Posted on 07/19/2021 12:12:44 AM PDT by Cronos
A Muslim couple is suing a Chicago-area school and alleging that a former history teacher helped convert their daughter to Christianity.
According to the Daily Herald newspaper, the federal lawsuit against Community Unit District 300 in Algonquin, Ill., alleges violations of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
The suit by Yosuf Chaudhry and Amena Alvi alleges that a former Jacobs High School teacher, Pierre Thorsen, gave their daughter a New International Version Study Bible and introduced her to other Christians.
"It's derailed our whole life," Alvi said of the daughter's conversion. "It's derailed her whole life."
Their daughter, now 17, graduated this year. She told them in 2019 that she had converted to Christianity. Much of the discussion about Christianity reportedly took place within a Christian club at the school.
They reviewed their daughter's cell phone records to determine what had happened. (She is known as B.D. in the lawsuit.)
"What we found were numerous texts, emails and phone calls made over several months with complete adult strangers which discussed her conversion to Christianity and challenges to hide and lie about her new faith, how they would take her in and provide a place to live if she were disowned and kicked out by her parents and even seeded the idea that she could legally emancipate herself to live her new life freely as a Christian before she turned 18," the couple wrote to the school board.
Communication between their daughter and the other Christians lasted several months, the couple said.
"They have implied in their communications (with our daughter) that we would disown, mistreat or even kill our own child because of her conversion to Christianity. I cannot tell you how offensive and hurtful this is," the couple wrote.
Thorsen, who declined comment to the Daily Herald, was a popular teacher at the school. In 2019, more than 4,000 people signed an online petition supporting Thorsen for "speaking about religion in a historical context." The petition labeled him a "beloved History teacher."
Mr. Thorsen is a beloved History teacher who teaches at Jacobs High School In Algonquin, IL who is at risk of being fired for speaking about religion in a historical context. He is being accused of racism and Islamaphobia which are not only false but derogatory to his name and character. Please help us save one of Jacobs High School’s best teachers.
Please sign
They look like they plan to kill their daughter.
“A Muslim couple is suing a Chicago-area school and alleging that a former history teacher helped convert their daughter to Christianity.”
Not possible. Only ATHEISTS are now allowed to teach in our public schools. The case will immediately be tossed out.
These 2 need to unwind and relax. Get some together time and do a typical muzzie activity. Like bury someone up to their neck and stone them. Just de stress.
Oh they look jihadi to me!
They have every right to be upset.
That never happens!
Would Christian parents succeed in a lawsuit over a teacher introducing their kid to Islam?
And we all know that a lawsuit by Christian parents over a teacher making the kid atheist would be laughed out of court.
They both have scary empty dead eyes.
And not without precedent in muslim culture.
Suck it up. It’s your religion that acts like that.
Don’t like the negative portrayal? Then convince your fellow muslims to not do those things to their family members who convert.
They do.
So would the one you described. It’s a sign of the times.
I have mixed feelings about this. I know I’d be bent out of shape if a muslim school teacher “converted” my child and don’t think it couldn’t happen to yours.... teen agers heads are full of mush sometimes, no matter how smart they may be.
Gee, my first thought was that school personnel are allowed to take students for abortions and hormone treatments for those confused about their sex.
Hopefully this will be thrown out like the others were.
The daughter wants top be able to wear make up, get piercings and tattoos,uncover her head, dump the burka, and go on birth control while singing hip hop and chasing the urban male schlong like other Democrat raised teenage girls at the nearest super mall.
Religion is just an excuse. Praise the Lord.
Soon the daughter will be a ward of foster parents at the hands of social services, soon to be emancipated and by 23 will undergo publicly funded transgender therapy and surgery.
Alahwahoo Whackbar!
Where is fakkir Louis Farrakhan when you need him? ( sarc.)
The high cost of becoming a “no Religion” for American Muslims
Washington Post ^ | 7 July 2021 | Ryan Burge
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3977257/posts
OK. What is the rest of the story? Did she approach the teacher asking for more info on christianity? Did she jioin the club on her own accord? Did she express concerns about being disowned? Her testimony in the disposition will be interesting.
I agree. This would be a good story to follow.
That would be a not-unlikely outcome.
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