Posted on 05/18/2004 12:14:08 PM PDT by hsmomx3
VA. - An institution that intends to have a significant impact on the future leadership of the country has been quietly growing in Purcellville and will graduate its first full four-year class of students this month. Patrick Henry Bible College is not your ordinary school of higher learning. "The campus is immaculate, everyone is clean-cut and cheerful. The students about 75% of who have been taught at home rather than in schools - are required to sign a statement of faith before they arrive, confirming (among other things) that they have a literal belief in the teachings of the Bible."
They are trained with extremist view to "lead our nation and shape our culture with timeless biblical values".
Now let's look at an Islamic Madrasa (an Muslim/Islamic religious school).
What is a Madrasa? In a report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) in 2003 by, Febe Armanio, describes a Madrasa as follows: An institution of higher learning offering instruction that "promotes an Islamic based curriculum based on the Quran. They teach to stand against what they see as the moral depravity of the West." The primary goal of these schools is to develop the future leaders of the Islamic world based on what some believe to be extremist views.
What's even more interesting about Patrick Henry College according to Andrew Buncombe, is that "this spring, of the almost 100 interns working in the White House, seven are from Patrick Henry. Another intern works for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign, while another works for President George Bush's senior political adviser, Karl Rove. Yet another works for the coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad. Over the past four years, 22 conservative members of Congress have employed one or more Patrick Henry interns."
Locally, Patrick Henry also enjoys support from the board of supervisors. Board members Eugene Delgaudio (R-Sterling) and Lori Waters (R-Broad Run) sponsored a resolution commending Farris on the occasion of PHC’s upcoming graduation. In addition to being a prominent figures in conservative Republican politics, as director of the “pro-family” Eagle Forum, Waters also has a PHC student, Danny Davis, for an intern. Mike Hengemuhle, another PHC student, is an assistant to Supervisor Stephen J. Snow (R-Dulles).
During the past four years, 22 PHC students have secured internships in the offices and on the campaigns of conservative congressmen and senators. When Bush signed a law outlawing partial-birth abortion, PHC President, Michael P. Farris was, one of five Christian conservatives who got an invite, according to the New York Times.
Wait a minute. Would the Bush-Cheney team recruit students from Islamic Madrasas to intern? It's only fair. If they're going to invite right-wing Christian extremist to run the White House, why not invite right-wing Islamist extremist?
Yet, the Bush administration continues to deny that this war on terror is not about Christians against Muslims. Then why are his top aides singing a different tune?
In February of this year Paul Bremer, the “American King” of Iraq, made it quite clear that he will not allow Islam to be the main source of law in Iraq. Yet, this administration leans more and more on the law of the Christian Bible.
When Rumsfeld was asked about Islamic Clerics running the new Iraq he said, “That isn't going to happen," Washington Post reported Friday, April 25. But the Bush-Cheney theocracy has no problem employing or giving serious consideration to those who come from this right-wing Christian extremist college.
Even though the board of trustees, its faculty and students may not call themselves clerics or preachers or pastors, the fact that their goal is to"lead our nation and shape our culture with timeless biblical values" the assumption is clear. They are religious wolves dressed in sheep's clothing.
But the comparison to the Madrasas can't be ignored. The indoctrination process begins with the faculty of the Madrasas and so it does at Patrick Henry College. "Before being hired by Patrick Henry, all members of the teaching faculty, too, have to sign a pledge stating that they share a generally literalist belief in the Bible."
Even the biology staff must hold a "literal view specifically of the six-day creation story."
Could you imagine Rumsfeld or Ashcroft hiring someone who believes literally that when they die they'll be received by 77 virgins? NOT!
What I find most alarming about PHC is it's Strategic Intelligence Program (SIP). It's curricula is directly tied into developing "careers in the intelligence community (Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, etc.), domestic counter-terrorism and law enforcement (Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigations, etc.), and diplomacy (Foreign Service, State Department, etc.). These graduates will eventually work their way into positions to positively influence and shape this increasingly important part of our culture."
While PHC links to the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court have been documented, Farris could not provide information as to how many students in the school’s Strategic Intelligence Program, which started this year, have internships with the CIA, the FBI or the nation’s other intelligence agencies.
In the fall semester, SIP students toured some of the most secure intelligence facilities in the entire United States (as per our agreements, we may not disclose the names of these 3-letter agencies), and they were invited to observe training exercises at the FBI Training Academy in Quantico.”
