Syed Jawed Anwar

Islamic Foundation School, Nugget, Scarborough, was unionized last year. The result is that the high school has been closed and the elementary school (KG to 8) is struggling to exist.

The Islamic Institute of Toronto Academy, Islamic Elementary School, was unionized last year. Now they are now barely making it.

Then the same union UFCW entered into NAMF (North American Muslim Federation) Islamic Academy (elementary school). On January 30, teachers voted “yes” to unionize. On January 31, 2018, Farooq Khan, Executive Director of NAMF, announced to shut the school with immediate effect. About 100 children became school-less and 15 staff members jobless.

“We didn’t have any option. We were hardly managing the school in extremely limited financial resources. I was extremely overloaded of work doing fifty types of jobs by myself. I shouldn’t afford to take extra burden,” said Farooq Khan, Executive Director of NAMF, talking to this columnist.

He said that his own son is now without school and have no option other than sending him public school.

Mr. Farooq Khan said that teachers of all Islamic/private schools should know that unionization means closure of the school. We are volunteer-based charity organizations. He said that we should ask and pressure government to exempt charity organizations from unionization.

Who is winner and who is loser?

Winners are those who are determined to unionize all private/Islamic schools. And losers are children, parents, teachers, and Muslim community as whole.

Did you ever ask why UFCW are so actively involved and planning to unionize “Islamic” schools and have no problem with thousands of companies around them that are not unionized? How many private schools, other than Islamic, did they approach to unionize?

Liberals and Democrats don’t want to see flourishing private schools. They want to dump every child into the public education system. Their agenda is sexually radicalizing and complete gay-ization of the society by brainwashing and indoctrination of all children.

They successfully accomplished that in all public-funded schools, and now they are coming for private schools.

 In reviewing the bill 13 (passed in 2012), we mentioned:

“This bill may allow the takeover of curriculum of private schools. An analysis of the bill by the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada suggests that the sections of the Education Act amended by bill 13 may also govern private schools. If that’s the case, it means that Dalton McGuinty will have the power to impose gay clubs and the 7-gender LGBTTIQ theory even upon private Christian, Muslim, and Jewish schools. It is also direct interference in federally guaranteed religious freedom under Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom.”

Kathleen Wynne, Premier of Ontario is on the highway with full speed in ruining the education, culture, and society. She will take all our guaranteed religious freedom under Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom.

If you can’t stop her now, you can never stop her.

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom starts with, “Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law….”

If our constitution states a belief in Supremacy of God, why don’t we obey God? If supremacy belongs to God, why are we allowing the supremacy of “desire” of Kathleen Wynne and her special interest groups. She and her liberal partners and ideologue violated the fundamental principles of our constitution.

How long will people with religious and traditional family values and culture keep silent? How long?

How long will religious imams, muftis, priests, pundits, monks, churches, synagogues, temples, and gurdwaras keep silent? How long?

For Muslims’ role, Allah says;

“You are now the best people brought forth for (the guidance and reform of) mankind. You enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong and believe in Allah. Had the People of the Book believed it were better for them. Some of them are believers but most of them are transgressors” (Quran Surah Al-Imran 3: 110).

(Jawed Anwar can be reached at jawed@seerahwest.com)