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.
Maybe Perry was right to endorse Rudy, he was better than McLame and far better than Obama.
“You are aware that the original charge came from Salon.com and Perry received an award called: Defender of Jerusalem Award.”
It doesn’t make any difference to me where the facts come from. If they are facts, I will pay attention to them. As far as Awards are concerned, I am not too impressed with those either. I prefer to see what a candidate has DONE first and, if they have not done anything, what they have SAID.
Perry has DONE a lot of things, although many of them have been the WRONG things IMHO.
This article should clue folks in on why we cannot get immigration enforcement in TX. Pena & biz lobby tried to pass a “guest-worker program” like they pulled off in Utah with front Repubs in SOMOS REPUBLICANS. Same carnival here in TX. Perry loves to appoint Hispanics into key positions. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PERRY ought to be his nickname. He also indirectly participated in a robo-call campaign to knock off a Bork-type judge on the Tx. Supreme Court (Steve Smith-2002).
Now here is the proof of his love of Quotas/hate crimes. It simply reveals his philosophy:
http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2012-presidential-election/guest-column-why-rick-perry-good-hispanics/
http://www.saisd.net/admin/curric/sstudies/mhcp/mhcproject.html
San Antonio Independent School District
What is the Muslim Histories and Culture Project (MHCP)?
The Muslim Histories and Cultures Project was born out of discussions between His Highness The Aga Khan and Texas Governor Rick Perry during the Summer 2002, when The Aga Khan was in Houston for the dedication of a new Ismaili Center. Both His Highness and Governor Perry agreed on the need for Texans to have a greater understanding of Islamic culture, and subsequently brought UT-Austin President Larry Faulkner into the discussions. Located in the state capital, Faulkner’s campus is well positioned to accomplish these goals. A series of meetings followed, with the project ultimately finding a home in UT-Austin’s College of Liberal Arts, under the guidance of Dean Richard W. Lariviere, in association with UT Liberal Arts (UT-LA), the college’s teacher preparation program.
In April 2004, the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) and UT-Austin finalized a grant proposal that created the partnership that became known as the Muslim Histories and Cultures Program (MHC). Much has happened since the inception of the partnership. Creation and implementation of a model was of prime importance. MHC recruited and directly trained 80 teachers affecting approximately 15,150 students of World History and World Geography in ten key Texas districts during the two sessions conducted in 2005 and 2006. The purpose is two-fold 1) to fulfill Governor Rick Perry’s desire to better educate Texas teachers on Muslim topics and 2) to train teachers to use a cultural lens approach to understanding other cultures. Governor Perry was instrumental in getting this program off the ground.
The curriculum for this project was developed at Harvard University and modified at the University of Texas at Austin.
The responsibilities of the participants are:
~to attend the 10 seminars and complete the assigned readings.
~to attend the January, April, and June meetings in Austin.
~to create lessons concerning Islamic topics with a “cultural lens” approach tied to their grade level to share with other teachers.
http://www.ismaili.net/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=953&sid=cf49d9fe174ed907d103d9f26b5e55af
09:01 PM CDT on Tuesday, June 14, 2005
By LINDA STEWART BALL / The Dallas Morning News
PLANO – The Ismaili Muslim community announced Tuesday that it is building a $6.5 million worship and community center in Plano, where it has found a warm welcome.
Gov. Rick Perry flew in to lay the first ceremonial brick for the center’s foundation. It was a symbolic gesture since the site for the new center will be a few miles northeast of the Gleneagles Country Club in Plano, where the foundation ceremony was held.
The governor, who is friends with the Ismaili Muslims’ spiritual leader, His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan, said he was honored to participate.
“Our culture is enriched and our society strengthened by a diverse mixture of traditions, heritages and faiths,” Mr. Perry said. “While differences may exist on the surface, there is a common hope for the future that dwells in the heart of every Texan.”
The Ismaili Jamatkhana and Center is a house of worship for Ismailis and a gathering place for youths. The proposed 30,000-square-foot Plano facility will be the first one in Collin County and one of five Jamatkhanas in North Texas.
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The complex eschews the domes typically found atop Islamic mosques in favor of a more contemporary structure with gardens, a prayer hall, social space, and administrative and education wings.
