Posted on 12/15/2015 2:15:59 PM PST by RoosterRedux
A Virginia school district is defending a classroom assignment that required students to practice calligraphy by writing the Muslim statement of faith, "There is no god but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah."
Female students at Riverheads High School in Staunton, Virginia, were also invited to wear Muslim clothing -- a story first reported by The Schilling Show.
"Neither these lessons, nor any other lesson in the world geography course, are an attempt at indoctrination to Islam or any other religion, or a request for students to renounce their own faith or profess any belief," the district said in a statement provided to Fox News.
The Muslim-friendly calligraphy assignment took place in a world geography class. The teacher had the kids copy the Muslim statement of faith, also known as the shahada.
Parents told The Schilling Show that their children were not given the translation of what they were writing.
In other words, there were more than likely a few Christian teenagers in that room who had no idea they were writing, "There is no god but Allah."
But the school district doesn't seem to think that's a problem.
"The statement presented as an example of the calligraphy was not translated for students, nor were students asked to translate it, recite it or otherwise adopt or pronounce it as a personal belief," the district stated.
They said it was all about the art--not about the theology.
"They were simply asked to attempt to artistically render written Arabic in order to understand its artistic complexity," they stated.
And out of sheer coincidence -- out of all the Arabic words and phrases the teacher could have selected, she picked the Islamic statement of faith?
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
No argument from me, but there are a whole lot of people in this country who believe that the Bible and the Koran are very similar books full of fairy tales.
Fire all the teachers and admins. Then kick their asses up and down the street l.
Yes I can.
The problem for me is that, that is too long.
I can imagine that it would take minimal effort to translate, "I believe in God, and his only Son Jesus Christ," into "Arabic" and practice calligraphy on that.
If no one can tell what it says, what difference does it make?
Yes, I am aware that there is an infinite number of subtle differences in executing Arabic calligraphy that transforms the words into art. So spare me.
The same can be done to a pork recipe...
REVOLTING!
School district needs MAJOR clean-out!
Is this for real?
If so, WTF!!???
The same education unions that have kicked God and especially Christianity all the way off school property because of “separation of church and state,” not only allows this sort of BS but mandates that students partake of it?
I fear this country is heading toward a French-style revolution eventually.
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There is no allah. I’m sure there were many mohamheads raping girls and following the satanic written words of a pedophile. That is all.
Moronic children brainwashed by lies is all islam has. Morons, ignorant and gullible.
There is no allah. I’m sure there were many mohamheads raping girls and following the satanic written words of a pedophile. That is all.
Moronic children brainwashed by lies is all islam has. Morons, ignorant and gullible.
On another (locked) thread, somebody was asking if the book this exercise was taken from could be identified. It’s from ‘World Religions: Teacher Created Resources’ by Gabriel Arquilevich.
Pinging you the details of the book the Islamic exercise was taken from
Thanks for the info. Not that I know much about the textbook publishing industry, but it looks like something of a two-bit publisher. So, maybe the use of the workbook may not be so widespread. That’s good, at least.
I took calligraphy once. I held the pen at 30 degrees and practiced writing a saying by Abraham Lincoln. How times have changed. :(
I think perhaps you misunderstood?- My point was not the students being outraged, but the ACLU and liberals being outraged if students were forced to write something like what I said- God, Jesus, Savior etc
SO WHERE ARE THE ATHEISTS SUING TRYING TO GET PRAYER OUT OF SCHOOL ???? OH YES CHRISTIANS DONT CHOP HEADS.....
SO WHERE ARE THE ATHEISTS SUING TRYING TO GET PRAYER OUT OF SCHOOL ???? OH YES CHRISTIANS DONT CHOP HEADS.....
These pro-Islam propagandists know exactly what they’re doing and they’re employing very clever trickery to shove this down the throats of unsuspecting Americans. We’re being subjected to stealth shariah.
The teacher is intentionally conflating calligraphy with Arabic, as if Arabic is the only language that can be written with calligraphy.
Not so.
In fact, calligraphy is simply the use of pretty inks and special fat and skinny brushes to hand-paint stylized lettering fonts.
You can create fonts with calligraphy brushes using any letters or numerals in any language—English, Roman, Cyrillic, etc.
And now these students can absently doodle the shahada, be enamored at the beauty of the forms, reproduce it in art class, pass it on to others.
Reminds me of the phases of (ooooh!) lighting black candles and drinking coke with aspirin -ahem- some of us went through.
Though school/teacher endorsement could take away from the cool factor.
Btw, this jibes with teacher's syllabus on website if it's for first half of year, study of world religions.
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