In this WBBM report, we learn that a third grader is accusing a Chicago Public School substitute teacher of threatening to strike him with an open upraised hand. The conduct of teachers in public schools is so outrageous these days that this might be true. But we just don’t know for sure. That is why an investigation is necessary.
However, certain people, including the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the TV stations that pander to it don’t want to wait for the outcome of an investigation. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, which is handling the publicity for this story, will frequently get on TV to try its case in the court of public opinion. Network affiliates around the country help them do this.
For instance, it says on the WBBM website that Jermont Terry is an active member of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ).
Jermont is an active member of the National Association of Black Journalists and the Investigative Reporters and Editors.
NABJ reporters function as activists in newsrooms around the country, protecting the image of black Americans in the news. They also frequently assist CAIR in manipulating the media. That is what is going on in this case.
In his summation, reporter Terry says:
And while Hamas is, in fact, listed by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization, CAIR Chicago and the Ihmud family say it is unreasonable for the substitute, or anyone, constantly to try connecting all Palestinians to Hamas. That is why they want the employee terminated for targeting the third-grader.
Is this reporting or apologetics? Repeatedly, the little boy defied the teacher by saying that Hamas jihadis are not terrorists, and that the teacher was disrespecting his culture. There is little doubt that this is what his family taught him.
One might get the impression that the family wants the teacher terminated more because she disrespected Hamas than because she allegedly raised her hand to their child.
It is no surprise that the Council on American-Islamic Relations would bring a story such as this one to the newsroom. CAIR’s executive director, Nihad Awad, has said publicly that the events on October 7 made him “happy.”
There are numerous examples of CAIR broadcasting its version of events during an ongoing investigation, knowing full well that the other side cannot respond.
CAIR has weaponized the testimony of a child more than once. In one case, CAIR used the accusation of a child to get on TV and claim that a teacher disciplined a student by saying he would have to watch others eat while he fasted for Ramadan. A subsequent investigation found this to have no basis in fact.
In another case, CAIR got on TV four times or more, rumor-mongering about a teacher who was accused of mishandling a hijab. Now that this teacher is suing CAIR for defamation in New Jersey, no TV station will touch this story.
Of particular interest in this case is CAIR’s motion to dismiss the defamation suit against the organization.
CAIR’s lawyers state in CAIR’s Motion to Dismiss that everybody knows that CAIR does not really mean what it says. They are just posturing.
Context is key here. CAIR Foundation’s role as a staunch advocate for Muslim-Americans signals to readers that these underlined statements are not an assertion of objective fact, but as expressions of subjective belief and opinion from an advocate’s point of view.
CAIR is constantly manipulating the TV newscasts in which its representatives appear.
Here is CAIR manipulating the media in Olympia, Washington.
Here is CAIR manipulating the media in Georgia.
Here is CAIR manipulating the media in Missouri.
Here is CAIR manipulating the media in Minnesota.
CAIR’s call for the teacher’s termination is one manifestation of what has now become a weekly event. CAIR uses its astonishing media access to force terminations, threaten livelihoods, defame reputations, charge people with hate crimes, and more.
There are close to 50 examples of this in 2023, and over 160 total examples in the past six years. All with the willing help of TV stations such as WBBM, and reporters such as Jermont Terry.
“Family says Chicago substitute teacher targeted 3rd-grader for being Palestinian,” by Jermont Terry, CBS, December 27, 2023:
CHICAGO (CBS) — A call has been issued for a quick investigation after an 8-year-old boy said a substitute teacher made offensive and inappropriate remarks to him in class.
The boy is of Palestinian heritage. As CBS 2’s Jermont Terry reported Wednesday night, local Islamic leaders want the Chicago Public Schools to take action now.
As CPS students finish up their winter break, the father of 8-year-old Mahmoud Ihmud said his son is scared to go back to class – with a substitute teacher accused of targeting him for being Palestinian.
“She said that Hamas are terrorists,” said Mahmoud.
Those are the words Mahmoud said his substitute teacher at Chicago Academy Elementary School, at 3400 N. Austin Ave., told him. Students were in art class when he said the sub started randomly asking their nationality.
“I was the last person. I said I was from Palestine. She said, ‘Hamas are terrorists.’ I was like, ‘That’s not true.’ She was like, ‘Yes it is,’ I was like, ‘That’s not true.’ She goes, ‘No, it’s true – and it’s true, I’m going to hit you,'” said Mahmoud.
Mahmoud said the substitute insisted on telling him, and the entire third grade class, that he Hamas was killing children.
“And then I pushed her away, and then I ran back to my desk,” said Mahmoud. “Then she raised her hand at me.”
CBS 2’s Terry asked Mahmoud to show him what the teacher did. Mahmoud demonstrated to claim the teacher raised her hand with an open palm at him.
Terry asked Mahmoud what was going through his mind when this happened.
Mahmoud: “What was going through my mind? I wanted to hit her.”
Terry: “You were mad? Why were you so mad?”
Mahmoud: “She disrespected my culture.”
“I was so mad,” said Mahmoud’s father, Tawfiq Ihmud. “For an 8-year-old boy and a teacher tell him that he knows nothing about what’s going on back home – ‘What’s Hamas? What’s terrorist.'”
Mahmoud’s father set up a meeting. He met with school administrators the Wednesday before break.
“I went to the principal, and I told him, he said, ‘I’m making a report on her right now,'” said Ihmud. “But I said, ‘What’s the reason she said to my son that?’ He said, ‘I have no answer for you right now.'”
