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.
Free Republic has been known to be “Palin Territory” since I came here....so no one should be surprised there’s alot of passion for her in these Hills. Trying to make Palin supporters into something they are not will surely get you responses...it goes with the “territory”.
Islam is diametrically opposed to our Constitution in every way. Yet each and every Mosque and Islamic center has there own "Constitution" which will trump the US Constitution.
However they also teach that it's acceptable for them to come under our constitution for a time, and it's perfectly acceptable....while they continue to convert our citizens and populate our country with their throngs of people. That's how they operate until their masses require representation.....and why the battle in states to deny Shariah Law BEFORE they act to impliment it.
If they cannot impliment Shariah peacefully then they will do so otherwise.....just a matter of time. Unfortunately since Americans are converting they will be armed. Saw a video on this today....chilling!
“All I said was Texas is %38 hispanic.
How the **** is Perry to govern if he doesn’t recognize that?”
Category error.
Those 38% “hispanic’ are either 100% American or illegals. If they are American, governing them is no different than governing any other American. If they are Illegal, throw them out.
“Hispanic American” is a Democrat invention. As long as we keep playing the Democrat Identity politics BS, we are going to lose.
PS. The Texas version of the dream act BS is not Pro America, so who benefits?
“Princess Sarah”...
Methinks the froth overflows from your own bowl.
I call BS on the face of that statement. Thats like saying the Gov of FLA doesn't weigh the vote of retired folks. All governance's have wide and varied constituency's
Call all the BS you like. All men are created EQUAL. Tell me how you govern one person under a different set of laws rules or concerns and have ‘equal’ anything much lass equal representation.
PS only 1% of Mexican Kids who were raised in America get any benefit from the Tx DREAM act and they have to have lived her for 3 years and they don’t just get free tuition they have to prove themselves academically.
I get pissed, that I have paid taxes here all these years and my Son doesn’t get anything unless he is a resident for 3 years, but the notion that the Tx Dream act is sending illegals to harvard is a farce.
They a have a higher bar to pass.
FR has become nothing but a Princess Sarah fan club. Zotting 10 year FReepers like Humblegunner has become the rule for those who don’t bow down to her highness.
Her foam frothing minions are turning off more voters than gaining. You reap what you sow.
I am a DeMint supporter, but as each day passes I realize that his participation is less likely. Picking between Palin and Perry is becoming more difficult when you have Paulites & Palinites sliming Perry in the same way the liberal dims are. I guess there is a lot more in common between the three than I thought.
If independent thought, and civil discussion are out of style here, go ahead a zot me too.
Now that I think about it, this is the second time you have said this in threads this week. If you have such little regard for how things are run here, why not take it up with the boss himself or just go to a site better suited to your beliefs?
Between your PDS bull$#it and the above, why are you even here on a site that voted 87% in support of and is called “Palin Country” by the boss himself?
Sure does if you make an excuse for every poll that shows otherwise. Her numbers have even gone south in Alaska.
http://community.adn.com/node/157530
I'm looking for a candidate who polls well with independents. IOW a candidate who can win.
You go ahead and rule that way, you’ll be deposed.
Like it or not, if you have a hispanic constituency and you spit at hispanics you will lose their vote.
Same goes for any group of people.
38% will get your attention if you want to stay on the job.
You want to govern Fla and disregard retirees, you will lose your job.
The “Farce” is that an American taxpayer pays 1 cent for illegal anything and a politician supports it.
That’s a farce.
So our Founding Fathers were wrong when they wrote the BOR and Constitution?
Can’t have it both ways.
It’s a pittance. I agree that we shouldn’t give a dime to illegals but under the 14th? amendment our hands are tied, so we have to make motions to that regard.
You need to get rid of some amendments to the constitution.
I dont agree with them all, but they are on the books.
This is why “I” am so adamant that we don’t write anymore laws.
More laws just muddle things and make for technical loopholes.
Plus more laws just employ more lawyers.
I was happy with the Constitution and BOR as originally written
I especially hate laws that bestow rights.
It is not the Governments place to “bestow rights”
Notice now the Muslims who are a recent immigrant group are being fast tracked into important positions in society. Even Gov. Christie appointed a Muslim as a judge. I doubt that he was really the most qualified, I am sure there were plenty of good solid Consitutional conservatives who would have done a great job as a judge. But no, Christie is playing the old Democrat ethnic pandering routine, instead of simply choosing the best person.
Remember how pandering to Muslims worked out in the Fort Hood massacre. Hassan was obviously out of his mind, going so far as supporting the gruesome murders of non-Muslims, but he was still kept at his post because he was a Muslim and in today’s world, pandering is all that really matters.
What makes you say that? I have not heard her comment on the muslim problem.
In fact, does she even know that we have a problem with them or is she just as PC as the rest of them?
It’s time that the question of Islam is brought in the open during the debates and primaries. For too long have our politicians stuck their heads in the sand and they are still doing it.
Talking about kicking the can down the road!
From the very first line .. it’s Palin, not Palen ... to not spell her name correctly is kind of distracting ...
All of this really comes back to one simple thing. The border and our laws governing it.
Our very existence as a nation requires a border. As such, there are two kinds of people. Legal citizens, and illegal aliens. I understand what you are saying. I really do. But any capitulation to illegals and their citizen families/supporters chips away at the existence of the entire purpose of the border and render any laws governing it meaningless.
Earlier I mentioned Category Error. We as a society spend all our time and effort discussing, legislating and campaigning around the wrong problem. Here is the ONLY question that matters at all in the entire discussion over illegals.
“Do we have a border or not?”
That’s it. All others trace directly back to that. It does not matter if you are Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Joe the Plummer or Jose Estivez. If we HAVE a border, all these dream acts and welfare/medical for illegals are not even open to discussion because the existence of a border means you are legal or not. If you are not, then any law granting you ANYTHING but basic human rights until you are shipped back across the border should not exist to begin with...since your presence here is a direct violation of our border laws.
Sure this sounds pie in the sky in today’s ‘reality’ but under our Constitution, can it really be HONESTLY denied? No, it can’t. So that means all these laws, rules etc are just politics and the laws of men.
If we are a nation of laws as we claim and not one of men, then we need to elect men/women who WILL enforce the most basic of them...like the one that establishes our boundaries and not cater to people who want their personal preferences to be the governing authority.
If we cannot govern by our nation’s Constitution, we are not really a nation at all.
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