Pro-Islam indoctrination in schools

Pro-Islam indoctrination in schools

Parents sue public high school for 'religious indoctrination' after their daughter was 'forced to convert to Islam in world history class'.  The parents of a Maryland teenager have launched a lawsuit against their daughter's public high school, claiming the district forced the 16-year-old to take classes that promote Islam over Christianity and Judaism.  John Wood, a former Marine, and his wife Melissa Wood, have filed a civil rights complaint against La Plata High School, alleging their daughter — identified only as C.W. — spent one day in a modern history class studying Christianity, followed by two weeks immersed in Islam.

Lawsuit: Public school forced my child to convert to Islam.  A public high school has been accused of radical Islamic indoctrination by forcing children to profess the Muslim statement of faith, ordering them to memorize the Five Pillars of Islam and teaching that the faith of a Muslim is stronger than the average Christian, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday [1/27/2016].  Thomas More Law Center filed the lawsuit on behalf of John and Melissa Wood.  They accuse La Plata High School in Maryland of subjecting their teenage daughter to Islamic indoctrination and propaganda.  And when Mr. Wood complained — the school banned him from campus.

Austrian Parents Shocked After Deity Name Switched to Allah in School Song.  Parents in an Austrian town are outraged over a word switch in a traditional children's song, after a teacher thought it appropriate to replace the word "God" with "Allah."

California Public School Holds Hijab Day, Hilarity Ensues.  Thursday [1/29/2015] was Hijab Day at NP3 High School (Natomas Pacific Pathways Prep), a public charter school in Sacramento, California.  Predictably, the school responded to concerns over why a public school would be hosting such an event with charges that critics were motivated by "hatred" and "bigotry."  The whole episode became an illustration of how Islamic supremacists are manipulating politically correct, multiculturalist pieties to advance their agenda.

Denver: Schoolgirls Forced to Wear Headscarves, "Ankles Must Be Covered" on School Trip to Denver Mosque.  School girls at a Douglas County public school in Colorado are being forced to cover up from head-to-toe to visit a mosque on a school mandated Common Core trip.  There are no requirements to visit a Greek Orthodox cathedral or synagogue.  Here again we see that anywhere American law and Islamic law conflict, it is American law that has to give way.  The subjugation and oppression of women are enshrined under the sharia.  Young school girls should not be forced to "respect" a dress code that represents honor violence, female genital mutilation, forced marriage, child marriage, et al.

Colorado school district requires girls to cover ankles, wear head scarves on trip to mosque.  A world religions class is taking a field trip to a Denver mosque and the school is requiring girls to dress in what is described as a Sharia-complaint manner.  KNUS radio host Peter Boyles reports the Douglas County school system issued these rules to students in a notification to parents: [...] "Public schools are forbidden from holding girls to different standards than boys," Boyles notes.  "They're holding these girls to a different standard — it's a religious reason.  "Islam dictates many, I believe — personal belief — repressive practices against women and Islamophobia will trump womens' rights.  Animal rights every time, and the environment."

In England:UK Muslim School Fails Inspection Over Pro-Stoning Books.  A Muslim school in the UK failed governmental inspections after textbooks endorsing death by stoning and gender inequality were found in the school library, according to The Daily Mail.  Three books which "undermine the active promotion of the rule of British law and respect for other people" were reportedly found by the inspectors at Jamiatul Ummah School in East London.  The school is a fee-paying, all-boys secondary school.

Waterbury schools to respect Muslim holidays.  Starting next fall, all schools in the Waterbury School District will be honoring two of the Muslim religion's most holy days by not scheduling tests, field trips or major school events on those days.  It started with more than 300 signatures on a petition and has come full circle.  Thursday night [2/5/2015], the Waterbury Board of Education voted to honor two Muslim holy days.  Fahd Syed says he is happy because his children won't have to choose between education and religion.

New York City Adds Two Muslim Holy Days to Public School Calendar.  New York will become the nation's first major metropolis to close its public schools in observance of the two most sacred Muslim holy days, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday [3/4/2015], a watershed moment for a group that has endured suspicion and hostility since the Sept. 11 attacks.  Several municipalities across the country — including in Massachusetts, Michigan and New Jersey — have moved in recent years to include the holy days, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, in their school calendars.  But New York City, with its 1.1 million schoolchildren, dwarfs the others in its size and symbolism.

Why some US districts are adding Muslim holidays to the school calendar.  An affluent school district in suburban Maryland has become the latest district to recognize Muslim holidays on its calendar, a move that reflects a growing push for greater inclusiveness in schools across the United States.  Howard County, which is home to many of the wealthiest communities in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, announced Thursday [1/14/2016] that it would expand its list of religious and cultural holidays.

