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A rebuttal from Islam Online

Soon thereafter, the offices of the superintendent of Byron Union School District were flooded by over 500 telephone calls, and Excelsior Principal, Nancie Castro, said that she has received over 200 hate e-mails.

In a letter to parents obtained by IslamOnline, Castro wrote: "The staff of the Byron Union School District, and especially of Excelsior School, have spent the last two days fielding indignant and often threatening phone calls, and hate e-mails - mostly from outside the area - based on an inaccurate, rumor-filled story that appeared in an Internet newsletter and was subsequently picked up by radio talk shows. They unfairly accused the Byron Union School District of instructing our students in an intensive three-week course on Islam."

Speaking to IslamOnline, Castro said that not only Islam, but Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and other major religions are also taught as they apply to the understanding of history and the development of major Western and non-Western civilizations.

In the letter, Castro wrote: "This is the state approved curriculum, using state-adopted textbooks and has been part of the instructional program in California for over a decade. At no point do we teach or endorse religion, we teach about religions’ impact from a historical context."

Are there any FReepers in the area that can support/contest this?

In a letter to parents obtained by IslamOnline, Castro wrote: "The staff of the Byron Union School District, and especially of Excelsior School, have spent the last two days fielding indignant and often threatening phone calls, and hate e-mails - mostly from outside the area - based on an inaccurate, rumor-filled story that appeared in an Internet newsletter and was subsequently picked up by radio talk shows. They unfairly accused the Byron Union School District of instructing our students in an intensive three-week course on Islam." I'd really love to know what these people think constitutes a "Hate" email. Is this a threatening email?? Because the article states they recieved threatening phone calls, or is a "Hate" email simply someone's expression of dismay at their so called "enlightened" status as educators? These leftists are a joke and it's time for conservatives to retake school boards and drive them out..