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Attorney Sees Pro-Islam Bias in Religious Indoctrination Case Rulings
Agape Press ^ | October 18, 2006 | Chad Groening

Posted on 10/19/2006 4:48:45 AM PDT by bennyjakobowski

(AgapePress) - A spokesman for a Michigan-based law center that defends and promotes the religious freedom of Christians says a recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court not to hear an Islamic indoctrination case indicates that Islam is "in" and Christianity is "out."

The Thomas More Law Center represented the parents of the California seventh-graders who were subjected to an intensive, three-week indoctrination in Islam at school. The students were forced to become Muslims, in effect, and were not allowed to say anything critical about the religion.

The original trial court and the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the indoctrination as constitutional. And now that the Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal, the Ninth Circuit's ruling will stand.

Edward L. White III, trial counsel for the Thomas More Law Center, says the Byron Union School District in Contra Costa County, California, simply went too far with this school assignment. "The parents in this case objected to it," he explains, "not because Islam was being taught in the school, but because the school had crossed the line and started to teach the religion."

In other words, the school, "instead of teaching about the religion, started teaching the children to become Muslims," White says. "And the parents had never been told beforehand what was going to go on." But the problem of insufficient parental notification is only one of a number of issues of concern.

The pro-family attorney has serious questions about why the court would allow a school to compel students to become followers of Islam as a school exercise. That is particularly problematic, he suggests, when the court would almost certainly have rejected a similar exercise involving other religious faiths as obviously impermissible.

"Everyone knows if Christianity, for example, had been taught the same way as Islam had been taught in this class, that the ACLU would have been in federal court within minutes," White asserts, "and the same judge who ruled against us would have ruled in favor of the ACLU and not allowed a class on Catholicism."

The Thomas More Law Center spokesman doubts such a class would make it out of court -- if it even managed to get a hearing. "Even if you wanted to call it cultural education or just fun, it would never happen," the lawyer asserts. "So if we know it's not going to happen with Christianity or with Judaism, for example, it shouldn't happen with Islam," he says.

"If you're going to uphold the Establishment Clause, then the Establishment Clause has to be applied equally," White adds. But apparently, he observes, while the Ninth Circuit is perfectly willing to rule "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional, Muslim indoctrination is perfectly okay with the court.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: americancourts; muslimthreat; ninthcircuit
...Muslim indoctrination is perfectly okay with the court.

Very few should disagree that we're in deep trouble as a nation and are suffering a court system that is allied with our nation's enemies!

1 posted on 10/19/2006 4:48:46 AM PDT by bennyjakobowski
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To: bennyjakobowski

This article is more important than we know.

Thanks very much for posting it. Information such as this is kept out of the major networks. Subtle and not so subtle brainwashing alert.


2 posted on 10/19/2006 4:55:32 AM PDT by milford421 (U.N. OUT OF U.S.)
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To: bennyjakobowski

Spain publishes a primer on islam for 6yr olds in public schools

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/10/18/europe/EU_GEN_Spain_Primer_on_Islam.php


3 posted on 10/19/2006 5:06:02 AM PDT by milford421 (U.N. OUT OF U.S.)
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To: bennyjakobowski
I've known about this for quite a while. Sad, and hypocritical that people would throw a hissy fit over any positive mention of Christianity in schools, yet require students to undergo that kind of class.
4 posted on 10/19/2006 5:06:39 AM PDT by Chewie84
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To: bennyjakobowski

Satan is very busy these days.


5 posted on 10/19/2006 5:11:00 AM PDT by joebuck
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To: bennyjakobowski

"California seventh-graders"

I knew it had to be California before reading the first word of the article.


6 posted on 10/19/2006 5:27:59 AM PDT by squidward
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To: bennyjakobowski

I believe the decision shows that the Supreme Court lacks the courage to take this on.


7 posted on 10/19/2006 5:38:16 AM PDT by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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Leftists believe in "Separation of Church and State", except when it supports tearing down Americanism and eliminating our freedoms to choose.

The Supreme Court should know better.

What other Judeo-Christian religion has gotten this level of teaching anytime in the last 40 years in Public Schools. I wonder if the same children were ever told what an Amish was, let alone given a paragraph to read about them. How many kids can find the Vatican on a Map??
8 posted on 10/19/2006 5:49:41 AM PDT by wodinoneeye
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To: milford421
The vast majority of Spain's Muslims are immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East. But it is just a matter of time before the country has a significant native-born population of Muslims, and the government aims to be ready for that new duality — children who are both Muslim and as Spanish as any of their classmates.

Interesting. "Muslim and as Spanish as any of their classmates."

Impossible.

9 posted on 10/19/2006 10:59:45 AM PDT by bennyjakobowski (Why in Hell should I have to Press 1 for English?)
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To: bennyjakobowski

Our tax dollars going to promote the beliefs of those who want to eliminate our civilization and cut our heads off, not necessarily in that order.


10 posted on 10/19/2006 11:02:33 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (The Leftist Marxist-Jihadists Alliance: joining forces to destroy civilization.)
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