Ismailis belong to the Shia tradition of Islam, which is a sect of the Shiite group. As such, they believe in one God and consider the Quran the holy text through which God’s words were revealed to the prophet Muhammad. They believe that Muhammad was the last of God’s messengers to mankind.
http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/dn/religion/stories/061505dnmetismailicenter.d99ed2f.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/perrys_problematic_pals.html
But Perry has been sucked into the propaganda vortex, and is now wielding his enormous power to influence changes in the schoolrooms and in the curricula to reflect a sharia compliant version of Islam. He is a friend of the Aga Khan, the multimillionaire head of the Ismailis, a Shi’ite sect of Islam that today proclaims its nonviolence but in ages past was the sect that gave rise to the Assassins. Perry has concluded at least two cooperation agreements between the state of Texas and the Ismailis, including a comprehensive program to feed children in Texas public schools and taqiyya nonsense about how Islam is a religion of peace. Another agreement stipulates that Texas officials will work with the Ismailis in the “fields of education, health sciences, natural disaster preparedness and recovery, culture and the environment.” Perry let on that this was all about whitewashing Islam’s bloody historical and modern-day record: “traditional Western education speaks little of the influence of Muslim scientists, scholars, throughout history, and for that matter the cultural treasures that stand today in testament to their wisdom.”
It gets worse. Last March, Perry gave a speech in Dallas in the company of Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform. Norquist was close to George W. Bush, and Perry’s anti-tax, anti-Big Government rhetoric sounds like it’s right out of Norquist’s playbook. But there is a dark side to Norquist as well: Norquist’s ties to Islamic supremacists and jihadists have been known for years. He and his Palestinian wife, Samah Alrayyes — who was director of communications for his Islamic Free Market Institute until they married in 2005 — are very active in “Muslim outreach.” Six weeks after 9/11, The New Republic ran an exposé explaining how Norquist arranged for George W. Bush to meet with fifteen Islamic supremacists at the White House on September 26, 2001 — to show how Muslims rejected terrorism.
The only problem was that the ones with Bush didn’t. To Bush’s left sat Dr. Yahya Basha, president of the American Muslim Council, an organization whose leaders have repeatedly called Hamas “freedom fighters.” Also in attendance was Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, who on the afternoon of September 11 told a Los Angeles public radio audience that “we should put the State of Israel on the suspect list.” And sitting right next to President Bush was Muzammil Siddiqi, president of the Hamas-linked Islamic Society of North America, who once told a Muslim crowd chanting pro-Hezbollah slogans that “America has to learn if you remain on the side of injustice, the wrath of God will come.”
It was Norquist who ushered these silver-tongued jihadists into the Oval Office of an incurious president after the worst attack ever on American soil. Yet in December 2003, David Horowitz wrote that Norquist “has formed alliances with prominent Islamic radicals who have ties to the Saudis and to Libya and to Palestine Islamic Jihad, and who are now under indictment by U.S. authorities. Equally troubling is that the arrests of these individuals and their exposure as agents of terrorism have not resulted in noticeable second thoughts on Grover’s part or any meaningful effort to dissociate himself from his unsavory friends.” Nor has Norquist changed course since then.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/2523682.html
Ethics commission investigates Perry’s Bahamas trip
Associated Press
April 22, 2004, 11:04AM
AUSTIN - The Texas Ethics Commission has told Gov. Rick Perry it will decide whether he illegally converted political money to personal use when he used campaign funds to pay for a trip to the Bahamas.
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Also along on the trip at their own expense were San Antonio businessman James Leininger, a supporter of private school vouchers, and his wife Cecilia; Houston beer distributor John Nau and his wife, Bobbi; **Grover Norquist,** a Washington-based anti-tax activist; and Brooke Rollins, a former Perry aide now director of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and her husband.
The difference is that you don’t see Perry supporters posting articles (mostly from the left wing media) bashing Palin and agreeing with the lib authors.
When Dr. Daniel Shayesteh (the former co-founder of the Islamic terror group Hezbollah) appeared on my radio program, I asked him whether true adherents to Islam could peacefully assimilate into American culture and embrace constitutional law and order. He responded, “It is impossible for a person who follows Mohammed and says, ‘I am a Muslim’ and follows the instruction of the Koran to align himself with other laws and cultural values. That’s impossible, because everything other than Islamic culture and principle is evil.”
http://www.hanscalmeyer.com/html/assimilation.html
muslims do not want to assimilate. We ignore that fact at our peril.
I actually attended Perry’s prayer meeting in the Reliant Stadium. I did it with an open mind just to see what it was all about and most of all to pray for my country. (That is the least we can do.)
Since then I have heard from many different sources about his chumminess with Islam. I still have not made up my mind about Perry but if I detect just one slight whiff of Islamophilia on him, he’s done as far as I’m concerned.
Perhaps it’s time for Mr. Perry to shed some light on his alleged Muslim sympathies so that FReepers will not have to go for each other’s throats.