Christian professor suspended after wearing hijab.  A tenured professor at Wheaton College was put on administrative leave after she wore a traditional headscarf as part of her Christmas Advent devotion and said she was doing it in solidarity with Muslims.

Wheaton College says view of Islam, not hijab, got Christian teacher suspended.  If Wheaton College professor Larycia Hawkins had simply donned a headscarf to support her Muslim neighbors without explaining herself, she still might be administering final exams this week. [...] "I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book," she posted Dec. 10 on Facebook.  "And as Pope Francis stated last week, we worship the same God."  That explanation rankled some evangelical Christians, who read her statement as a conflation of Christian and Muslim theology, even if they supported her symbolic gesture.

The Editor says...If Allah exists at all, he was, like everything and everybody else, created by God.  Allah and God are not equivalent.  Islam and Christianity are neither equivalent nor compatible.  Anyone who claims to be a Christian has no business celebrating or supporting Islam.

Blaine High School in Minnesota has kids sing Allahu Ackbar.  Minnesota is a joke.  It's the home of Walter Mondale, Jesse Ventura and Keith Ellison.  Now, Blaine High School in Minnesota is forcing students to sing songs with Arabic words, including the phrase "Allahu Akbar".

Public schools struggle with lessons about Islam amid renewed fears of terrorism.  In 1963, the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional for a Pennsylvania school to read 10 Bible verses to students each morning, without comment or context, and to make the students recite the Lord's Prayer.  (The case was brought by a family of Unitarians.)  But in Justice Tom C. Clark's opinion, he wrote that "one's education is not complete without a study of comparative religion or the history of religion and its relationship to the advancement of civilization."  The key, he said, was presenting religion "objectively as part of a secular program of education."

Virginia county cancels classes Friday over Islam lesson backlash.  A Virginia county shut down schools Friday [12/18/2015] amid security concerns after parents loudly objected to a world geography lesson that including a teaching on Islam.  Augusta County school district officials first held a meeting with upset parents on December 11.  Four days later, the same day FoxNews.com covered the story, school officials held another meeting, during which some parents demanded the teacher be fired.  On Thursday [12/17/2015], School Board President Eric Bond announced the decision to cancel the next day's classes.

Augusta County schools closed Friday after parental outrage over Arabic assignment.  The controversy stems from a homework assignment at Riverheads High School that some parents called Islamic indoctrination.  Kimberly Herndon said she felt her rights as a parent had been violated when her ninth grade son came home with the assignment.  "It asked him to copy the Shahada, the Islamic statement of faith which translates to "there is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah," said Herndon.  The assignment said it is meant to give the students, "an idea of the artistic complexity of calligraphy."

Parents' Outrage Over 'Muslim Indoctrination' Assignment Leads To Schools Closure.  Augusta County Public Schools in Virginia are closed Friday [12/18/2015,] after parents objected to a ninth grade geography assignment that required students to copy the Shahada, an Islamic statement of faith that says, "There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah."  Kimberly Herndon said she was "shocked that this was sent home, shocked that this was in the schools [and] shocked that this was right here in our small town," reports WHSV.com.  Herndon added she felt her rights as a parent had been violated.

Parents' outrage after Virginia high school students are asked to practice calligraphy by writing 'There is no god but Allah'.  A lesson in calligraphy has caused an uproar among some parents at a Virginia high school when students were instructed to write a Muslim statement of faith that read:  'There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.'  The incident took place on Friday during a world geography class at Riverheads High School in Staunton.  The lesson of the day focused on world religions, among them Islam. As part of the assignment, social studies teacher Cheryl LaPorte had her ninth-grade students copy a piece of Arabic text known as the shahada, which is the most common Islamic creed.

Students practice calligraphy by writing "There is no god but Allah".  A Virginia school district is defending a classroom assignment that required students to practice calligraphy by writing the Muslim statement of faith, "There is no god but Allah.  Muhammad is the messenger of Allah."  Female students at Riverheads High School in Augusta County, Virginia, were also invited to wear Muslim clothing — a story first reported by The Schilling Show.  The school district convened a meeting on Dec. 11th to discuss the assignment with outraged parents.

Muslim prayer room at Catholic high school in Michigan sparks debate.  Some parents outside Detroit were questioning a Catholic high school's decision to allow a special room for Muslim students to pray, Fox 2 reported Wednesday [12/16/2015].  Brother Rice High School, an all-boys school in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, reportedly granted a request from Muslim students to use the religious reflection room throughout the day.  Roughly a dozen of the school's 800-plus students are Muslim, according to WXYZ.  One unnamed parent told the news station the room was "unconscionable," arguing that her son's paid Catholic education would be "undermined."

