Susan L. Douglass, CIE consultant
Posted on 05/27/2006 5:24:22 PM PDT by Y2Krap
Issues & Insights
TEACHING JOHNNY ABOUT ISLAM
Investors Business Daily
Posted 5/19/2006
Education: In our brave new schools, Johnny can't say the pledge, but he can recite the Quran. Yup, the same court that found the phrase "under God" unconstitutional now endorses Islamic catechism in public school.
In a recent federal decision that got surprisingly little press, even from conservative talk radio, California's 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled it's OK to put public-school kids through Muslim role-playing exercises, including:
Reciting aloud Muslim prayers that begin with "In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful . . . ."
Memorizing the Muslim profession of faith: "Allah is the only true God and Muhammad is his messenger."
Chanting "Praise be to Allah" in response to teacher prompts.
Professing as "true" the Muslim belief that "The Holy Quran is God's word."
Giving up candy and TV to demonstrate Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting.
Designing prayer rugs, taking an Arabic name and essentially "becoming a Muslim" for two full weeks.
Parents of seventh-graders, who after 9-11 were taught the pro-Islamic lessons as part of California's world history curriculum, sued under the First Amendment ban on religious establishment. They argued, reasonably, that the government was promoting Islam.
But a federal judge appointed by President Clinton told them in so many words to get over it, that the state was merely teaching kids about another "culture."
So the parents appealed. Unfortunately, the most left-wing court in the land got their case. The 9th Circuit, which previously ruled in favor of an atheist who filed suit against the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, upheld the lower court ruling.
The decision is a major victory for the multiculturalists and Islamic apologists in California and across the country who've never met a culture or religion they didn't like — with the exception of Western civilization and Christianity. They are legally in the clear to indoctrinate kids into the "peaceful" and "tolerant" religion of Islam, while continuing to denigrate Judeo-Christian values.
In the California course on world religions, Christianity is not presented equally. It's covered in just two days and doesn't involve kids in any role-playing activities. But kids do get a good dose of skepticism about the Christian faith, including a biting history of its persecution of other peoples. In contrast, Islam gets a pass from critical review. Even jihad is presented as an "internal personal struggle to do one's best to resist temptation," and not holy war.
The ed consultant's name is Susan L. Douglass. No, she's not a Christian scholar. She's a devout Muslim activist on the Saudi government payroll, according to an investigation by Paul Sperry, author of "Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington." He found that for years Douglass taught social studies at the Islamic Saudi Academy just outside Washington, D.C. Her husband still teaches there.
So what? By infiltrating our public school system, the Saudis hope to make Islam more widely accepted while converting impressionable American youth to their radical cause. Recall that John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban," was a product of the California school system. What's next, field trips to Mecca?
This case is critical not just to our culture but our national security. It should be brought before the Supreme Court, which has outlawed prayer in school. Let's see what it says about practicing Islam in class. It will be a good test for the bench's two new conservative justices.
Sorry, but won't believe this until I see the link
There are many links on this subject. Please do a search.
Parents need to peruse their children's textbooks.
IBD is a reliable and trusted news source.
This isn't tabloid scare stuff.
The U.S. is going to hell in a hand basket.
The schools can't even do a decent job of teaching Johnny about his own culture, how are they going to teach him about another culture?
This role playing that Johnny is a Muslim for two weeks has nothing to do with education. It is a distraction from the real work of learning.
Public education is a giant waste of taxpayer money.
Someone ought to send this to Rush and other conservative sources for discussion.
well, i don't know about this, but the only religion I recall learning about in 6th grade social studies was Islam. And that was a long time ago.
Someone just nuke those schools.
I am stunned, apparently this is true:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38304
Van Jenerette, thank you for legitimizing the link.
Thanks for the link!
I have a nephew that was tasked with this Islamic assignment. The curriculum is true but I don't know about the court case.
Okay, it IS legit. I was reeeeeeeally hoping it was a bogus story.
So much for equal treatment under the law. Apparently, only Christianity is barred from our schools.
Not really an issue for my family. Having extremely unpopular religious beliefs, we keep them to ourselves.
If you point a gun at us, we'll bow down in front of whatever god or idol you say. But you can't change the faith in our hearts. We'll continue to take a page from the Christian bible, "go into (our) closet, shut the door and pray".
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