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Media Hides Key Detail in the Virginia School District’s Islamic Lesson Controversy...
Breitbart ^ | December 19, 2015 | Michael Patrick Leahy

Posted on 12/19/2015 4:21:42 PM PST by don-o

A Breitbart News investigation reveals that mainstream media outlets incorrectly reported a key detail in the story of the 9th grade World Geography teacher in Virginia who sparked a national controversy over a "calligraphy lesson" that required students to hand copy the Arabic characters that comprise the shahada, the Islamic statement of faith.

According to news reports, the teacher said she "had not designed the assignment herself, but took it from a standard workbook on world religions."

That was how the News Leader, a Gannett daily newspaper headquartered in Staunton, Virginia, initially reported the story on Thursday. Gannett is the mainstream media giant that owns approximately 100 daily newspapers across the country, including such liberal stalwarts as the Des Moines Register, the Tennessean (Nashville), and the Courier-Journal (Louisville), as well as the national USA Today.

But when the News Leader updated the original story on Friday morning, teacher Cheryl LaPorte's "standard workbook" claim disappeared.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: arth; gannett; laporte; muslimamericans; socialstudies; virginia
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Media Hides Key Detail in the Virginia School District’s Islamic Lesson Controversy to Fit Liberal Narrative
1 posted on 12/19/2015 4:21:42 PM PST by don-o
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To: don-o

I heard it on ABC radio news yesterday, how it was a “passage in Arabic,” as if it were something totally innocuous.


2 posted on 12/19/2015 4:26:10 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: don-o

Assign those kids to copy John 3:16 and watch what happens.


3 posted on 12/19/2015 4:27:55 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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To: don-o

4 posted on 12/19/2015 4:28:39 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: All

Get your children out of the state schools.


5 posted on 12/19/2015 4:29:56 PM PST by don-o (I am Kenneth Carlisle - Waco 5/17/15)
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To: don-o

6 posted on 12/19/2015 4:31:03 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: don-o
Breitbart ... was unable to see where the lesson was “in line with state standards.”

But Breitbart, you have to effectively convert to Islamist first, in order that you will then understand how it is perfectly in line with state standards.

7 posted on 12/19/2015 4:31:36 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is libertye)
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To: don-o

Weird lesson for a geography class.


8 posted on 12/19/2015 4:36:30 PM PST by mykroar ("Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Otto von Bismarck)
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To: don-o
It's been claimed that one BECOMES a Muslim by reciting the words of the Shahada. Does anybody out there in FReeperland know if this is the standard Muslim teahing? If so, these are not just learning "calligraphy" or "Islamic culture" --- they're being initiated into the Islamic faith.

Imagine the fireworks if they'd been required to write the words, "I accept Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior."

9 posted on 12/19/2015 4:38:20 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Inshallah.)
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To: don-o

Right after 9/11 in January 2002:

Unsolicited Packages From Saudi Embassy Trigger Scare in Vegas
1/21/2002

LAS VEGAS - A Saudi Arabian mailer designed to educate
American schoolchildren about Islam instead triggered terrorist scares at three Las Vegas schools, officials said Friday.

A Saudi embassy official in Washington said the packages containing a videotape, a booklet and a book were sent to 5,000 randomly selected schools nationwide to promote tolerance and understanding.

‘We just hoped the schools would consider showing them to their students,’ said Sherry Cooper, secretary to Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan in Washington, D.C.

(snip)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/612594/posts


10 posted on 12/19/2015 4:43:25 PM PST by donna (Radicalized Christians become missionaries; then, they tell everyone that Jesus loves them!)
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To: don-o

Oops! Oh, silly me! I just happened to try to indoctrinate defenseless children — gosh! It was an accident!


11 posted on 12/19/2015 4:43:46 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Look, the establishment doesn't want me, because I don't need the establishment." --Donald Trump)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Imagine the fireworks if they'd been required to write the words, "I accept Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior."

A closer comparison would have been if they went through the complete sacrament of Baptism as a class assignment.

12 posted on 12/19/2015 4:48:19 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: don-o

The liberal media will still be writing praises of Muslims while they are being led to the slaughterhouse as demanded by Sharia. Next will be the gays and lesbians, liberated women, and Hollywood actors.


13 posted on 12/19/2015 4:48:43 PM PST by entropy12 (Go Trump 2016! Pick strongest on immigration control - Santorum as VP.)
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To: don-o
For those who may have forgotten:

A Gannett owned newspaper in the State of New York published an online map which included the names and addresses of pistol permit holders in Westchester and Rockland counties.

There are 8,000 active and retired NYPD officers currently living in Rockland County. LEO's were unhappy, "They have inmates coming up to them and telling them exactly where they live.

In a story published later headline read "Newspaper That Published The Names & Addresses of Gun Owners Hires Armed Guards"

14 posted on 12/19/2015 4:49:04 PM PST by TYVets
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To: don-o

Libtards like teacher Cheryl LaPorte, reporter Megan Williams and School Superintendent Eric Bond won’t begin to understand the destruction their simple minded political correctness has brought to America until their heads are being held down on the chopping block by their new muslim masters.


15 posted on 12/19/2015 4:49:30 PM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: Travis McGee

Thank you for very informative post on Muslim Sharia law.


16 posted on 12/19/2015 4:49:37 PM PST by entropy12 (Go Trump 2016! Pick strongest on immigration control - Santorum as VP.)
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To: TYVets

btt


17 posted on 12/19/2015 4:49:45 PM PST by KSCITYBOY
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To: Mrs. Don-o
From BBC Religions page...

Shahadah "There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger."

This is the basic statement of the Islamic faith: anyone who cannot recite this wholeheartedly is not a Muslim.

When a Muslim recites this they proclaim:

That Allah is the only God, and that Muhammad is his prophet

That they personally accept this as true

That they will obey all the commitments of Islam in their life

The Shahadah is the first of the Five Pillars of Islam. Becoming a Muslim

Reciting this statement three times in front of witnesses is all that anyone need do to become a Muslim.

A Muslim is expected to recite this statement out loud, with total sincerity, fully understanding what it means.

18 posted on 12/19/2015 4:51:11 PM PST by don-o (I am Kenneth Carlisle - Waco 5/17/15)
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To: PapaBear3625

Good point.


19 posted on 12/19/2015 4:52:43 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (He was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. - John 1:9)
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To: Albion Wilde

I heard the school district “apology” on this; it was something like, “We’re sorry that some people in our district are so ignorant and uninformed that they made this an issue.” Jerks that are sorry they got caught!


20 posted on 12/19/2015 4:54:42 PM PST by GnuThere
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