Professor at Christian college wearing hijab during Advent.  Larycia Hawkins is a political science professor at Wheaton College, a Christian college in Illinois.  On Thursday [12/10/2015], she announced on her Facebook page that she will wear a hijab throughout Advent as a symbol of solidarity with Muslims.  She plans to wear it everywhere:  to work, to class, to church, and on the plane ride home for the Christmas holiday.

Students sing "Allah Akbar" at holiday concert.  Nothing says Merry Christmas like a Ramadan song — at least in Blaine, Minnesota.  There was a big controversy after Thursday's [12/17/2015] holiday concert at the local high school — when the teenagers belted out a praise song to Allah.

Parents Question Choice To Sing 'Allahu Akbar' At Holiday Concert.  Some parents in the Anoka-Hennepin School District are questioning a choir teacher's decision to use a song about Ramadan performed in Arabic at a holiday concert.  At Thursday night's [12/17/2015] concert at Blaine High School, one of the songs students will be singing includes Arabic words, including the phrase "Allahu Akbar," which means "God is great."

California Middle School Makes Kids Sing About Spreading Islam.  Parents in Orange County are outraged after seventh-graders were asked to sing a song about spreading Islam in class.

Schools sing praise to Allah, create propaganda posters for ISIS.  Are American public schools on the verge of becoming taxpayer-funded Madrassas?  In 2001 the founder of the Institute on Religious and Civic Values boasted about a covert plan to conduct a "bloodless" revolution inside American public classrooms — promoting an increased emphasis on the Islamic faith.

CA 7th graders sing Islam 'fight song' penned by teacher.  Parents recently voiced their concerns to the Ocean View School Board about a song a seventh-grade teacher authored about Islam that they believe is inappropriate.  Nichole Negron and her mother Susan Negron told school board members Nichole's seventh grade son came home from Spring View Middle School recently with a song his teacher passed out in class about Islam.

University of Minnesota Rejects 9/11 Remembrance Because it Might Incite Racism.  Here's another instance of political correctness on a college campus going a smidge too far, courtesy of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities:  A proposed resolution to recognize the 9/11 terrorist attacks on campus each year was rejected by the Minnesota Student Association as it may potentially violate a "safe space" on campus.

Maryland's largest school district closes for Muslim holiday.  Striking a blow for "fairness," Maryland's largest school district will be closed for a Muslim holiday next fall.  The Montgomery County Board of Education voted 6-2 Tuesday [11/10/2015] to cancel classes on the Islamic holy day of Eid al-Adha next school year.  More than 156,000 students are enrolled in the suburban Washington, D.C. district, according to Fox Baltimore.  It will likely fall on Monday, September 12.

School District Outlaws Depiction Of 'any religious leader' After Mom Protests Muhammad Drawing.  A school district superintendent in semi-rural Southern California has completely outlawed all drawings of all religious leaders on campus because a history teacher assigned a vocabulary worksheet that asked students to draw images of Muhammad. [...] The seventh-grade history assignment at High Desert School in Acton, Calif. was a worksheet called "Vocabulary Pictures: The Rise of Islam."  It featured several words including Quran, Mecca, Bedouins and Muhammad.  There was space for students to sketch their own images representing the various words.

The Editor says...In addition to teaching about Islam, does the same school also teach the history and characteristics of other religions?

Islam and 9/11 Not Connected, 12-Year-Olds Taught in America.  Parents in Illinois are outraged that a public school there is painting a positive picture of Islam and teaching impressionable young students that Islam bears no responsibility for the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States.  This is just the latest incident demonstrating a growing trend in American education to portray the intolerant, slavery-sanctioning, woman-oppressing, genocidal, and relentlessly expansionist Religion of Peace as a misunderstood force for good or as just another world religion, no better or worse than the others.

U.S. Islamic Schools Teaching Homegrown Hate.  The Washington Post on Monday [2/25/2002] revealed that one such school outside Washington, D.C., uses textbooks teaching 11th graders that "the Day of Judgment can't come until Jesus Christ returns to Earth, breaks the cross and converts everyone to Islam, and until Muslims start attacking Jews."  Other accredited Islamic schools in America have world maps on classroom walls that exclude Israel.  Some such schools promote class discussions that portray Usama bin Laden as "simply the victim of ... prejudice" against all Muslims in America.

