Posted on 09/21/2010 6:42:21 AM PDT by Brittany Pounders
For years we’ve been told that there is no place for religion in schools. However, the more time that goes by, the more clearer it becomes that in actuality it’s really Christianity that’s been banned from schools. No more prayer, no more classes or Christian clubs, Christmas has been turned into a bad word, Jesus is only spoken as a slur, and the Bible is about as welcome as a porno magazine…probably less so. Since 1948 the modern idea of civil rights concerning Christianity has been such as one that the majority’s beliefs must be squashed in order not to offend a minority.
NYC bans the nativity scene at Christmas while allowing the Islam crescent to be front and center for Ramadan, we’ve seen teachers fired for reading their Bibles silently during Study Halls, kids who mention their faith during student speeches are shut down, coaches who start a game with a prayer for safety for the players are silenced and vilified. However, we’ve seen schools allow for extra breaks throughout the school day for Muslims who wish to pray. And yet, the mere words “Under God” in our pledge can cause ripples of horror.
It’s completely clear– the assault is not on religion- it’s on Christianity!
A new shock video circulating shows a middle school in Massachusetts taking a field trip to a mosque in which the children were being spoon fed the wondrous ideals of Islam. At one point, all of the females, children and teachers alike, were ushered out of the prayer room with some of the boys being led in a prayer to Allah, lying prostrate on the floor, buns in the air, to Allah.
Thankfully, one concerned mother attended the field trip and documented the entire experience through her own video camera. Through a written letter of concern the information was picked up by Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT) and the rest of the country is now being informed on some of these “experiences” being foisted upon our impressionable children through the public school system. The APT is a group funded and run by Christians, Jews and “authentically moderate Muslims” who oppose the radicalization of the Muslim community. APT writes on the situation:
"The video was taken inside the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center – Boston’s controversial Saudi-funded mega-mosque – during a Wellesley Middle School social studies trip to the mosque, ostensibly taken to learn about the history of Islam first-hand. Yet the video reveals that the students are being blatantly mis-educated about Islam. A mosque spokesperson is seen teaching the children that in Mohammed’s 7th century Arabia women were allowed to vote, while in America women only gained that right a hundred years ago. This seems to be an increasingly recurring theme in American schools – the denigration of western civilization and the glorification of Islamic history and values. In fact, just recently, the American Textbook Council revealed that the New York State high school regents exam whitewashes the atrocities that occurred during the imperialistic Islamic conquest of Christian Byzantium, Persia, the African continent, and the Indian subcontinent, even as it demonizes European colonialism in South America.
The mosque spokesperson also taught the students that the only meaning of Jihad in Islam is a personal spiritual struggle, and that Jihad has historically had no relationship with holy war. As far as we know, the school has not corrected these false lessons."
The video has gained traction and allows a glance to grateful parents inside a situation that none were previously aware of. The 10 minute video shows the blatant proselytism on the part of the speaker to the impressionable young audience being forced to listen and participate in the “experience.” The APT continues it’s expose on this particular mosque and those who are closely aligned with it:
"The Islamic Society of Boston was founded by Abdulrahman Alamoudi, who is currently serving 23 years in jail on terror charges. For years, its board of trustees included Yusuf al Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood who was banned by Bill Clinton from the United States in 1999. Qaradawi now chairs the Muslim American Society’s university, which offers classes inside the mosque. Over half the mosque’s $15.5 million price tag was funded by wealthy Saudis and since it opened, several of its leaders, donors and members have been implicated in Islamic extremism.
Oussama Ziade, a big donor to the mosque, is now a fugitive in Lebanon after being indicted in 2009 for dealing in the assets of an Al Qaeda financier. Ahmad Abousamra, the son of the Boston Muslim American Society’s former vice-president Abdulbadi Abousamra, is now a fugitive in Syria, fleeing the country before being indicted in 2009 on charges of aiding Al Qaeda. One of the mosque’s imams, Abdullah Faaruuq, was captured on tape in 2010 telling followers to “pick up the gun and the sword” and to defend another local terrorist Aafia Siddiqui from the U.S. government. Siddiqui, who was one of the imam’s congregants, is an MIT graduate and Al Qaeda member awaiting sentencing for attempting to murder FBI agents in Afghanistan while shouting “death to America.” (LINK)"
I’m certain that the parents who signed their consent form to allow their children to go on this field trip weren’t aware of any of these details behind this mosque. Further, they were told that the children would be going to learn about the architecture of the mosque and possibly “observe” a prayer. At one point during the video the children were told, “You have to believe in Allah, and Allah is the one God, the only one worthy of worship, all forgiving, all merciful.”
The Superintendent of Wellesley Middle School has received such a heavy outrage from this incident that she was forced to say it was a mistake and apologized to parents in a letter. Yet, where is outrage from the ACLU? Where is the outrage from the liberals who constantly decry the separation of church and state? If the school was all for teaching peace and understanding, tolerance and love, why weren’t the children also taken to a Jewish Temple and a Christian Bible Study?
Yet, another moment of indoctrination from the government schools. Parents, it’s past time to wake up! Get involved, understand what’s going on within the classrooms and be proactive in your children’s education. As for the liberals and the ACLU, I’ve never before heard such a deafening silence.
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Here’s the direct link to the video, independent of the blog:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7-I9Qp3d4Y&feature=player_embedded
Worth repeating:
Parents, it’s past time to wake up! Get involved, understand what’s going on within the classrooms and be proactive in your children’s education.
These Saudi mosques are more dangerous than a fleet of jihadi piloted planes.
I watched the video. I feel absolutley sick to my stomach.
Even at 6th grade, I knew who the Marines fought in Tripoli. I would have refused to participate and probably been expelled.
Then it would have gotten UGLY. My parents would have gone nuclear. In fact, they would have anyway...
If I was in that class, I would have made a point to eat the biggest burrito beforehand, and rip the loudest, stinkiest fart I could, while in the position.
Of course, there are far too many parents out there who don't care enough about their kids to do either of the above.
I watched the link and it is absolutely shocking.
Well, when your child is “abandoned to the state” (public schools) as a court in MA so elegantly stated, be prepared to have your child subjected to everything and anything.
lol....all I can say is my kids wouldn't have gone, but my sons would beg to go just to do something like that.
At first I thought the kids were mocking Islam with hot dog buns. Which would have been so cool.
bttt
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