Posted on 08/20/2011 11:52:40 AM PDT by Brices Crossroads
Before I began to research Rick Perry's record, I perceived him to be nothing more than a garden variety southern Republican governor, probably conservative, certainly more conservative than his 2010 opponent Kay Bailey Hutchison. But the fact that he had such a spirited challenge from both sides in the GOP primary, both from the moderates AND the Conservatives, made me wonder just how conservative he really was. Just a bit of research revealed the gardasil mandate on preteen girls and their parents (and the cronysim associated with it), his full throated advocacy of open borders, including a pipeline for illegals dubbed the Trans-Texas corridor, his provision of in state tuition to the offspring of illegals, his doubling of the state budget during his tenure and his support in 2008 of the pro-choice social liberal Rudy Giuliani for President. I was not shocked to find he was not a conservative (After all, 49% of the Texas GOP voters, who are overwhelmingly conservative, voted in the primary not to renominate him.) What took me completely by surprise was his great affinity for Islam, the warm words which the Hamas front group CAIR has for him but most significantly of all, the Islamicization of the curriculum in the Texas public schools which the supposedly conservative Governor of Texas has quietly implemented.
Perry, you see, has a cozy relationship with the Aga Khan, the head of the Ismailis, a realtively small sect sect of Shia Islam that reportedly has 15 to 20 million followers. Perry and Khan have confected two cooperation agreements between the state of Texas and Ismaili institutions, the most significant of which is a program, now pervading every Texas public school, to proselytize and to desensitize, schoolchildren about Islam. Dubbed the "Muslim Histories and Culture Project", it really amounts to Islamic propaganda forced upon a captive audience...the malleable youngsters attending Texas public schools.
Up until a few days ago, the Texas school curriculum could be viewed on the SAN ANTONIO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT's own website:
www.saisd.net/admin/curric/sstudies/mhcp/mhcproject.html
This link has now mysteriously disappeared. I wonder if that has anything to do with the following posting on Pam Gellar's Blog, which exposes the entire enterprise, and which thankfully saved the curriculum abstracts:
Before the link to the San Antonio Independent School District Website was disabled and the website scrubbed, Gellar and company had lifted the curriculum abstracts from it, which show:
"a) High praise for Gov. Perry's collaboration with the Aga Khan, leaving no question about Perry's complicity and active support; and b) A thorough whitewashing of the nature and history of Islam that ignores Islam's bloody history while simultaneously portraying the Crusades as a bloody assault on Islamic soil by Christians."
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The curriculum abstracts characterize the interaction of Islam and Christianity as follows:
"While Islam "spreads" and "extends," presumably in the same way that dew forms on flower petals, Crusaders "wrest political control of the Holy Land from Muslim rulers, damaging the positive relations that had previously existed." Nowhere is it mentioned that the Crusades were prompted by two crises: (1) the ruthless treatment of Christian pilgrims attempting to see Jerusalem, which was under Muslim control, and (2) Byzantine Emperor Alexius's plea for European knights to help him take back territory that had just been overrun by an invasion of Muslim Turks. "
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Also lifted from the now scrubbed website was the following:
"A presentation of the Koran and Muhammad that can only be described as open proselytization for Islam in public schools.
An idealized portrayal of Cordoba's "multicultural" society that minimizes the oppression and political upheaval that took place under Muslim misrule, which largely brought on its own demise through infighting similar to what we see in the Islamic world today. A bizarrely twisted portrayal of the Islamic world that blames Islam's repression of women on Western Colonialism.
A naked advertisement for the Aga Khan and the Ismaili sect of Islam. This is particularly dangerous because the Ismailis are a sect of only about 20 - 30 million people -- approximately 2% of the entire Muslim population and therefore not representative of Islam as a whole. Also, while the Ismailis may portray themselves as relatively modern, they still have an anti-Western historical narrative that portrays the West as colonialist while ignoring Islam's own bloody form of colonialism. In making overtures to build bridges with one small Islamic sect, Gov. Perry has replaced the Western narrative of history with the narrative of 1.5 billion Muslims who see the West as the enemy. AND YES, THEY REALLY DO SEE THE WEST AS THE ENEMY, as this curriculum makes clear."
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After reading the teacher's abstracts of this Islamic proselytism, which can be seen by scrolling down the link, I was aghast. If any teacher in the public schools dared to even mention Christianity or Judaism, they would be fired. This curriculum mandates far more than a casual mention. It lionizes Islam, papers over its excesses and trashes Christianity, all at the same time. It is doing immense, yet very subtle, harm to the most vulnerable among us...school children. I daresay that most public school parents in Texas are unaware that their children are being brainwashed in such a fashion.
It turns out that Rick Perry, the godfather of the gardasil mandate for preteen girls also subscribes to another mandate... mandatory Islamic proselytization. Both mandates, it should be noted, require no parental consent. This brought to mind the old slogan Jesse Jackson used to use, "We want hope for brains not dope for veins." Apparently, Governor Perry's education platform was "Gardasil for veins; Islamopropaganda for brains". As the writer correctly observes:
If Barack Obama had imposed such a curriculum on schools we'd be calling for his impeachment. Therefore it is unconscionable to look the other way when it comes to Perry.
