From KARE 11 TV

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA – A charter school in Inver Grove Heights is taking extra security precautions and working with law enforcement agencies in the wake of death threats.

It all began with a series of newspaper columns accusing Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy of using taxpayer money to teach Islamic religion, something the school’s director says is just plain false.

“We are fully aware of the obligations that come with that public money,” the academy’s director Asad Zaman told KARE 11 Wednesday, “And we take care to insure that we operate a non-sectarian program. None of the public money is spent on any religious activities. ”

But recent articles published by a Minneapolis newspaper suggested otherwise, inflaming some readers and an even larger national audience via the Internet.

“The way they’ve been propagated on hate websites across the Internet caused us to receive numerous death threats, harassing e-mails, harassing phone calls,” Zaman said.

Most of the messages were too profane for KARE 11 to share with readers, but one called Zaman a “son of a pig” while another said, “If you persist we will destroy you, your family and your country.”

That’s why Zaman turned to the Inver Grove Heights Police and the FBI, and now keeps the school’s doors locked from the outside.

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