As an earlier posting reported, in Shelby County, Kentucky, the school board, after receiving a letter from the ACLU, cancelled planned formal prayers at the school's upcoming graduation. While that stance may have originally been divisive, students now support the decision after a member of the Ku Klux Klan protested the cancellation by demonstrating outside of Shelby County High School. According to today's Lexington (Kentucky) Herald-Leader, Klansman Michael Hibbs generated a counter-protest by 40 Shelby High School seniors. Klansman Hibbs, who used a Hitler salute to answer taunts, said said that he hopes to intimidate Muslim students and others who are against the "Christian principles this country was founded on." He added "These heathens come over here from whatever third-world country they come from and they've got the nerve to tell people how to live. If they want to come here and be free, they can come here and be free. But they aren't going to come here and tell us how to live."
Arshiya Saiyed, the Muslim student who originally objected to the planned prayers said: "Quite a few students have had opinions on what is going on but when it comes down to it, we don't hate each other, we just have different opinions. And here in America we can have that and we can embrace the fact that we are all different."
