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To: Spiff
Early on, you wrote:

In History class yesterday one of the high school teachers had come over and given a presentation on Islam. This teacher served as a Christian missionary in an Islamic country. He mentioned that he had to do so secretly or he could have been killed for trying to convert Muslims.

I think that this teacher, by serving as a missionary and mentioning that he could have be killed if discovered, isn't the enemy of you or your son. I think this might be a good opportunity to teach your son about being politely critical to people who are generally on your side and being more strongly critical of those on the other side. There are any number of reasons why this teacher might have taken a soft approach toward Islam and class time is limited. And, frankly, I'd argue that public schools should be teaching children to hate Islam, anyway.

227 posted on 12/07/2005 12:24:26 PM PST by Question_Assumptions
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To: Question_Assumptions
I think that this teacher, by serving as a missionary and mentioning that he could have be killed if discovered, isn't the enemy of you or your son. I think this might be a good opportunity to teach your son about being politely critical to people who are generally on your side and being more strongly critical of those on the other side. There are any number of reasons why this teacher might have taken a soft approach toward Islam and class time is limited. And, frankly, I'd argue that public schools should be teaching children to hate Islam, anyway.

I agree with you. I never said that my son should consider the teacher an enemy, or that the teacher did anything wrong. In fact, the teacher even mentioned that he could have been killed for what he was doing and that he had to keep it a secret while in the Islamic country. And I don't want the school to teach the kids to "hate" Islam, just the full story on what happens inside Islamic countries.

228 posted on 12/07/2005 12:28:42 PM PST by Spiff ("They start yelling, 'Murderer!' 'Traitor!' They call me by name." - Gael Murphy, Code Pink leader)
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