Posted on 09/03/2005 8:06:40 AM PDT by Pikamax
"Praying five times a day is a cornerstone of her Muslim faith."
So is prayer for Christians. Oh, wait, the overwhelmingly majority of Xians in the US are white. Never mind.
THERE IS NO DAMN WAY IN HELL WE ARE GOING TO BE FORCED TO ACCOMODATE MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS GET SHOVED INTO THE GUTTER .. NO WAY IN HELL!!!
My granddaughters are Christians and are not allowed to even take their Bibles to school .. but we have to allow another religion to pray .. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.
Suddenly .. the muslim supporters don't have any problem with NOT SUPPORTING THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.
I detest the hyper-secularism that stamps out school prayer. But even given that ridiculous rule, reasonable acommodations should be made for students to observe their faiths, and I think they usually are.
American Christians are harrassed by the public school administrators and the ACLU but Muslims get special treatment. Hmmmmm
If they want to pray to Mecca then they ought to go to Pakistan. Funny we can't even discuss Christian religion in the school but you are a Muslim you can.
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"Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks, for this is the will of our Lord Jesus Christ".
Christians are to pray continually, yet our worship is counted as nothing.
I have no problem with this little girl praying - we are founded on freedom of religion after all. However, Christians and Jews should also be allowed to pray, including "giving thanks".
If one of the pillars of Islam is praying 5 times a day, the major emphasis of Christianity is the personal relationship between Jesus and the individual.
This policy is discriminatory.
Why are you still here?
Let's do a mirror image. If she were a Christian in Saudi Arabia would she be allowed to practice her religion?
Where's the ACLU on this?
"If I wasn't allowed to pray my second prayer at school, I couldn't do it at home," she said. "When school finishes, the third prayer begins."
STFU and GTFO! They will bend over backwards to accommodate the Moon Worshippers but you can't have a generic prayer before a football game! Ugh! Anytime I see some hijab-wearing Mohammedan I get a bad reaction......
If you want a school that caters to your faith, go to one that is run by your denomination - it's really quite simple. And that goes for any faith.
"Her case was part of a nationwide grassroots effort by Muslim parents to make public schools more friendly and accommodating to Muslim students"
No, they should move back to the middle east. All American public schools refuse any form of religious acknowledgments...period. If there can't be any christian worshipping in public schools then there should be no muslim worshipping allowed in public schools. No acceptions for anyone.
"The reality for many Muslim students in public schools is very difficult,"
Yeah, life is tough all around. Perhaps her family should relocate to one of those idyllic countries with Islamic religious law based governments.
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Yep. Well after 09/11, the schools even held exercises to teach the Moslem faith to students. They read and memorized texts from the Koran. It even went so far as to have the children think about Jihads and outline one of their own. I'm not infering violence, but still the concept seemed very strange to me. Public schools? The same ones that forbid any Christian prayers, texts or talk of Jesus.
If this didn't reveal the true agenda of the ACLU and the public education system, I don't know what would.
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