Posted on 06/02/2004 5:47:53 PM PDT by Sun
Tuesday, June 1, 2004 11:04 p.m. EDT Same Judge OK'ed Muslim Prayer
The same San Francisco federal judge who just overturned a federal law banning partial-birth abortions also approved of Muslim prayer in schools when federal rulings ban all other denominational prayers and activities.
In a December 2003 decision, U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton decided that it was lawful for a California middle school teacher to require students to recite Muslim prayers, get down on their knees and role-play as Muslim adherents.
As part of the class students were told to recite: "In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of Creation, The Compassionate, the Merciful, King of Judgment-day! You alone we worship, and to You alone we pray for help, Guide us to the straight path."
The Byron County 7th-grade world history teacher was sued by the parents of one of the students, who claimed that their child had been coerced to engage in a religious practice.
Hamilton, in a summary judgment, ruled that the teacher's actions were legal.
The teacher prepared a student guide which said that as part of the study of Islam "you and your classmates will become Muslims."
According to court documents, the teacher also read the Koran and Muslim prayers out loud in class and required students to recite lines of Muslim prayers in class as well.
Students also were told to recite Islamic prayers as they exited the class, including the Muslim refrain "In the name of God, most merciful, most gracious."
The teacher also assigned students to fast or give up something like TV for a day to experience Islam's month of Ramadan and one of its pillars of faith.
At the end of their Islamic studies, students also were required to write an essay on Islam. But, but the teacher instructed her students, "BE CAREFUL HERE – If you don't have something positive to say, don't say anything!!!"
In her ruling, Judge Hamilton threw out the parents' case, saying the religious role-playing was not tantamount to the exercise of religion and the school activities were not of a devotional or religious nature.
I was reading that in NYC, after 911, they had a special prayer room for the Islam religion. Some Catholics asked where was their prayer room.
Boy, that's a LOADED question!
;-D
Islamofascists look at murder as post natal abortion. The demented judge must concur.
Tyrants in black robes.
Bush tries to nominate good judges and can't even get the DEMONcrats to follow the Constitution.
Where will it all end up? I shudder to think just how far they're willing to go.
I believe the Chief Justice of the CA Supremes is married to the head of the ACLU. Does anyone see a conflict there?
Lifetime appointment. Removal by impeachment. IIRC there has been one federal judge removed since Reconstruction. The (less than) Honorable Alcee Hastings. I believe he is now a Democrat Representative from Florida.
If the congress refuses to do their job and you ask the question out of frustration, it's time to vote on an informed basis.
Disgusting.
LVM
I wish that teacher had tried that praying to allah crap at my High School, we'd have humilated her and forced her to retire early. As it was, my friends a I deliberately failed the "Afro Asian Cultures" final exam, because the third world sticks-and-mud kingdoms and their leaders with unpronouncable names were nothing but a pathetic joke to us. We knew America was infinitely superior to them, no matter what the teacher wanted us to believe. It only made us more cynical of the liberals that tried to force that crap on us.
There needed to be a big rally with all the parents protesting this disgusting thing.
I've heard they can be impeached, but nobody seems to be doing it. There should be term limits for judges. (Actually I would prefer jail.)
Looks like a conflict to me.
The only things I can think of is to make a LOT of noise. They don't like bad publicity. Write letters to the editor, contact our reps, call radio talk shows......
Anybody have any other ideas?
America's mullahs are a glimpse of the enemy within.
I took a New York State civil service test years ago, and some of the questions were about black culture which had nothing to do with the job.
Fortunately, I had some black friends and knew the answers.
P.C. is EVERYWHERE!
There is a consistency in his rulings. See the abortionists kill you before you are born while the jihadi's kill you after.
The judge aint real particular how we get whacked just so long as we get whacked.........
Now time to impeach the S.O.B. justice, strip the robe, and make the justice parade around with undies on the head.
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