Wednesday, October 20, 2004

What Happen to Seperation of Church and State?

Public Schools have been pushing to keep the Bible and Christianity out their schools for a long time, but now the Herndon, Virginia School system is pushing Islam on it's students.
Coming soon to an elementary school near you: mandatory indoctrination in Islamic customs and practices. According to The Kansas City Star, third-, fourth- and fifth-graders in Herndon, Virginia, are to be given lessons in the three Rs: Reading, ‘Riting, and Ramadan. During this instruction, public school children will play act being Muslims, and, perhaps unwittingly, convert to Islam.

Pupils from a nearby Muslim school will visit classes in the town’s public schools to educate their counterparts in Islam. They will be accompanied by something called “a multicultural trainer” named Afeefa Syeed.

In Herndon, during this month of Ramadan (which began Friday), there will be explanations of the fasting month and “role-playing” that requires students to recite Muslim sacred words and imitate their prayer practices. However, whether the speaker understands what he is saying or not, one is considered to have converted to Islam if he confesses a belief in Allah – and this conversion is considered irrevocable. The penalty for apostasy (and much else, from adultery, to homosexuality, to dating anyone in the Islamic world aside from the intended partner of arranged marriages, often made between first cousins) is death.

Multicultural trainer Syeed explains, “For teachers and administrators, as well as fellow students, explaining Ramadan helps the school accommodate the religious requirements of the holiday.” Why American children should be strong-armed into imposing “the religious requirements of the holiday” for proselytizing Muslims isn’t addressed. Neither do authorities explain why Islamic prayers have suddenly become part of the curriculum for children attending American public (e.g., non-sectarian) schools, while discussions of Christianity are ruled off limits.

Oh, I get it, Islam is OK to teach children, but Christianity is not. All in the name of "Tolerance". What a load of Camel Dung. The hypocracy of this is too much to comprehend, there is no logic to it. Where is the outrage by the ACLU and the MSM? If I were a parent in Herndon, I'd be at the school and school board faster than you can say 72 virgins. I thank my Judeo-Christian G-d that my kids are not in school any more, because what they are teaching them and not teaching them is perverted and Un-American.

Mr Minority