I'm not joking.
(2005 WorldNetDaily.com) Parents and children challenging a California school district for its practice of teaching 12-year-old students to "become Muslims" are asking a federal appeals court to reconsider its ruling in front of the entire panel of judges.The article then goes on to say:
As WND reported, the lawsuit was filed by the Thomas More Law Center against the Byron Union School District and various school officials to stop the "Islam simulation" materials and methods used in the Excelsior Elementary School in Byron, Calif.
A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit – widely regarded as the nation's most liberal federal appeals court– upheld a San Francisco federal district court's ruling that the Byron Union School District did not violate the U.S. Constitution.
Edward L. White III, trial counsel with the Law Center, says parents were never told about the Islamic program and didn't know they had the option to remove their children from such an activity.
White says one of the parents found out by accident, looking through her son's schoolbag after the program had finished.
The Law Center says that for three weeks, "impressionable 12-year-old students" were, among other things, placed into Islamic city groups; took Islamic names; wore identification tags that displayed their new Islamic name and the star and crescent moon; handed materials that instructed them to 'Remember Allah always so that you may prosper'; completed the Islamic Five Pillars of Faith, including fasting; and memorized and recited the 'Bismillah' or 'In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate,' which students also wrote on banners hung on the classroom walls.
Students also played "jihad games" during the course, which was part of the school's world history and geography program.
Can you imagine the uproar if the school forced students to use rosary, read gospel or get baptized? How about making them practice Jewish dietary laws and recite the required daily prayers?
I say, Liberalism is clearly a religion and must be banned from the public sector under the separation clause.
5 comments:
sounds like it is straight out of the humanist manifesto - although they contradict themselves - they are a religion and state so. i watched an old debate the other night with one of the secular humanists (cannot remember his name) and dr. norman geisler (a christian apologist) and geisler tore him a new one, so much so that i believe they have rewritten the manifesto since then.
why parents are not outraged is beyond me. but then again, most parents these days are happy to have a television, handheld game, computer or other electronic device tending to their children than good old interaction.
we have no one to thank but ourselves. all you who are parents, get into and stay in your kid's business - they'll appreciate you far more than the day they have to leave home to a minimum wage job and wonder who's going to buy their next ps2 game.
No suprise coming from the same idiots that wanted to teach ebonics as legitimate dialect.
A perfect case in point why govt employee unions should be outlawed.
indeed, jan v!
makes me doubt the retention of public schools. maybe these kinds of things will promote the voucher program and home schooling.
hopefully, bob.
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