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Textbooks Proselytize for Allah (California)
Front Page Mag. ^ | 2-17-06 | Kalavai Venkat

Posted on 02/20/2006 10:41:54 AM PST by bildabare

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To: Clintonfatigued

Islam is not a religion it is a CULT whose leader is Satan.


41 posted on 02/20/2006 1:43:24 PM PST by Dustbunny (Islam is not a religion it is a CULT whose leader is Satan.)
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To: Clintonfatigued
"...not only Peoples of the Book, but even “idolaters” can take comfort in the “fact” that Allah is their God."

No one who knows the Bible and studies the Koran, Mohammad and Allah would ever confuse the god of Islam with the God of the Bible. Why should someone either blatantly ignorant on the subject or with a political ax to grind have decision making power in such a matter?

It's about like expecting an auto mechanic to edit a medical book.

42 posted on 02/20/2006 1:45:57 PM PST by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American (Keep the adults in charge of Congress.)
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To: jude24
the distinction is theology, rather than nomenclature.

Of course.

And, I must admit, I have little if any interest at all in what avowed non-Christians claim to believe about their "deities." I've not enough time to learn about the one, true God, let alone the false ones. :-)

43 posted on 02/20/2006 1:48:05 PM PST by newgeezer
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To: Clintonfatigued

They may be making a big mistake as "God" is not allowed in classromms anymore.


44 posted on 02/20/2006 1:48:27 PM PST by MissouriConservative (I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code)
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To: alloysteel
"In the eternal battle between Ahura Mazda and Ahriman, Ahriman won the battle for the souls of men in the Assyrian Desert and assumed the name "Allah"."

I've concluded that Allah, as used by Islam, is nothing more than a convenient ploy to give the stamp of ethereal authority--and threat of unlimited power to punish--to whatever Mo wanted.

Pretty clever trick, actually, which is part of the reason I believe Mo did have a supernatural accomplice in his deceit--but that force has nothing to do with God.

He is called in the Bible the "Father of Lies".

45 posted on 02/20/2006 1:55:10 PM PST by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American (Keep the adults in charge of Congress.)
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To: TheClintons-STILLAnti-American

#1: "I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me." Not much wiggle room there.


46 posted on 02/20/2006 2:02:24 PM PST by Ax (Guards! Seize that man!)
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To: Dustbunny
"Islam is not a religion it is a CULT whose leader is Satan. "

I know. But it seems after a certain size is reached in terms of followers there's pressure to show respect by terming cults "religions".

I use the term "liberally" is accordance with custom, but I have no delusions that it is anything other than a cult of death and destruction, or that the one who misled Mo and they worship is, as you say, Satan.

47 posted on 02/20/2006 2:24:38 PM PST by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American (Keep the adults in charge of Congress.)
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To: american colleen; Lady In Blue; Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; Notwithstanding; ...
Catholic Ping - Please freepmail me if you want on/off this list


48 posted on 02/20/2006 3:51:23 PM PST by NYer (Discover the beauty of the Eastern Catholic Churches - freepmail me for more information.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

President Bush said the exact same thing.


49 posted on 02/20/2006 4:08:20 PM PST by nickcarraway (I'm Only Alive, Because a Judge Hasn't Ruled I Should Die...)
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To: Mulch; Clintonfatigued

<< How much do the FReemasons have to do with this?

Don't they worship allah.

Nothing and no.


50 posted on 02/20/2006 4:26:08 PM PST by Brian Allen (How arrogant are we to believe our career political-power-lusting lumpen somehow superior to theirs?)
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To: Yaakov The Orator

I'm sorry, but I think this is a somewhat more complicated semantic tangle. The term "Allah" is commonly used by Arabic and Aramaic-speaking people to refer to the God of Abraham, the Creator and Judge of the world. Maronite, Nestorian and (I believe) Coptic Christians have been using the term "Allah" for probably over 1000 years.


