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More than 260 students attended a conference on Islam sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations at Providence High School on Wednesday. The all-day event started with a local Islamic religious leader reciting from the Koran and a CAIR representative reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Students attended lectures on Islam and participated in discussions on a variety of topics. "It was a beautiful day," said Sarwat Hussain, executive director of CAIR-San Antonio. "Many teachers and interfaith leaders also participated in the event and deemed it a great success."

O'Leary Islam Awareness Week 2005 begins at Cornell Friday, Feb. 11, at 7 p.m. with an event titled "An American Woman's Jihad." The week will feature talks, panels and other events intended to give non-Muslims on campus and in the community an opportunity to learn more about Islam. The Feb. 11 event, which is free and open to the public, opens with a screening of the widely acclaimed National Geographic documentary film "Inside Mecca," in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. The one-hour film follows three Muslims on their pilgrimage to the Al Masjid Al-Haram mosque in Mecca,...

WASHINGTON, February 4 (IslamOnline.net) – Cornell University is to open Islam Awareness Week 2005 with an event entitled “an American Woman’s Jihad” to give non-Muslims and community members opportunity know more about Islam. The event, due on February 11, comes at a critical time facing Islam worldwide, as many non-Muslims mistakenly believe the Arabic word of Jihad refers solely to a holy war of aggression and violence led by “extremists”. It would open with a widely-acclaimed National Geographic documentary film “Inside Makkah,” in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, according to Cornell Chronicle newspaper of the university Thursday, February...

Ok everyone...I received a company email today that I would have to attend a mandatory training class called "Managing Differences" or as it is commonly known as Diversity training. Being the well informed FReeper that I am, I know that this is obviously bull$h**! It's values training. I really want to have some fun with this one, so I need some ammunition so I can take over the class and bend them toward my evil VRWConspiratorial ways! Any ideas? What should I expect?

TORONTO - All current and future Toronto police officers will be given training on gay and lesbian sensitivity under an unprecedented settlement of litigation that erupted after a controversial bathhouse raid in 2000. The Toronto Police Service will also pay $350,000 to a group of lesbian complainants, with the money going toward specific charities and to cover legal fees. The unique settlement ends one of the most controversial events in the fitful history of relations between Toronto police and the city's thriving gay community. Under the deal, everyone on the 7,260-member force - from rookie constables to the chief of...

WASHINGTON -- If you look closely, what is inside your child's textbooks may shock you. They are full of evolution theories, and many liberal historians are rewriting American history as well. But there is even more. How Islam is portrayed in today's textbooks is a subject of concern also. The familiar images of Islam include praying at Mecca, and the prophet Muhammad, a man Muslims say is the messenger of God. But this is not the whole story. When all is said and done, the story of Islam is being told and taught to our nation's school kids in their...

by: Timothy J. Dailey, Ph. D. Radical civil libertarians are alarmed that religious references are still cropping up in public schools celebrations of the national secular winter holiday otherwise known as Christmas--even as public schools open their doors to Muslim educators to inform students about Islam. New Jersey's South Orange/Maplewood School District thought it had successfully exorcised any religious content from its holiday concert. But alas, while no spoken references to the Christ Child were permitted, it was discovered that a number of instrumental renditions of traditional carols had somehow slipped past the censors. That oversight has now been rectified,...

‘Unlearning Intolerance’: Secretary-General to open seminar on Confronting Islamophobia at Headquarters, 7 December 2004 Secretary-General Kofi Annan will open a seminar on “Confronting Islamophobia: Education for Tolerance and Understanding” at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 7 December. The seminar will be the second in a series entitled “Unlearning Intolerance”, organized by the Educational Outreach Section in the Outreach Division of the United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI). The seminar will be held at United Nations Headquarters in Conference Room 1. After the opening statement by the Secretary-General, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, University Professor of Islamic Studies at George...

If administrators of Kentucky's Boyd County school district can't find a way to force all students to attend sexual orientation and gender identity "tolerance training," the American Civil Liberties Union is threatening to take them to court – again. Ten months ago, the district settled a lawsuit with the ACLU over the right of a student group, the Gay-Straight Alliance, to meet on campus. The year-long litigation strained relations in the conservative northeast portion of the state. In addition to allowing the group to meet on campus after school, district officials agreed that all students, staff and teachers would be...

