Teaching Johnny About Islam 22 May 2006

 

Education: In our brave new schools, Johnny can't say

the pledge, but he can recite the Quran. Yup, the same

court that found the phrase "under God" unconstitutional

now endorses Islamic catechism in public school.

 

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In a recent federal decision that got surprisingly little press,

even from conservative talk radio, California's 9th U.S. Circuit

Court of Appeals ruled it's OK to put public-school kids

Through Muslim role-playing exercises, including:

Reciting aloud Muslim prayers that begin with "In the name of

Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful . . . ."

Memorizing the Muslim profession of faith: "Allah is the only

true God and Muhammad is his messenger."

Chanting "Praise be to Allah" in response to teacher prompts.

Professing as "true" the Muslim belief that "The Holy Quran is God's word."

Giving up candy and TV to demonstrate Ramadan, the Muslim

holy month of fasting.

Designing prayer rugs, taking an Arabic name and essentially

"becoming a Muslim" for two full weeks.

Parents of seventh-grader's, who after 9-11 were taught the pro-Islamic

lessons as part of California's world history curriculum, sued

under the First Amendment ban on religious establishment. They

argued, reasonably, that the government was promoting Islam.

But a federal judge appointed by President Clinton told them in so

many words to get over it, that the state was merely teaching kids

about another "culture."

 

So the parents appealed. Unfortunately, the most left-wing court

in the land got their case.The9th Circuit, which previously ruled in

favor of an atheist who filed suit against the words "under God" in

the Pledge of Allegiance, upheld the lower court ruling.

 

 

The decision is a major victory for the multiculturalists and Islamic

apologists in California and across the country who've never met

a culture or religion they didn't like&emdash;with the exception of Western

civilization and Christianity. They are legally in the clear to indoctrinate

kids into the "peaceful" and "tolerant" religion of Islam,

while continuing to denigrate Judeo-Christian values.

 

 

In the California course on world religions, Christianity is not presented

equally. It's covered in just two days and doesn't involve kids

in any role-playing activities. But kids do get a good dose of skepticism about

the Christian faith, including a biting history of its persecution

of other peoples. In contrast, Islam gets a pass from critical

review. Even jihad is presented as an "internal personal struggle to

doone's best to resist temptation," and not holy war.

 

 

The ed consultant's name is Susan L. Douglass. No, she's not a

Christian scholar. She's a devout Muslim activist on the Saudi government

payroll, according to an investigation by Paul Sperry, author

of "Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated

Washington. "He found that for years Douglass taught social

studies at the Islamic Saudi Academy just outside Washington, D.C.

Her husband still teaches there.

 

 

So what? By infiltrating our public school system, the Saudis hope

to make Islam more widely accepted while converting impressionable

American youth to their radical cause. Recall that John Walker

Lindh, the "American Taliban," was a product of the California

school system. What's next, field trips to Mecca?

 

 

This case is critical not just to our culture but our national security.

It should be brought before the Supreme Court, which has outlawed

prayer in school. Let's see what it says about practicing Islam

in class. It will be a good test for the bench's two new conservative

justices.

 

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