Posted on 08/29/2011 6:35:07 PM PDT by The Bronze Titan
In this post I included numerous links to the Rick Perry/Aga Khan Islamic curriculum for Texas public schools. The links were to the Google cache of the curriculum material, because several days ago, after we began calling attention to it, the curriculum was taken offline. Accordingly I wrote in that post:
One very odd thing about the Aga Khan/Perry curriculum: since this whole brouhaha started, it has been taken offline. It is now available only in cached form here. Why was it taken down? Was the Perry camp embarrassed by the material that Pamela Geller published here, showing it to be a whitewash of Islamic teaching and history? Or was it taken down because it really is, as Ace says, so "biased against Muslims it will reinforce perceptions [Perry] is some kind of rootin'-tootin' six-gun shooting cowboy yahoo"?
Is either option favorable to Perry? If it was taken down because it's a dhimmi whitewash, Perry is tacitly admitting that our criticisms of him were right, and those evaluating Perry should be concerned about his naivete in dealing with the Aga Khan. If it was taken down because it was too honest about Islam and will thus hurt Perry with the dhimmi/Norquist faction of the GOP, Perry is again tacitly admitting that our criticisms of him were right: he is not able or willing to stand up to Norquist and his Islamic supremacist allies. So which is it? What are they hiding? And does it matter? Either way, the deep-sixing of the curriculum proves that we were right about Perry all along.
Now that impression is compounded by the fact that even the cached links no longer work: the Perry/Aga Khan curriculum has been completely wiped from the web. Pamela Geller has screenshots here, however.
I suspect that the curriculum has been taken down because it is a whitewash of Islamic texts, teachings and history. After all, as I showed here, it relies on compromised "authorities" such as Carl Ernst, John Esposito, and Michael Sells, among others. The apologists for Perry have not explained and cannot explain why, if this curriculum is as innocuous or even as Islamorealistic as they claim, it has been wiped from the web. What is the Perry camp hiding? And why?
Try this. works for me.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1427422/posts
Plano, TX: “Officials lay bricks in symbolic start for Muslim center”
Dallas Morning News
Gov. Rick Perry flew in to lay the first ceremonial brick for the center’s foundation. It was a symbolic gesture
You must be joking. PDS, or Palin Derangement Syndrome, is an actual disease. Perry has earned the criticism he is enduring.
Yes I am VERY opposed to an enemy government setting up in our country,RINO Now Get your brain fixed and learn about Islam you sound foolish! Damn what a fool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those links are not related to this story. How about an article that is -
A plan to make lessons in Arabic and Arab culture mandatory for students in some Texas schools has been put on hold, following feedback from parents.
Two Schools in the Mansfield Independent School District planned to incorporate Arabic and Arab culture into every aspect of their curriculum. Students in two other schools in the district would have had the OPTION to pursue similar studies.
The district was awarded a $1.3 million grant by the Department of Education last summer as part of the Foreign Language Assistance Program. The Department of Education has identified Arabic, along with Mandarin, as “languages of the future” and the school district said that “students will be at an advantage in an increasingly diverse and economically global society.”
Some parents expressed concern at a meeting that took place on Monday night, saying that they had not been made aware of the proposals earlier.
“It’s a porterhouse steak that’s been served up on a trashcan lid,” said parent Mark Henderson. “We love the idea; we just want to be sure we’re involved in its development.”
Some parents had concerns that Islam would be included in the curriculum, but an official stressed that the curriculum would not be about religion, but about Arabic language and culture.
Editor’s note: This story was updated to reflect the school district’s multiple statements on the story. Planned classes at some schools were initially described as mandatory, but subsequently the district said that there would be no mandatory classes and put the plan on hold.
Find more at dfw.cbslocal.com
Local school district / Federal grant known as FLAP - LOL / Other places mention the grant was issues to 5 school districts throughout the country / Parents complained / School dropped it / Has nothing to do with Perry
To register the appropriate level of horror at this collaboration, you must first understand the hidden evil that is the Nizari branch of Ismaili Shi'a Islam. Whereas members of more honorable Islamic sects will come right out and tell you how much they hate America, Americans, and women who know how to read, the Nizari have taken the art of taqiyya — religiously-motivated lying — to undreamt-of holy heights. Look at their website. See how their girlfolk go to schools. See how their men wear suits. See how they celebrate young, guitar-playing, non-hijab wearing Muslim girls for singing secular pop songs. See how they teach their young people to play chess with children of other faiths. This is an extraordinary pantomime of moderation and cosmopolitanism. Could it be that these fiends are so deep undercover that they don't even know they hate us?
Geller accused those in sympathy with Perry's collaboration with the Aga Khan of supporting the "propoganda of unabashed Islamic supremacists," and heavily quoted a reader named Dave, who said he'd looked into the multi-culti Islam-teaching Texan curriculum and learned horrible things. He quoted from the curriculum, or claimed to, and summarized what he'd quoted. "A thorough whitewashing of the nature and history of Islam that ignores Islam's bloody history while simultaneously portraying the Crusades as a bloody assault on Islamic soil by Christians," and "a presentation of the Koran and Muhammad that can only be described as open proselytization for Islam in public schools." Dave concluded:
I'm willing to grant Gov. Perry the benefit of the doubt and believe that his actions are the product of naiveté and ignorance, rather than actual hostility to the West. However, his ignorance is inexcusable, and the damage he has done is immense. If Barack Obama had imposed such a curriculum on schools we'd be calling for his impeachment. Therefore it is unconscionable to look the other way when it comes to Perry. In my opinion, not only should Perry not be President, he should be impeached from the Texas governorship.
