[GeronL]

but to "[accentuate] the meaning of the words as regularly spoken in English."

In other words they are trying to brainwash the kids into thinking Allah and God are the same thing

[PLD]

This is America you dunces not Muslim territory..We praise God here not a child molester and murderer..The people that condone this should be send out of this country..

[Georgia Girl 2]

“Lopez claims the kids weren’t trying to be “un-American,” but to “[accentuate] the meaning of the words as regularly spoken in English.”

Oh I guess that makes it OK then. Substituting Allah for God. Yeh that makes sense. I’m just wondering if next week Lopez is planning to have them recite the pledge in Jewish, or French, or Italian, or Portugese, or Russian. No?

[yldstrk]

God = God
Allah = devil

There is a 180 degree difference Lopez you nincompoop

[faithhopecharity]

This misleads the students to be blinded to the enemy The teachers should leave our American anthem and pledge of allegiance alone. They are as short simple straightforward and easily understandable as is possible. They don’t become any clearer for American children when recited in foreign languages. (Did American schools recite the pledge inGerman or Japanese during WW2?)

[EXCH54FE]

Yep, here is an Earlier post

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3031642/posts

:-)

[onedoug]

I mean, this is really outrageous.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I believe the language of the US is ENGLISH.

There is the old story of Congress not making GERMAN the official language by one vote.

I believe it was that the German speakers in the US wanted the Congressional Record printed in German so they could read it, but it was voted down.

[mountainlion]

Allah is an Arab moon god that mohamid combined 100 local gods into “allah”.

[Pride in the USA]

OMG!

[verga]

Next week can they say it in Hebrew? How about Tagalog, Spanish, french or one of the Native American languages?

This public school teacher would be asking that question at the next board meeting.

[SkyDancer]

Wonder if they would have done something similar after Pearl Harbor - used Japanese cultural phrases and stuff in schools?

[married21]

Juro fidelidad a la bandera
de Los Estados Unidos de America,
y a la republica que representa,
una nacion,
baja Dios,
con libertad y justicia para todos.

I was in a bilingual program in elementary school. We said the Pledge in Spanish every day. Not sure what impression it had on the Spanish speaking kids who were supposed to be learning English, but I guess it was better than not saying the Pledge at all.

[jmaroneps37]

“Allah” is Satan, look it up. In the Koran he calls himself “the great deceiver.” Now WHO else could be the “great deceiver” but Satan himself?

[TomGuy]

If they just translated the Pledge and recited it in Arabic, they have committed heresay and are subject to being beheaded.

Such a pledge would be outside ‘Islam’.

It may not matter much to the students, but lesser crimes against ‘Islam’ have resulted in uprisings.

[pigsmith]

A "multicultural student group" at Rocky Mountain High School recited the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic on Monday, replacing "one nation under God" with "one nation under Allah.

But don't DARE say it in English, cuz that's offensive to worshippers of the moon god and therefore illegal.

[al_c]

I find it utterly absurd the way this country has coddled Islam after all the attacks they have made on our countrymen and especially after 9/11.