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.