Posted on 02/19/2009 6:58:12 PM PST by Coleus
Read the U.S. Department of Education guidelines on prayer in schools * The guidelines state: "Students may pray when not engaged in school activities or instruction, subject to the same rules designed to prevent material disruption of the educational program that are applied to other privately initiated expressive activities.''
Many school districts in NJ and the USA are making accommodations for some religions and not others. As you can see in the article districts are helping out. In some NJ school districts they are now closing for El Eid and Ramadan and listing the religious holiday by name, you don't see that with Christmas. The word Christmas is replaced by Winter or Holiday and remember, Christmas is a Federal Holiday and by law it should be listed as such because a school district is a public entity. And just don't dress as Jesus for Halloween or bring in a Bible or pray before school starts or before meals, you will be told not to. Is it OK to say Christmas? No way! It's Holidays or Winter Recess, no more Christmas break. Check the Calendar, for Christmas; it's called Holiday Recess
Boy Sent Home From School For Dressing As Jesus (For Halloween)
In font of a Urinal would be good.
Try mecca.
Bigotry towards Christians and pandering to Islam. Sickening.
It is “unconstitutional” to pray in school in America. Didn’t these idiots get the memo?
The reason that muslims get away with this and Christians don’t is because Christians aren’t pushy. And they won’t lop off your head.
Is he praying for our muslim president? For the end of the Great Satan?
If it's that important to them, a move back to Jordan would be the way to go.
Adam Awwad can use a restroom stall for all the privacy he needs to get Allah out of his sytem. He just shouldn’t leave the door open.
I’ve seen muslims who live in islamic states just move off to the side and pray where ever they are... they didn’t need a private room or a place for ritual washing.
Dear Mrs. Awwad:
One the reasons people leave places like your former home is because the religion there has failed to make accommodations to modern times. This country is what it is because Christians, Jews and others have accommodated their faiths, without compromising their principles, to the realities of public education and public and private employment. You and your fellow believers need to seriously decide what to do: accommodate to this nation or go back home and accept all the disagreeable parts of living in a nation which accommodated itself to a medival religion.
Your choices are: open a private school, get a ruling from whatever authority you accept that schooltime and worktime prayers can be performed without being on the floor on a rug, allow prayers to pray five times a day but let them shift the times to accommodate their needs. Your faith is the one which needs to accommodate to modernity, not the other way around.
Sincerely,
Someone who prays daily on her own time
Does Little Awwad have a butcher knife?
What a bummer.
Poor Awwad cant pray ... or stone other children... poor kid
That was a good post. Too bad you are infidel and she won’t be able to read it.
Back in whatever hellhole he came out of.
In fact, give him the same privileges as Christians. Which is bupkiss.
Then why don’t you go back to your own country. I bet there are plenty of places to pray there.
Geez these cute little muslim kids.
They blow up so quickly.
Screw the little devil worshipper.
Go home.
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