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  • All schools shut down in Augusta County, Virginia, over Islam homework

    12/18/2015 12:10:46 PM PST · by SoFloFreeper · 265 replies
    CNN ^ | 12/18/15 | Ben Brumfield
    After a teacher at a Virginia school handed out a standard homework assignment on Islam, such an angry backlash flooded in that it prompted officials to close every single school in the county as a safety precaution.
  • Students practice calligraphy by writing "There is no god but Allah"

    12/15/2015 2:15:59 PM PST · by RoosterRedux · 145 replies
    foxnews.com ^ | Todd Starnes
    A Virginia school district is defending a classroom assignment that required students to practice calligraphy by writing the Muslim statement of faith, "There is no god but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah." Female students at Riverheads High School in Staunton, Virginia, were also invited to wear Muslim clothing -- a story first reported by The Schilling Show. "Neither these lessons, nor any other lesson in the world geography course, are an attempt at indoctrination to Islam or any other religion, or a request for students to renounce their own faith or profess any belief," the district said in...