This kind of thing gets the anti-Muslim crowd all riled up. But nobody noticed that a crafty anti-jihadi websleuth named David Stein was already examining the evidence against Perry, and trashing it.
It turns out that Geller-lover Dave wasn't quoting from any Texan curricula, but from the abstracts of workshops attended by Texan teachers before any curriculum had been written at all. The actual curriculum being taught in Texas is anti-sharia, pro-Western, and pro-Zionist, and written by a Christian Zionist named David Wiltse.
Geller, displaying the humility and intellectual flexibility you'd expect from a woman who lives to fight dogmatism, neither acknowledged her mistake nor apologized. She bit down harder. Instead she called David Stein a "no-name asshat" and alleged that the Aga Khan's foundation is part-owner of a Syrian bank that allegedly failed to freeze a terrorist's bank accounts — as Rick Perry should have damn well known! Except, as Stein subsequently pointed out, the Aga Khan's foundation didn't buy its shares of the bank until years after the terrorist incident. But! said Geller, what about Rick Perry's secret links to that famed jihad-enabler, Grover Norquist? Which is an expression of craziness so self-evident that it needs no refutation.
Which is exactly what I said. Dhimmi indoctrination.
Listen, Pam Geller & Robert Spencer can do no wrong. They never run off spewing & spreading rumors.
Didn’t you get the memo?
*Thanks for your post, Rowdy
The "fact" is that the things said about the curriculum in the posted article are lies.
The "suspect" is that this was the reason the article was taken down.
Reading skills are useful. I encourage you to develop some.
You know, that was simply uncalled for. I’ve seen this kind of stuff (regarded as “truther” by one side or the other) posted on threads about both Palin and Perry. I read threads about both because while my first choice is Palin, I think Rick Perry is worth a look. Facts can be twisted and that may be the case here (just like the facts behind Palin’s resignation usually are). But I bet it’s possible to point them out without insults. People who haven’t made up their mind (or will have to choose a different candidate because theirs has to drop out) read these threads and would probably prefer facts to name calling.
You are free to promote your candidate just as others are free to promote Bachmann, Cain, Palin, etc. But these are people who you agree with (probably most 100%) on issues important to ALL conservatives. Yet you somehow think it’s appropriate to call them “not bright” or “imaginative”. Things like “Palin/Perry Derangement Syndrome” are to be expected and there’s nothing wrong with that kind of ribbing. If you believe you’re so much better than them because of the candidate you support why not set a good example and act as if you are.
Cindie
I see, it was suspected it was taken down due to lies, and the article is a lie and that's a fact.. That's the end of that...
lol Your spin is speeding up the rotation of the planet, please stop before we all fly off.
I certainly understand as he surged so fast, but the successful economic model in Texas should be telling. The fact is, Texas is full of reasonable, but rather independent people. We’ve intentionally kept our cost of living reasonable. After we kicked the commie LBJ crowd out, we have slowly, but successfully chosen leadership that supports business growth, despite all of our major cities being run by commiecrats...whom Perry has to struggle and negotiate with to bring in new business.
I find it amazing that in some states it take $500 just to register your plain old car as opposed to our $70...yet we drive on some of the best roads and bridges in the country. You can buy a good-sized older ranch model house here for $70,000 and afford to upgrade it. Whereas the same house in some of the blue state cities costs $425,000.
It hasn’t been easy but we’ve realized that the hardships of some of us raises the rest up. As a former Texas government employee, on retirement, I could’ve gone back to work for the state and double-dipped and bankrolled the money. I already had a comfortable life that I could sustain. And had I double-dipped, it would’ve taken up a job from an up and comer raising a family. So I decided to putz around in the private sector instead. Plus we retirees have not pushed for COL raises, and we’ve given up some costly benefits. This does not happen in the honking union states...aka Wisconsin.
No politician is going to be perfect, just some with their ear to the ground better than others. I can support all our republican candidates certainly without exploiting the lies presented about my own governor whom we’ve elected 3 times because of our good relationship with him.
Rita Hayworth married the Aga Khan’s father, not his brother.
By the way, you’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.
Someone else mentioned it and I just responded.
We need a constitutional amendment to repeal that pesky 1st amendment so the federal government can outlaw religions we don’t like, and stop private citizens from building evil religious buildings we disagree with.
I stand corrected. Thank you. I had wondered how this guy could be the Aga Khan and her 1st husband be the same, sincethey aren’t the same person. I had thought the present Aga Khan’s mother is not Rita Hayworth, though.
Maybe I am getting all wound around the axle about it.
I’d rather talk about Circassians in Turkey, Egypt and Iran than Islamic proselytizing in American culture and public schools. Or in prisons.
Well said ‘cat!! It is to bad that there are toadie muslim lovers out there but I guess it is true. Screw ‘em, let ‘em move to iran if they love islam and it’s muslims so damn much. We do NOT want islam setting up in America to spread their death cult filth.
I understand why though; it’s the thought that the federal government can protect us from evil, even evil religions, and can reasonably distinguish between good and bad religion.
I’m betting most of them have never had to work with a muslim, may not know any muslims, certainly would never vote for a muslim. A few think all muslims should be thrown out of the military, and I wouldn’t be surprised if someone here at FR thinks muslims should be thrown out of the country.
Meanwhile, we just nominated a muslim in virginia for a state delegate race. And yes, some people opposed him because he was muslim (he wasn’t in my district, so I was just an observer).
But the real problem here at FR isn’t that some people want to argue about the danger of islam — that’s just good discussion. It’s that you can’t actually DISCUSS it, because as soon as you try, they just call you names and act as if merely considering the subject is a sign of evil.
The take down just means he’s another arm of the present RinoCracy....the same tired minds that created the mess
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