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Religious Message Prohibited in Senior Photo IRONIA VALLEY – To prepare for their class picture on the bleachers, 13 Ironia Valley High School seniors made T-shirts, arrived early and staked out the front row. But when Vice Principal Ted Reid saw the shirts spelling out "Allah is the way" and "Allah (heart) U" flanked by crescent, he asked the students to rearrange themselves or turn the shirts around. After five minutes of negotiations with Reid, 11 of the students walked out of the picture. "We weren't telling people to love Allah," senior Hammed Hussein, 17, said. "We weren't telling people,...

<p>FOUNTAIN VALLEY – To prepare for their class picture on the bleachers, 13 Fountain Valley High School seniors made T-shirts, arrived early and staked out the front row.</p> <p>But when Vice Principal Ted Reid saw the shirts spelling out "Jesus is the way" and "Jesus (heart) U" flanked by crosses, he asked the students to rearrange themselves or turn the shirts around.</p>