MUSLIMS 'PROSELYTIZING' AT U.S. SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES
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MUSLIMS 'PROSELYTIZING' AT U.S. SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES
'Effort to indoctrinate students in the name of diversity'
By World Net Daily, September 10 2018
Two Muslim organizations are suspected of proselytizing California public school students at assemblies.
The Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund dispatched a records request to the Gilroy Unified School District because of a possible constitutional violation for letting the Muslim groups indoctrinate students.
“Last year, a Muslim high school student complained to school officials she was bullied after Donald Trump got elected and that she was offended by a class assignment that included a Fox News op-ed,” the legal team explained.
“After school board members met with the student’s family, the district engaged in ‘great partnerships’ with the Islamic Networks Group (ING) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to conduct ‘Islamophobia’ presentations and lecture students at school assemblies about Islam,” the group said.
However, both the California and U.S. Constitutions prohibit the government from aiding religious sects or favoring one religious organization over another. The legal team explained courts repeatedly have ruled students suffer spiritual and psychological harm if they are exposed to religious indoctrination in a compulsive educational environment.
“When school districts allow sectarian groups to advance their agendas under the guise of ‘promoting tolerance,’ they place political correctness over the spiritual and psychological well-being of their schoolchildren,” said Daniel Piedra, FCDF’s executive director. “The First Amendment forbids CAIR’s calculated effort to indoctrinate students in the name of ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion.'”
FCDF pointed out that Nihad Awad, CAIR’s national executive director, testified that “informing the American public about the Islamic faith is a religious obligation,” and the purpose of its “Islamophobia” public school programs is to “create a religious educational environment.”
In addition, the organization said, “despite portraying itself as a mainstream Muslim organization, evidence confirms that CAIR was founded by members of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.”
“Indeed, the United Arab Emirates officially designates CAIR as a terrorist organization. CAIR is also notorious in the American Muslim community for demonizing and attacking progressive Muslim organizations that seek to work with government officials to combat Islamic radicalism in the U.S. The Anti-Defamation League has denounced CAIR for its anti-Semitic advocacy.”
The organization’s records requests seeks emails between school officials and ING and CAIR since the 2016 election.
The local Gilroy Dispatch reported the student claimed to have been bullied and became a celebrity, sitting down for interviews with the likes of National Geographic.
Shortly after Trump’s election, the Muslim student, a freshman, claimed to have first encountered bullying.”
The report said one message was pinned to her backpack that read, “I like Trump, you’re fired.”
The student’s mother was “most taken aback” by an assignment for her daughter “involving a Fox News opinion piece that linked Islam, her religion as a whole to a horrific stoning in Afghanistan.”
FCDF also is representing five San Diego families in a federal civil rights lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the San Diego Unified School District’s partnership with CAIR . The district implemented an “anti-Islamophobia initiative” that singled out Muslim students for special protections and empowered CAIR to revise school curriculum to ensure it portrays Islam in a more “inclusive” light.
FCDF also is asking Seattle’s schools for details about a similar program.
‘The true faith, Islam’
The influence of Islam in public schools has become a nationwide issue.
In May 2017, in Groesbeck, Texas, a couple moved their sixth-grade daughter to a new school after they discovered her history homework assignment on Islam.
In late March 2017, as WND reported , a middle school in Chatham, New Jersey, was using a cartoon video to teach the Five Pillars of Islam to seventh-grade students, prompting two parents to obtain legal services to fight the school district, which has ignored their concerns.
Teaching the five pillars of Islam also created an uproar in Summerville, South Carolina , and in Loganville, Georgia , last year.
WND also reported in March 2017 a high school in Frisco, Texas, set up an Islamic prayer room specifically for Muslim students to pray on campus during school hours. The same type of prayer rooms have been set up in high schools in St. Cloud, Minnesota, and other school districts.
In 2015 , parents in Tennessee asked the governor, legislature and state education department to investigate pro-Islam bias in textbooks and other materials.
