Islam Studies Spark Hate Mail, Lawsuits

World Net Daily.com ^ | 1/16/02 | Diana Lynne

[veronica]

FYI.

[veronica]

Bump.

[veronica]

Bump.

[onyx]

Where's the ACLU? Praying to Mecca 5 times a day for answers?

[Black Agnes]

If it has been going on since 1991, did little Johnny Jihad take it and decide being a radical Islamist was a good thing?

[eclectic]

Talk about subversive activities. This is not simply an issue about separation of church and state. Here we have an overt attempt on undermining America from within.

[Pete]

If it has been going on since 1991, did little Johnny Jihad take it and decide being a radical Islamist was a good thing?

THAT is a very good question. He would have been in 7th grade somewhere around 1992/1993.

[Billy_bob_bob]

This whole "Islam Studies in the Public Schools" issue just might be the proverbial straw that breaks the back of the old camel. I know that if I had kids that were of school age that there would be no way whatsoever that I would be sending my kids to public school. I also know that homeschooling is starting to really grow, and that more and more parents have decided that they really don't want their children to have to go through the indoctrination that accompanies public education in this country. When people go to weigh the pro's and con's of public school, they will now get to add in the consideration of their children being taught about "jihad" and how to properly pray to Mecca. Can't you just feel the appeal?

I find myself imagining a whole lot of earnest conversations over a whole lot of dinner tables, concerning Junior and whether or not it is a good idea to send him to public school.

[Shermy]

Of course it's a fix--anti-western/chrisitan lefties, perhaps proud muslims themselves slipping it in. Demands should be made also to teach Buddhism, the life of Buddha, Hinduism, The gods, their wars, etc., etc.

It's obviously a way to inculcate and spin. What should be taught is the history/culture of Egypt, Morroco, what ever, with the local religion being just one fact among many. Not religion/religious history.

[eclectic]

Where's the ACLU?

Are you kidding? ACLU has anti-Christian agenda. Fostering Islam only serves their purposes

[MissAmericanPie]

The ACLU's silence says alot doesn't it. The next time they file a lawsuit they should be counter sued to kingdom come for having a traceable agenda and using the courts to promote it.

[eclectic]

The glories of suicide bombing and hijacking

No kidding, this is an ACTUAL part of curriculum in the Palestinian schools for quite some time now. The results are apparent

[eclectic]

They go for the soft target - the children's minds

[knarf]

"Parents of seventh-graders across the state report similar experiences, and one tells WND she battled with her school district over the Islam teachings in 1994."

I live in SW Pa. and we have a pretty good home/gummint school relationship ... (they pretty much leave us alone as long as we submit their (not too many, not too intrusive) papers.

Is this a Californicatia thing only?

I'd have a real easy time convincing Mom an' the yung'ns to move.

Anyone (that will) can work anywhere and pay bills, survive weather and/or learn a new/different dialect. Americans are welcome anywhere.

God bless the patriots that labor and pray for their wayward state.

[vrwc54]

Some suggestions for the costumes:

9/11 Celebration

[gcruse]

The Bible says 'Take heed that you do not inquire how other nations serve their gods..."

Hmm.  I never heard of that.  Is that true?
If so, is it a "don't ask, don't tell" situation
for missionaries?  Or is proselytizing enjoined?

[livius]

When seventh-grader Eric, was asked how he felt about the instruction, he responded, "It hurts my stomach."

It hurts my stomach, too.