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    Hundreds of Muslims Protest LGBT Books in Dearborn, Michigan Schools

    Well this is a political correctness conundrum. Muslims vs LGBT. Liberals will blow a fuse trying to figure out who they are supposed to support. Or how to play the middle.
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    Dearborn Public Schools shut down a board meeting after hundreds of mostly Muslim parents erupted in chants of "Vote them out." The parents were enraged over sexually explicit LGBT books made available to students in school libraries.

    A number of protesters held signs that read, "Keep your porno books to yourself," "If democracy matters, we're the majority" and "Protect the children." Watch videos of the protest below.

    "If it's sexually graphic, if it's violent, if it's age inappropriate and has no literary value, it should not belong in a school library," said Faye Nemer, a parent in the district.

    One of the most prominent Muslim leaders in the state, Imam Sayed Hassan Al-Qazwini of the Islamic Institute of America in Dearborn Heights, used his sermon on Friday to urge his followers to go to the meeting to protest.

    "Some of those books are completely inappropriate for our children to read," Al-Qazwini said, according to the Free Press. "Some of those books promote pornography. Some of them promote homosexuality. We don't need this."

    Taxpayer-funded Michigan Public Radio noted that most of the crowd was made up of young Muslim men, "a contrast to the largely Christian groups that have led other efforts to restrict books in Michigan libraries."

    Many in the crowd were upset by one book in particular: "This Book is Gay," by Juno Dawson. It's a young adult non-fiction book on gender and sexuality. The book includes rough pencil drawings of male and female anatomy, which one group brought to the board meeting enlarged, on poster board, saying they were inappropriate for children.

    The book was being reviewed for appropriateness by the school district after a parent objected. The parent also asked for the removal of five other books, which are also under review:

    Push

    The Lovely Bones

    Eleanor & Park

    Red, White and Royal Blue

    All Boys Aren't Blue

    School staff explained that the district has a policy of not including media materials containing graphic and/or gratuitous violence, sexual content, expletives, or hate speech, and without literary or educational merit, in the library collection. Staff meet to discuss student or parent objections to a particular item, and meet with the objector to explain their decision.

    The meeting was shut down after school board members could not control the "unruly" crowd.

    "I was disappointed that the board acted in the way that they did," parent Alfred Abbas told the Detroit News. "I feel like the they should have allowed the parents an opportunity to speak because by not allowing them to speak they created chaos because people felt like their voices weren't being heard."







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    Go the Muslims... nyuk nyuk nyuk

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    Didn't we see this coming!? We sure did. Don't mess with Islam

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    Every time I see a "re-elect XXXXX for XXXXX school board" I think, oh no, not in a millions years! We are voting you all out!

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    Love it... can't wait to see how this turns out.

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