Councilwoman Claims Muslim Families Are ‘On the Same Side’ of White Supremacists in School Board Meeting

A Democratic council member is accusing Muslims of taking the side of bigots in a debate about school curriculum.

On Tuesday, Democrat Kristin Mink of the Montgomery County Council awkwardly tried to avoid calling Muslim families white supremacists while criticizing their views.

“This issue, unfortunately, does put… some Muslim families on the same side of an issue as white supremacists and outright bigots,” Mink said.

Sometimes you just need to learn when to stop talking.

But Mink did not learn that lesson apparently, and she went on, “The folks who have talked here to today, I would not put in the same category as those folks, although, you know, it’s complicated because they’re falling on the same side of this particular issue.”

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Fox News notes the incident came after “Muslim children from the district spoke out against their parents’ inability to opt them out of lessons they deemed violated their faith.”

“She argued Muslim families do not have the religious right to opt their children out of LGBTQ books, similar to parents’ inability to opt their children out of studying evolution,” it added.

Mink claimed requiring Muslim students to sit through such lessons is not an “infringement on, you know, particular religious freedoms, just as we cannot allow folks to opt out of teachings about evolution.”

People with abhorrent views can sometimes agree with opinions that are good. It does not mean those opinions or policies are bad because of it.

And parents do not have to be white supremacists, or on their side, to raise concerns such topics are not appropriate for their children to be introduced to in schools. But the proponents of keeping such discussions and materials in schools are so — almost bizarrely — firm in their beliefs they make some of the weirdest arguments against those opposed to them.