In a pretty horrendous display of blatant islamophobia Florida Teacher was
caught on camera vilifying her Muslim students as they were praying.
Now she also used some physical violence against them,
which I'll get to in just a moment.
But before I get to
those details,
here's some of
the footage interrupting.
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>> Now, this took place
at Franklin Academy,
which is a charter school
in Broward County and
in Palm Beach Florida.
The teacher has since been fired.
The video was shared on TikTok and has since gone viral,
which resulted in the teacher being fired.
The school said this in a statement.
While we do not discuss personnel matters, we can share that the teacher
in question is no longer a member of the Franklin Academy staff,
which is well deserved considering the way she treated those students.
Now, and by the way, let me just be clear about something.
So whether we're talking about Muslim students, Christian students,
Jewish students.
If the students themselves decide they need to pray for
whatever reason on campus and it's not being pushed on them by educators or
forced upon them by educators, they should have the right to do that, right.
Now the school, especially if it's receiving any type of government funding
is not supposed to rest establish a religion, right?
So the educators are not supposed to force a religion onto the students.
That's an important distinction to make.
But if the students on their own,
because they're students of faith decide they want to prey on campus.
They have every right to do so and it doesn't matter what their religion is.
I want to be clear about that.
This just happens to be about Muslim students.
Now let me continue.
So apparently, here's what she said one more time.
She said, hold on, this is my office, y'all doing all this magic,
I believe in Jesus, so I'm interrupting the floor.
So she thinks that what they're engaging in is like some sort of voodoo or
whatever.
>> But remember, she thinks that Jesus is magic, so
she's opposed to the other magic.
>> Right. >> She likes her magic, not their magic.
>> Yeah, so much like Christians, by the way, Muslims also believe in Jesus,
but they have a different religious doctrine.
Also the five daily Islamic prayers are very sacred for Muslims.
I don't know if you know anything about this, I'm not educated on it.
>> Yeah.
>> So, and once started, should not be disrupted by others or
those praying themselves.
Now, do you want to like jump in on that because I want to understand that
a little bit.
>> Yeah, sure, so look, I grew up Muslim,
I didn't have a great experience with, well, that's actually not true.
I had a perfectly great experience with the religion except for
the part you just saw, which I'll explain in a second.
I left the religion just mainly because I realized later in life.
I don't think it's true.
And so I don't think any of the religions are true, that's my personal opinion.
Okay, now the great thing about Islam is,
it's the, arguably the least racist religion.
Now if you grew up in America, you think, there's no way man,
I tell every movie I see, he's got these guys, they're terrorists, right?
Every news story, terrorists.
What do you mean these?
No, no, no guys, I'm not telling you, it's a religion of peace.
Every religion has peaceful parts.
Every religion has awful parts, right?
But no, in Islam, one of the key pillars is, we're all the same.
It doesn't matter if you're German, Indonesian, African,
it doesn't matter at all as long as you come to God.
Okay, so that's one of the great parts of Islam.
One of the bad parts of Islam is, its terrible on the knees [LAUGH].
Hey, and it asks you to pray five different times a day,
including around sunrise.
>> Too much effort.
>> It is, it was for me, I'm too lazy, okay.
And so I remember even when I became the most religious,
which is never fundamentalists, but I was very,
I was as observant as I could be and that was when I was about 20 years old.
I was in college and I'd taken this great introduction to Islam class and
it got kind of got me into it.
But even then I was like five times a day.
Okay, so I cheated and I would pray five times once a day.
Okay, [LAUGH] and when you go to a mosque and
you have to kneel down and do that whole thing.
My God, your knees are killing you.
>> Now I got to call you out even more.
He cheated in other ways as well.
So he wasn't drinking alcohol because that was forbidden, right?
>> Yeah, that's true.
>> Based on the religion, but he couldn't give up the pork.
>> No, when I was most religious, I even gave up pork.
>> Look at that.
That's how devout I was.
>> I thought you were picking and choosing.
But at some point you started eating the pork again.
>> Of course. >> But
you gave yourself credit because you weren't doing the drinking, if I remember.
>> [LAUGH] Yeah, there was a moment where that happened too because when you're
religious, you cheat all the time because no one actually followed the entire text.
If you did, you'd do some terrible things, right.
>> And be miserable, you'd be miserable.
That's what would happen.
It wouldn't be living.
>> But they're in the middle of something that is unquestionably sacred, right?
And I like that they touch their head to the ground as a sign of humility in that
prayer and said, I don't like the knees point as I can as I told you.
But of course you can't interrupt there and
they can't stop as they're in the middle of that prayer.
By the way, the Moroccan players in the World Cup after the they win and
they go and they kneel down and pray like that.
I think it's a beautiful moment for the 1.6 billion Muslims in the world saying,
hey, we're here and we're representing you guys.
So as they're doing this thing, these lovely, wonderful kids and by the way,
always apply the same standard no matter what the religion is.
So I wouldn't want religion taught in schools, I don't want Christianity or
Islam taught in schools.
But if there were Christians that had opened up their bible in the school and
I would say, hey, we shouldn't teach that religion or any religion in school, but
I wouldn't go knock the bible out of their hands, that's crazy.
>> Exactly now, 100%.
>> Yeah.
>> Look, look, I reflect back on some of our coverage of some stories in
the past or some of the ways that we've talked about religion and
I think I'm just gonna speak for myself.
Maybe I could have done a better job in differentiating between fundamentalist
religion and the vast majority of religious people in this country who
are lovely people, who don't force their religion onto other people.
You guys get the point.
But the other thing is, I do think that living in a country that
protects people's right to have a faith, to believe in a religion,
to practice their religion is important, right?
I don't believe in religion.
I'm an atheist, I've been clear about that, but
I still think it's important to protect religious liberty.
And in this case, I would not like if the educators, if the principal
of the administrators were forcing a particular religion onto the student body,
but that is not what happened here.
You have Muslim students praying because they believe in their religion and
their religion requires them to pray five times a day and
that should be protected because that religious liberty is important.
>> Yeah, and by the way, if you're a Christian,
we're not supposed to mingle state church and state.
So you can't be taught Christianity in schools because then you're teaching it to
Jews, Muslims etc, that don't believe in it.
>> In public schools.
But guys, you're allowed to pray all you want.
Trust me before a math test I prayed to.
[LAUGH] Okay, so that's not the issue and by the way,
you should be extra careful about the religious rights of minorities.
Now, you might say, that's easy for you to say you're religious or you were
religious minority here in America and of course you want to protect Muslims rights.
But remember I came from Turkey where it's 99% Muslim.
And there I would be saying be more careful about protecting the rights of
Christians, Jews,
etc because you don't have to worry about protecting the rights of Muslims.
It's a 99% Muslim country, they're gonna protect their own rights.
Of course you got to worry about protecting the rights of the minorities.
So in this case at least the teacher was fired and so
there's a little bit of justice there.