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Islam quiz has
U.S. parents 'outraged'. They're not teaching
10 Commandments' but Muslim prayers allowed. Hundreds of irate
parents are planning to attend the Walton County, Georgia, school board meeting
Oct. 10 to convey their outrage over their children being taught the religious
beliefs of Islam in middle-school social studies.
The outrage erupted over
a quiz handed out to students asking them to answer questions related to the
five pillars of Islam, the Quran as the “holy” book of Muslims, and the
conversion prayer known as the “shahada,” which states, “There is no god but
Allah and Muhammad is his messenger.” Perhaps most disturbing to Christian
parents was the “correct” answer that the Muslim god Allah is the “same god”
that is worshiped by Christians and Jews.
At the same time Islam
is being studied in detail, the beliefs of Christianity are glossed over,
parents say. They now have more than 2,300 parents and concerned citizens who
have joined a Facebook group dedicated to opposing the school system’s methods of teaching
comparative religions.
“I believe my children
are my responsibility, and I believe I need to be the one teaching them what we
believe instead of the school,” Bill Green told News 95.5.Watch
local TV report from Fox 5 News below:
'Nothing about 10 commandments' Parent Michelle King told WSB-TV she's upset
because students seem to spend a lot more time learning about Islam than any
other religion."My daughter had to learn the (shahada),
and the five pillars of Islam, which is what you learn to convert," King
said. "But they never once learned anything about the Ten Commandments or
anything about God." "What they are learning goes against my
religion completely," she said. Kim Embry, spokeswoman for the Walton County
School District, said in an interview with Fox 5 that some Christian students may
need to learn more about Islam than Christianity since they're already familiar
with the Christian faith. Watch
Embry's comments below:
Ryan Breece launched the Facebook page in an attempt to get school
officials to alert parents to upcoming lessons on religion or other sensitive
topics. They say that would give them a chance to opt their children out of
assignments with which they disagree.
Breece said he pulled his sixth-grade daughter out of recent
lessons on Islam, and her grade suffered as a result. He doesn’t think that's
right.
"We need to see the assignments, and we need to be able to
opt out without any grade negativity on our children," he told News 95.5,
adding that he expects hundreds of parents to attend the Oct. 10 board meeting
with similar demands. Breece said Tuesday he has been invited to a private meeting with
the school board Wednesday at 9:15 a.m.
"Fox News will be there," he wrote on the group's
Facebook page. "Please come and gather in the parking lot or lobby to show
your support. Now it's time for us to show we all care about this issue."
The Board of Education building is at 200 Double Springs Church
Road, Monroe, Georgia.
The education standards being used in Walton County are the same
standards used in all of Georgia and there have been complaints in the past.
Last year, parents from Cartersville Middle School in Cartersville, Georgia,
contacted WND and said their school was inviting Islamic teachers to come and
indoctrinate their children about the tenants of Islam.
The latest controversy was touched off when Youth Middle School
gave a fill-in-the-blank test on the basics of Islam as one of several examples
of controversial lessons (correct answers in parenthesis):
- "In 610, Muhammad was told by the angel (Gabriel) that he was a (prophet) sent to Earth by (God)
- "He began preaching a new monotheistic faith called (Islam) – (Surrender) to God"
- “Basic beliefs of Islam:
- "Followers of Islam are called (Muslims) who believe in (one) God, called (Allah)
- "Allah is the (same God) worshiped by Jews & Christians
- "Muslims believe Muhammad was the (last) of God’s prophets
- "The teachings of Muhammad were written down in the (Quran) …, the holy (book) of Islam."
Other assignments delved into the five pillars of Islam –
pilgrimage to Mecca, giving of alms, fasting and prayer five times a day, along
with the associated Arabic words and phrases.
Arabic is the fastest-growing language in U.S. public schools,
likely due to the 70,000 foreign refugees, the majority of them Muslim, who are
being resettled annually by the Obama administration in cities and towns across
the U.S. Just latest in
long line of complaints by parents
This type of parental uproar over Islamic teachings in public
schools has become endemic across the U.S. in recent years, with complaints by
parents popping up in school districts nationwide since 2011.
Christina Michas, founder of
Operation Jericho Project and co-founder of Citizens United for
Responsible Education, has been tracking the encroachment of Islam into public
schools for several years, and she says it's obvious that atheist groups are
not nearly as concerned about Islam in the schools as they are about
Christianity.
"It's everywhere," she said, noting that a teacher in
Texas who gave students a more accurate history of Islam got fired. She was
referring to the case of Dale Wolverton in Richmond, Texas.
Wolverton was forced to
resign on April 8 when the Hamas-supporting Council for American-Islamic
Relations filed a complaint against him for handing out brochures detailing the
bloody history of Islam, ABC News reported.
Tennessee pastor Greg Locke
in Mt. Juliet recently encouraged students to "take an F" on their
test about the Islamic religion over what he described as "absolute
brainwashing of religion," EAGnews reported.
Locke pointed out in a viral video that local history books
include about 28 pages on Islam, but only "a half-page of watered down
Christianity," according to the Tennessean.
Dozens of teachers and
administrators in Pennsylvania's Lebanon School District attended a
taxpayer-funded workshop at a local mosque to learn about Islam, EAG News reported in June.
About 50 staffers from the district attended the workshop led by
former district Arabic translator Mohamed Omar, who "took time off from
his new job as a case worker for the Department of Human Services in
Philadelphia to share his knowledge of Islam with the staff, which included
Superintendent Marianne Bartley and several other administrators," the
Lebanon Daily News reports.
Afterward, they headed to the nearby Lebanon Valley Mosque to join
an Islamic prayer service with the congregation, according to the Daily News.
