Pray to Allah in Class or Get Detention
by David J. Rusin
Wed, 9 Jul 2008 at 11:54 AM
islamist-watch.org/blog/2008/07/pray-to-allah-in-class-or-get-detention.html
Two boys were re****tedly given detention last week
after they refused to pray to Allah during a religious
education class at a school in Che****re, England.
Parents are livid over the "practical demonstration"
of how Muslims wor****p and the discipline meted
out to the youngsters:
One, Sharon Luinen, said: "This isn't right, it's
taking things too far. I understand that they have to
learn about other religions. I can live with that but
it is taking it a step too far to be punished because
they wouldn't join in Muslim prayer.
"Making them pray to Allah, who isn't who they
wor****p, is wrong and what got me is that they
were told they were being disrespectful."
Another parent Karen Williams, 38, whose
12-year-old daughter is a classmate of the boys,
said: "I am absolutely furious my daughter was
made to take part in it and I don't find it acceptable."
Following a short film, the teacher inquired whether
any students had water. Upon procuring a bottle from
one of them, she washed her feet as Muslims do. She
then removed prayer mats from a cupboard and had
the students don Islamic headgear before asking them
to kneel.
This incident is just the latest case of Islamic culture
and religious rituals being incor****ated into public
school lessons. Examples include
"faith-based role-playing" and recitation of Islamic
prayers at a California school; a primary school in
Britain ordering both teachers and pupils to live as
Muslims for a day and wear ethnic garb; and students
in New Hamp****re creating a "Saudi Arabian
Bedouin tent community" ‹ complete with gender
segregation.
The Islamist agenda appears in other forms as well.
During a recent assembly led by the local chapter of
the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Texas
junior high school students were taught that "Allah
is God for all human beings" and that both the Torah
and Gospels are "books of Allah." Moreover,
textbooks frequently present sanitized versions of
Islam; one text commonly used in California schools
describes jihad as Muslims working to "protect
themselves from harm" and to "convince others to
take up worthy causes."
Worse, several U.S. public schools function as de
facto Islamic institutions. The Tarek ibn Ziyad
Academy, a taxpayer-funded charter school in
Minnesota, features halal food, Ramadan fasting,
and prayer assemblies. In addition, the Khalil
Gibran International Academy in Brooklyn, New
York, has come under fire for its distinctly Islamic
outlook and dubious administrators.
Thus concludes today's lesson on how Islamists and
multiculturalists will stop at nothing to drill their
worldview into the minds of children. Our homework
is to thwart their aims at every turn.
€€ One must wonder if and when it will be Judaism's turn.
|