Sunday, November 28, 2004 LAW OF THE LANDView homosexual film,or school faces lawsuitACLU tells district: Force studentsto watch 'tolerance training' video Posted: November 28, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com If administrators of Kentucky's Boyd County school district can't find a way to force all students to attend sexual orientation and gender identity "tolerance training," the American Civil Liberties Union is threatening to take them to court – again. Ten months ago, the district settled a lawsuit with the ACLU over the right of a student group, the Gay-Straight Alliance, to meet on campus. The year-long litigation strained relations in the conservative...

Judge rules Islamic education OK in California classrooms Dismisses suit opposing requirement students recite Quran, pray to Allah -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: December 13, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Requiring seventh-grade students to pretend they're Muslims, wear Islamic garb, memorize verses from the Quran, pray to Allah and even to play "jihad games" in California public schools has been legally upheld by a federal judge, who has dismissed a highly publicized lawsuit brought by several Christian students and their parents. As WND reported in July of last year, the suit was filed by the Thomas More Law Center against...

Not only do Islamists want to censure the handling of Islamic topics at U.S. universities, as I noted in "Islamists Police the Classroom [at the University of South Florida]," but they also wish to do the same at grammar schools. More ominously yet, they wish to transform public schools at all levels into venues for spreading Islam. An undated posting at www.SoundVision.com posts a page titled "18 Tips for Imams and Community Leaders." The 15th tip, "Establish a parents' committee to monitor public schools," has special interest. It starts by asking if the local public school is teaching 10-year-olds that...

Not only do Islamists want to censure the handling of Islamic topics at U.S. universities, as I noted in “Islamists Police the Classroom [at the University of South Florida],” but they also wish to do the same at grammar schools. More ominously yet, they wish to transform public schools at all levels into venues for spreading Islam. An undated posting at www.SoundVision.com posts a page titled “18 Tips for Imams and Community Leaders.” The 15th tip, “Establish a parents' committee to monitor public schools,” has special interest. It starts by asking if the local public school is teaching 10-year-olds that...

In a move that echoes the recent decision of the U.S. Department of Defense to deny Boy Scouts use of military facilities, the U.S. Air Force Academy is warning Christian cadets to curb their faith. Officials at the Colorado Springs military college have instituted a new training program, Respecting the Spiritual Values of People, to teach the cadets, 90% of whom are from Protestant or Catholic backgrounds, tolerance toward non-Christians. The program follows an August survey that found complaints of religious bias. ... Rosa cited Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" as an example of the problem being caused...

TORONTO, November 17, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Toronto District School Board elementary school, hosting mandatory same-sex sensitivity training for its schoolchildren, is not allowing any exemptions -- even for Muslim children whose parents object to the content of the instruction. The videos and discussion, called "anti-homophobia education" by the board, are aimed at children, to purportedly eliminate the bullying of children living in families with same-sex parents. At a meeting attended by 150 parents Tuesday, school board officials said there would be no allowance for parents with children at Market Lane Public School to excuse their kids from the classes....

Look out kids. SpongeBob SquarePants, Barney and Clifford the Big Red Dog are joining forces to rerecord the disco tune We Are Family to promote diversity and tolerance in classrooms. A video starring the three children's characters plus nearly 100 others, including Dora the Explorer and Arthur, will be distributed to 61,000 public and private elementary schools nationwide, along with lesson plans for teachers. It will air simultaneously on Nickelodeon, the Public Broadcasting Service and the Disney Channel in March. ... The We Are Family Foundation was founded by singer-songwriter Nile Rodgers, who wrote the song recorded in 1979 by...

(AgapePress) - A freelance writer from Virginia is protesting what he calls the Islamic indoctrination of grade school students in one of the country's largest public school districts. During the ongoing month of Ramadan, children in the third through fifth grades in Herndon, Virginia, schools are being taught about the Muslim holiday and about other Islamic customs and practices. With the help of so-called "multicultural trainer" Afeefa Syeed," the young students are reciting Muslims' sacred words and imitating their faith practices." Prayer rugs are given out, Islamic prayers are recited, and as columnist Dave Gibson recently commented, "a happy face...

