Mansfield (OH) tea party guest incites debate on Islam, school policy

Source: Mansfield News Journal

More than 350 people crowded into the Premier Office Complex on Monday night to hear a speaker whose talk about Islam was suddenly moved from Mansfield Senior High School because of worries about public safety. Tea party members receptive to the lecture bumped elbows with concerned listeners from the Mansfield chapter of the NAACP and the Islamic Society of Mansfield.

He (Usama Dakdok) quoted the Koran and Islamic figures -- contending the U.S. Constitution had its roots in the Bible, while Islam produced slavery, religious murders and repression. Much of Dakdok's lecture focused on President Barack Obama. Dakdok said Obama has not been truthful with Americans when he tried to distance himself politically from his Islamic father, has welcomed Muslims into high government offices, and set the stage for immigration of Muslim doctors and nurses to America to fill positions needed in the administration's health care plan.

The tea party meeting originally was scheduled to take place Monday evening at Mansfield Senior High School. On Friday, the Mansfield chapter of the NAACP criticized the school district for allowing a speaker it calls "anti-Muslim" to address the public on school property, arguing that permitting the event created the appearance of endorsing it.

Bonnie Oleksa, an organizer with the tea party group that invited Dakdok, said she is disappointed with the school district's decision. She said Freund was pressured by the NAACP and other groups to rescind permission for the event. "I thought in the United States we lived under the constitution, but it looks to me we are under Sharia law already," she said.

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Ummmm. . . . yeah . . . that wonderful anti-slavery Christian Constitution that allowed slavery to continue for another 100 years or so after it was ratified right? That same Constitution which designates a slave as 3/5ths of a person? Right?

Of course, we could also reference the 100+ times the Bible comments on slavery (not to denounce it by the way, in many cases just to give guidelines for how to treat (and beat) your slave).

"When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property." (Exodus 21:20-21)

"However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way." (Leviticus 25:44-46)

"Christians who are slaves should give their masters full respect so that the name of God and his teaching will not be shamed. If your master is a Christian, that is no excuse for being disrespectful. You should work all the harder because you are helping another believer by your efforts. Teach these truths, Timothy, and encourage everyone to obey them." (1 Timothy 6:1-2)

Nope, slavery is all the fault of Islam!!!!!!! What? Books of the Bible supposedly written before Islam existed endorse slavery? Preposterous!

ignorant people say ignorant things....

yet he claims to be an expert on Islam? No one that knows much about Islam could make such a claim. Dakdok is a FRAUD!

Just more Tea Party incitement to violence. This is how they did it 1930s Germany. This is a replay.

why get in an upraor over this? it's just more of the same from those halfwits.

This Dakdok is either stupid or a liar, the result being the same.