Fairfax County

So the point being, ladies and gentlemen, that we may be done with war on terror and Islamic jihadists, but they are not done with us.

But do not tell that to Democrats in Fairfax County, Virginia, this morning, nor their education system.

Fox News is reporting that this suburb of Washington, DC, is telling teachers there to not link the 9/11 attacks with radical Islam and to be sure today to create safe spaces for Muslim students.

It is all part of a six-page instructional guide for teachers in Fairfax County, ensuring that conversations today do not center on the Islamic extremists or the acts of the extremism.

In fact, they say don't even associate the 9/11 attacks with Islam or Muslims at all.

Instead, perhaps we might just offer the words of Representative Ilhan Omar, who once infamously said, uh, called 9/11 the day that some people did something.

But Democrats in Fairfax County are not alone in this whitewashing of history.

The New York Post this morning is blasting the Muslim activist group in America called CAIR for blaming 9/11 on America's historical relations with Israel.

You know, that's by far our biggest alumni base.

Fairfax, Loudoun, Princeville, you know, those counties in Northern Virginia.

And it's nice when we can go up and play Where they don't have to drive four hours to see us play.

They'll be out in force, no doubt.

In fact, we've got a story out of D.C. now in northern Virginia.

We're going to follow up on it on Monday where we actually see what the curriculum is in Fairfax County with regard to 9-11.

It will it will make your eyes bleed.

Councilwoman Palladino.

It's the suburbs.

We followed the transformation of Fairfax County from rural Virginia into the sprawling bedroom community surrounding Washington, D.C., where forests were cleared, highways appeared, and old country roads suddenly ended beside subdivisions.

Then in October 1970, police began receiving reports about a man dressed in a rabbit costume.

He allegedly threatened people with an axe.

Now, there have been a number of schools around the nation that are teaching a skewed version or a whitewashed version of what happened on 9-11.

As a matter of fact, in Fairfax County, Virginia, teachers were actually given instruction not to mention anything about Islam, not anything about Muslims during 9-11.

As a matter of fact, they were told specifically, do not assume students' feelings, ignore statements rooted in bias, hate, and racism, center the extremist or the acts of the extremist, and do not create an emotionally stressful learning environment for any student.

So what Fairfax County is trying to do, and keep in mind, 25 years.

So anybody who is, let's say, under the age of 30 really has no true concept of what happened on that day.

They cannot relive the horrors of that day that all of us went through.

But President Bush came out in an interview and said that they did their very best not to say anything about Islam in the aftermath of the attacks.

Well, that was a problem because the Islamist, the radical Islamist, are at war with the United States of America to this day, by the way, to this day.

[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Unscripted: Conversations About Sexual and Domestic Violence, a podcast featuring employees and subject matter experts from Domestic and Sexual Violence Services and partner organizations discussing all aspects of interpersonal violence while providing prevention strategies, solutions, and resources for support for residents of Fairfax County.

I'm your host, Kendra Lee.

On this episode of Unscripted, I'm with youth education and outreach specialist Deborah Miller and children's counselor Abricielle Glazer, both with Domestic and Sexual Violence Services, and Kimberlin Pena, social services specialist in the Fairfax Falls Church Community Services board to better understand teen dating violence.

And so you're saying conversations, and I'm hearing, you know, talking with your parents or parents talking with your teens.

But what other help is out there for teens? Like, are, are, do they have difficulty seeking help if, if they realize that something is wrong and they don't wanna talk to their parents? Who should they talk to? What help's out there? What's available?

So first, I would say the 24-hour Domestic and Sexual Violence Hotline in Fairfax County, which is 703-360-7273, is a resource for them for just talking through, you know, "I don't know what's going on in my relationship or even my friend's relationship." Um, and there's also, um, you know, a lot of teens might not pick up the phone and call these days.

Um, but if they're not comfortable doing that, there are resources like the national organization, Love Is Respect.

Not only do they have a lot of good features and information on their website about dating, including a is my relationship healthy or unhealthy quiz, they also have an online chat hotline, so teens can text or type directly, um, into that chat, which if they're not comfortable talking to a person, you know, verbally, that could be another option for them as well.

Carl Frisch.

Let's talk to our fancy Fairfax County schoolboy friend.

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Hi, Carl Frisch.

Right.

To now being able to lead a quarter of an organization in Fairfax County.

Where I've got 250 people that report to me.

That's what I'm talking