NJ
Middle School Faces SERIOUS LAWSUIT After Telling Students ‘Islam Is The True
Faith’
A federal lawsuit contends
a public school system in New Jersey is violating the First Amendment of the
Constitution. At question is whether the
Chatham Middle School in Chatham, New Jersey is violating the “separation of
church and state.”
Christians have been told
for years now that the First Amendment prohibits their vocal presences in the
public domain. The result is that everything from “See You at the Pole” to
teachers having a Bible on their desk has routinely been ruled to violate the
Constitution.
The separation of mosque
and state seems to be a different issue. Case in point is Chatham Middle School
where students have been shown Islamic videos that include an overt call to
convert to Islam.
Now the School District of
the Chathams (SDC) faces a federal lawsuit in the New Jersey District Court. Acting on behalf of her
12-year-old son, Libby Hilsenrath is the plaintiff. Her suit names as
defendants officials and teachers at CMS and the school district, alleging
First Amendment violation.
The suit was prompted by a
seventh-grade World Geography and Cultures class that, Hilsenrath claims
encourages the teachings of Islam while ignoring Christianity, Judaism, and
other religions. The video treats Islam as objectively true and is patently
aimed at proselytizing Non-Muslims.
Another parent, Nancy
Gayer, says this is not an isolated case for the school. Fox News reported
three years ago that “her son inserted a short Bible quotation in a slideshow,
but was unable to present [it] to his class because the teacher pulled him
aside to tell him such a mention ‘belongs in Sunday
School.”
Hilsenrath and Gayer say
“they were labeled bigots and xenophobes after their appearance at the school
board meeting, and Hilsenrath said her position was compared to that of the Ku
Klux Klan.”
This is not just the
result of a well-meaning teacher merely trying to broaden students’
understanding. Imams have called on Muslim migrants to proselytize in
contemporary Islamic writings, online videos on YouTube, DVDs, and Islamic
websites.
These concerted efforts at
converting Non-Muslims have had marked success. Statisticians in Germany
estimate that thousands of professing Christians convert to Islam every year.
Muslim converts in Spain reached over 20,000 in 2006 and the number is growing.
Closer to home, 20,000 to 25,000 people convert to Islam in the United States
each year.
Christian apologists warn
that the unique context of Muslim conversion efforts should not be ignored.
Islam does not accept the idea of a pluralistic society where people are free
to believe as they choose. Islam’s stated goal is world domination.
Public schools encouraging
consideration of Islam is not isolated to the case in New Jersey. Parents and
concerned citizens from at least three counties in Tennessee have voiced their
concerns about a middle school history assignment in which students were
instructed to write “Allah is the only God.”
One parent explained:
“They did this assignment where they wrote out the Five Pillars of Islam,
including having the children learn and write the Shahada, the Islamic
conversion creed.” Tennessee Maury County school officials reaction was to say
they “covered some sensitive topics” that “caused some confusion” but there was
no issue of constitutional violations.
Forcing student to recite
“Allah is the only God” isn’t just a “sensitive topic.” It is blatantly
unconstitutional.
Williamson County
Tennessee part of the middle school class work on Islam included a worksheet
that asked questions extolling Islam and phrases in Arabic for students to
repeat – without knowing what they meant.
This movement to push
Islam in public school is occurring across the country. In Florida, public
school students were instructed to recite the Five Pillars of Islam as a
prayer, make Islamic prayer rugs, and perform other Muslim rituals. Students in
Madison, Wisconsin were given an assignment in which they were told to “pretend
you are Muslim.”
There can be no question
this Islamophilia, as one pundit terms it, violates clear constitutional
principles. Government run schools and their teachers are allowed to teach what
different faiths believe and how that has affected geography and world history.
They are not allowed to indoctrinate or encourage the validity one religion
over another.
The School District of the
Chathams’ website includes the message, “When given the choice between being
right or being kind… CHOOSE KIND.” In this case, the only ones being treated
unkindly were parents who challenged the Islamic teachings extolled by their
children’s teachers.
~ American Liberty Report
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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