Posted on 08/20/2011 11:52:40 AM PDT by Brices Crossroads
Before I began to research Rick Perry's record, I perceived him to be nothing more than a garden variety southern Republican governor, probably conservative, certainly more conservative than his 2010 opponent Kay Bailey Hutchison. But the fact that he had such a spirited challenge from both sides in the GOP primary, both from the moderates AND the Conservatives, made me wonder just how conservative he really was. Just a bit of research revealed the gardasil mandate on preteen girls and their parents (and the cronysim associated with it), his full throated advocacy of open borders, including a pipeline for illegals dubbed the Trans-Texas corridor, his provision of in state tuition to the offspring of illegals, his doubling of the state budget during his tenure and his support in 2008 of the pro-choice social liberal Rudy Giuliani for President. I was not shocked to find he was not a conservative (After all, 49% of the Texas GOP voters, who are overwhelmingly conservative, voted in the primary not to renominate him.) What took me completely by surprise was his great affinity for Islam, the warm words which the Hamas front group CAIR has for him but most significantly of all, the Islamicization of the curriculum in the Texas public schools which the supposedly conservative Governor of Texas has quietly implemented.
Perry, you see, has a cozy relationship with the Aga Khan, the head of the Ismailis, a realtively small sect sect of Shia Islam that reportedly has 15 to 20 million followers. Perry and Khan have confected two cooperation agreements between the state of Texas and Ismaili institutions, the most significant of which is a program, now pervading every Texas public school, to proselytize and to desensitize, schoolchildren about Islam. Dubbed the "Muslim Histories and Culture Project", it really amounts to Islamic propaganda forced upon a captive audience...the malleable youngsters attending Texas public schools.
Up until a few days ago, the Texas school curriculum could be viewed on the SAN ANTONIO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT's own website:
www.saisd.net/admin/curric/sstudies/mhcp/mhcproject.html
This link has now mysteriously disappeared. I wonder if that has anything to do with the following posting on Pam Gellar's Blog, which exposes the entire enterprise, and which thankfully saved the curriculum abstracts:
Before the link to the San Antonio Independent School District Website was disabled and the website scrubbed, Gellar and company had lifted the curriculum abstracts from it, which show:
"a) High praise for Gov. Perry's collaboration with the Aga Khan, leaving no question about Perry's complicity and active support; and b) A thorough whitewashing of the nature and history of Islam that ignores Islam's bloody history while simultaneously portraying the Crusades as a bloody assault on Islamic soil by Christians."
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The curriculum abstracts characterize the interaction of Islam and Christianity as follows:
"While Islam "spreads" and "extends," presumably in the same way that dew forms on flower petals, Crusaders "wrest political control of the Holy Land from Muslim rulers, damaging the positive relations that had previously existed." Nowhere is it mentioned that the Crusades were prompted by two crises: (1) the ruthless treatment of Christian pilgrims attempting to see Jerusalem, which was under Muslim control, and (2) Byzantine Emperor Alexius's plea for European knights to help him take back territory that had just been overrun by an invasion of Muslim Turks. "
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Also lifted from the now scrubbed website was the following:
"A presentation of the Koran and Muhammad that can only be described as open proselytization for Islam in public schools.
An idealized portrayal of Cordoba's "multicultural" society that minimizes the oppression and political upheaval that took place under Muslim misrule, which largely brought on its own demise through infighting similar to what we see in the Islamic world today. A bizarrely twisted portrayal of the Islamic world that blames Islam's repression of women on Western Colonialism.
A naked advertisement for the Aga Khan and the Ismaili sect of Islam. This is particularly dangerous because the Ismailis are a sect of only about 20 - 30 million people -- approximately 2% of the entire Muslim population and therefore not representative of Islam as a whole. Also, while the Ismailis may portray themselves as relatively modern, they still have an anti-Western historical narrative that portrays the West as colonialist while ignoring Islam's own bloody form of colonialism. In making overtures to build bridges with one small Islamic sect, Gov. Perry has replaced the Western narrative of history with the narrative of 1.5 billion Muslims who see the West as the enemy. AND YES, THEY REALLY DO SEE THE WEST AS THE ENEMY, as this curriculum makes clear."
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After reading the teacher's abstracts of this Islamic proselytism, which can be seen by scrolling down the link, I was aghast. If any teacher in the public schools dared to even mention Christianity or Judaism, they would be fired. This curriculum mandates far more than a casual mention. It lionizes Islam, papers over its excesses and trashes Christianity, all at the same time. It is doing immense, yet very subtle, harm to the most vulnerable among us...school children. I daresay that most public school parents in Texas are unaware that their children are being brainwashed in such a fashion.
It turns out that Rick Perry, the godfather of the gardasil mandate for preteen girls also subscribes to another mandate... mandatory Islamic proselytization. Both mandates, it should be noted, require no parental consent. This brought to mind the old slogan Jesse Jackson used to use, "We want hope for brains not dope for veins." Apparently, Governor Perry's education platform was "Gardasil for veins; Islamopropaganda for brains". As the writer correctly observes:
If Barack Obama had imposed such a curriculum on schools we'd be calling for his impeachment. Therefore it is unconscionable to look the other way when it comes to Perry.
The best that can be said for Rick Perry in connection with the Perry/Khan curriculum is that he is very naive. In putting across these two odious mandates on public school children in Texas, gardasil and the euphemistically titled "Muslim Histories and Culture Project", Perry has demonstrated either a colossal lack of judgment or a hidden (and darker) agenda, either of which should disqualify him from consideration for the GOP nomination.
