Jefferson Triumphs in Egypt

!NOT

Guardian, UK:

Egyptian teacher ‘cut hair of schoolgirls who refused to cover heads’

Teacher in Luxor province accused of punishing two pupils for not wearing Muslim headscarf

A teacher in southern Egypt punished two 12-year-old schoolgirls for not wearing the Muslim headscarf by cutting their hair, the father of one girl said on Wednesday.

The governor of Luxor province – where the incident occurred – called the teacher’s actions shameful and said she had been transferred to another school. But rights groups say that some Islamic conservatives have been emboldened by the success of groups like Muslim Brotherhood and the ultraconservative Salafi trend in parliamentary and presidential elections and have been increasingly brazen about forcing their standards on other Egyptians.

There won’t be any further action and this governor is going to find himself sweeping sand out of that school as a the new custodian, and after the ‘correct’ people tell him why this is the best he can hope for, he will agree, and the halls will be sand free.

Is there really anything to say?

This is what the State Department so cravenly was afraid to offend.

If we were properly led every American would both hear about these stories, and draw their own conclusions.

And other nations so inclined would be in FEAR of what might occur after an American Embassy was attacked.

Rightfully.

The state of the world IS:

Oderint dum Metuant.

Not our desire, but how it is.

The incident follows a surge in legal cases against Egyptians, mostly Christians, who allegedly showed contempt for religion.

It also comes amid a fierce debate over how the role of religion will be defined in the country’s new constitution. The preponderance of Islamists on the panel drafting the document has alarmed liberals and religious minorities.

Abu Bakar (the teacher) was quoted as saying she only resorted to cutting her students’ hair after warning them repeatedly to cover their heads. After these repeated warnings, a student handed her scissors from his bag, and that he and other students asked her to “implement” her threats.Ziad Abdel Tawab of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights said the incident was alarming but not surprising.

“Whether in schools or outside schools, the general sentiment is that any abusive action, if it is justified as protection of Islam, is tolerable,” he said.

DUH.

No American money should support such a system. No American should be forced against his or her will to send a portion of the money they earn working to make it easier for this teacher to abuse freedom of religion, or the system which not only enables it, but ENCOURAGES IT.

Why is the President of the United States not saying this?