51 posted on 02/20/2006 5:02:58 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (False god. Big problem.)
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To: Clintonfatigued
I thought seperation of church and state was sacred for those folks.

Only when it involves separating your church from their state.

52 posted on 02/20/2006 5:27:17 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Mad-Mo! Allah bin Satan commands ye: Bow to him 5 times/day: Head down, @ss-up, and fart at Heaven!)
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To: doc30
I always thought the Koran said that Allah was a deceiver and trickster.

That's the same serpent guy Amerinds call "Coyote", and Vikings named "Loki".

53 posted on 02/20/2006 5:35:51 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Mad-Mo! Allah bin Satan commands ye: Bow to him 5 times/day: Head down, @ss-up, and fart at Heaven!)
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To: Lunatic Fringe


Their interpretation of Allah is not our interpretation of God. Therefore their Allah is not our God.


54 posted on 02/20/2006 5:38:15 PM PST by Paperdoll (On the cutting edge)
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To: Lunatic Fringe

>Well then who is the Son of God, according to the Jews? It's certainly bot J.C.<

On the Cross, Jesus said, "Forgive them, Father, they know not what they do", and, sadly, they still don't know.


55 posted on 02/20/2006 5:45:55 PM PST by Paperdoll (On the cutting edge)
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To: Lunatic Fringe

Lunatic Fringe said, "God is mythical"
God said, "Lunatic Fringe is mythical"


56 posted on 02/20/2006 6:20:40 PM PST by florida red
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To: NYer
Perhaps textbooks should teach the fact that Allah was one of the presiding deities of the pre-Islamic Pagan Arabs, who worshipped Allah (then addressed Al-ilah) as the Moon God. It would ensure that children practicing other religions are not misled into thinking that God is synonymous with Allah. But that would work against CIE’s apparent agenda of using school textbooks to proselytize.

So the Council on Islamic Education -CIE- not only is trying to change the name Allah for God, but it also wants to bring back the following:

The ridiculous charge that the Jews were guilty of Christ-killing has no historical basis, but it resulted in their persecution for 2, 000 years, culminating in the horror of the Holocaust. Many distinguished and responsible Christian theologians such as the former Catholic clergyman Rev. James Carroll [Constantine’s Sword: the Church and the Jews, a History] and the Lutheran theologian Professor Norman Beck [Removing Anti-Jewish Polemic from Our Christian Lectionaries - a Proposal] have confronted this tenacious anti-Semitism, and have strived to eliminate it.

These people are working hard at it, thus, success is possible considering they are in California.

This part is very interesting:

Muslim organizations have not only used California schools and textbooks to proselytize for Allah, but they now seek to portray other religions through an Islamic prism, claim the modern Jews do not have an historical connection to the nation of Israel, and reintroduce the charge of decide to American textbooks. At least three major publishers whose textbooks are under consideration for adoption by the State of California – Ballard & Tighe, Houghton-Mifflin, and McDougal Littell – have enlisted Shabbir Mansuri, Founding Director of Council on Islamic Education (CIE), as content consultant. Publishers shared their pre-print edition of textbooks with CIE, thereby facilitating the sanitizing of Islam before the textbooks made it to the public domain. But that was apparently not enough for CIE; they have submitted an additional set of edits that would help seventh grade Californians understand their respective religions from an Islamic perspective.

57 posted on 02/20/2006 7:14:43 PM PST by Victoria Delsoul
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To: Clintonfatigued

If they can put in something about Islam then why not something about Judaism and Christianity too?


58 posted on 02/20/2006 10:02:55 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: ApplegateRanch

That's my point. The description of Allah is more representative of Satan than God. The qualities of Allah are not the qualities of our Saviour. They are not the same God.


59 posted on 02/21/2006 5:50:52 AM PST by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

What's astonishing about it .. they've been doing this since before 1993 .. the "religion of peace" garbage.


60 posted on 02/21/2006 12:24:25 PM PST by CyberAnt (Democrats/Old Media: "controversy, crap and confusion" -- Amen!)
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