The best that can be said for Rick Perry in connection with the Perry/Khan curriculum is that he is very naive. In putting across these two odious mandates on public school children in Texas, gardasil and the euphemistically titled "Muslim Histories and Culture Project", Perry has demonstrated either a colossal lack of judgment or a hidden (and darker) agenda, either of which should disqualify him from consideration for the GOP nomination.
Hey! Rita Hayworth was hot!
Why should we (Americans) “bridge the cultural divide”? Why don’t they become Americans. I am sick of politicians sucking up to muslims. America can do just fine without them.
You’re welcome.
Exactly. It matters not how many liberal causes Slick-Rick supported the Perry apologists just don't care.
“Trying to to bridge crosscultural divides doesn’t equate to capitulating.
And the guardasil thing is complete BS.
It never saw fruition.”
Yes I would submit, The Europe Example on Muslim cultural compassion,ISLAM has NO place here!
Bachmann is a wet blanket with no record.
She is a one note record that is getting shrill.
She cant win on the national stage.
This should be a required video to watch for all of our schoolkids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnjZEZggkkA
I am for Palin fist but several of you in my camp should be ashamed. Your’re becoming more and more like the Paulbots and Mittophiles.
He!!, Sarah likes Perry a lot and I believe if she doesn’t run (which I believe she won’t) will endorse Perry.
Untill why don’t you keep your powder dry and quit trying to trash the only reasonably conservative candidate presently in the race that can beat Obama.
“Man, they act just like liberals when Perry’s record starts to surface. Idiots. Thats the reason we got Obama for sure.”
They never refute the facts. Just call names or deny. I posted the links.
Perry is a nonstarter. He is not a conservative on a broad spectrum of issues.
The “INS”
Bachmann .. Cain .. Gringrich .. Greenspon
Huntsman .. Johnson .. Krager .. Martin
McCotter .. McMillan .. Miller .. Moore
Paul .. Perry .. Roemer .. Romney
Santorum .. Wuensche
And the ones who have a realistic chance at beating Obama...
Bachmann .. Cain .. Gringrich .. GreensponHuntsman .. Johnson .. Krager .. MartinMcCotter .. McMillan .. Miller .. MoorePaul .. Perry .. Roemer .. RomneySantorum .. Wuensche
As you said, choose wisely.
Actually, any use of the term “Islamophobia” is an indicator of a state of being full of crap.
Is this the article, Lucy?
Perry/Aga Khan Curriculum: “shocking example of Islamic propaganda forced upon unsuspecting students attending Texas public schools”
“The religion that the Prophet Muhammad preached provided his followers an ethical and moral vision for leading a life of righteousness?” Perry/Khan curriculum.
“He PASSED Voter ID.
you people are really stretching reality. It took 6 years but he passed Voter ID”
How about the Dream Act?
But among “The Ins” Bachmann would be a good choice whether she could win or not. Do you deny the poster the right to make that choice? I never read you as being dictatorial.
You are full of CRAP! Did you vote for Zero in 2008??
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we bring up serious specific policy items.
pro Amnesty for illegals. increased spending instead of cuts. speeches that please La Raza and C.A.I.R.
and the honorable response of Perry supporters?
“You are full of CRAP! Did you vote for Zero in 2008??”
when Michelle Malkin dared criticise Perry, they assasinated her character and motives!
and she’s endured more viciousness from liberals than Palin!
i have asked for specifics from Perry supporters, on WHY they believe he is conservative. socially, certainly.
which i respect and admire!
but he’s another big government establishment Republican, who supports Amnesty, and doesn’t understand the real danger of Islam. in fact, he praises it, as a “religion of Peace”, while Sharia movements and Gulen Islamist schools multiply IN TEXAS.
...and Perry supporters can only call us names. how adult.
Despite what you might think of Texas as bubba backers, this is one of the most diverse states with one of the largest populations in America.
I would suggest that Texas is a pretty good Petri dish of empirical data.
PERRY SUCKS ON IMMIGRATION and I will not vote for him. Phony. Latest chameonic twist: claims “...its up to states” before it was a FED responsibility. LIAR,TRICKY RICKY. We in Texas know you left us stranded in a sanctuary state because of large GOP donors.
Run Sara...we will not fix USA with a crony. Only virtue in power can save us now!
Translation: I have no rebuttal to Brice's contentions regarding Governor Perry.
Well, that tells us a lot.
I beg to differ. The most rabid faction here is the Palinistas. They have a fit if you post poll numbers that question her electability.
I think many of us are desperate to save our country. That translates to winning the Presidency and Congress in 2012 or else we’ve failed.
So be tolerant of those who might be looking for someone who can beat Obama. They may be foregoing their first choice to improve our chances of winning. This election is not politics as usual, it’s America’s survival.
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