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.
38% of Texas is Hispanic.
What’s he to do as Governor? Pee on them?:
Get real
Or even a RINO, for those of you not living in the trailer park.
I havent spent a penny in Islamic stores since 911.
That said, I lived quite harmoniously with Lebanese Muslims in Ohio as a child and frequented their shops without fear.
“posting articles (mostly from the left wing media) bashing Palin and agreeing with the lib authors.”
“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.”
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How is it bashing to point out his record? Should we just all hold hands around the campfire and sing kumbaya?
Mark my words. You WILL see Palin comparing her record to others. Whether she says nice things about them is beside point. I have heard her say repeatedly that she wants a SPIRITED campaign in which records are debated.
Have you been observing so many moderate campaigns of Bush, Dole, and McCain that you have forgotten what a real campaign based upon ideas is about. Reagan ran such campaigns in 1976 and 1980. He was not bashful about attacking his opponents records. If you think he was, please read Craig Shirley’s excellent books about the 1976 and 1980 campaigns.
For you to compare me and other Palin suppoprters to pissant, who was a vulgar troll with misogynistic beliefs that he expressed is really a canard. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. I expect such from the usual trolls but I have never noticed such tendencies in you.
Cop-out response.
If BC is mistaken, lying or distorting Governor Perry's record and you call him out, it is incumbent on you to prove him wrong, not just flip off anyone that asks you why he is wrong. If you are unable or unwilling to do so, your assertion that BC is all wrong about Rick Perry (and these issues) looks false. Pithy brush-offs may help you feel smug but prove nothing. This is not how you defend a candidate. I'm sure you can do better.
It will happen again on the next thread. The same excuses will be given. We will hear again about the Friend of Jerusalem Award...as if that somehow makes it okay that their own children are being brainwashed in the Texas school system. I wasn’t even going to post this stuff again, but it’s important.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2764459/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2764368/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2764581/posts
Some things can be explained. Some things can’t. Some things can be excused. Some thing shouldn’t be. This is one of those things that can’t be explained OR excused.
All my Texas relatives (and there are alot of them) are proud conservative Rupublicans. Without exception, they really like Perry.
There seems to be a bit of a disconnect with what I am reading from many respected FReepers. Yes, I’ve read most of the posts and many of the links, both pro and con....and I shall continue to do so.
It’s still early in the game, but right now I’m leaning Perry.
“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#!";
Great Video,Thanks I will pass it around!
Is that what I was trying to do?
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.
You aren’t pointing out his record. You are distorting it.
You raise a good point, and one that I have made in many a Perry thread.
If we ignore Perry's past of advocating liberal causes we effectively condone them and I'm not ready, willing or able to do that. You said "He heard us loud and clear." So why should he not hear us on other issues? And yes, I have written his campaign but have yet to receive a single response.
Perry needs to be vetted, all candidates need to be vetted. But the pro-Perry crowd seemingly opposes the vetting process. Anyone who questions his past or alludes to things in it that we don't like is summarily attacked as a 'Palinista' or a 'Romneybot' or, unbelievably, an Obama supporter. I am none of the above, I just see things in Perry's past that tell me I cannot vote for him.
I know there is no perfect candidate. But we should not ignore Perry's record. To do so is tantamount to supporting it, and I think we can do better.
Spot on.
If you want to know anything REAL about Aga Khan, you need to go to islamic websites. Western ones only tell you what they want you to know.
To the people he controls, he is an absolute tyrant. His word is the law and if he says it, it is true. There can be NO free thinking. No questions. You obey, or you pay. His followers think he is divine, the personification of allah on earth.
You have no idea what these people are like out from under the sunlight.
I wonder what the Palinistas will do if Sarah decides to endorse Perry - heads will explode.
Ping!
I don’t know that my post was well thought ought but it’s my truth.
I voted for Perry then as the lesser of two evils, and he surprised me in his third term.
I’m glad you only have one vote.
Aga Khan is Allah?
I helped elect the guy 3 times, and now you have to face him.
Who should I have voted for?
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