Posted on 10/15/2019 11:22:09 PM PDT by amorphous
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take the case of a public school teacher who required her students to recite the Islamic "conversion prayer" or receive a failing grade.
The Thomas More Law Center is defending Caleigh Wood, a Christian student in 11th grade at La Plata High School in La Plata, Maryland.
Wood refused to deny her faith "by making a written profession of the Muslim conversion prayer known as the shahada – 'There is no god by allah and Muhammad is the messenger of allah,'" Thomas More said.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the teacher did not violate the Establishment Clause.
Wood also had been forced to view a series of Islam-promoting PowerPoint slides, including one casting aspersions on Christians that said, "Most Muslims' faith is stronger than the average Christian."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
This is how to minimize the negatives of public schools to our kids, grand kids and other young relatives:
I am so going to Home School the newest Grandson. He’s already smarter than the public scrool teachers and their corrupt curriculum at 2.5 years old.
Amen, FRiend.
This is not your DC anymore, USAians.
The majority of those inhabiting it are deeply confused by laws and ideas foreign to our own. Embracing and mixing laws and ideas from other gods from other nations.
WTH? This is unbelievable.
Please tell us more. What did you say about ISIS that got you punished?
I agree! How they can NOT take this case is a mystery to me. I guess the libs outvoted the rest.
This is why we need another 4 years of Trump and another 2 SCOTUS appointments... Anyone can have a brain fart, except on the left, where they vote in lock step.
The teacher violated the Establishment Clause.
By saying or writing that phrase, you are converting to Islam, per Islamic rules. So if she said or wrote the phrase, and then recanted, she would be subject to death, again by Islamic rules.
Further, if a Justice on the Supreme Court said or wrote the phrase three times in their, that judge (or judges) would have converted to Islam, according to Islamic law. Same with the lawyers, and obviously the teacher has already converted.
Better to be ignorant than misinformed. Islam is not a religion it is a government with a religious component. Teaching it is anything other than what it truly is should be a signal to any conservative but apparently it isn't. Wonder why? Could it be GW's assertion that Islam is a religion of peace in spite of the fact history reveal that for the lie that it is.
The abbreviated Christmas using X was the beginning of elimination of Christ from Christmas........Lest there be a falling away__________
These robed elites just can’t grasp that their furtherance of this BS is going to contribute to increasing tensions that will, at some inevitable point, boil to the surface in an open, shooting war.
People read Revelation and think, “Ahh, poppycock; it could NEVER get THAT bad.”
Damn them! It CAN get — NO, *WILL* get — that bad; that was the crusty old prophets entire frackin’ point!
But, then, maybe these geniuses are trying to make it happen sooner rather than later...
They learned nothing about the true nature of Islam so that lesson should be considered propaganda, Very sad that you don't recognize that fact because there is no parity between Christianity and Islam. Do you suppose any of the Founders would have ever considered printing the Koran for use in the schools as they did the Bible?
The first letter of this is the Greek letter 'X'.
I leave it to you to figure the rest.
In the original language we would recognize any of it. We speak English, maybe you think those that began the use of Xmas new what the original language said? Maybe we could just make stuff up, would it matter?
Which makes me think that your statement, "When I taught Sunday School class to high-schoolers I once taught a class comparing the World's religions (the one the students found the weirdest was Mormonism).", is a fabrication.
"Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen..."
Anti-Christian religions, especially Islam, has no reason to be taught in Sunday School, as the Almighty has explicitly commanded His people not to learn the ways of those who do not believe in Him.
Outside Church, yes, we need to learn about the dangers of Islam!
Why We Are Afraid, A 1400 Year Secret, by Dr Bill Warner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Qpy0mXg8Y
The Muslim conversion prayer is just words when it is an answer on a test.
You have to form the words in your mind before you can put them down on paper. A basic memory retention technique. The tricking of school children into reciting the Muslim conversion prayer is a well documented fact.
"Most Muslims' faith is stronger than the average Christian.". YOU>>> Does anybody really think "the average Christian" is as fervent as a Muslim?
Don't doubt our faith, or our commitment:
If the class was studying people from all over the world and their various religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, etc) including Judaism and Christianity, then I see no problem in it.
Even the school’s content specialist disagrees with you:
"... the school’s content specialist had testified that the language included in the slide about the strength of the Muslim faith relative to Christianity was “inappropriate” and that he would have advised the teacher not to include it in the lesson."
Amen!
Like Judicial Watch, they're doing some heavy lifting!
In its ruling, the court considered the school’s broad world history curriculum rather than examining each potentially problematic statement. If judges found violations “every time that a student or parent thought that a single statement by a teacher either advanced or disapproved of a religion, instruction in our public schools ‘would be reduced to the lowest common denominator,’ ”
is faulty, since a "single statement" can violate the fundamental teachings of Judeo-Christianity. Opinions of Christianity by any state agency should indeed "be reduced to the lowest common denominator" through some unbiased arbitrator.
In this case, "the school’s content specialist had testified that the language included in the slide about the strength of the Muslim faith relative to Christianity was “inappropriate” and that he would have advised the teacher not to include it in the lesson."
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