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Posted on 05/27/2019 3:47:18 PM PDT by robowombat
How not to teach Islam in a Maryland high school (Part I)
In Maryland, several years ago, a high school teacher taught her students about Islam. Not all agreed with what, or how, she taught. One student’s family sued. The case is wending its way to the Supreme Court, where it will undoubtedly be heard.
According to CBN News:
Four years ago, a Christian high school junior was compelled by her teacher at La Plata High School in La Plata, Md., to recall the Islamic conversion creed – the Shahada – as part of a written assignment. She was required to write the Islamic conversion creed, “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.” Comment:
It is one thing to tell students in a unit on Islam what the Shahada says, and to explain that mere recital of the Shahada is enough for someone to be converted to Islam. But by requiring her students to write out the Shahada, the teacher is confusing them: have they, the students may wonder, in some sense “converted to Islam”? What is the effect on young and impressionable students, of being required to write out this conversion creed? Do they think: “Well, that wasn’t so bad. It was kinda fun. Jeez, I could be a Muslim right now, if I wanted.” Are they being inveigled into somehow assenting to its content, or will they take the task as simple role-playing, make-believe which no one could possibly object to
The World History course also taught that ‘Most Muslims’ faith is stronger than the average Christian’s.
This statement is unacceptable on two grounds. First, this is not a fact but an opinion– that the faith of Muslims is “stronger” — offered by a public school teacher to her credulous students. This is a remark that clearly favors one religion, Islam, over another, Christianity, and thus violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Had that teacher said that “the faith of Christians is stronger than that of Muslims” we can be certain that CAIR, the ACLU, and the Southern Poverty Law Center would have come down on that teacher, and the school system, like a ton of bricks. A second objection to that remark about the greater strength of Muslims’ faith, is that no evidence is presented as to its truth. How could the teacher conceivably claim that the faith of most Muslims is “stronger” than that of the average Christian? How can this possibly be measured? Clearly, the students in La Plata are meant to admire the religion that, they are told, commands the stronger faith. There are two billion Christians and 1.5 billion Muslims in the world. How was this factoid about the comparative strength of belief arrived at? Is a Muslim willing to die as a “martyr”while engaged in Jihad evidence of an admirably stronger faith, or of a terrifyingly twisted one? If the teacher relied on a poll for this assertion, what kind of questions were asked to ascertain the “strength” of a faith? Does a Muslim who says his five daily prayers “stronger” in his faith than the Christian who regularly attends church on Sundays? Both are fulfilling their respective duties. Is a Muslim “stronger” in his faith if he is willing to kill and to be killed for it? Perhaps what Muslims are here being praised for — this greater “strength” of their faith — is reason, rather, to deplore and fear them. Or are such value judgments about religions simply impermissible?
What if that statement about the “strength” of belief were rephrased for accuracy: “Many Muslims have a fanatical faith that Christians can only marvel and shudder at, and that has led some, as we know, to commit acts of violent Jihad, including suicide bombings, that testify to the strength of their faith.” It is impossible to imagine that a public school teacher would ever dare to utter such a statement, however accurate it may be.
Caleigh Wood [the girl whose family is suing] refused to complete the assignment,[writing out the Shahada], believing that it is a sin to profess by word or in writing, that there is any other god except the Christian God.
School officials refused to let her opt out of the course and as a result, she received a lower percentage grade for the course, but that did not affect her[overall?} letter grade.
School officials ought to have punished not the pupil, Caleigh Wood, but the teacher, as well as anyone higher up in the school system who may have had a hand in creating the classroom content on Islam. They need a refresher course in the meaning, and application, of the Establishment Clause. As public school employees, they are not allowed to favor one religion over another. Or do they not realize that they have been favoring Islam? The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) on behalf of the Wood family filed a lawsuit, claiming the school had violated the First Amendment Establishment Clause and the girl’s right not to be forced to profess faith in another religion. Both the Federal District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the high school’s Islamic curriculum.
Now, the TMLC has appealed the case to the Supreme Court, asking the high court to decide whether any legal basis exists to allow public schools to discriminate against Christianity while at the same time promoting Islam.
