Man who tried to join ISIS attended Pence's voucher funded madrasa

[deminks]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/mike-pence-voucher-program-religious-schools

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But all these fans of religious vouchers may find one detail in Indiana's history disturbing, especially given their outspoken condemnation of Muslims. Pence has made clear he believes the United States is "in a war against radical Islam." Last year, as governor, he tried to ban Syrian refugees from resettling in Indiana following the Paris terrorist attacks in 2015. And Trump proposed banning all Muslims from entering the United States. Yet Pence's favorite education reform ensured that Indiana tax dollars paid for students to attend schools like the MTI School of Knowledge in Indianapolis.

MTI stands for Madrasa Tul-Ilm. It's an Islamic school, where 90 percent of its 225 students receive state voucher funding for their tuition, according to the school, to the tune of more than $1 million a year, making it one of the largest recipients of state voucher money. Thanks to the vouchers, the number of students attending MTI is now triple what it was in 2011.

In 2013, a young Muslim man named Akram I. Musleh attended the school for about eight weeks, as he bounced around several schools on his way to becoming radicalized. In September, he was indicted for providing material support to terrorists after allegedly trying to join ISIS. The school wouldn't confirm whether Musleh himself was the beneficiary of a state-funded tuition voucher.

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All those fire breathing trumpsters should be hyperventilating about now.

[raging moderate]

1. Don't hold your breath.

IOKIYAR.

[Kittycow]

2. Wish Satanists would start schools or FSM schools for that matter

[HAB911]

3. I think that may be in the works

just like after school programs

https://afterschoolsatan.com/

[lunasun]

4. K &R This from the article . So good luck tax paying suckers

Pence's voucher program ballooned into a $135 million annual bonanza almost exclusively benefiting private religious schools—ranging from those teaching the Koran to Christian schools teaching creationism and the Bible as literal truth—at the expense of regular and usually better-performing public schools. Indeed, one of the schools was a madrasa, an Islamic religious school, briefly attended by a young man arrested this summer for trying to join ISIS—just the kind of place Trump's coalition would find abhorrent.

That's at the expense of public schools Indiana people

[procon]

5. The criticism should be aimed at stopping tax funding for ALL religious schools.

It's Constitutionally illegal. As the article points out, Pence's voucher scheme "violated the state constitutional provisions that protect taxpayers from having to support religion." Whether its Muslim, Christian, Jewish, or any other school founded on religious dogma, taxpayers should not be forced to pay for it.