(Washington Times) Tensions between Muslim parents and Montgomery County Public Schools over the Maryland district’s mandatory LGBTQ books escalated after a Democratic official compared the families to white supremacists.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations demanded an apology for “offensive and disparaging remarks” made by Montgomery County Councilmember Kristin Mink at Tuesday’s board of education meeting on the elimination of the classroom opt-out policy.
“This issue has unfortunately put, it does put some — not all, of course — some Muslim families on the same side of an issue as white supremacists and outright bigots,” said Ms. Mink at the meeting. “However, the folks who I talked to here today I would not put in the same category as those folks, although it’s again complicated because they’re falling on the same side of this particular issue.”
