Posted on 05/30/2008 8:34:30 AM PDT by Hardshell
Public school students at Friendswood Junior High in the Houston area have been roped into Islamic training by representatives from the Council on American-Islamic Relations during class time, prompting religious leaders to protest over Principal Robin Lowe's actions.
Pastor Dave Welch, spokesman for the Houston Area Pastor Council, confirmed the indoctrination had taken place and called it "unacceptable."
"The failure of the principal of Friendswood Junior High to respect simple procedures requiring parental notification for such a potentially controversial subject, to not only approve but participate personally in a religious indoctrination session led by representatives of a group with well-known links to terrorist organizations and her cavalier response when confronted, raises serious questions about her fitness to serve in that role," the pastors' organization said.
According to a parent, whose name was withheld, the children were given the Islamic indoctrination during time that was supposed to be used for a physical education class.
.....(read more at WND.com)
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Some twit in DC will take this action and run with it in an attempt to standardize such teaching and edict that it be taught in all goobermint schools.
God forbid that they teach the kids about the Bible.
Private education folks. And.........the state should pay for it if they are going to pay for other kids education.
I belive that a basic introduction to various religious doctrines and cultures is appropriate material for public schools. A basic introduction and nothing more though. If students want to pursue the studies further they should do it on their own or as part of continuing studies at a university level. This is what “Social Studies” is supposed to be all about.
That said, if you are going to use public money to introduce religious doctrines then all of the other major world faiths should be given equal time and access to the students and parents should be aware that this is part of the curriculum.
Hey Bob Barr...where are your buddies at the ACLU to fight this unlawful mixture of “church and state”?
Anyone have a link about this from somewhere other than WND?
Fantastic.
Our young men and women in uniform are dying, fighting the Islamist and our Government schools are allowing a terrosist connected Islamist group indoctrinate our children.
Is this a great Country or what?
I haven’t found any other news articles about this, so I called the Houston Area Pastor Council and the school district to verify the story before posting......
They should all ask for a Koran and then throw them in the toilets at the school.
No way. Equal time? Religions aren’t “equal.” Why is it that Christians, whites, et al are always expected to share “equally” but the rest aren’t?
This is a Christian nation, the majority faith here, and founded on Christian principles. No “equal time” here. Just drop the whole thing. No need to try to brainwash impressionable, young, captive minds in the schools with other religions.
Wen yure right, yure right. We gots enough lernin right here in this cuntry. Them forrin ideas don’t do nuthin but hert us. Let’s go out and bern everythin that says diffrently and attack everyone who dusnt beleeve the same things we do. We don’t want none of your stinkin supposebly ‘well-rounded’ children.
Houston PING
He's right....and I hope he doesn't give up.
This is just sickening. They're allowing this horrid religion to be rammed down these kids' throats, but mention anything relative to Christianity in one of these schools and you get the ACLU and their liberal worshipers squawking like a bunch of wet hens.
http://www.ktrh.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=121300&article=3759909
Muslim Presentation Raises Questions in Friendswood
Junior High students sat through program May 22nd.
By KTRH’s Bill O’Neal
Friday, May 30, 2008
It involved two women who we’re told showed up in muslim dress, discussing Islam with the students at Friendswood Junior High School, including an explanation of what the religion is, as well as its customs. District officials insist it was all done with the best of intentions.
“The administration at the junior high has continued to look for ways in which to teach respect and tolerance,” Karolyn Gephardt with the Friendswood Independent School District said. But Gephardt also admitted some mistakes were made.
“Exact district policy in hosting the presentation was not followed in that in the future, information prior to any presentation gets sent home, especially on cultural awareness,” Gephardt said. With such advance notice, officials said parents would be given the opportunity to ask questions about what will be discussed, or even opt their children out of the presentation altogether.
Gephardt said the presentation has generated a number of calls from parents.
“We’ve heard different things. We’ve had some show support for teaching tolerance in presenting other cultures,” Gephardt said, but quickly added, “Many parents feel they’d like to know ahead of time, and we agree with that. We want them to know ahead of time.”
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Fig orchards, satsuma orange orchards, and rice fields once flourished where Friendswood homes now stand. The last vestiges of them and the homes that the Quakers constructed are nearly gone, but the legacy left by those founders and early settlers remains. That legacy is the heritage of a way of life that did more to shape the character of the community than any brick and mortar buildings ever could.
In the spring of 1895 a Quaker named Frank Jacob Brown, who had been an adventuresome buffalo hunter, and a Quaker named Thomas Hadley Lewis, who was a college educated man, felt directed to this area of the Gulf Coast to establish a community dedicated to God. Starting Quaker colonies was a common practice of the religious sect called Quakers or Friends, as they were part of the westward movement across the nation in the middle to late 1800s. (The terms Quaker and Friends are synonymous and used interchangeably.)
When Brown and Lewis came upon this area in Northern Galveston County, they found 1,538 acres of prairie, well drained by Clear Creek, Coward's Creek, Mary's Creek, and Chigger Creek, and beautifully framed with the dense woods along the creeks. Feeling this surely was their "Promised Land," they negotiated with the owner, Galveston banker J. C. League, for a deed of trust, and on July 15, 1895 they recorded the name of the colony at the Court House in Galveston. They named it Friendswood.
Word of the colony spread among Quakers in the northern and midwest states, and soon more than a dozen families joined them. Friendswood developed as a farming community marked by hard work, simple, clean living, and a deep respect for God, the family, and education.
After the colony survived the Galveston Storm of 1900 with no loss of life, they used their sawmill to convert the swaths of trees felled by the storm into lumber for the construction of a two story building they called the Academy. It served them as church, school, and community meeting place until it was replaced by the present stone church building in 1949. The Academy (high school) operated by the Quakers offered a classical curriculum through 1928, and attracted students, in its earliest years, from surrounding towns that had no high school.
From 1895 to 1915, most of the newcomers were Quakers who came to be a part of the Quaker colony.
Education is an important part of every successful community. Friendswood lies within two premier school districts--Clear Creek ISD and Friendswood ISD. Both are rated among the best in Texas.
INTREP - Liberals are unable to resist being PC, regardless of the context!
The MSM avoids controversial stories like this...it isn’t PC to criticize!
Unbelievable. CAIR’s prestige and influence has gone UP since 9-11.
“We’ve had some show support for teaching tolerance in presenting other cultures”
Islam, when presented accurately, is about as far away from “tolerant” as it can get.
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