Posted on 02/27/2019 10:55:52 PM PST by robowombat
Arkansas: Public high school students use art to learn Islamic faith
When does the project begin that will teach students the Christian faith? Right, never. That would be unconstitutional. But this? This is fine, because Muslims are being subjected to harassment and discrimination all over the country, right? Well, “people are very nice. So far I’ve not had a bad experience.” Oops. How inconvenient for the narrative.
“Arkansas high school students use art to learn Islamic faith,” by Dave Perozek, Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, February 24, 2019:
A high school art project helped students gain a new perspective by connecting them with people of the Islamic faith.
Fayetteville High School students in Ashley Grisso’s advanced placement world history classes worked in groups of two or three. They interviewed Muslims in the community, then told their stories through art.
The students’ work was on display recently at the University of Arkansas’ Kittrell Art Gallery. Each piece of the “Putting a Face on Islam” exhibit was accompanied by a one-page artist statement about the work. Students and their subjects gathered one evening for a reception at the gallery.
“It’s really great to be able to understand a person from a different culture, because you might see stuff on the news and read about stuff, but there’s like, a person right there,” Peter Herman, a Fayetteville High School junior, said to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette….
The high school students met their subjects during an event arranged by Cynthia Smith, assistant director of outreach programs in the university’s department of International Students and Scholars.
This is the third year Grisso has done the project as part of the ARTeacher Fellowship program. The program is organized by the university’s Center for Children and Youth in collaboration with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Walton Arts Center….
Students visited a local mosque and met professors in the university’s Middle Eastern studies program.
“We found out Muslim people are living in our community, hiding in plain sight,” Grisso said. “And there are lots of high school students who are Muslim that the kids didn’t even realize were Muslim.”
Febriyanti Lestari, a doctoral student from Indonesia, was an interviewee. She thanked Grisso for giving people like her a platform to share their life experiences and to get to know the high school students.
“This is an amazing idea,” Lestari said. “I hope she does it every year.”
Lestari, who’s been in America since 2014, said she’s traveled to 27 states, adding she enjoys the opportunity to meet new people.
“People are very nice. So far I’ve not had a bad experience,” she said.
High school students Haley Jackson, Amanda Thomsen and Christina Lim — all of whom were raised as Christians — visited the Northwest Arkansas Islamic Center and guided a discussion with preteen children during Sunday school. Their artwork was paper cut and decorated to resemble a mosque; they drew small pictures within it representing what they had experienced during their visit.
Thomsen said it’s fine to learn about another religion from a textbook, but getting to visit an actual mosque is a more powerful experience.
The group’s artist statement summed up what they’d learned: “We were able to see through the children’s eyes how Muslim principles are applied in their everyday life and how they handle judgments from people that are not familiar with Islam.”
My youngest is graduating this year.
I am so thankful.
The schools are out of control with the indoctrination.
I know next to nothing about Arkansas other than Huckabee and Clinton...
Figured it has pretty scenery.
But please don’t let it turn into a purple state :(
Are they going to have a turnabout at the local Baptist Church?
If they’re not teaching Muslims about Christianity and Judaism, they shouldn’t be teaching about Islam.
Islamic art? Isn’t that the red splatter after a beheading?
Are they teaching kids how to lop off people’s heads, cause that is mainly what izlam is about.
Just another example of the camel having gotten its nose under the tent, thanks to libtard moron educators and administrators. Next year, it will be art to learn how to be a tranny, or worse.
There's nothing to fear here...
Why? No one needs to “learn” about Islamic faith, but they sure should learn about the Christian faith. You can’t just throw it out and teach a false religion. And refuse to even allow the real one.
Im sure the Islamic art on display was reviewed before displaying so as not to disrespect Mohammed and the Islamic community, but the Christian faith can be disrespected by displaying a crucifix in a glass of piss and will be protected by the liberal progressive free speech constitutional rights advocates because it fits their narrative. They make deals with the devil
Im sure the Islamic art on display was reviewed before displaying so as not to disrespect Mohammed and the Islamic community, but the Christian faith can be disrespected by displaying a crucifix in a glass of piss and will be protected by the liberal progressive free speech constitutional rights advocates because it fits their narrative. They make deals with the devil
They should invite Pamela Geller in as a guest speaker and put together an art show.
They could use different colored paintballs with a Mohammed silhouette target.
WTH is going on in our schools?
You can’t mention Jesus Christ because it may trigger some snow-flake, and yet they’re fully indoctrinating the kids by teaching them Islam.
The mental faculties of the people setting our school policies these days are downright actionable.
You have to teach LGBT to 5 year olds that haven’t a clue what life’s choice are all about.
These kids are defenseless against this child abuse.
Where do you start to address the man things our schools are doing wrong these days?
This is bassackwards.
islamic art can only be created during Islamic murders
Drawcpicturescof Mohammed. That should teach them something.....
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