SHARIAH PROM? MICH. SCHOOL HOLDS ALL-GIRLS DANCE TO ACCOMMODATE STUDENTS’ ISLAMIC BELIEFS

The New York Times recently featured a story about a Michigan high school prom. But why would a national outlet feature a local prom? Because it had “everything, except for boys.”

Meant to accommodate the religious beliefs of the school’s females — roughly 65% of whom would not have been able to go to a conventional prom, where boys and girls dance together — the event was the product of seven months of feverish planning and fundraising led primarily by Tharima Ahmed, who describes herself as “outspoken.”

And while everyone is happy that the girls were able to have a fun night out, others ask whether the school and the New York Times would have been equally supportive of accommodating Christian or Jewish religious beliefs? Still others ask whether this is part of what some have termed “creeping sharia,” where Islamic law is slowly introduced to the American mainstream?

What do you think?

[link to www.theblaze.com]