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Really? Are you honestly "unclear" how someone could possibly not be a Christian and also have morality?

You must be one of those silly people that believe morality was invented by Christians!

Hmmm. The guy in his suits and dreds with these students who never seemed to play very well. He would show up at different events over the years and people seemed to applaud an emperor with no clothes.

I am theoretically a supporter of capital punishment even if the Innocence Project has made me more hesitant. The clamor for Muhammad Bilal to die a brutal death, that we get to watch it or, even better, that he suicide all seem out of place to me. Punishment and rehabilitation even if the criminal never lives freely again seem to still be the goal.

The intensity of the reaction is particularly noteworthy when one considers that the Prophet Muhammad is said by most scholars to have engaged in this same sort of thing. I do believe that pedophilia is immoral and usually indicative of mental illness and that it should be illegal and should be prosecuted. Notwithstanding the American Psychological Associations recent entertainment of the normalization argument, the victims are destroyed. I am not clear, however, how most people can justify a categorical and intense condemnation of pedophilia given the rejection of Judeo Christian sexual morality.

Yea, id even pay a few $ to watch it live on PPV.
They can take all $ made from the hanging and put it towards a good use.
No tax $ would be wasted and everyone will def profit from that.
The trash would be off the streets & justice would be served!

amen LoKo498. Too bad there aren't public hangings. I was born in a country where peoples hands are cut off for far lesser crimes. This guy needs to die.

Sick fucking bastard!
Hopefully he hangs himself in jail and saves us some $ so my taxes don't have to suppport him till he dies of old age in there!!!

to make matter worse with the violin teacher is that he was convicted and jailed in 2000 for nine months...for some form of child abuse. Riddle me this, how on earth does a man with a child abuse record become an official state sponsored charity for children??? What is the vetting process? Who passed him through and did that person or people receive kick backs while he was raping kids.

Just sick. Another teacher got caught distributing child porn just the other day. There is a pedophile epidemic in this city.

And another victim steps forward...

From NJ.com:

As officials lodge a second sexual assault charge against a Jersey City music teacher and violinist, The Jersey Journal has learned that the teacher is accused under his legal name but is widely known in the community as Muhammad Bilal.

Henry Granderson -- Bilal -- was charged earlier this week with raping an 8-year-old student in his Bergen Avenue studio in the presence of her 5-year-old sister. Today, Granderson is accused of sexually assaulting another student, a 10-year-old girl, officials said.

Granderson, 61, who lives at the same address as his Studio 676 School of Violin and Fine Arts on Bergen Avenue, was charged last night with sexual assault by contact, endangering the welfare of the 10-year-old and child abuse, Hudson County Deputy First Assistant Prosecutor Debra Simon said this afternoon.

Additional information on the new allegations was not immediately available. The investigation leading to the new charges was triggered by an anonymous phone call, Simon said.

Under the name Bilal, Granderson performed at the inauguration ceremonies of Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy and the late former mayor Glenn D. Cunningham, while he has led his students at jazz concerts and student piano recitals at Jersey City?s Miller Branch Library on a number of occasions ? library officials stressed he is not a library employee ? as well as at the International Cultural Festival in Newport.

Studio 676?s website says it is the largest and best violin school in New Jersey, offering an early-childhood educational curriculum. ?We have children as young as 2 years old participating in our program,? the website says.

The Jersey Journal profiled Granderson in August 2007, where he said it was a ?genetic calling? for members of his family to play the violin.

"It's a dangerous instrument to put out there in the public," he joked at the time. "For me, and just about every member of my family, it's been a vehicle that strengthens the right side of the brain."

Earlier this week Granderson was charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault on the 8-year-old, and one count each of child abuse and endangering the welfare of a child for each of the sisters. His bail was set at $400,000 cash or bond for the earlier charges.

The alleged molestation of the 8-year-old occurred over a two-year period in Granderson?s home, said Simon, who would not say how those allegations came to the attention of law enforcement. Simon said the 8-year-old was one of Granderson?s students, but she did not know if the 5-year-old was a student as well.

Link to Article - NJ.COM

A Jersey City music teacher charged with raping an 8-year-old girl in the presence of her 5-year-old sister made his first court appearance on the charges yesterday.

Henry W. Granderson, 61, who lives at the same address as his Studio 676 School of Violin and Fine Arts on Bergen Avenue, was informed his bail was set at $400,000 cash or bond when he appeared in court.

Hudson County Deputy First Assistant Prosecutor Debra Simon said Granderson is charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault on the 8-year-old, and one count each of child abuse and endangering the welfare of a child for each of the sisters.

The alleged molestation of the 8-year-old occurred over a two-year period in Granderson?s home, said Simon, who would not say how the allegations came to the attention of law enforcement.

Simon said the 8-year-old was one of Granderson?s students, but she did not know if the 5-year-old was a student as well.

Studio 676 performed jazz concerts and student piano recitals at Jersey City?s Miller Branch Library on a number of occasions in 2011.

Studio 676?s website says it is the largest and best violin school in the State of New Jersey, offering an early-childhood educational curriculum. ?We have children as young as 2 years old participating in our program,? the website says.

The school organizes field trips to Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to see performances, and it has an agricultural lab with a fish pond, chicken coop, and herb and vegetable garden, the website says.

Granderson made his first court appearance on the charges in Central Judicial Processing court in Jersey City via video link from Hudson County jail in Kearny. He was arrested on Sunday, according to the criminal complaint.

Studio 676 could not be reached for comment.
JJ