The father said CPS launched an investigation.
“They told me they stopped her from going to that school, which is the Chicago Academy,” said Ihmud.
Yet it is unclear if the substitute teacher has been banned entirely from working within CPS while they investigate.
“She can be in other schools. There are a lot of Palestinians, Muslims all over in different schools,” said Ihmud. “They way she treated my kids – she could treat other kids the same way.”
“This is not someone that should be working with children,” said Maggie Slavin of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Chicago….
mike says
I want CAIR people removed from the nation for opening our doors and welcoming you
you don’t like the people of this nation here’s the door
CAIR if this is you attitude your no longer welcome here
CAIR you have disrespected the people of this nation from day one
this doesn’t work only one way
be gone
SteveC says
CaIr has always been anti civilization. Its members should all be deported to afghanistan then they wont have to change their logo. They hav no place outside if islamic nations.
Wrong says
Someone should make a picture with Kamala Harris that is similar to Merkel’s famous hijab and “soon you shall all follow Allah” meme.
Larry Estavan says
Shouldn’t this story have been that there is a family of Hamas supporters in Illinois teaching their children that Hamas is good?
Everything in this broadcast is so prepostorous. Dispite the little boy saying Hamas are not terrorists repeatedly, we are told not to equate Palestinians with Hamas. The boy just did that.
But of course CAIR is doing this as well. CAIR’s latest media campaign is to claim on TV that there is an “unprecidented” surge in anti-Muslim “bias” right now. However, it is clear that what CAIR is detecting, and reporting on is society rejecting pro-Hamas statements, and actions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIO-Wr3op3I
Walter Sieruk says
This shows the sly and insidious stealth jihadist infiltration of the public school system in Chicago and likewise how they , the stealth jihadists, won’t tolerate the truth being spoken , even about that brutal cruel vicious dangerous and deadly jihad terror/murder entity ,Hamas.
This is also very revealing the subversive sinister power of the Red/Green alliance in the public “educational” system of Chicago.
This Islamic encroachment of the American public school system is not limited to the city of Chicago but is and has spread to other cities and states across the United States and should be and must be stopped.
Ray Jarman says
As the old saying goes, one knows when someone from CAIR is lying. His/her lips are moving.
Walter Sieruk says
This pressure by that Islamic power /lobby organization , CAIR, to attempt to have a substitute teacher fired for “disrespecting” that jihad terror/murder organization is very absurd and outright ludicrous.
For there is nothing Hamas that deserves respect of any kind . Hamas and the brutal cruel jihadists who many up that malicious and vicious jihad entity have murdered unarmed defenseless young people and raped Jewish girls and even living burned infants to death. As for the hostages the jihadists of Hamas had kidnapped some had been tortured , other raped and some other both raped and tortured.
The hostages of the Hamas jihadist have been and some are still kept small dark filthy rooms and denied their basic human rights and many other ways.
Furthermore, the gall of CAIR , Islamic gall , of trying to get that teachers fired for speaking the truth is part of the stealth jihadists of CAIR of the Muslim method of Islamic Gradualism. In contrast to the way of the violent jihad or also called the militant jihad .This non-violent form of the jihad for Islam is a very sly, insidious, subtle and deceptive way of working for the advancement of Islam and its Sharia in the United States public educational system , which is not limited to the schools of Chicago but across the US.
This Muslim scheme for achieving the goal of the Islamic agenda is as, many times, as subtly effective as it is demonically clever.
In addition , this Islamic gradualism, in some ways, is very similar to the instruction printed in the book entitled THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu. Which reads “At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to opposes you”
Bexarkat says
What the teacher did would be a death sentence in France. I think the United States is not far behind France in this matter. Teacher Beware!!
Michael Paul Skok says
I would say we are about five years behind France, but more likely less than five years behind France judging from the pro-Hamas and pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have taken place on our university campuses.
James Lincoln says
So, just how is it possible to disrespect Hamas?
Mike says
By calling them feral swine, even though that’s precisely what they are. However, some people may object, because characters such as Peppa Pig, Wilbur, Babe and the late Chris P. Bacon at least have some decency and kindness, and don’t embezzle tens of billions of dollars which are meant for others.
James Lincoln says
Let’s not forget Arnold Ziffel, Mike.
Mike says
And Miss Piggy, and Piglet from Winnie the Pooh, lol.
Constance says
Can anyone explain to me WHY we tolerate these A.holes in America?? They ALL SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN… this is terrorism at its finest right under our noses
Barrelhead Braggs says
This is what many stupid Westerners do not understand. When you abandon your own faith you will find yourself in the weak position Europeans have sluggishly and finally started to abandon. Until Westerners learn HISTORY and observe closely the LESSONS it contains we are sure to finally fall prey to creeping insidiously self-inflicted DHIMMITUDE. Anytime you allow anyone of any faith to build monuments to their faith in your land but you cannot build any monuments of your faith in their land in a state of reciprocal respect half of their plan to put you in subjugation is already in play. New Years Eve in New York went well because Americans will react extremely quickly and in a nasty way to a desecration of that day for sure. But our memories are short and our enemies patience is long. If they can forbid us learning our faith in schools their faith in schools without reciprocal support for the same in their schools Canada will beg for us to take their Hamas citizens that are soon to overwhelm their cities (by invitation). Our left wing dummies will cry and scream let them in then weep and moan when 9/11 happens again. Without studying history we’re destined to repeat it!!!