"Coming soon to an elementary school near you: mandatory indoctrination in Islamic customs and practices. According to The Kansas City Star, third-, fourth- and fifth-graders in Herndon, Virginia, are to be given lessons in the three Rs: Reading, ‘Riting, and Ramadan. During this instruction, public school children will play act being Muslims, and, perhaps unwittingly, convert to Islam."

Coming soon to an elementary school near you: mandatory indoctrination in Islamic customs and practices. According to The Kansas City Star, third-, fourth- and fifth-graders in Herndon, Virginia, are to be given lessons in the three Rs: Reading, ‘Riting, and Ramadan. During this instruction, public school children will play act being Muslims, and, perhaps unwittingly, convert to Islam. Pupils from a nearby Muslim school will visit classes in the town’s public schools to educate their counterparts in Islam. They will be accompanied by something called “a multicultural trainer” named Afeefa Syeed. In Herndon, during this month of Ramadan (which began Friday),...

Posted on Sat, Oct. 09, 2004 Teaching Ramadan in public schools Accurate lessons in demand after 9/11 By HOLLY LEBOWITZ ROSSI Religion News Service During the next few weeks, multicultural trainer Afeefa Syeed will bring third-, fourth- and fifth-grade students from a Muslim academy in Herndon, Va., to nearby public schools to share the practices and beliefs of their holiest month, Ramadan. Syeed and the children will present the call to prayer in Arabic, display prayer rugs and offer tastes of dates. In countless other classrooms across the country, similar efforts will be made to educate students about the time...

OTTOWA -- A full-length animated film about the early life of the Prophet Muhammad is being released in North America to help fight anti-Muslim prejudice.Muhammad: The Last Prophet will be screened in 37 cities, including Toronto, London, Ont. and Windsor, Ont., for one week starting Nov. 14.The screenings coincide with Eid ul-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of the Islamic fast of Ramadan.Rabiah Ahmed, spokeswoman for the Council on American Islamic Relations, which is sponsoring the screenings, said studies have shown prejudice decreases when people get accurate information about Islam. She said the film is timed so that Muslim families...

Imagine walking into an Episcopal Church and seeing kids learning how to pray to Allah. Kids and adults got the chance to learn about different faiths this week at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Rome during Vacation Bible School with a twist. This year the church taught their members, and members of other congregations, about other faiths and how they relate to Christianity. The World Peace Village looked at Islam on Thursday night. The week-long event also investigated Buddhism, Native American beliefs, Hinduism, Judaism and briefly touched on Christianity. “It’s a study to promote peace and understanding and tolerance of...

NEW YORK - In an unprecedented move the San Francisco 49ers have saturated their players in two and a half hour "diversity sessions", designed primarily to incorporate tolerance in the NFL locker room. 49er players sat through the sessions that were presented by a tandem duo who discussed sexual orientation diversity (among other things). In recent years the organization had undergone two "embarrassing" incidents involving the topic of homosexuality. A former player Garrison Hearst had publicly stated that no gay player would be "accepted" in an NFL locker room. The other incident involved repeated, reported, harrassment from players on the...

Washington -- Indonesian student Dedi Setiadi admits his opinion of the United States has not always been positive. "In the beginning, I was critical of the U.S. and its policies toward different countries," he said. In an interview with the Washington File, Dedi said his views changed after a year of living with a Mexican-American family in the United States. "This country is very diverse. I didn't see prejudice," Dedi observed. He appreciated learning about his host family's culture and sharing with them aspects of Indonesian culture. When he returns home, Dedi plans to help other Indonesian students learn about...

June 30, 2004LETTER FROM EUROPELessons of Islam in German ClassroomsBy RICHARD BERNSTEIN ERLIN, June 29 - You could call it Exhibit A. It's a drawing in a text used to teach Islam to Muslim students at German elementary schools, and it shows a family at a table, a father, two children, and a mother, with plates of food in front of everybody - except the mother, who wears a head scarf."The mother is shown like a servant," said Marion Berning, the principal of the Rixdorfer Grundschule, a large elementary school in Neukölln, a largely immigrant neighborhood of Berlin. "This is...

