Posted on 09/17/2015 6:49:13 AM PDT by kindred
Tennessee parents are voicing their concerns about a middle school history assignment in which students were asked to write "Allah is the only god."
(Washington, DC)What if your child or grandchild's public school forced them to write out the Shahadathe Islamic conversion creedwhile [skipping] Christianity? (Photo via ACLJ.org)
What if your child's study guide had a section called "Origins of Islam" that included statements such as, "Around the age of 40, the angel Gabriel told Muhammad that he was to be a prophet of Allah."?
Stated as fact, not belief.
Yet, according to reports and numerous contacts to the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), that is exactly what is happening. In fact, children are being forced to learn how to convert to Islam and recite that "Allah is the only god."
It's Islamic indoctrination right here in our schools.
In Tennessee, these are realities facing parents of middle schoolers. Parents and concerned citizens from at least three counties have contacted us with concerns about what their students are being taught.
As Fox News reports, parents like Brandee Porterfield are speaking out about what their children are experiencing:
Tennessee parents are voicing their concerns about a middle school history assignment in which students were asked to write "Allah is the only god."
Brandee Porterfield joined "Fox and Friends" this morning, saying she has no problem with her seventh-grade daughter learning about Islam as part of world history, but believes time should also be devoted to Christianity.
"They did this assignment where they wrote out the Five Pillars of Islam, including having the children learn and write the Shahada, which is the Islamic conversion creed," she explained.
Porterfield said she spoke with the Spring Hill Middle School teacher and principal, who said there would not be similar lessons on Christianity and Judaism.
She said she reviewed the state standards and there are upcoming lessons on Hinduism and Buddhism.
Unlike the lessons on Islam, however, Porterfield said students would not be expected to memorize a creed dealing with those religions.
Maury County school officials refuse to acknowledge the blatant constitutional violations at issue here, merely stating that they "covered some sensitive topics" that "caused some confusion."
That's outrageous. The indoctrination of students with the precepts of converting to Islam and forcing them to recite "Allah is the only god" aren't "sensitive topics"; it's unconstitutional.
School officials claim "By the end of the year, students will have studied Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions," but there is no indication as to what will be covered or for how long.
School officials indicated that in contrast the class would pay mere lip service to Christianity. As the Daily Caller notes:
[I]t appears that Tennessee students don't study Christianity per se. There is not, for example, one class day dedicated to the basic Jesus story.
[School officials] promised that students would eventually come across a reference to Christianity when history teachers reach the "Age of Exploration" in eighth grade. Then, students will hear about Christians persecuting other Christians in some countries in Western Europe.
Outrageous.
But the problem could be much bigger than one school and one assignment.
Our client in neighboring Williamson County said that as part of the middle school class work on Islamin addition to the worksheet his son was asked to fill out (two portions of which are above)his son was forced to recite things in Arabic without even being told what it meant.
And this isn't just an issue in one state. Earlier this year, we reported that public school students in Madison, Wisconsin were given an assignment to "pretend you are Muslim," while public school students in Florida were instructed to recite the Five Pillars of Islam as a prayer, make Islamic prayer rugs, and perform other Muslim rituals. Suspiciously, the textbook discussing Islam had chapters missing. Which chapters? Those on Christianity and Judaism.
To put this in perspective, imagine the outcry from the ACLU, Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), and other leftist and angry atheist organizations if a study guide stated, "Jesus is the Son of God," and forced children to recite the Lord's Prayer. These organizations would be beside themselves claiming indoctrination of our public school students.
But where are these organizations now?
At the ACLJ, we're taking direct action. We're in direct contact with a number of parents and concerned citizens, we're taking on new clients, and preparing critical demand letters and open records requests to these schools and school districts.
Religious liberty must be protected and Islamic indoctrination must be stopped.
It is a clear constitutional principle that public education may not indoctrinate young minds into a religion. Teachers and schools may teach what different faith traditions believe and how that has affected world history and geography. But a school cannot censor Christianity and promote Islam.
As we take direct action to defend religious liberty and expose the truth, we need you to stand with us.
Get your children out of public schools. They are not only political indoctrination centers for the Left, but increasingly, recruitment centers for homosexuals and Muslims.
There’s really not much we can do about this because Americans have decided to return to paganism. And Islam is the fulfilment of paganism. Islam is what pagans will inherit.
Have I not been telling you people to pull your kids out of government schools?
Remember that the Muslim Allah is simply SATAN.
That is why I see more Christian parents either home schooling them or putting them in Christian schools.
“Get your children out of public schools.”
And abandon the country to these fools? Better yet, get the fools out of public education. Vote in a new school board. Clean house. It is easy.
Yea, all religion serves Satan in his many disguises and is idol worship. Only Jesus Christ is God the Son in the flesh and only He must be worshipped. The fools say their is no God and serve the creature and not the Creator God of Israel who created us in His image, they will bear the punishment for the sin they love.
The left desperately wants to eliminate Christianity, so that the government can be the only influence on peoples’ value systems. It’s insanity to replace Christianity with the middle eastern death cult: a totalitarian, violent, world-domination ideology cleverly disguised as a religion.
I remember when my kids were in school....we would go to the PTA meetings and raise hell, large groups of parents, we had a phone-tag system, so we all knew what was happening.
My suggestion is go to the PTA meetings, in large groups and take over the meeting...put pressure on them, if this doesn’t work, pull your kids out of school and find another one that doesn’t teach this crap...
If we are standing up for America in the National Election for a better America, stand up for your child for a better teaching...
If people want to teach their kids this crap, go back to the country they came from and do it there, and another thing, I don’t think we need to change OUR country nor OUR ways for muslim, or anyone else that comes to OUR country, this is OUR AMERICA, not theirs!!!
FOR THE RECORD, ONCE AGAIN, ROMNEY WAS NEXT TO LAST ON MY LIST. I WAS NOT A ROMNEY SUPPORTER. BUT EITHER ROMNEY OR OBAMA WAS GOING THE BE ELECTED IN NOV. 2012.
It doesn’t matter that Romney lost. He would have let this kind of stuff happen. After all, there was no difference between Romney and Obama. Right? That is what some here told us.
Anybody still sending their kids to public school, at this point, is probably beyond hope. They'll tell you it's too much bother, pay is non-existent, it calls for a parent at home and their taxes entitle them to public babysitting. Of course they won't call it babysitting, and they won't call it welfare, just like EBT and LIHEAP; and they won't say they place a low value on the content of their children's curriculum. But that's the way it is. They're shameless.
Of course he would have let this happen. This is Common Core. And is being pushed by the Bushes.
Common Core = Liberal propaganda
First you need to get the “public” part out of education.
HS ping.
the article below has a timeline of education and evolution of common core.
Common Core: Jeb Forgets What It Is Repaying Education Debt, The Proof
http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/2015/08/common-core-jeb-forgets-what-it-is-repaying-education-debt-the-proof/
My research shows the evolution toward Common Core by the Left, began in 1964, at least, and more likely, 1947. In the Time of Obama (2008), the movement lurched forward by branding the future of education as Repaying Education Debt through Social Justice. Specifically, see in the timeline below, the text in green, beginning at 2008.
Yes but.
This particular incarnation is being ‘run’ out of Qatar.
Which would explain the emphasis on Islam. Prepping the little kiddos to be at the very least Islamophiles, if not outright converts.
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