Someone besides TM'ers are paying attention: (my paragraphs)
COLUMNIST SAYS PUBLIC SCHOOL PROMOTING ISLAM SHOULD BE SUED
AGAPE PRESS.ORG ^ | NOVEMBER 3, 2004 | JIM BROWN
Posted on 11/06/2004 6:39:38 PM MST by CHARLITE
(AgapePress) - A freelance writer from Virginia is protesting what he calls the Islamic indoctrination of grade school students in one of the country's largest public school districts.
During the ongoing month of Ramadan, children in the third through fifth grades in Herndon, Virginia, schools are being taught about the Muslim holiday and about other Islamic customs and practices.
With the help of so-called "multicultural trainer" Afeefa Syeed," the young students are reciting Muslims' sacred words and imitating their faith practices."
Prayer rugs are given out, Islamic prayers are recited,
and as columnist Dave Gibson recently commented, "a happy face is put on the most dangerous religion the world has ever known."
Gibson, who writes for AmericanDaily.com, is outraged that the Fairfax County school district prohibits recitation of the Lord's Prayer but encourages students to pray to Allah.
"We have chased those Christian ideals out of our school system, and now we're bringing in Muslim ideals.
"It's most troubling that these children are not being given the whole story -- the true face of Islam."
The conservative columnist says secularists who want God removed entirely from schools are also noticeably silent about the Islamic indoctrination occurring in the Virginia public school system.
Where, he wonders, are the American Civil Liberties Union lawsuits and the public indignation so often unleashed on any expression of Christian faith in the public schools?
"What angers me," Gibson remarks, "is the ACLU has not been heard from on this. I can guarantee you, if someone had brought in Christian Bibles or wanted to teach about Judeo-Christian beliefs, the Herndon school district would be sued immediately."
Instead of showing indifference toward the brainwashing of their children, Gibson says Herndon parents should be pulling their kids out of the city's schools and suing the school district over its Islamic indoctrination program. Jack Dale, chief of Fairfax County Schools, declined to comment
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1273150/posts
Posted on Sat, Nov. 06, 2004
Arafat's final wishes likely to be denied; P.M. meets with factions
BY CHRISTINE SPOLAR
Chicago Tribune
Instead, the Israelis suggested Arafat be laid to rest in Gaza in a tiny family grave that, as dozens of Palestinians found out Saturday, offers their storied leader little glory.
Any new plot would be crammed in among 32 existing graves, including those of Arafat's father and sister. The cemetery is behind a locked gate along an open market street in Khan Yunis that is abuzz with hawkers, braying donkeys and swarms of flies.
"I'm not a supporter of Arafat. I'm even part of the opposition. But shouldn't there be respect for where he wants to be buried?" asked Helmi Muhammed, an engineer who sneaked a peek at the white-granite graves of Arafat's father and sister.
"Arafat had the desire to be buried in Jerusalem. It's not the right of the Israelis to refuse him," said Mohammed Faris, a 40-year-old teacher drawn into the discussion around the grave markers littered with empty plastic soda bottles and torn candy wrappers.
Talk of Arafat's burial was deemed too sensitive by many Palestinian officials in Gaza, who shied away from discussing contingency plans. Hostile remarks about Arafat's demise from Israeli officials, in particular a statement Friday from Justice Minister Yosef Lapid, were described as inappropriate and racially divisive.
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"There are no malignancies. There is nothing of any sort wrong with his bone marrow or his brain. We have no diagnosis for what is wrong with him. The doctors are investigating everything once, twice, three times," Shaath added.
Leila Shahid, the Palestinian envoy to France, said Arafat was in a coma. She suggested it occurred after he was put under anesthesia to have additional medical tests, including an endoscopy, colonoscopy and a biopsy of the spinal cord, the AP reported.
Endoscopy and colonoscopy, in which a camera is inserted through the throat or into the colon to inspect the intestine, involves sedation but not a general anesthetic, which would induce unconsciousness. However, a spinal cord biopsy is often done under general anesthesia.
If anesthesia is the sole cause of Arafat's coma, it is likely he will recover once the anesthetic wears off, brain expert Dr. Eric Braverman, director of the PATH Medical Foundation in New York, told AP. However, if the coma is the result of serious medical problems, the chances of recovery are smaller, Braverman said.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/world/10117851.htm
Well, yeah. Amazing use of tax dollars isn't it?
Where IS the ACLU????? I am offened!
The ACLU? Is this man so naive as to think that the ACLU would do anything about this? Their entire purpose seems to be to destroy all vestiges of Christianity in this country.
I always say that if Christianity is beaten down here as much as the ACLU wants it to be, islam will ride into the vacuum.
And the ACLU will be leading the charge.
It's no accident that the ACLU shares as one of its founders someone who also helped found the Socialist Party of the USA. That man was Norman Thomas (and I keep saying this too, that man's grandson is Evan Thomas, one of Newsweek's prominent editors...)