One of the more sadistic exercises practiced by some operators who drive the diversity machine goes by the name "Brown Eyes, Blue Eyes." You may have heard of it, because an elementary-school teacher in Iowa first perpetrated it on her fourth-graders in 1968 and it quickly became notorious. Jane Elliott divided her students into two groups based on their eye color. The blue-eyed children were forced to wear collars symbolizing inferiority, and were constantly humiliated by the brown-eyed children, egged on by their teacher. Elliott once told an interviewer, "It was just horrifying how quickly they became what I told...

(SH) - One of the more sadistic exercises practiced by some operators who drive the diversity machine goes by the name "Brown Eyes, Blue Eyes." You may have heard of it, because an elementary-school teacher in Iowa first perpetrated it on her fourth-graders in 1968 and it quickly became notorious. Jane Elliott divided her students into two groups based on their eye color. The blue-eyed children were forced to wear collars symbolizing inferiority, and were constantly humiliated by the brown-eyed children, egged on by their teacher. Elliott once told an interviewer, "It was just horrifying how quickly they became what...

American studies professor to discuss ‘cash value’ of white privilege in diversity lecture series By Scott Rappaport What is whiteness worth? American studies professor George Lipsitz will address that question at a presentation on Thursday, March 11, from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Bay Tree Building, Conference Room D. The event is part of the 2004 Diversity Lectures series sponsored by the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action. The author of several prominent works in the field of American studies, George Lipsitz recently joined the UCSC faculty, coming from UC San Diego. Photo: Scott Rappaport “It’s worth a...

Some parents are furious and a teacher may be in trouble today after showing his students a controversial movie. The teacher at Malcolm X Elementary School allegedly showed a group of 6th-graders excerpts from the movie "The Passion of the Christ." It was reportedly from a "bootleg copy" of the film. The graphic scenes were too much some of the students including one 11 year-old girl who spoke with Fox 5. The principal sent a note home to parents yesterday saying it was inappropriate and the movie should not have been shown. D.C. school security is looking into the allegations.

Many University of Nebraska-Lincoln English students got a break from Shakespeare, Faulkner and Sandoz Thursday. Instead, they filed in and out of the day's special classroom, Andrews Hall's second-floor library, which was festooned with rainbow-colored streamers and a gay pride flag. Their instructors included the Nebraska American Civil Liberties Union, a campus gay-rights group and various UNLprofessors. The assignment was simple:Think about gay rights on UNL's campus. The GLBT Teach-In is designed to educate students and professors about hate crime legislation, same-sex marriage, gay adoption and discrimination by sexual orientation, said Joy Arbor, an English teaching assistant and Teach-In organizer....

American Family Association Journal, September 2000 BRINGING THE BIBLE BACK TO SCHOOL http://www.bibleinschools.net/sdm.asp?pg=nae Washington, D.C.’s National Press Club was the setting July 25 for an important announcement that is likely to have far-reaching impact on the students attending our nation’s public schools and, perhaps, the future of America itself. The National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools (NCBCPS) is a proactive organization based in Greensboro, North Carolina, that is devoted to returning the study of the Bible as an elective course to junior and senior high school classrooms nationwide. Its president, Elizabeth Ridenour, says tremendous progress has been made...

See previous part of series, Christians Fight California's Muslim Indoctrination of Schoolchildren. WASHINGTON – Parents who are furious that their children are receiving indoctrination in Islam in their schools have yet to hear support from most of the same left-wing groups that loudly lecture Americans on what they call “separation of church and state,” a phrase that appears nowhere in the U.S. Constitution. Thus far, not a peep out of American Civil Liberties Union, Moveon.org, the misnamed People for the American Way or many others of their ilk. ACLU continues to refuse NewsMax's request for comment. The lone prominent liberal...

<p>Wearing his kufi— a traditional cap— and robe, Campos-Marquetti, a native New Yorker, is trying to educate people about Islam. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, countries such as Afghanistan give Islam a bad name, he said.</p>

Christians Fight California's Muslim Indoctrination of SchoolchildrenWes Vernon, NewsMax.comThursday, Jan. 15, 2004See part one of series: Jailed Clintonista Terror Suspect Helped ACLU Draft Schools' Anti-Christian RulesWASHINGTON – NewsMax.com has learned that a public interest law firm plans to file an appeal “probably within the next 20 days” to overturn a federal judge’s decision upholding as constitutional the Islamic indoctrination of children in California's government schools. Such schoolroom activities as praying to Allah and simulating Islamic worship are not “devotional activities,” District Judge Phyllis Hamilton decreed in a highly publicized lawsuit brought by Christian pupils and parents at Excelsior Elementary School...