This is the second year the school district has held the mosque
workshop.
"There was no mention of objections or threatening letters
sent to the school district by atheist groups that typically scream foul with
religious-themed school events," EAG News reported
For the teachers it appeared to be all about comparing cultures
and conveying them as equal. "It's important that we educate ourselves about cultures that
are different from our own and that we try to eliminate some
misunderstandings," English as a second language teacher Lara Book said.
"Although our cultures are different, the fundamentals of them are similar
and we all want the same things: happiness for our families health, and
success. Although we might go about finding those things in our lives
differently, from a cultural standpoint, we all want the same thing."
Meghan Frick, a spokeswoman for the Georgia Department of
Education, said school systems in Georgia have "pretty broad freedom"
in how they teach the required Georgia Performance Standards in social studies.
"They have that standard and it's just a couple of sentences,
and they can teach that to students however they choose," she said.
"We don't dictate a curriculum, we don't tell them what worksheets to hand
out or what textbooks to use."
In Castle Rock, Colorado, earlier this year, the Douglas County
School System required middle-school girls to comply with a special dress code
suitable for visiting a mosque in Denver. The school system sent a note home to
parents that read:
"THERE IS A DRESS CODE FOR THIS TRIP: All students must wear
appropriate long pants. Ankles must be covered. Girls must bring wide scarves
or hooded sweatshirts for the mosque." Once at the mosque, the students were told to bow to Allah.
"Shariah in the classroom,"
wrote Pamela Geller, author of "Stop the Islamization of America," on her website. "Here again we see
anywhere American law and Islamic law conflict, it is American law that has to
give way."
Geller adds, "The subjugation and oppression of women are
enshrined under the Shariah. Young school girls should not be forced to
'respect' a dress code that represents honor violence, female genital
mutilation, forced marriage, child marriage et al."
The Jersey City Board of Education recently voted not to close
schools for the Muslim holiday of Eld al-Adha. It has been reported that a
Muslim woman in attendance made a veiled threat saying: “We’re going to be the
majority soon."
New York City schools already sanctions the closure of schools for
Muslim holidays while Christian holidays such as Christmas are referred to
generically as "winter recess."
In 2013 at Lumberton High School in Texas, girls were encouraged
to dress up in burqas during a geography class to expose them to "world
cultures, religions, customs and belief systems." There was no clothing
brought for the students to experience dressing like a nun or Orthodox Jew,
according to a Front Page Magazine report.
The Lumberton teacher was quoted by a student as saying, "We
are going to work to change your perception of Islam" from one sullied by
terrorism into one hoping for peaceful coexistence.
Thomas More Law Center is representing the father of an 11th-grade
La Plata High School student in Maryland who was given a failing grade for
refusing to complete assignments she considered to be Islamic indoctrination.
She had to affirm, similar to the Georgia quiz, that "there
is no god but Allah" and the remaining five pillars of Islam. John Wood, a
former Marine, demanded his daughter be given an alternative assignment, but
the school refused and banned him from school property.
"We're talking about assignments where the right answer is,
‘There’s no god but Allah,' and that Allah is the same god that is worshiped in
Christianity and Judaism,” Michas said.
Lack of balance in teaching about Islam But what is most troubling about these assignments is they never
provide any balancing material on the dark side of Islam, Michas said.
For instance, there is no mention of the harsh treatment under
Shariah law of women, homosexuals, Christians, Jews or other religious
minorities. There is no teaching on the recurring strong themes of jihad
throughout Islamic history, or that Muhammad personally beheaded at least 600
Jewish men and pubescent boys after they unconditionally surrendered at the Battle
of the Trench in Medina, taking the women and children as slaves.
There is nothing about female genital mutilation, or the fact that
a woman must have multiple male witnesses to press charges for rape or she will
be blamed for the “crime.” Nor are students taught that the Quran (in 4:34)
says its acceptable for Muslim men to strike a disobedient wife.
"I lived in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, all over the Middle East.
My father was in the Air Force,” Michas said. “I saw how women are treated over
there." Women are also entitled to only half as much inheritance as their
male siblings under Shariah. But American school children are being fed a
distorted view of Islam in U.S. public schools, Michas said.
She said the largest textbook provider, United Kingdom-based Pearson,
has been bending for years to the will of influence agents tied to the Muslim
Brotherhood. The texts often state as fact that Muhammad was the "last
prophet."
'Connect All Schools'
Michas said the Islamization of American schools has been going on
since at least 2011 and just keeps getting worse. She traces the phenomenon
back to 2009 and a program called “Connect All Schools,” which came out of the
Obama administration’s U.S. Department of Education. WND has previously reported on the program and its
roots in the Muslim Brotherhood.
The stated goal of the
initiative is to "connect every school in the U.S. with the world by
2016." On its website, the organization reports
that 316 internationalized U.S. schools have already connected with 140
countries, the majority of them from the Middle East and Africa.
The Qatar Foundation International, or QFI, partnered with the
U.S. State Department and Department of Education in the launching of Connect
All Schools. The QFI is closely linked to the Al Jazeera news network and the
Muslim Brotherhood, WND reported.
Vartan Gregorian, a board member of the QFI, was appointed in 2009
to President Obama’s White House Fellowships Commission.
WND previously exposed that Gregorian served as a point man in
granting $49.2 million in startup capital to an education-reform project
founded by former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers and chaired by
Obama.
Documentation shows Gregorian was central in Ayers’ recruitment of
Obama to serve as the first chairman of the project, the Chicago Annenberg
Challenge – a job in which Obama worked closely on a regular basis with Ayers.
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