Teaching Johnny about Islam, but not Christianity

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Teaching Johnny About Islam

Posted 5/19/2006
Education: In our brave new schools, Johnny can't say the pledge, but he can recite the Quran. Yup, the same court that found the phrase "under God" unconstitutional now endorses Islamic catechism in public school.
In a recent federal decision that got surprisingly little press, even from conservative talk radio, California's 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled it's OK to put public-school kids through Muslim role-playing exercises, including:
Reciting aloud Muslim prayers that begin with "In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful . . . ."
Memorizing the Muslim profession of faith: "Allah is the only true God and Muhammad is his messenger."
Chanting "Praise be to Allah" in response to teacher prompts.
Professing as "true" the Muslim belief that "The Holy Quran is God's word."
Giving up candy and TV to demonstrate Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting.
Designing prayer rugs, taking an Arabic name and essentially "becoming a Muslim" for two full weeks.
Parents of seventh-graders, who after 9-11 were taught the pro-Islamic lessons as part of California's world history curriculum, sued under the First Amendment ban on religious establishment. They argued, reasonably, that the government was promoting Islam.
But a federal judge appointed by President Clinton told them in so many words to get over it, that the state was merely teaching kids about another "culture."
So the parents appealed. Unfortunately, the most left-wing court in the land got their case. The 9th Circuit, which previously ruled in favor of an atheist who filed suit against the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, upheld the lower court ruling.
The decision is a major victory for the multiculturalists and Islamic apologists in California and across the country who've never met a culture or religion they didn't like — with the exception of Western civilization and Christianity. They are legally in the clear to indoctrinate kids into the "peaceful" and "tolerant" religion of Islam, while continuing to denigrate Judeo-Christian values.
In the California course on world religions, Christianity is not presented equally. It's covered in just two days and doesn't involve kids in any role-playing activities. But kids do get a good dose of skepticism about the Christian faith, including a biting history of its persecution of other peoples. In contrast, Islam gets a pass from critical review. Even jihad is presented as an "internal personal struggle to do one's best to resist temptation," and not holy war.
The ed consultant's name is Susan L. Douglass. No, she's not a Christian scholar. She's a devout Muslim activist on the Saudi government payroll, according to an investigation by Paul Sperry, author of "Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington." He found that for years Douglass taught social studies at the Islamic Saudi Academy just outside Washington, D.C. Her husband still teaches there.
So what? By infiltrating our public school system, the Saudis hope to make Islam more widely accepted while converting impressionable American youth to their radical cause. Recall that John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban," was a product of the California school system. What's next, field trips to Mecca?
This case is critical not just to our culture but our national security. It should be brought before the Supreme Court, which has outlawed prayer in school. Let's see what it says about practicing Islam in class. It will be a good test for the bench's two new conservative justices.

http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=20&artnum=3&issue=20060519




Crap like this pisses me off

 
It's no hoax. It's real. Once again the American left and it's liberal allies are selling out our nation to the enemy's ways.
 
Well, that's it. I'm moving to a country that sticks to its guns, no matter who they offend or piss off...France, here I come!
 
I'd have to see more proof on this one. I know CA schools can be far out there, but this one just isn't adding up for me.
 
C/1Lt Henderson said:
Well, that's it. I'm moving to a country that sticks to its guns, no matter who they offend or piss off...France, here I come!
Whiskey tango foxtrot?!
 
Say it with me class "There is only one god and his name is Allah. He is great and Mohammed is his messenger."
 
I have serious doubts about the credibility of this! There is no way in hell that the parents of Californian kids would allow this to happen after 9-11. In my humble opinion I reckon it is a mix of things that happened. I too have had lessons in the Quran, the five pillars and can recite the prayer about one God and his profet Mohammed. This was taught during a special project about the Islam and to teach us more about the cultural back grounds of 1/5 of Dutch society. This is a good thing. But it is easily transformed into some monstrosity. Just say; our kids are taught the Quran and you have every republican on his hind legs!

So I don't know what is happening there, but I do think it is transformed into some kind of pissing contest between the various factions and there is a whole lot of misunderstanding and not wanting to understand between them.
 
Ted said:
Just say; our kids are taught the Quran and you have every republican on his hind legs!

Saying that wouldn't/shouldn't just bother Republicans, teaching kids the Q'uran in public schools should make any parent/citizen PO'd.

That said, my post still stands, I need more proof to believe this story and I'm currently Googling on it.
 
Gotta agree with PJ here, I need more proof.

Its true that California tends to be left, and even far left (even more than NY). But this is so far off base, I simply cannot believe it on face value. I have a incredibly hard time beleving that any American public school anywhere in the USA would teach Islam if Christianity isnt even allowed.
 
This pisses me off both because of what's going on and also because people like this are the reason I can no longer call myself a democrat. This just makes NO SENSE.

Though, I do often yell "ALLAHU AKBAR!" over voice chat in multiplayer games like Hostile Intent and Battlefield 2. :type:
 
THIS S**T IS FOR REAL!

It shows you what kind of biased agenda these ultra-leftwing people are trying to impose on us. People say there is no agenda by the left wing, there is.

Here is more proof for a local newspaper source;



CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
Court clears school of pushing religion with lesson on Islam


A Contra Costa County school was educating seventh-graders about Islam, not indoctrinating them, in role-playing sessions in which students used Muslim names and recited language from prayers, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/18/BAGLFFQENB1.DTL




This is total BS. You can't even mention anything to do with Christianity in California classrooms and yet they allow this.

They say they were just reciting Islamic prayers and role playing. Try to reciting Christian prayers and role play about Christianity and you will get sued.

Here is a quote from the article which is absolutely right;

"What happened in this classroom was clearly an endorsement of religion and indoctrination of children in the Islamic religion, which would never have stood if it were a class on Christianity or Judaism,''

Everybody here in CA (where I live) knows if you can't even do what they did in that class when it comes to Christianity or even Judaism.


 
I remember that the familiy of Bulldogg lives in Indiannesia,of cause Indinasia is the largest Islam country in the world.JUdging the earthquakes,hope your family are all ok bulldogg.
 
Folks I think you should read this paragraph (from the link Henderson posted), like I suspected its not as it seems

[FONT=Bookman Old Style,Arial]"As part of their social studies curriculum, Grade 7 pupils throughout California do study ancient Muslim cultures and the impact of Islam on world history, but only as one of eleven units that comprise that year's social studies course, not as a special indoctrination into a particular religion as the ASN article presents it".

And for those who dont know ASN, its the public relations department of ASSIST MINISTRIES, a Calfornia based Evangelical group. In other words,this story is coming from a Evanglist Christian Group, not a accredited news service such as the AP.

In other words, this story is highly suspect. Thanks to C/LT.Henderson for the link.
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