Dem Tells High School Grads They’re Entering A World Of “Capitalism” and “White Supremacy,” Encourages Them To Remember “Jihad” And Reject Objectivity
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A school board member gave a graduation speech in which she told a mainly-immigrant class of high schoolers that they were entering a world filled with “racism, extreme versions of individualism and capitalism, [and] white supremacy,” and encouraged them to remember their “jihad” and reject the concepts of objectivity and neutrality.
Fairfax County school board member Abrar Omeish gave the keynote address at the commencement for Justice High School in Falls Church, Virginia on June 7.
The ceremony began with a ceremony in which JROTC military cadets were the only people at the graduation who wore masks.
The class president then led what she called “the nation’s anthem,” referring to the pledge of allegiance, in which she said the U.S. was “one nation under Allah.” Omeish was out of view of the camera, but a picture from another recent graduation shows her as the only person without her hand over her heart during the pledge.
The president of the student government then introduced Omeish by noting that she was “Virginia co-chair for the Bernie Sanders campaign” and that her father, Esam Omeish, was a “leader and a board member of the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center” who “raised his daughter to be an outspoken woman.”
Dar al-Hijrah is a mosque attended by two of the 9/11 hijackers as well as the shooter in the 2009 attack on Fort Hood. Its imam was Anwar al-Awlaki, who President Barack Obama ordered killed by drone strike for plotting terrorism for Al Queda. Omeish noted that her father was in attendance at the graduation.
Her address seemed to herald the schools’ roles as political indoctrination centers. “You all kicked off the first ever black history month assembly to ensure that we confront our history and answer honestly about the ills of our past,” she said.
She lauded a teacher who used her access to children to encourage them to become political activists, and said that demands by students were an effective way to change school policy.
“Huge shout out to [the class president who called her a “role model”] and Ms. Corey Haynes, a teacher, for her leadership in supporting and empowering students despite the pushback. Let’s hear it for them, guys. They empowered your voice. Your model, Justice Class of 2021, moved the superintendent of the 10th largest school division in the country to follow your lead to teach with courage. And you pushed to incorporate that in the school schedule because you understand that social justice is only political for those who can afford to ignore it.”
“You understand that neutral is another word for complicit,” she said.
Much of the speech appeared designed to signal that she is unrepentant for a recent tweet in which she called Israel a colonizing state that “desecrates the Holy Land” and “kills Palestinians.”
She indicated that she feels similarly about America, saying “let us acknowledge the stolen land of the Manahoac people,” referring to a Virginia native American tribe.
She lamented the “child forced to question and hate the faith they love because of bullying,” frequently slipping into Arabic in her speech.
Some of her fellow members on the all-Democrat school board have offered tepid criticism of her comments on Israel, but in her graduation speech, she encouraged graduates not to let that kind of thing bother them.
“The world may try to quiet you by deciding for you what’s cool, what’s weird, what is or isn’t objective. It may try to convince you that what you hold dear is too different to be accepted. But who gets to decide? You are walking into a world that will be uncomfortable when you seek to cause good trouble. And that may seek to intimidate you or make you think the truth is controversial,” she said.
“Every part of your being may scream in rage at the ways others have wronged you,” but “let compassion for your fellow human beings, not anger or rage — and believe me this is hard to do — fuel you,” she said.
“No matter how many haters emerge, I’m sure you’ve encountered them yourselves, and believe me they’re a sign you’re unsettling the status quo towards justice. Just consider them your cheerleaders of another breed,” she said.
In her introduction, the student leader said Omeish faced “hatred for speaking truth to power about the Palestinian experience” but “continues to overcome and be an example so that young leaders like us will do the same.”
The introduction from a student also stated that “two years ago [Omeish’s] civil rights were violated by the police due to her appearance. she was attacked and discriminated against.” That entire incident is on video , which shows that an officer pulled over her car after watching her run a red light from a distance, from which her appearance was not visible. She repeatedly refused to show her license and then refused to get out of the car, leading to her arrest.
Omeish’s speech also focused on “equity,” a concept in K-12 education referring to forced equal outcomes. Fairfax County recently watered down the admissions criteria for its top-ranked STEM magnet school, Thomas Jefferson High School For Science and Technology, because too many Asians performed well on entrance exams that tested whether the students knew STEM.
“Our successes are not worth celebrating until we all come along,” Omeish said at the graduation celebration.
Justice High School received state accreditation only with conditions because of its 11% dropout rate. Nearly 20% of its students were chronically absent in 2019.
In 2017, the school board voted to rename the school from J.E.B. Stuart High School to Justice High School, discarding the results of its own survey , which found that community members wanted to rename it to simply Stuart.
