New Jersey Middle School Instructs Students Islam Is the “True Faith” – TMLC Files Federal Lawsuit

Thomas More Law Center ^ | January 24, 2018 | Staff

[Twotone]

ANN ARBOR, MI – The Thomas More Law Center (“TMLC”), a national nonprofit public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, filed a federal lawsuit yesterday evening in the New Jersey District Court against several officials and teachers of the Chatham Middle School and the School District of the Chathams, located in New Jersey.

The lawsuit, claiming several violations of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, was filed on behalf of Libby Hilsenrath and her minor son. Seventh-grade students at Chatham Middle School were forced to endure Islamic propaganda and an explicit call to convert to Islam through a disturbing set of videos in their World Cultures and Geography class.

TMLC’s affiliated New Jersey attorney, Michael Hrycak, filed the lawsuit. TMLC staff attorney, Kate Oliveri, the principle drafter of the federal complaint, observed: “The Board of Education and other Defendants are waging a war against the religious protections afforded by the First Amendment. They attack religious liberty by enticing young school children with a direct call to convert to Islam and providing a step-by-step guide on how to effect that conversion.”

One of the videos, linked in this press release, seeks to convert students to Islam and is filled with the Islamic religious beliefs presented as facts, as well as pure Islamic propaganda. This five-minute video ends with the prayer “May God help us all find the true faith, Islam. Ameen.”

[Gil4]

If a student walks into a public school in the U.S carrying a bible and reads from it—even just to themselves—she or he can be suspended, detained and/or arrested.

I suppose that could happen, but it would be an expensive mistake for the school district and town/city.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

I noticed that too.
The film (weakly) attempts to hijack the Italian Renaissance in general.

[Dallas59]

I haven’t heard of that happening. I take these stories with a grain of salt. Again, no religion should be taught in a public school.

[Architect of Avalon]

The public school system needs be officially closed, with all students going to private schools instead.

[Popman]

-—If a student walks into a public school in the U.S carrying a bible and reads from it—even just to themselves—she or he can be suspended, detained and/or arrested.——
Err. No they won’t. Not unless they try to convert another students

[angelsonmyside]

My gosh, this makes me so angry.

[EinNYC]

I would love to take all their Islamic “teaching” materials and burn them, along with whoever supplied them.

[Popman]

Again, no religion should be taught in a public school.

Of course it should mandatory.

Every middle school or high school should have a course on comparative religions...

All three major religions history, tenets of the faith, impact on the culture, impact of their belief system on the world. etc

An education would not be complete without the subject being studied.

Unless you think indoctrination on dialectic Marxism is all a student needs to learn ?

[4Runner]

You are wrong.

[4Runner]

It’s already happened. Or else I would not have compared it.

[Popman]

You are wrong.

Powerful argument, there buddy.../S

The truth is there are many, many mainstreamed blacks in this country living normal regular lives who have assimilated into the general american culture, but retain a ingrained "sub culture" like every other sub culture.

But, hey, believe whatever you want to if it makes you happy...