It’s hard to believe that both the Federal District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the school. Fortunately, an appeal to the Supreme Court will be made and there, given its current makeup, it is almost certain that the appeal by the Thomas More Law Center, claiming that the behavior of school authorities violated the Establishment Clause, will prevail.
Under the guise of teaching history or social studies, public schools across America are promoting the religion of Islam in ways that would never be tolerated for Christianity or any other religion,” TMLC President and Chief Counsel Richard Thompson said in a statement. “I’m not aware of any school which has forced a Muslim student to write the Lord’s Prayer or John 3:16: ‘For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.’
Islam is utterly unconstitutional at both the national and state level. There is NO place for Islam in America. It is a totally unconstitutional political system and any school teaching it should be shut down until remedied, and the administrators charged with treason.
Get a rope! Get a bunch of rope! There are way too many lib teachers and school administrators screwing with young minds. We could stand to decorate a bunch of trees with some dangling ornaments.
If you do not believe in Allah, we will kill you.
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This is the crux. Islam is first a political system. Second it is an economic system. Third it is a religious system. It does not pass the test of the US Constitution which specifically separates religion and government.
Government under our constitution may not establish a religion. Islam requires both the form of government and the religion. Islam is in fundamental conflict with the US constitution.
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Why are they even considering doing this ? If so how about teaching the creeds and rules of behavior followers must observe by Mormons, Christian denominations and Buddhists .
ISLAM IS NOT JUST ANOTHER RELIGION IT IS A FORM OF GOVERNMENT THAT SHOULD BE REFERENCED TO AS MOSLEMISM
It is interesting the way socialists approach theological concepts for when it comes to Islam they are not the only ones who refuse to approach the issue. That even includes leading Christian clergy including Pope Francis.
Followers of Mohammed not only claim, but truly believe that God has authorized them to kill those who refuse to submit to their version of Gods will.
That is a basic tenet of that religion. A claim which goes unchallanged which makes it a theocratic creed advocating a form of government that is to replace the existing one.
While it is understandable for atheists which most socialists are, not to approach that claim on a theological basis. But believing by bombing and killing those who believe in it will end its practice,which will not. Islam as construed with its portrayal of a mercyless evil deity approving using deception and deceit is an abomination which must be discredited and condemed.
And that can only be done by attacking its assertions and tenets. Certainly not by ignoring and deying they do not exist. .
It is bewildering why many Christian clergy concerned about quote, political correctness, unquote, refuse to address what an insult to God islam is and worse yet are unable to condem then convince and convert its advocates and adhearants they are followers of an evil creed .
The Koran which was not given to Mohammed by God but by some angel .Demanding enforcement of sharia law which draws heavily from the Torah.It is a pseudo religious concoction using monotheistic selected texts, taken and misconstrued from the old (bible) and new testaments.
Both of which cite the Almighty has granted free will to accept or obey his laws and God is the final judge not man: Sodom and Gormora ,and Let he who is without sin cast the stone, are outstanding examples from both books. One deals with sin and Gods decision toward a group the other to an individual, neither is left to man.
Yet followers of Mohammed under the severest of penalties are forbidden to read either which would refute that assertion in a creed which institutionalizes disgusting arab tribal views,mores, observances,and customs. Claiming adhearants are authorized by our Creator to demand submission to it or suffer an ignominious death administered by followers of Islam simply because they answer the call to prayer 5 times a day.
http://www.theusmat.com/islamandfreewill.htm
Also, Islam is a dictatorship. The Constitution requires that EACH STATE have a REPUBLICAN form of government (U.S. Const., Art. IV, Sec. 4).
Islam has NO PLACE in the United States.
KICK THEM OUT!!!
Domestic Enemy #1: Lawyers.
Domestic Enemy #2: Pubic school teachers.
Need much rope.
So what IS that government school teacher’s name?
Student is named. So must the teacher be named.
Huzzah!
Domestic Enemy Number 3: Activist judges
Where the USSC is concerned, I’ve learned to take nothing as given.
Judges are first lawyers. Like most high level politicians.
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