While the extent of their access to intelligence information is unknown, SIP students have enough information to pen “a weekly digest of all major drug, immigration, and security incidents at America's border crossings called the Border Security Alert. The BSA, produced entirely by Patrick Henry students, is distributed by subscription to national security professionals and is available to the intelligence and law enforcement communities through a classified network.”
Eliot Jardines, Assistant Director of SIP at Patrick Henry said,"The preservation of our liberty requires constant vigilance. Who is going to do it? Who better than these young men and women...?
I just can't see how right-wing Christian extremist from the Patrick Henry "Madrasa" will be able to preserve the liberties of homosexuals, single mothers, women's right to choose, pagans, transgender peoples and Muslims.
Patrick Henry College is just one of many schools in America that is dedicating itself to the teachings of extreme right-wing Christian political agenda. If you think that Bin Laden and his thugs are bad news, just look at the list of right-wing zealots already in America's government.
My biggest fear is not just that the graduates from PHC will make our country into a theocracy, it's that they will make it into a military industrial theocracy just like the German Nationalist Party did in 1935.
The CRS Report for Congress -Order Code RS21654-October 29, 2003-Islamic Religious Schools, Madrasas: Febe Armanios contributed to this article along with other sources.
www.voiceoffreedom.com
The person who wrote this is nearly illiterate.
Bump & Ping
Sounds great! I'll have to check out Patrick Henry for my family.
How is the education the kids are receiving here any different than the education Thomas Jefferson received?
Ping
Oh, I don't know....maybe because the right-wing Islam extremists have advocated killing Bush and attempted to blow up the White House.
That's just a guess, though.
This author's hostility to Christianity is ridiculous. And her total ignorance on Islam's view of women, gays, pagans, transgendered, etc. is appalling.
The author makes a good point. It's the religion that matters! Fortunately, Christians are taught the importance of religious plurality and other human rights. In Islam, no such luck. I'm sure the author is happy to live in a country founded by those devoted to Christian ideals rather than the ideals of Islam.
Ping!
You are confusing Patrick Henry Community College (a public education facility)
and
Patrick Henry College (a private, 4 yr college).
The next time I see Christian homeschoolers beheading a Muslim (or whomever) with long, dull knives, I will start worrying about the potential for a military industrial theocracy.
No. Check the catalog. A comunity college would probably offer more math and science (at least those I'm familiar with do.)
sigh
"The campus is immaculate, everyone is clean-cut and cheerful."
How shocking! Simply horrible.
Pray tell, idiot, how cheerful do they look on the campus of San Francisco State? There's a reason they're so pleasant at PHC ya know, it's called the love of Christ. Heck, I'll bet they'd even be nice to you, even with your crappy attitude.
I just can't see how right-wing Christian extremist from the Patrick Henry "Madrasa" will be able to preserve the liberties of homosexuals, single mothers, women's right to choose, pagans, transgender peoples and Muslims.
Well twerp, let's put it this way. As long as those people leave us alone to raise our kids in peace, no problem, but ya see, they don't seem to keen on that idea. So, as long as you and your misbegotten ilk keep using the power of government to force our kids to accept indoctrination in your sick and disgusting sexual preferences or advocate sedition and replacement of the Constitution with Sharia law... Well...
I can't wait until PHC has a competitive marksmanship team! That'll really get your panties in a bunch.
"Would the Bush-Cheney team recruit students from Islamic Madrasas to intern? It's only fair. If they're going to invite right-wing Christian extremist to run the White House, why not invite right-wing Islamist extremist?..."
Gosh. Just set yourself up for a freakin' huge amount of cash after that lawsuit is settled for slander why don't you?
No complaints about "left-wing" extremists?
I guess only those who disagree with the author are extremists, eh?
Or else, we want to fill Washington with people who don't have any convictions about anything? I mean, sure that's working for Kerry but...
Oh well, I guess it's an "intoerant" thing to say but the author failed to mention one key difference in radical Islamists and radical Chrsitians - WE'RE RIGHT!
;)
Clueless is the only word that comes to mind.
The real problem is that these guys are going to make decisions on feasibility of missile defence, NASA's Moon and Mars exploration, allocation of funds in the NIH, etc. Sure, they can hire a scientist to do the work, but how can they judge the results? Do they just pick results that they feel good about?
Why the Bush Administration prefer a Patrick Henry Intern to say, a Madrasa's one?
Try these quotes from Patrick Henry on for size and judge for yourself:
* I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
* Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
* Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
* It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!
* Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is impossible that a nation of infidels or idolaters should be a nation of free men. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom.
* The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
From the tone of this article, they're pretty bunched right now.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.