Justin begins his first paragraph about the Public School systems across America ramming Islamic indoctrination or propaganda into non-Muslim students while slighting the Christian heritage of America’s history. Here are some examples I found corresponding to the States mentioned in Justin’s “Islam Corrupts Public Education”:
o Florida: Common Core School Assignment FORCES Students to Make Islamic Prayer Rugs, Recite Muslim Prayers – Top Right News 3/20/15
o Minnesota: Exclusive: World’s ‘Most Dangerous Islamist’ Alive, Well, and Living in Pennsylvania – Family Security Matters 4/7/10
o California: IS ISLAMIC INDOCTRINATION BEING TAUGHT IN LA PUBLIC SCHOOLS? – Breitbart 2/2/15
o Tennessee: 'There is no God but Allah'? School accused of Islamic indoctrination – Fox News 9/10/15
JRH 10/4/15
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Islam Corrupts Public Education
By Justin O. Smith
Sent: 10/3/2015 1:54 PM
America's children are being indoctrinated in U.S. public schools, from Florida to Minnesota and California to Tennessee, through Islamic propaganda in the school's curriculum that is nothing less than political reeducation disguised as "sensitivity training". They are being sensitized into viewing Islam sympathetically and as a "religion of peace", despite all evidence to the contrary, through politically correct messages and base Islamic lies that are aimed at developing "cultural awareness" and "tolerance", regarding Muslims and Islam, and defusing the fact that Islam is a violent ideology that regularly spawns religiously motivated terrorist attacks, such as 9/11 and the Boston Bombing.
The textbooks are "white-washing" the Islamic faith. Islam is characterized as the underdog suffering injustice, while Christians and Jews are suggested to be unwilling to transcend prejudice and ill-will in order to allow Islam to have equal expression. And yet, there is not any mention of the hundreds of thousands of Christians and Jews being slaughtered and beheaded by Islamofascists across the Middle East or that the 9/11 abattoir was committed by Muslims opposed to our free exercise of religion and our pluralism and tolerance of all.
In an education climate heavily controlled by anti-Christian Progressives, atheists and the ACLU, public schools barely allow Christians to even pray, display the Ten Commandments and read the Bible on their breaks -- their own time -- even though this is protected under the First Amendment. These anti-Christian elements would never teach Christianity in the same manner, as they now teach Islam in the public schools.
With hypocrisy and double-standards on full display, public schools across the U.S. have adopted programs, such as the Islam Project, and they are blatantly violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, according to the Family Policy Network, the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) and millions of Americans. These programs promote an agenda that requires, among a long list of other inappropriate and unconstitutional items, that students learn the five pillars of Islam, recite Islamic prayers such as "all people must submit to Allah" and "there is no God but Allah" and learn that Muslims worship the same God as Christians and Jews, a base, outright lie.
In April of this year, Union Grove High school in Wisconsin gave a writing assignment "Pretend you are Muslim", and not long afterwards, Carly Gammill, an ACLJ attorney, explained to their school district officials that Islam could not be presented in this manner without breaking the law: "By requiring the students to adopt the viewpoint of a Muslim, union Grove has gone well beyond teaching 'about' religion. In fact, this advancement of the Muslim viewpoint is specifically what the Supreme Court has deemed a direct violation of the First Amendment."
In September 2015, parents in Rutherford, Williamson, Maury, Sumner and other Tennessee counties, were furious over the same sort of indoctrination tactics occurring in their schools; however, some administrators, like Rutherford County [one source 9/30/15] Superintendent Don Odom, claimed it was out of the School Board's hands and blamed the textbook publishers and the state, while others, like Wilson County Director Donna Wright, claimed no wrong was committed. Some of these administrators are simply feckless and ill-informed, and others are knowingly supporting and advancing Islam and discriminating against Christianity and Judaism, in line with the theory that the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
In a deceptive and disingenuous statement, Paul Galloway, who is a Muslim and executive director for the American Center for Outreach, said: "To learn what the first pillar is has nothing to do with indoctrination. You can't trick someone into being a Muslim."
Galloway dismisses the fact that these are children in the 6th and 7th grades, who are in their most impressionable and formative years. Any seed of knowledge must be planted with care and full and honest discussion, and in regards to one's worldview and religion, that responsibility must remain under the domain of the parents concerning the guidance of their children.
Just as Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) stated on September 8th: "There is a big difference between education and indoctrination."
Reported first by the 'Columbia Daily Herald', imagine the righteous anger that flowed from Maury County parents, such as Brandee Porterfield and Joy Ellis, when they discovered their twelve year old children were taught the Islamic conversion prayer and made to write the "Shahada" -- "There is no God but Allah; Mohammed is the Messenger of Allah." And next, they were told by Dr. Jan Hanvey that Christianity would not be covered at Spring Hill Middle School, "because Christianity is not in the school standards."
Pastor Greg Locke of Mt Juliet, TN (Wilson Co) noted that there is only "a half page of watered-down Christianity" being taught in the sixth grade, while 28 pages of Islamic curriculum are being taught. Locke and many families are highly upset "over all this new Islamic indoctrination in our school system", which they call "absolute brainwashing". Adding insult to injury, the Wilson County school system exhibited incredible insensitivity by scheduling a test on Islamic curriculum on Sept. 11th, however, the ensuing uproar in the community forced its delay.
Predictably, Christian parents across the country are also upset to find that the study guide section of 'Origins of Islam' presents as fact statements such as, "Around the age of 40, the angel Gabriel told Mohammed that he was to be a prophet of Allah."
Imagine the outcry we would hear from the soulless Progressives, atheists and Muslims, if students were told that they had to pray the Lord's Prayer, memorize the Ten Commandments, state that "Jesus is the Messiah" and fast during Lent. Even if we cannot fully or completely explain why Islam is being favored by the U.S. Board of Education and many state and local education boards, the duplicity of the public education system is apparent in regards to Islam.
State Representative Andy Holt (R-Dresden/TN) wrote in his blog: "While I can certainly understand the desire for cultural knowledge, it must never be at the cost of our cultural identity. Many of our children are not being taught the Ten Commandments in school, but instead the Five Pillars of Islam and the 'Prophet' Mohammed as a sovereign to Jesus Christ."
The pro-Islam bias and precepts towards conversion to Islam in public schools must be ended, and all those government officials, educators and superintendents responsible for this situation across America must be held accountable through more than just petitions and lawsuits. Textbook contracts can be voided on the basis of multiple factual errors. Teachers can introduce new curriculum that meets their communities' approval, with little to zero added cost. And, superintendents unable or unwilling to cooperate can be fired, defeated in special elections and impeached, their contracts ended and damn the cost: America's parents must join ranks forcefully to ensure that our children receive an honest and fact-based education __ the best possible education __ through a system built on integrity, incorrupt from exalting Islam above all other beliefs.
By Justin O. Smith
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Edited by John R. Houk
Text or links enclosed by brackets are by the Editor
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