To: jude24; teawithmisswilliams
An educated person should know something about Islamic theology, ( jude24)
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Jude,
Are you willing to use the threat of government police, court, and foster care action to force your anointed educational philosophy on other people's children?
For all the children in the school who are there by compulsion that is exactly what the threat is. It is armed police, court, and foster care action if they refuse to subject themselves to being "educated" in Muslim culture.
Jude, we do have a First Amendment. This Amendment says that government can NOT tell people to shut up, or forbid them to publish, or prohibit the free expression of religion, or tell them with whom they must associate. Yet, government schools do this every day to each child who is in their indoctrination centers by compulsion.
That children are forced to be indoctrinated against their will in any religion is NOT religiously neutral. No matter how the government schools acts on this matter, the government will establish the religious worldview of some, and actively undermine and destroy the religious worldview of anther. This particular issue of instruction in the Muslim religion is not religiously neutral, nor is it for hundreds of other school issues as well.
It is axiomatic. The education of youth is NOT religiously neutral, and that is why government should not be in the education business.
Solution: Begin the process of privatizing universal K-12 education.
58 posted on
10/04/2006 9:28:42 AM PDT by
wintertime
(Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid)
To: wintertime
Are you willing to use the threat of government police, court, and foster care action to force your anointed educational philosophy on other people's children? Yes. I am willing to force education under threat of government action. The survival of our democratic republic depends upon an educated population. There is a long history of mandating just such requirements. It has been this way since the nineteenth century.
62 posted on
10/04/2006 9:43:43 AM PDT by
jude24
("I will oppose the sword if it's not wielded well, because my enemies are men like me.")
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