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Islamic group banned after visit to Seminole classroom prompts complaints [FL]
orlandosentinel ^ | June 11, 2008 | dave weber

Posted on 06/11/2008 10:51:20 AM PDT by stainlessbanner

An Islamic group has been banned from visiting classrooms in Seminole County schools after officials said it crossed the line between telling students about the Muslim culture and pushing its religion.

The flap over the Academy for Learning Islam's visit to Lake Brantley High School also has caused the school system to re-evaluate who it lets into county classrooms to present educational programs and what they can talk about. By fall, teachers will have stricter guidelines.

Speakers on religion, drugs, alcohol and nearly 50 other touchy topics will get closer scrutiny before they can speak on campuses, Superintendent Bill Vogel said.

"We got complaints that their presentation moved from cultural diversity to a religious focus," Vogel said.

A similar run-in between a school and Islam occurred this week in Friendswood, Texas, when Friendswood Junior High Principal Robin Lowe was removed from her job after allowing an Islamic group to address an assembly of students.

(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: aclumia; brantley; crushislam; education; islam; mosqueandstate; muslim; muslims; orlando; publiceducation; publicschool; publicschools; schoolprayer
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1 posted on 06/11/2008 10:51:21 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: SJackson; metmom; Joe Brower

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2 posted on 06/11/2008 10:52:10 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: stainlessbanner

Is the school trying to suppress Islamic religious freedom?

What’s next?


3 posted on 06/11/2008 10:57:53 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
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To: stainlessbanner

That’s really going to hurt their Jr. Jihadist recruiting program.


4 posted on 06/11/2008 11:00:36 AM PDT by Cuchulain ("...never treat with the enemy; never surrender to his mercy, but fight to the finish.")
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To: stainlessbanner

Islamic group kicked out of publik skoolz?! Gee, what’d they do, condemn sodomy or something? /sarc


5 posted on 06/11/2008 11:08:25 AM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: stainlessbanner

“was removed from her job”

reassigned, not fired.


6 posted on 06/11/2008 11:08:29 AM PDT by weegee (In 1988 Lenora Fulani was the 1st black woman to appear on presidential ballots in all 50 states)
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To: Cuchulain

Tampa teen kamikaze.

7 posted on 06/11/2008 11:09:51 AM PDT by weegee (In 1988 Lenora Fulani was the 1st black woman to appear on presidential ballots in all 50 states)
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To: stainlessbanner

GOOD!!!

Seminole County is a very conservative for now.


8 posted on 06/11/2008 11:17:45 AM PDT by poobear (“…individual salvation depends on collective salvation." Barack Hussein Obama Wesleyan University)
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To: Cuchulain
That’s really going to hurt their Jr. Jihadist recruiting program

I guess not everyone wants to try for the Jr. Jihadist Suicide Bomber Merit Badge.

9 posted on 06/11/2008 11:19:47 AM PDT by teacherwoes (A fugitive from a Democratically-controlled Congress)
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To: stainlessbanner

Well, it’s about damned time someone stood up to these thugs.


10 posted on 06/11/2008 11:23:05 AM PDT by kromike
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To: stainlessbanner; knighthawk

BTTT


11 posted on 06/11/2008 11:23:12 AM PDT by EdReform (The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed *NRA*JPFO*SAF*GOA*SAS*CCRKBA)
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To: stainlessbanner

well - what can I say about that?


12 posted on 06/11/2008 11:26:42 AM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President!)
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To: weegee
Islamic group Jr. Jihadist(s)? ...

...was he: the one, who flew/crashed a Cessna 172 into a Fla. bldg.?
What about the "Japanese Death Cultist(s)" Cult....they'll demand equal time.

13 posted on 06/11/2008 11:30:57 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (just b/c you're paranoid,doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you..our hopes were dashed by CINOs :)
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We have a bizarre fascination with inviting the enemy into our midst in America and in Europe. It seems that we desire to be destroyed. And, we’ll get our wish: this sickness in Western society is going to prove fatal one day.


14 posted on 06/11/2008 11:46:14 AM PDT by Arkansas Toothpick
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To: stainlessbanner

What really bothers me about all this, is that any sort of diversity training is going on at all in our public schools.

No wonder so many kids can’t read and write when they graduate — time is being spent on cultural things, so not enough time is available to spend on the three R’s (and REAL history, of course).

This cultural stuff is what parents are for, not the school system. We shouldn’t even be spending time buying into the premise that diversity training is acceptable. These teachers have appointed themselves the arbiters of what’s right and wrong. Nothing good can come out of that.


15 posted on 06/11/2008 11:52:14 AM PDT by pyrless
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To: teacherwoes
I got that merit badge, but I played the role of Imam and voluntold the squirrels to blow themselves up. Isn't that the point of the Eagle Scout: learn leadership and delegation?
16 posted on 06/11/2008 12:13:44 PM PDT by Skenderbej
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To: stainlessbanner
Funny.What did the school think Muslim culture (or Islamic) meant? Doesn't that all relate to the religon of Islam?
17 posted on 06/11/2008 12:29:41 PM PDT by mikethevike
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To: stainlessbanner

I learned everything I need to know about islam on 9/11.

NEVER FORGET!


18 posted on 06/11/2008 12:35:55 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
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19 posted on 06/11/2008 1:19:41 PM PDT by SJackson (It is impossible to build a peace process based on blood, Natan Sharansky)
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To: stainlessbanner

The Courts and Educators all over the country have decided to keep any thing dealing with Christianity out of the schools under seperation of church and state, etc.. Why are they going out of the way, and violating their own laws and policies to make exceptions for the Muslims?


20 posted on 06/11/2008 2:29:49 PM PDT by Americanexpat
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