Bergen School Trustee Resigns Following Backlash Regarding Anti-Muslim Facebook Posts

Board of Education Trustee Gladys Gryskiewicz has resigned her seat on the board. Gryskiewicz has come under fire recently and has faced major backlash due to anti-Muslim posts she wrote on Facebook earlier this year.

The board will pass a formal resolution accepting Gryskiewicz’s resignation April 26. An addendum to that meeting announcing the resignation is on the district’s website.

One of the posts said that Muslims should “stay in your desserts (sic) and follow your religion in your own countries,” according to published reports.

Gryskiewicz also reportedly said in another that “we cannot allow Islam to take over,” and “Why now are we giving into[sic] the Muslims way of life? The French told them to get lost. This is what our President should be emulating.”

The Council on American-Islamic Relations and elected state officials called for Gryskiewsicz to step down.

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