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Taxpayer
funded children's museum to hold Muslim program
Examiner<http://www.examiner.com/law-enforcement-in-national/taxpayer-funded-children-s-museum-to-hold-muslim-program?CID=examiner_alerts_article>:
The New York City, taxpayer-funded Children's Museum of New York is planning
<http://culture.wnyc.org/articles/features/2011/aug/11/muslim-worlds-exhibit/>a
major exhibition titled, "Muslim Worlds" which is scheduled to begin a
long-term engagement in 2014.
According to information provided by the controversial Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR <http://www.cair.com/>), *"Muslim
Worlds<https://www.cair.com/ArticleDetails.aspx?ArticleID=26875&&name=n&&currPage=1&&Active=1>"
will have hands-on exhibits, performances and other events geared toward
getting children involved with the thousands of years of cultural heritage
that has come from the Muslim world*. Besides hosting individual visitors,
the Children's Museum will extend invitations for school groups including
those from public schools.
Although *the museum promises to "bring to life the similarities and
differences of Muslim cultures*," John Jay College Sociology Professor
Mucahit Bilici said that exhibits like this operate on the assumption that
Muslim people are separate from American society.
Visitors to the Children's Museum of Manhattan dance as part of a festival
celebrating Muslim culture."I would say that the major problem with this
project is that it treats Muslims as exclusively external people -- as
foreigners," he said. "I'm sure that a significant percentage of their
audience, like the kids who will visit that exhibition, will be Muslim. I
wish that they would be aware of this and that they would frame it in a
much more inclusive way."
Cyrus McGoldrick, the civil rights manager of the New York Council on
American Islamic Relations, argues that the exhibit will do good things for
the Muslim community. He said a lot of the civil rights violations that he
investigates happen to Muslim kids who are mocked by their peers at school.
*But many detractors believe this is an example of liberal-left hypocrisy.
Imagine a group of Methodists or Anabaptists holding an exhibition in a
government-funded facility?* Does anyone believe the politicians and the
ACLU would allow such a show to be held in a city-financed facility with
audiences being brought in by public school teachers? How long would that
last?" asks political strategist and consultant Mike Baker.
"Tolerance is one thing," says former NYPD Officer Edie Aquina, "but why
are we bending over backwards for the sake of political correctness. This
group CAIR, for example, has repeatedly attacked the NYPD for trying to
protect New Yorkers and Americans from radical Islamic terrorists. Will
this Muslim World exhibition feature the role of Islam in the slaughter of
3,000 people on 9-11? Or the hate speech directed at Jews?"
Question: Will this museum show beheadings and stonings of women?
h/t Orbusmax <http://www.orbusmax.com/>
DCG
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