Thank God for the Catholic school system.
Endless Liberal PC crap everywhere!
"Mr. White also accused the courts of applying a double standard that is more tolerant of Islam in public schools than of Christian and Jewish faiths. "If this case dealt with the teaching of Catholicism ... of course people would say you're endorsing religion," the lawyer said."
Very true statement!
"A federal judge in San Francisco threw out the case in 2003, but the families appealed"
If this had been even remotely related to Christianity or Judaism the ACLU would have broght the case and an injunction would have hit the school so fast, one's eyes would spin.
Do the kids get to behead people also?
Many isn't all.
Do they have an equivalent course in the cultural and historical background of the Jews? Of the early Christians? Of the Protestant Reformation? Or the Catholic Counter Reformation?
What makes Islam so special?
Hey, here is a case we can hopefully all agree on.
It is absolutely wrong to force students to role play another religion. This has no business in the public schools?
We are all in agreement, right?
What? The ACLU isn't helping?
violated the Constitution's prohibition against the establishment of religion Christianity
There now its correct....and keep your eyes down Dhimmis or your Islamic betters will have to school you.
/sarcasm
I was interviewed on the Jay Seculow and David Gold shows about this travesty in Byron. We organized a protest aginst it when one of my friends son's brought home homework that required him to learn about islam
Nah -- no one would take offense. Of course not. I'm sure the ACLU would be the first to acknowledge that.
SO I guess I can look forward to a replication of a passover seder in my sughter's public school.
"The students also engaged in a "race to Mecca." "
Cool. I'll be role-playing as a Tomohawk, you be an ICBM. Last nuke there is a dud!
Let's see.....
Mimicking a pilgrimage to Mecca....
Mimicking Ramadan fasting.....
Donning traditional Islamic garb...
Sure, seems secular to me!
Judge Nelson, you are an IDIOT!
"The students also engaged in a "race to Mecca." "
Cool. I'll be role-playing as a Tomohawk, you be an ICBM. Last nuke there is a dud!
"Are you saying our children should not be taught the history of all the religions of the world?
But if we were to teach the children the history of Judiaism and Christianity that might include creationism and that would interfere with our indoctrination of evolution. :( Couldn't have that.
/sarc off
they need to take the people who started this muslim s--t out for an old fashion ass whupping-is their lsd in the water in SAN FRAN or what?
Tell you what, Judge Nelson, I'll offer you one better:
We can have 32 weeks on Islam, 8 each for Sunni, Shi'ite (twelvers), Ismaeli (Shi'ite seveners), and Sufi, but then we get 8 weeks each, with similar role-playing, deference to pious sensibilities of the adherents, etc. for
Eastern Orthodoxy (double dose--one for Greek and one for Russian), Coptic Christianity, Armenian Christianity, Assyrian Christianity, Roman Catholicism (double dose here, too--one for Latin Rite, one for Eastern Rite), Anglicanism, Lutheranism, Calvinism, Moravianism, Mennonitism (double dose--one for Amish, and one for other Mennonites), . . .
And we'll give in for the other world religions: 8 weeks each for Orthodox, Conservative and Reformed Judasism, (oh and toss in 8 weeks for the Ethical Culture Society movement) Minhayana, Mahayana, Tibetan, and Zen Buddhism, Mormonism, Scientology, Hinduism, Taoism, Shintoism, a few different classes of African animism, Santeria, Rastafarianism. . .
And throw in 8 weeks each for Marxist secular humanism, and democratic-socialist secular humanism (provided they're gotten out of the curriculum everywhere else!)