Anti-Israel Third Grade event in Ithaca (NY) — Controversy not going away.  A storm of controversy erupted when the Ithaca, NY, chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace brought Palestinian activist Bassem Tamimi to a third grade class.  Tamimi is best known for the viral videos and photos he creates by sending children, including his own, to confront Israeli soldiers.  Tamimi, who argues that it is the "duty" of children to engage in acts of resistance, was on a now-concluded U.S. national tour co-sponsored by JVP and the Chicago branch of Amnesty International.

In Australia:Muslim children walk out when national anthem is sung.  A Victorian primary school has been criticised for allowing Muslim children to walk out of assembly while the national anthem was sung.  Cranbourne Carlisle Primary School says a religious month of mourning is the reason Islamic children are able to opt out of singing or listening to the anthem.  Lorraine McCurdy, who has two grandchildren at the school, told 3AW she was furious when school officials invited students to leave during Advance Australia Fair.  "Two children got up and said 'welcome to our assembly' with that a teacher came forward and said all those who feel it's against their culture may leave the room," Ms McCurdy said.

Pews Removed From Wichita State Chapel to Retrofit It for Islam.  It isn't only in occupied Sweden that liberal dhimmis want to alter Christian churches so as to adapt them for Islam.  It is even happening in Kansas. [...] Those who don't like it have been loudly found guilty of "Islamophobia."  The next step will be to decorate the "faith-neutral space" with crescent moons and Arabic squiggles.

Heartland fury as university renovates chapel to accommodate Muslims.  A decision to make a university's chapel "faith neutral" to accommodate Muslim students has created great angst in the nation's Heartland after critics were accused of being Islamophobic.  Last May, Wichita State University ordered workers to remove all the pews and an altar inside the Harvey D. Grace Memorial Chapel.  The pews were ripped from the floor and replaced with portable chairs to make room for Muslim prayer rugs.

Georgia Schools are Teaching Kids "Allah is the Same God Worshipped by Jews and Christians".  There's nothing necessarily wrong with children learning about Islam.  But learning about Islam to the exclusion of Christianity, and that Allah is the same God worshipped by Jews and Christians, has a lot of parents angry.

For 1st time, New York City schools close for Muslim holiday.  Thursday [9/24/2015] was the first time the [New York City] schools serving 1.1 million pupils closed for a Muslim holiday.

Should public schools close for Muslim holidays?  Public schools in the US close in observance of Christian holidays including Christmas and Easter, and now other religious denominations are asking for their holidays to be respected, too.  This Thursday [9/24/2015] is Eid al-Adha, or Feast of the Sacrifice, one of the biggest holidays of the year for Muslims, and school administrators must decide whether or not to close school for the day.  In New Jersey, where almost 2 percent of the population identifies as Muslim, several school districts have recognized Islam's holidays for years, reports NorthJersey.com.  But some are holding back.

School accused of Islamic indoctrination.  Maury County, Tennessee is in the heart of the Bible Belt.  So it's understandable why the local church ladies got all shook up when they discovered that school children had been forced to declare, "There is no God but Allah."  Seventh graders at Spring Hill Middle School spent three weeks covering Islam in a Social Studies class — enraging some parents who say the lessons crossed the line into indoctrination and proselytization.  "I am not pleased that my 12-year-old was taught the Islamic conversion prayer," parent Brandee Porterfield told me.

7th Graders In Tennessee Made To Recite 'Allah Is The Only God' In Public School.  Middle school parents in Tennessee are up in arms on learning that their children were instructed to recite and write, "Allah is the only god," as part of a world history project.  In the Maury County School District, students were assigned a Five Pillars of Islam project that included the translation of the pillar of "Shahada" as being, "There is no god but Allah; Muhammad is his prophet."  Joy Ellis, the mother of a seventh-grader at Spring Hill Middle School, said that Christian children should not be instructed to write the Shahada.  "This is a seventh grade state standard, and will be on the TCAP," Ellis said.

Why Does Common Core Require Teaching Islam?  Should parents be penalized for demanding that their child be exempted from the required teaching of Islamic in Common Core curriculum?  Should a teach or public school administrator penalize parents and children for seeking exemption?  Parents are finding out the answers to these questions first hand.  To date, public school students are required to:
  •   Attend public school-sponsored trips to mosques, which also require non-Muslim girls to wear head scarves
  •   Question if the Holocaust was "merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain"
  •   Learn Islamic indoctrination via vocabulary lessons, and world history (from an Islamic perspective), including the five pillars of Islam
  •   Pledge allegiance to the flag in Arabic
  •   Have school days off for "Muslim holy days"
  •   Proselytize to younger school children by creating a pamphlet about Islam to "introduce Islam to 3rd graders" by describing Allah as the same God of Christians and Jews
  •   Recite in class the Shahada ("There is No God but Allah") and kneel and learn to pray the Muslim call to prayer