Just a reminder: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnjZEZggkkA
Perhaps Mr. Perry should comment on the message in the video.
Here we go again. I’m no “Perry apologist.” Just a believer in gathering facts and deliberating before spouting.
To repeat my earlier comments...
The Aga Khan is 74 years old; there’s plenty on record to judge.
I don’t much like Perry, but the attack on him via the article at http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/perrys_problematic_pals.html is very lame.
The article is almost entirely about Norquist, and the only connection it makes to Perry is that Perry gave a speech about tax reform and job creation, with Norquist and his Americans for Tax Reform team standing behind him. The speech can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NYHzcDcvSU.
The article links a Dallas Observer blogger who titled his piece “Rick Perry’s New Sidekick, Grover Norquist.”
That item is here: http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2011/03/rick_perrys_new_sidekick_grove.php
There is absolutely nothing in the article, “Perry’s Problematic Pals” that holds any water when it comes to the Aga Khan. Perry’s guilt by association is thrown, splat, and then the author moves on to talk about Norquist and the Norquist-Bush connection.
As for the Aga Khan, there are interviews and reports on youtube videos that any fair-minded person will want to find and absorb. I strongly recommend it.
For those who can’t be bothered, nothing I can write will illuminate anything, and I’m an anonymous writer.
I’ll just say that if a report offers nothing more informative on the Aga Khan or the Ismailis than a reference to the 12th c “Assassins,” you can be sure it’s written by a lazy and ignorant typist for the consumption of lazy and ignorant readers.
Looks like I’ll have more occasions to post this comment.
“First get informed.”
Great video,surprising they let the truth out! We have Generals Bleating about the hate book being Burned, they need to Quit.
Thanks, Mesta. This connects a few more dots. Perry looks to me to be worse than Romney. And I honestly never thought I would say that.
“I intend to vote the same convictions,” Perry said. “The only difference is there will be an R beside my name.”
Classic definition of RHINO!!
I’m not going to be tolerant of people who take legitimate concerns about Perry and declare them “dead” or “non-issues”.
I’ve stated I’m willing to hole my nose and vote for Perry, but I want to see some renunciation of some of his obvious statist/illegal-pandering/moslem-pandering tendencies. If nobody is allowed to say a word against him, than there will be no pressure to keep him in line. I’d rather have an energized GOP fighting Obama than one which will simply hand the next RINO president amnesty, because amnesty will be the final death blow to this country.
What a fabulous encapsulation of why Sarah is loved by so many conservatives and dreaded by so many on the left. The left is the essence of lawlessness. They cannot advance their agenda without the aid of corruption in high places. Palin is kryptonite to such parasites. None of the other candidates even comes close.
That award was given by a very far left group.
oshama said Jerusalem was the eternal, undivided capital of Israel. He *liked* Jews too.
Bush promised to move the embassy to Jerusalem, but signed a waver every six months to delay it. Everybody loves Israel prior to election.
I swear to God I almost voted against Perry when he was up against Kinky Friedman and Chris Bell.
I was unhappy about the TTC.
I considered the facts and thought, “well we could elect Kinky, and he would appoint Willy Nelson as Energy Czar, we have a strong house whats the worst that could happen? He wand willy sit in the Govs mansion smokin doobs and playin guitars while no policy moves forward”
Well, I voted Perry because the very thought of Chris “the people work for Gov” Bell turned my stomach, and guess what?
I’m GLAD I voted Perry. He dropped that TTC thing like a hot potato even though he rightfully understands that we must upgrade infrastructure in this state.
He heard us loud and clear.
Same with gardisil.
Its not easy pleasing all the people, in fact it’s impossible, but on thing Perry has demonstrated to me is that he wont shove legislation down the throats of the constituents like Obama and Pelosi have .
Sometimes I still wish we could have Cowboy hat wearin cigar smokin guitar playin folks in the executive office that arent ****ing the regular guy, but Perry will do.
The best that can be said for Rick Perry in connection with the Perry/Khan curriculum is that he is very naive.
Who in your concept of things Texas has the authority/control of the education cirriculum in the secondary public schools in Texas?
We haven't seen that since Pissant was zotted. It saddens me that so many of my fellow Palin supporters are resorting to this tactic because it pissed me off to no end to see it done to Sarah. This is especially weird since Sarah really likes Perry and I trust her very well informed judgement.
Sarah will never bash Perry as many of her supporters are, bank on it.
You want to know more about the Book of Hate being burned? See how low we have already sunk in this country.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErzxOz3Dzv8&feature=player_embedded#!
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