Some Dearbornistan high school kids had some custom sweatshirts for their class. They are the Class of 2011, or just ‘11.
So of course, being good Americans, they made the “11” look like the Twin Towers, had the school mascot, a mythical Thunderbird, flying into it with the words, “You can’t bring us down” underneath it.
The students wore the hooded sweatshirts to school Monday. They were immediately sent to the principal’s office.
The sweatshirts were confiscated.
“What took place here today was an inappropriate, distasteful act,” said David Mudstone, a spokesman for Dearborn Schools. “(It was) totally inappropriate, totally disrespectful, and they just were not thinking.”
The students told the principal they didn’t mean any harm by having the sweatshirts made.
Other students who heard about and saw the shirts said they were disgusted.
“I found them very offensive and I didn’t think it was funny or fun at all,” said Brittany Johnson, a senior at Edsel Ford High.
The school has not said what disciplinary action will be taken against the students.
It’s easy to dismiss this as some high school kids showing poor judgment, but it is more likely a glimpse of an attitude that is prevalent in the Shia capital of America.
My prediction?
Nothing will be done out of fear of a harsh blowback. This is happening in a city where a wrestling coach was fired because a student left Islam:
A high school hall-of-fame and Christian wrestling coach in Dearborn, Mich., claims he was muscled out of his long-tenured coaching job by the school’s principal, a devout Muslim, because the administrator was furious over a student wrestler who had converted to Christianity from Islam.
Gerald Marsazalek has coached wrestling for 35 years at Dearborn Public Schools, amassing more than 450 wins and, in addition to being added to the Michigan High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame, was named "Sportsman of the Year" by the All-American Athletic Association.
Despite Marsazalek’s success, however, Principal Imad Fadlallah of Dearborn’s Fordson High School ordered the administration not to renew the coach’s contract, allegedly in retaliation over the student’s conversion and to continue a campaign of flushing Christianity out of the school.
What do you think?
