Right wing desperation reaches new level, tries to connect teachers unions to Teh Islam

[ck4829]

The DOE program identifies Arabic as "a language of the future." But David Horowitz, founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, says Arabic is now a language of the past.

"What has the Arab world contributed except terror?" he exclaims. "The theocratic, repressive Arabic states do no significant science, no significant arts and culture."

The political activist admits he is skeptical about the district's claim that the courses will be about language and culture, and not about the Islamic religion.

"We already have a lot of infiltration of Islamic jihadist doctrines into our K-12 school systems," he argues. "The teachers unions have ruined our K-12 schools. These unions are very left-wing and they encourage Palestinian terrorists to come to the school and indoctrinate students. So I'm not too happy about this news item."

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/horowitz-teachers-unions-leading-infiltration-islamic-jihadist-doctrines-our-k-12-school-sys

After spreading chain emails calling public employees "parasites", making edited videos to make them look bad, and now I guess they're just going to cut out the middleman and call them terrorists.

Horowitz is also just plain wrong and here are three reasons why:

Mohamed ElBaradei (Former head of the IAEA, initiated a program to help developing countries get access to radiotherapy to fight cancer, a Nobel laureate, and an Arab)
Naguib Mahfouz (Author of over 50 novels, dozens of movie scripts, a pioneer in contemporary Arab literature, a Nobel laureate, and an Arab)
Ahmed Zewail (Pioneer of femtochemistry, a Nobel laureate, and an Arab)

[Doctor_J]

1. Hartmann has AFA nut job on right now

"Arabic = Islam = Osama"

[Starry Messenger]

2. When Democrats don't support teachers and unions

assholes like Horowitz are emboldened. Only a strong push-back keeps these philistines marginalized. Instead the Democratic party has been playing footsie with the right wing, and this is what we get.

[texshelters]

8. Excellent

you have explained the causal relationship perfectly.

And now you have right-wing Texas state school boards taking Thomas Jefferson out of the text books because he doesn't fit into their agenda to brainwash kids and make them non-thinking drones.

Peace,
Tex Shelters

[Drale]

3. So first everyone was told they should learn spanish

cause the illegal immigrants where going to take over now its Arabic? These people must have major brain damage, I don't know what else could explain it.

[Lars39]

4. Bush Education Secretary Rod Paige beat 'em to it.

[gratuitous]

5. Why is Horowitz using Arabic numerals?

You know, this would be almost humorous except for a couple of things: First, there's no penalty on the right for being batshit crazy. Nobody will impute Horowitz' nonsense to anyone else, and nobody in Congress, even the most rabid Horowitz fans, will be asked about his lunatic pronouncements. Second, this garbage will be massaged and refined until it becomes an expression of bigotry acceptable in the nicer places. Then it will be propounded ceaselessly to equate unions and teachers with terrorism, and nobody will know how the whole thing started, but it will become an accepted part of our national discourse. "Some people say" that union members and teachers are terrorists, so let's talk about how bad it is for America to have EFCA or any labor rights guaranteed by the law.

[charlie]

6. Horowitz thinks bad guys speak English with British accents, like in the movies

It's funny a National Security State warrior thinks the language of TEH ENEMY is too subversive to learn.

That sort of brilliant thinking got dozens of Arabic speakers fired from our military for having boyfriends instead of girlfriends.

[LeftinOH]

7. Palestinian terrorists are invited to come and indoctrinate students?

I must have been home sick that day.