Posted on 05/26/2006 12:02:02 PM PDT by sageb1
American Muslim News Briefs
Thursday, May 25, 2006
KY: High School Prayer Axed After Muslim Complaint
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
SHELBYVILLE - The principal of Shelby County High School said the school will not have formal prayer at graduation exercises next month after receiving a complaint from a student and the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky.
Principal Gary Kidwell met Monday with the Board of Education and a lawyer as residents held a prayer vigil outside. Tuesday, Kidwell said the school will break from the tradition of student-led invocations and benedictions at graduation June 2.
The school "will be compliant with the law and also provide a respectful and dignified program for all students," he said.
Traditional prayers at a school banquet and an awards ceremony also will not be held, he said.
Last week, a court ordered a Russell County High School student who had been designated to pray at graduation not to do so. Students rose on their own and recited the Lord's Prayer during the principal's remarks. The student who had been designated to lead the prayer included religious messages in her remarks to graduates.
Arshiya Saiyed, 17, who is Muslim, identified herself Tuesday as the Shelby County student who filed the ACLU complaint. She said other students share her view, a contention echoed by Kidwell.
Arshiya said she understands that student speakers at Shelby County also might include a prayer in their remarks, but she hopes they will respect her objections to the formal prayer.
Well, the original was in Aramaic, as it was Jesus speaking, and he spoke Aramaic. This was then translated to Greek and then Latin.
If you look at Matthew 6:12, it's "debts," as in "moral debts," but in Luke 11:4, it's "sins" (which is a moral debt).
But Jesus intermingled the concepts and used money debts as a parable for sin debts frequently --- See Matthew 18:32-35 (tail end of parable).
So yes, every version is correct. Dealer's choice.
"And when you see those who enter into false discourses about Our communications, withdraw from them until they enter into some other discourse,...." - Koran, Surah VI: 68.
"And fight with them until there is no more persecution and religion should be only for Allah." - Koran, Surah VIII: 39.
"Announce painful punishment to those who disbelieve." - Koran, Surah IX: 3.
"And the Jews say: Uzair is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!" - Koran, Surah IX: 30.
"He it is Who sent His Apostle with guidance and the religion of truth, that He might cause it to prevail over all religions...." - Koran, Surah IX: 33.
"O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness." - Koran, Surah IX: 123.
"Do they not see that We are bringing destruction upon the land by curtailing it of its sides? And Allah pronounces a doom--there is no repeller of His decree, and He is swift to take account." - Koran, Surah XIII: 41.
"Only they forge the lie who do not believe in Allah's communications, and these are liars." - Koran, Surah XVI: 105.
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth." - Omar Ahmad, Co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, aka CAIR. President and CEO of Silicon Expert Technologies. A Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp in Jordan.
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