Huda Essa, founder of Culture Links, L.L.C., at Bryant Elementary School in Ann Arbor, MI; 2017. Photo: “Principal of Bryant & Pattengill Schools” on Twitter. |
PJ Media’s Tyler O’Neil examines a new Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) report showing how Huda Essa---a Dearborn resident and founder of the Michigan-based consultancy Culture Links, L.L.C.---subjected teachers in Michigan’s Novi Community Schools District to a 2017 two-day “diversity” training presentation in which “Islam was glorified, Christianity disparaged, and America bashed—all funded by Novi taxpayers.”
Among other radical and unfounded claims, Essa alleged that hijab-clad Muslim women in America had been subjected to a relentless onslaught of “Islamophobia,” including being spat upon, having hot liquids poured over them, and being beaten and murdered.
In a canard recently invoked by Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, Essa implied that white Christian males are more of a terror threat than Islamist terrorists. She also engaged in Islamic supremacist propaganda that involved denigrating Christianity and Judaism.
Perhaps most disturbing of all, and as summed up by O’Neil, “the Novi school district did not fully vet Essa before her presentation and the district did not have documents showing any sort of investigation to fact-check her presentation. However, the request did reveal that the district paid $5,000 for the presentation. During the past five years, the school district has not forced teachers to take any seminar on Christianity, Judaism, or any other religion — only Islam.”
