Katherine Kersten points out that Minnesota Educational Trust, who has sponsored the applications of several new charter schools, is closely interlinked with several prominent Minnesota Muslim organizations and states as its first goal to promote "an understanding of Islam".
Nothing overtly sinister in that. It simply assures us that certain members of the Muslim communities will continue to ignore the separation of church and state that has pushed every other form of religious expression out of publicly financed education. Whether they will be held to account for that by legal action remains to be seen. The operators of TIZA, an established Muslim charter school, continue to play cat and mouse with educational authorities while essentially operating a religious school at public expense.