PENNSYLVANIA parents’ complaints shut down Muslim author’s planned 4-day lecture to public school children

CONVERT TO ISLAM, Lisa Abdelsalam, said she feels “like she swallowed poison” in the days since the threat of parental protests caused the Muslim mother and author to cancel a talk with students at A.M. Kulp Elementary School in Hatfield.

Give those parents a gold star. They apparently are readers of Bare Naked Islam. 

PHILLY BURBS  “I have a such a sick feeling in my stomach,” said Abdelsalam, 48, who lives in Colmar with her Muslim husband and children, all of whom were or are North Penn students. Born in Lansdale, the 1981 North Penn High School graduate converted to Islam at 19, when she married her husband, who is from Egypt.

Muslim convert Lisa Abdelsalam and son

As she has many times at many North Penn schools, she was scheduled to meet with several Kulp classes over four days earlier this month to discuss how she wrote and published her book, “A Song for Me, A Muslim Holiday Story,” based on her son Yoseph’s experiences at York Avenue Elementary in the 1990s. “A Song for Me, A Muslim Holiday Story,” has illustrations based on pictures of the York Avenue school and details a Muslim boy’s efforts to fit into the holiday spirit at Christmastime. (Especially when there is no such thing as a muslim holiday song, or any other song for that matter)

Mrs. Convert shows off her family

Abdelsalam, a longtime volunteer at Kulp where she previously served as president of the Home and School Association, and a current member of the district’s diversity committee, was taken aback. “I was serving pizza with these people last year,” she said. (And they were probably choking on every bite, wondering if they were secretly eating halal cheese)

Huebner was supportive, said the author, and said she was welcome to come regardless of the protests. However, both she and the principal decided it was best to cancel, for the sake of the young students. (No, for the sake of her own Muslim butt)

“I didn’t feel it would be right; it wasn’t one day, it was four days over two weeks,” she explained. “It’s not a battle that should be fought in an elementary school parking lot.” (4 days to talk about one book? No doubt, Islamic indoctrination would have taken up 3 of those days. Who is she kidding?)

Christine Liberaski, a spokeswoman for the North Penn School District, said she hopes the program can be rescheduled in the spring. “I can’t speak to why some people objected,” said Liberaski. (Idiot)

The idea for the book came when a music teacher approached Abdelsalam years ago when Yoseph, now 21, was in elementary school. She was asked if she could find a Muslim holiday song for the school’s annual concert. Finding none, she wrote one herself and also wrote the story. She now has two CDs of music she sells online with her book.

“It’s about inclusivity and the child being happy he’s in a school where everyone is accepted,” said Abdelsalam. “I don’t go and talk about religion.” (WHAT? The book is about MUSLIM holidays for cryin’ out loud)