A Christian attorney in California has unveiled a new ballot initiative proposal that would make the King James Bible a textbook for public school students in the state.Matt McLaughlin says due to some Supreme Court decisions that have been misinterpreted, God's Word has been completely removed from public schools. The Orange County attorney says his new ballot initiative -- KingJamesTextbook.com -- would amend the state constitution to allow use of the Bible in a non-devotional manner that is within current constitutional guidelines laid out by the high court."This will be voluntary. Parents will be able to opt out," McLaughlin says,...

A group called American Middle-East Christian Association (AMECA) plans to demonstrate Monday against what it calls the Islamic indoctrination of America's public schools. The group said it has learned that an intermediate school in Covina, Calif., is teaching Islam to "impressionable" schoolchildren by urging them to fast during Ramadan. According to the Christian group, a teacher at Royal Oak Intermediate School sent a note home to parents telling them that Muslims fast from sunup to sundown during the month of Ramadan. The teacher then told parents their children could earn extra credit by choosing to "fast for one, two or...

BHSU book confuses Mormon, American Indian beliefs Associated Press SPEARFISH, S.D. - A book written to help school teachers understand the varying religious beliefs of their students will be pulled after complaints surfaced about its accuracy. The book was part of the curriculum at Black Hills State University's College of Education. The book, "What Teachers Need to Know About Their Students' Religious Beliefs," is meant to be a handbook to help teachers learn the doctrines and customs of 25 different religions. It was written by Len Austin, an assistant professor of education at Black Hills State. Austin used it...

No child is too young to become a cosmopolitan multiculturalist. And now that Islam is a hot topic in America, not to mention probably the fastest-growing religion in the world, two new books offer the discerning young reader a glimpse of the Islamic world. Well, O.K., these books are probably aimed more at the discerning parents of the undiscerning kid, who will doze as Mom or Dad reads aloud about the mihrab, the minber, the muezzin and other features of Islam. But they make a lovely introduction -- and I mean lovely, for both books are gorgeously illustrated. David Macaulay...

Friday, December 19, 2003 Multiple beliefs blend in tolerance -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Holidays in the schools: Let no faith be left behind By Karen Gutierrez The Cincinnati Enquirer Public schoolchildren spent this week celebrating Christmas without really celebrating Christmas. The focus of classroom parties wasn't Jesus or even Santa Claus. Instead, teachers deftly surrounded those stories with snippets of others - the latke-eating of Hanukkah, the candle-lighting of Kwanzaa. J.D. Morgan (foreground left), portraying an elf, and Anthony Townsley (foreground right), as one of the wise men, sing during a third grade production of "Once on a Housetop" at Grandview Elementary School,...

Principal Kicks Nativity Scene Out Of School Parents Want To Speak With School Officials POSTED: 7:30 PM EST December 17, 2003 UPDATED: 8:39 PM EST December 17, 2003 A controversy over holiday decorations at a school in Montgomery County continues over the removal of a nativity scene where other holiday displays were allowed to remain. There's a Christmas tree in the lobby of Horsham's Dorothea Simmons Elementary School, along with a Menorah and items representing Kwanzaa. Around the corner, a holiday display is complete just in time for the school's first holiday concert in 12 years. But there's a problem,...

In response to outrage over photos posted on a student leader's Web site, the Black Caucus launched a platform of proposed additions to university policy meant to improve the racial climate at Penn State last night. Groups offended by pictures found on College Republicans chair Brian Battaglia's Web site last week met in the HUB-Robeson Center's Heritage Hall to discuss emotions surrounding hateful incidents on campus and present a list of expectations to the university. Tiffanie Lewis, president of Black Caucus, sat on the panel of student leaders who oversaw the town hall meeting. She said minority groups have been...

