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Furor over Arabic assignment leads Virginia school district to close Friday
Washington Post ^
| 18 Dec 2015
| Moriah Balingit and Emma Brown
Posted on 12/18/2015 4:05:23 PM PST by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon
Virginia is like the American mecca, isn’t it?
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posted on
12/18/2015 4:07:19 PM PST
by
o_1_2_3__
(Obama lied, people died - Holiday Edition)
To: mandaladon
The superintendent said that students tried on head scarves in another lesson that taught them about the modest dress many Muslims adopt. Students will continue learning about world religions as required by Virginiaâs statewide academic standards, school officials said. But in the future, students will practice calligraphy using a different sample that has nothing to do with the Islamic faith.......We better keep an eye on them
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posted on
12/18/2015 4:07:59 PM PST
by
mandaladon
(Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. Mark Twai)
To: mandaladon
[Washington Post tone] See how angry and irrational Christians are? Their betters had to shut down the schools, or else the parents were going to descend on the schools with pitchforks and torches.
Gee, why can't these mean-old heathens just bend over for us? Nothing wrong with a little Allah in the morning!
To: mandaladon
The county, in the Shenandoah valley west of Charlottesville, Va., is the latest to wrestle with how Islam should be portrayed in the classroom and how students should learn about it. Why that's easy? Remember Slavery in America? ISLAM created it and supplied the slaves.
Put that in your history books and smoke it!
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posted on
12/18/2015 4:08:42 PM PST
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: mandaladon
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posted on
12/18/2015 4:10:24 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
WaPo would be the first to complain and back the ACLU filing suit if the same students were required to acknowledge Christ as King.
To: mandaladon
that taught them about the modest dress many Muslims adopt.... All the latest fashions, I suppose...
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posted on
12/18/2015 4:11:05 PM PST
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is libertye)
To: mandaladon
“The county, in the Shenandoah valley west of Charlottesville, Va., is the latest to wrestle with how Islam should be portrayed in the classroom and how students should learn about it.”
They should learn the unvarnished truth, that it’s a murderous cult, that this country (U.S.) was founded on Judea-Christian ideals and the murderous cult of islam is not welcome here.
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posted on
12/18/2015 4:11:42 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
To: mandaladon
So they closed all the schools on a Friday.
Saaaaaaay . . .
Isn’t that the islamists so called holy day.
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posted on
12/18/2015 4:11:55 PM PST
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: mandaladon
The superintendent said that students tried on head scarves in another lesson that taught them about the modest dress many Muslims adopt. Students will continue learning about world religions as required by Virginiaââ¬â¢s statewide academic standards, school officials said. Why is it in Virginia's statewide academic standards to learn about world religions?
That is not something which Virginia should be teaching anyone.
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posted on
12/18/2015 4:13:14 PM PST
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: Graybeard58
They should learn the unvarnished truth, that itâs a murderous cult, that this country (U.S.) was founded on Judea-Christian ideals and the murderous cult of islam is not welcome here. It is not even compatible with basic US law. The word "equality" is utterly meaningless in Islam.
In Islam, society is one big pecking order from the lowest slave up to Allah. No one is equal to anyone. Each has their status and must REMAIN in their status.
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posted on
12/18/2015 4:15:29 PM PST
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: mandaladon
“and educators emphasizing the importance of exposing U.S. students to the world’s fastest-growing religion.”
Shut it down. Shut the whole damned school down. If anyone dared do this about Christianity, the whole Federal government would swing into a vicious attack on that school. Moslems are being treated superior.
TRUMP 2016
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posted on
12/18/2015 4:15:42 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
To: mandaladon
It is not that the teacher chose Arabic for calligraphy, it is what was chosen. In the entire script & language, it is an innocent mistake that the ‘declaration of faith’ was chosen? Time to find a new job, you have no place in education here!
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posted on
12/18/2015 4:21:50 PM PST
by
SES1066
(Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
To: mandaladon
Imagine if they had taught algebra.
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posted on
12/18/2015 4:23:38 PM PST
by
Lisbon1940
(No full-term governors)
To: mandaladon
Good. It’s about time parents forced a system to close when the assignments are garbage that warps students’ minds.
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posted on
12/18/2015 4:23:49 PM PST
by
grania
To: SES1066
"It is not that the teacher chose Arabic for calligraphy, it is what was chosen. In the entire script & language, it is an innocent mistake that the âdeclaration of faithâ was chosen? Time to find a new job, you have no place in education here!" Does anybody think the school would have considered, even for a moment, having the kids write, "Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and no man comes to the Father but by me?"
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12/18/2015 4:23:55 PM PST
by
CatherineofAragon
(("A real conservative will bear the scars...will have been in the trenches fighting."--- Ted Cruz))
To: Lisbon1940
I’m unaware of any algebra lessons that involve the shahada. Your math classes must have been way different than mine.
To: mandaladon
“A high school geography teacher in rural Augusta County asked students to try their hand at writing the shahada, an Islamic declaration of faith, in Arabic calligraphy.”
Dollars to donuts behind the scenes the obama administration was directly responsible for this. This was no accident.
To: DiogenesLamp
Here in Missouri the 6th-grade world geography/history text did cover the major religions—Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam and the major tenets of each. So, I covered Islam as well. But I had to explain that “jihad” meant a bit more than just the struggle to “get right with allah” and that despite what their textbook said, women were treated little better than dirt in the really “pious” Islamic nations. I tried not to lie to my students.
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posted on
12/18/2015 4:27:37 PM PST
by
hanamizu
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