Sarah Palin will endorse whoever she wants; I will vote for whoever I think will serve the nation - or I won’t vote at all.
My opinion is my own, and no “talking point” involved.
I labeled your post ‘well thought out’ because you just didn’t attack me like other Perry supporters do. And I’ve voted for the lesser of two evils before also when I voted for Arnold as my governor and when I voted for Bush in 2004. I refuse to do that again, I think we can do better.
I am not comparing you, or others, to Pissant with respect to his vulgar misogynistic posts, but Pissant posted many articles from leftists in order to bash Palin, and these articles were about Palin’s record, often distorted, taken out of context, or not weighed against the rest of her record. The prime example of that were the hit pieces about her quitting which, at face value, seems horrible but in the context of what she was going through, it was the right decision. We should give Perry the same consideration. I used Pissant as an example because he is best known for bashing Palin in this manner.
Perhaps I should have voted for Farook Shami in the last go around LoL
I don’t even understand your barbed reply about being glad that I only had one vote.
Or was that sarcarsm?
Plenty of polls show Palin with strong electability. Right now, when you consider that 4 out of 5 undecideds break for the challenger, she’s generally running neck and neck with Obama. And she hasn’t even declared yet.
There’s a difference between disputing facts and interpretation of various poll numbers and sticking metaphorical fingers in their ears, as many Perry supporters seem to do in response to damaging information.
I just find it fascinating that the Palinites here would rather smear Rick Perry than tout their own candidate who went to Texas and campaigned for Perry last year. Of course, they call it “research” but it’s really just another hit piece based on the same smears and lies that have been covered in hundreds of other threads.
What’s the matter? Afraid Sarah can’t beat him head-to-head?
Well, that’s the entire problem on FR IMHO.
We get into these intense internal firewars.
Debate gets squelched. Its just one fire bomb after another.
Nov 2012 is a long ways off. We’ll see what shakes loose.
You did right, that being said, the fact that you even considered Kinky Friedman is, well, frankly a bit scary.
Perry’s scary.
“My opinion is my own, and no “talking point” involved.”
Then quit using the talking point that Sarah was only following Reagan’s 11th commandment by not saying anything negative about Perry. It’s a lie and you know it.
Then dont vote for him
The manner of the TTC really pissed me off.
What can I say?
I would rather drive a dirt road than pay tolls to another nation.
Then there was the matter of eminent domain.
That said, Perry and others where trying to figure out a way to cope with future growth without imposing an income tax.
It was moving to fast, and the people Killed the idea.
One blogger commenting on another. No wonder people don’t want to read blogs.
Really? As a Texan I call bs to most of the information contained in your article b.s..
As a mother of a teenage daughter, we raised heck in this state over the fact Perry was going to mandate the use of Gardasil. The mandate never happened.
In effect, yes.
Further, I need not explain myself to anyone. Not even you.
I checked the list this morning.
You're not on it.
Go look stuff up.
I sought a cogent rebuttal to the issues raised in BC's piece. Instead, you respond with juvenile one-liners and supercilious assertations with commands to 'look stuff up'. Apparently you have no real argument against the contentions raised by Brice, but just enjoy posting snarky replies to anyone who questions your abrupt dismissal of issues that, for conservatives, reflect poorly on Texas Governor Rick Perry. O.K. I had once thought Rick Perry might be my fall-back candidate if Sarah Palin declined to run but at this point, I'm beginning to think not. Perry is going to be vetted, one way or another, whether his supporters like it or not. That cannot and should not be avoided. If the only response to negative assertions about Perry's record from his supporters are arrogant brush-offs, devoid of facts but with lots of attitude, he won't survive the vetting. So be it.
I find your remarks frightfully bigoted and ignorant, I am sorry to say.
Nevertheless, I can only suggest that everyone do their own research and decide on their own. Nothing could be less controversial, so I trust you won’t disagree with that. :)
The Aga Khan is not an unknown or a newcomer. He came to his position over 50 years ago. There is a very long record on which to make an informed judgment, if one desires.
And the larger issue is Rick Perry. He’s been governor for around 10 years. Plenty of material there too.
Reasonable freepers do not accept guilt by association, and this is a case of guilt by association with someone guilty by association.
Sometimes gba is verifiable. Sometimes not.
First, get informed.
Look in the mirror.
And that’s what sets Perry apart.
He actually listens to his constituents.
Kind of like when you wanted me to research my position for you?
I had once thought Rick Perry might be my fall-back candidate if Sarah Palin declined to run but at this point, I'm beginning to think not.
By God, we're all lost without you! Say us a prayer.
Look, just because someone writes something does not mean it is true.
Especially if someone sets out to write a Perry hit-piece.
I hope you are sophisticated enough not to fall for that.
If the only response to negative assertions about Perry's record from his supporters are arrogant brush-offs, devoid of facts but with lots of attitude, he won't survive the vetting.
I fear you overestimate my impact upon world events.
Hey, lot's of folks do. It's OK.
As a reluctant Perry voter, I must say, I admire the mans tenacity and moxie.
He was the First gov that I know of to stick his finger in Obamas chest.
He is fighting Obamas EPA on energy even as we speak.
Obama really doesn’t want to tangle with this guy in public.
He has made all his rebuttals covertly through the courts and Perry has doubled down on them all through the courts.
Now we are going to have a public debate.
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