideology is in need of reform.

    Also, lack of results doesn’t mean lack of desire either. It’s more an issue of access and prevention. The Buddhist statues in Afghanistan lasted so long not due to any tolerance on the part of Muslims for the religious icons of others but purely over the issue of means. Destroying such large relics is difficult . Muslim terrorists similarly don’t have ready access to our schools.

    Disclaimer for Other Commenters: This comment is not to be interpreted as agreeing or disagreeing with any other portion of the article, or other comments. Nor should single words be taken out of my comment and spliced into racist diatribes. One should also not take my use of the words “Muslim” as racist when you do not take my use of the word “Christian” as racist under similar circumstances. In which case one should interpret me as hating both light skinned and dark skinned people for consistency sake. Althought that’s just stupidity on your part in the first place.

  36. My statistics are fudged? I’m sorry, did you read the part of the post that talked about the Beslan massacre?

    Can you point to any Muslims who killed school children in the United States? Speaking of “stupidity on your part”…

  38. I’m still trying to figure out why the school shootings in Beslan — which is, in fact, located in another country — are relevant to the school shootings here in the United States. It’s like arguing that kids in Kansas should be trained about what to do if a tsunami hits their school, not a tornado.

    If we had an ongoing civil war with well-organized militias constantly skirmishing with government troops like they do in Chechnya, then we probably would need to drill our kids in what to do if a band of rebels takes over the school. Until then, though, Beslan is about as relevant to US security needs as tsunami drills in Kansas.

  40. Your statistics are fudged. They don’t include the Beslan incident and therefore can be presumed not to be an accurate tally of worldwide “terrorist” school killings.

    I think you missed the part where the post was about school killings in the UNITED STATES. Not the WORLD. So you ought to have focused on whether or not they were an accurate tally of US school killings. When you’re looking at how to solve a problem, it makes sense to look at its root causes. I know it’s hard to believe, but because different countries are, well, you know, different, it makes sense to look at the pattern of events in the country you’re concerned with. Therefore, when looking at how to solve the problem of school shootings in the United States, it makes sense to look at the pattern in the United States. A pattern that has not included any instances of school killings by Muslims. No bomb-wearing Muslims shouting “Allahu Akbar.” No red-bandana wearing martyrs with visions of 72 virgins dancing in their heads. Oddly, the township went with what seems to be the most likely scenario based upon actual events in the United States. What happened in Beslan, while absolutely tragic, isn’t related to school shootings in the United States.

    Although, really, for someone so concerned with stupidity on the part of other people, all that should have been obvious to you. I rather wonder why you moved the goalposts like that. Unless you really can’t grasp the difference between the United States and the world or your reading of the post was less than, shall we say, thorough.

  41. FFO, it’s populated and controlled by humans.

    Tell me about it. It is too bad that the world is ruled by plutocrats.

    If it was normal and fair, I’d be worried that I’d finally snapped and was sitting at Lakeside in a padded room.

    Ditto.

    What was that joke? “We know Saddam has WMDs, we’ve got the receipts!”

    I think it was Bush or someone who worked for him that said that.

    …was it really worth arming despots that had committed genocides?

    No, but the CIA couldn’t care less.

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