A poll this month of Fairfax County voters found that most do not support schools being used to push racial activism like critical race theory. The survey also found that majorities of parents in all political parties oppose the elimination of advanced academics in the name of equity.
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Coming to a neighborhood near you.
She is welcome to come to my neighborhood anytime.
Don't think the vast majority of Canadians would go for that idea. But, that's just MHO.
My guess would be that this article, which is from a right wing web site, gives a very one sided account of this graduation.
But in any case my main response would be "big deal".
So, you can't discuss the thread since all you do is go after the source/author/creed/familial relationships, right?
Guess my main response to yours would be "big deal".
did you listen to the speech?
I did.
There is nothing wrong with it.
My main response would be 'nothing to see here!'
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That piece of shit was allowed to lecture to, in order to influence the minds of, American students? No wonder the American educational system is defunct.
Calm down Buzz, there was nothing in this commencement speech about Israel, the Holy Land, or the Palestinians.
Whether or not there was, IMO her the fact that she was held out as a role model or leader to guide the students disgusts me.
How can you defend someone that has this is their speech?
I feel confident that I am the only person here who listened to the whole speech, although I was also doing something else at the time.
Most of the speech simply congratulates the graduates on overcoming the obstacles that come with being a largely immigrant group that dealt with the disadvantages of being initially outsiders, and exhorts them to engage in social justice activities as they go forward into adulthood. Basically the speech praises ethnic and religious diversity.
The speech does not attack the U.S. , whites, or Christians.
Although it might not have been the type of speech I would have liked for my graduation day, there was nothing "wrong" with it.
Do you feel we should prevent free speech, and require all public speeches to be approved by state, government, censors first?
Yeah, only 'conservatives' should be able to give speeches free of censorship!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The woman does very briefly mention "extreme capitalism", "extreme individualism" and white supremacy, in a negative context I suppose, but so what?
I agree, so what?
They should be spoken of in a negative context.
You can remove that part when it comes to the speaker, it was not her meaning. She uses the term to indicate the internal struggle to become a better person, much as evangelicals use 'born again'.
Just ignore them and they will go away right? Like that has ever worked in the past.
Those on the left are ever so tolerant of everyone accept those they can't use. If this was an alt right person giving the speech saying the students need to "take back their country" the left would be shitting literal bricks over it. They would call for the removal from the school board; and the firing of those that let them speak.
We all know how the left loves evangelicals./S
Funny how they are ever so tolerant of hard line Muslims.
Hallux - I know you really can't be serious, 'specially after you read her background and history - not to mention her family's background and history.
Please read them again.
Much of the speech appeared designed to signal that she is unrepentant for a recent tweet in which she called Israel a colonizing state that “desecrates the Holy Land” and “kills Palestinians.”
She indicated that she feels similarly about America, saying “let us acknowledge the stolen land of the Manahoac people,” referring to a Virginia native American tribe.
Yeah - right John. Oh, she also got the name of the Virginia tribe incorrect - try Monacan.
" fellow members on the all-Democrat school board "
and that is why stuff like this happens!
stuff like what?
Free speech.....
It's just another 'I'm a victim of my white privilege seed' or something like that . . .
speech was very inappropriate for a graduation and inappropriate for a school board member to give
absolutely not
Why???
Remember the good old days when public schools concentrated on the fundamentals of reading, writing, and arithmetic? Now they are more concerned with equal outcomes, social justice, and critical race theory.
I am sure the rest of the developed world is laughing at us as we fall further behind in producing the next generation in the fields of computers, sciences, medicine, and technology. At least we will have a large group of social justice warriors.
No history in the good old days? No social studies? No sociology?
Yes there was History; not the perverse critical race theory that is being taught now. As for social studies, in high school yes; but they had a far different meaning than today and you know it. Same thing with Sociology.
Of course the left has no problem with their new indoctrination education system; as it breeds more leftist agitators.
Since you know so much about it, give us the names of some K-12 schools where critical race theory is being taught.
Now you've done it, you've scared him away.....
I’d have the read the entire text but this person sounds like an idiot who is just trying to make her problems someone else’s problems.
If someone were to come in spouting off that kind of bullshit in the work place they would quickly find themselves out of a job because no one else wants to listen to it. No one wants to work with that person who preaches all the fucking time.
Objectivity is racist.....Punctuality is racist.
I've got to say, CRT is an incredible scam. Nothing is ever, ever, an individual's fault. It's always the fault of the systematic oppressor (white people).
I've got to say, CRT is an incredible scam.
Thankfully, most American parents aren't buying this steaming pile of progressive propagandistic BS