Check out the founder of ACT! for America, Brigitte Gabriel, at an anti-Shariah conference.in Nashville.
Pay attention. Is there a 3-week course on Islam taught in your seventh grade? Must your kids take an Islamic name and study jihad to get a good grade? Are there any schools in McHenry County following this format?
Click here and sit forward for 14 minutes. Stick with her to the end. No more Italian-Americans. No more African-Americans. We are all Americans. And, she says, English is the language of the United States!
As Joyce Shaffer says, "If you don't like it here, let us help you pack."
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Well, back in TMB's day as a high school student, you had a choice of Spanish or French, or both; but English Lit and Comp were REQUIRED.
Back then, the world was alot "bigger", and now that the world is "smaller", giving OPTIONS for Islam, Chinese, etc is not a bad thing. But for languages and cultures outside of English/American to be required is nuts.
You should hear my arabic after a couple of 40 ouncers! DOH!
Lalalalalalalalalalala.... jihaaaaad!
The course Ms. Gabriel cites has “Islam” in its title. “Islam” is a religion, not a culture. A culture can be taught, but a religion cannot. This culture is ARAB, and while informed by Islam precepts, it should be taught as an Arab culture – and not as a religion – if at all.
Just as with Judaism – there is Jewish CULTURE, as is informed by Judaism, yet Jewish religion is not taught in the schools.
And the same with the “West”. While the Western CULTURE is influenced generally by Christian thought, Christianity cannot be taught in the public schools either.
So why is it that it’s OK to teach “Islam”? Islam is a religion – not a culture.
I’m unaware of such classes taking place in McHenry County, but it’s a good bet it’s happening in DuPage County.
And there’s nothing wrong with a school district honoring and recognizing faith-based and cultural community norms. Buffalo Grove High School in District 214 has a large population of Jewish students. At one time, its calendar and scheduled activities were engineered in order to recognize and not clash with significant dates of faith. Not in support of Judaism, but in support of those students whose faith would otherwise preclude them from public school activities that should be able to be enjoyed by all students.
I see nothing wrong with a District organizing or scheduling its activities to accommodate or “work around” students’ and their families’ faiths. Each community is different, and should be served. But it’s entirely another to indoctrinate. As an example, I see no reason not to provide “Kosher” or “Hallal” cafeteria meals, but at the same time, you shouldn’t force ALL students to forego pork chops either, or be compelled to engage in fasts that are not part of their own faiths. As an example – yes, provide a fish alternative on Fridays for Catholics, but include a cheeseburger too, OK?
It’s not up to the District or the taxpayer to enforce your religious precepts for your own children, it’s up to your children to recognize, value and obey those precepts YOU as parents should inculcate on your li’l darlin’s. Unless you wish to place your kids in private schools.
I also think middle school students are ill served by religion courses generally. As a Catholic High School upperclassman, I was offered “comparative religion” course(s). And for myself, I felt that was a far more appropriate time in order to investigate, learn and compare.
In drilling down younger and younger, and actually proselytizing in the public schools, our “educators” are perpretating a VAST disservice to those parents who have an absolute right to take care of their child’s moral and religious teaching, direction and up-bringing.
All kinds of moral, civil and religious right are being entirely shredded by this type of instruction, particularly at so young an age. Face it people, the “establishment” wants to decide who it is your child will become. You no longer have any say in the matter.
Oh, but wait! The Constitution says you do! Get involved!
I have to say that I doubt there is a three-week course being dedicated to any one topic. Three weeks is a big chunk of the school calendar, and honestly, I don't recal (or am aware of) any one subject consuming more than a day or two if most. Recently, I looked at my neices high school biology book, and evolution is all of one chapter, covered in 2 classes and 1 test...yet these fear based and fact challenged organizations like ACT! Would make you think they spend the entire class learning evolution.
MBlue -
Depends on which District your neices are enrolled in.
Just because it may not be happening "here", as far as you can observe, DOES NOT mean it's not happening elsewhere.
And as you yourself mention, you have your neices' HIGH SCHOOL curiculum before you.
This video and posting by Gus concerns MIDDLE SCHOOL curriculum.
About a decade ago, when I used to pick up my nephews from school, their MIDDLE SCHOOL curriculum, lacking an Islamic component, was heavily invested in the precepts of "Gaia".
The younger nephew was very upset one day. After questioning him, he informed me that he was so scared, because as he was being indoctrinated in the classroom as regards "Green Religion"; it was only a matter of weeks or months before "we were all going to die".
Now, in some Districts, unless we all fully embrace "Islam", once again; we're all going to die. At least in this case, "we're all going to die" on the altar of Islam, rather than that of Al Gore.
When I was in grade school, I remember a lot of my classmates being hysterical and in tears that the world was coming to an end after every atomic bomb disaster drill! Out of curiosity, what class was this "fear of" or "must convert or die" of Islam being taught? I seem to recall at some point in junior high or high school we had a unit on other cultures, which by necessity included Islamic/Muslim culture/Jewish culture and Hindu and other eastern cultures and religions.
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