A federal judge in San Francisco has decided that seventh-grade teachers in a small east Contra Costa County school district did not violate the U.S. Constitution when they asked students to pretend to be Muslim in lessons about Islam. The case against the Byron school district fueled a national debate over whether role-playing religious activities should be allowed in school. Jonas and Tiffany Eklund, the parents of two former seventh-graders at Excelsior Middle School, sued the district last year after a world history class required their son to simulate elements of the Islamic faith. Activities included choosing a Muslim name,...

Some American high school students will be taught Chinese language and culture under a $1.4 million program financed by the Beijing government. The Advanced Placement program will be the second of its kind paid for by a foreign government (not counting Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi subsidy of Islamic schools in this country). A similar program underwritten by the Italian government was announced in September. China's ambassador to the United States, Yang Jiechi, and the president of the College Board, former West Virginia Gov. Gaston Caperton, announced the program last week. The College Board will conduct tests to measure course results. At...

Tolerance on Campus The first of a series of Diversity Lectures held at the University of Louisville in Kentucky brought the notoriously racist Sister Souljah to campus at a cost of more than $10,000, reports the Louisville Courier-Journal. The speech, in which Ms. Souljah was reported to have berated white people for more than two hours, was paid for with a $50,000 contribution by Bank One. The bank donated the money as penance after some of its employees were caught handing out racist T-shirts on campus. Her speech was part of an effort to bring to campus "thought-provoking speakers that...

At Royal Oak Intermediate School in Covina, California, students in Len Cesene's seventh grade history class fasted last week to celebrate the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Mr. Cesene's 12 and 13-year old students are the latest to become part of a growing Islamic indoctrination craze sweeping through America's schools. Mr. Cesene's letter to parents explained that, "in an attempt to promote a greater understanding and empathy towards the Muslim religion and toward other culture, I am encouraging students to participate in an extra credit assignment. Students may choose to fast for one, two or three days. During this time,...

Sohaib Abbasi, a former executive at the Oracle Corporation, contributed $2.5 million to the Abbasi Program; Lysbeth Warren, a member of the Humanities and Sciences Council at Stanford, kicked in another $2 million. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, apparently worried about their reputation as spendthrifts, added a $4.5 million grant to the fund. That's makes $9 million -- a right tidy sum. But it's for a good cause -- it's for education. Who knows? Maybe Johnny will finally learn how to read, and Jane will acquire the necessary skills to become a first-rate junior executive at-say, McDonalds or Wal-Mart....

At Royal Oak Intermediate School in Covina, California, students in Len Cesene's seventh grade history class fasted last week to celebrate the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Mr. Cesene's 12 and 13-year old students are the latest to become part of a growing Islamic indoctrination sweeping through America's schools. Mr. Cesene's letter to parents explained that, "in an attempt to promote a greater understanding and empathy towards the Muslim religion and toward other culture, I am encouraging students to participate in an extra credit assignment. Students may choose to fast for one, two or three days. During this time, students...

After Bank One's "Ten Reasons a Beer is better than a Black Man" t-shirt give-away on campus last spring a $50,000 contribution was made to U of L to further the progress of diversity. Diane Whitlock, Administrative Assistant to the Vice Provost for Diversity, said in an email interview that a committee comprised mostly of students decided to use those funds to establish a diversity lecture series on campus. Instead, what we got was Sistah Souljah: the black equivalent of David Duke. "Souljah was not born to make white people comfortable," says Sistah on her aptly named release Hate that...

In a unanimous vote on Tuesday, Boise State’s faculty senate approved the passage of a diversity requirement and signaled the shifting levels of importance that are being placed on matters of diversity in universities nationwide. With its approval, the diversity requirement will now become an effective part of the Boise State curriculum as early as the fall of 2005. “Boise State is now taking a healthy responsibility for educating students for the real world,” said Cultural Center Coordinator Ro Parker. “I think this means that Boise State will be catching up to their peer institutions in terms of diversity education.”...

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- No eating, drinking or smoking in public: That word is going out to American soldiers in Iraq as Muslims prepare to observe the holy month of fasting, Ramadan.During Ramadan, expected to begin Monday, Muslims are supposed to abstain from food, drink, cigarettes and sex during daylight hours. It is a time for reflection, when religious feelings run strong.The U.S.-led coalition is clearly concerned that those feelings could erupt into violence against American troops by religious Iraqis deeply offended that their country will be spending Ramadan under military occupation by non-Muslims.``We have made sure all our forces...