I wont be a bit surprised if the fact this is a Muslim school payed for by tax dollars is forgotten. All people will be thinking about is these threats. If these threats are real it is not right but it does not take away the fact this is tax payer funded school.

ST. PAUL, Minn., April 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) today asked local law enforcement authorities and the FBI to investigate reported threats against a charter school in that state as possible hate crimes.

Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA) in Inver Grove Heights, Minn., allegedly began receiving harassing and threatening messages after recent public criticism of the school by a columnist of the Star Tribune newspaper. The columnist's accusations against the school have since been highlighted on a number of anti-Muslim Internet hate sites. After being contacted by school officials, local police have stepped up patrols near the facility.

"We urge the FBI and local law enforcement authorities to treat these alleged threats as possible violations of the civil rights of the students, parents and staff of Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy," said CAIR-MN Chapter Coordinator Chris Schumacher. "It is a sad reflection of the level anti-Muslim feeling has reached in our society that agenda-driven accusations by a newspaper columnist apparently result in such hatred directed at innocent students."

He said the apparent threats to the school come following recent incidents such as a fire-bomb attack on a Minnesota Muslim-owned business and an arson attack on a Tennessee mosque by three members of the white-supremacist "Christian Identity" movement.

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