WND reported in 2012 ACT for America conducted an analysis of 38 textbooks used in the sixth through 12th grades in public schools and found that since the 1990s, discussions of Islam are taking up more and more pages, while the space devoted to Judaism and Christianity has simultaneously decreased.
In 2009, Gilbert T. Sewall, director of the American Textbook Council, a group that reviews history books, told Fox News the texts were “whitewashing” Islamic extremism and key subjects such as jihad, Islamic law and the status of women.
Also in 2009, WND reported the middle school textbook “History Alive! The Medieval World and Beyond,” published by Teachers’ Curriculum Institute, said an Islamic “jihad” is an effort by Muslims to convince “others to take up worthy causes, such as funding medical research.”
In 2006, WND reported a school in Oregon taught Islam by having students study and learn Muslim prayers and dress as Muslims.
WND reported in 2003 a prominent Muslim leader who eventually was convicted on terror-related charges helped write the “Religious Expression in Public Schools” guidelines issued by President Bill Clinton.
In 2001, shortly after the 9/11 attacks, seventh graders in Byron, California, were taught a three-week course on Islam that required them to learn 25 Islamic terms, 20 proverbs, Islam’s Five Pillars of Faith, 10 key Islamic prophets and disciples, recite from the Quran, wear a robe during class, adopt a Muslim name and stage their own “holy war” in a dice game.
Parents went to court to uphold their right to reject the class for their children, but a federal judge ruled against them , and in 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider their appeal.
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Small steps.....not quite as forceful as 9/11.
CAIR is much the same as the ADL, a civil rights advocacy group for a persecuted minority. Why aren't you whining about the latter group too?
Apart from the various references to World Nut Daily and other discredited sources like the FCDF hate group, the essence of the seed seems to be that a school district reached out to CAIR for advice on how to reduce Islamophobia in their schools after a Muslim student was bullied. What exactly do you object to about that? Note that the ADL does the same thing in regard to education about antisemitism.
"The aim of education should be to teach the child how to think, not what to think." (John Dewey)
So......is your objection that the school district has an anti-bullying policy which protects both Muslim and Jewish students?
I'm trying hard to see what you consider newsworthy here, Buzz, apart from the fact that an Islamophobic rag like World Nut Daily is freaked out and a hate group is involved too.
Yeah, that's complete BS. You might want to inform yourself on that issue without relying on the loony right wing sources Buzz used.
Please do us a favour and post proof that the fact that CAIR leaders were convicted of terror-related crimes is false. Then maybe I would feel that such people could lecture to children about how innocent and peaceful RADICAL ISLAM is, especially around the time of a 9/11 anniversary.
Sorry Buzz but the US government doesn't consider CAIR a terrorist organization. It's merely a civil rights advocacy group which performs the exact same kind of work as the ADL.
Or are you now going to claim that the ADL is a terrorist organization because some of its members once knew someone in the Ergun terrorist group which bombed the King David hotel?
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It sounds like your real agenda with this seed is to somehow justify the bullying of Muslim students AND try to smear CAIR at the same time. I'm not sure how you thought that was going to work.......maybe you neglected to actually read the underlying article in the Gilmore Dispatch?
Maybe because its leaders have not been convicted of terror-related crimes.
CAIR is an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood and also supports Hamas and Hezbollah
islam is a political ideology that opposes all of non Muslim civilization and has done so since its inception
Neither have CAIR's, so at best you're smearing a civil rights group because you hate Muslims. Is there more to your agenda than that?
False on all counts. I presume yours are intentional falsehoods?
Did you happen to forget the Crusades, the Inquisition, among many other actions by Christians against non-Christians and even between various sects? Almost all theistic religions have political goals and they naturally oppose other religions. The Abrahamic religions have all been very bloody in their pursuit of power.
Preventing any and all religions from gaining control of political power is the reason why we have the strict separation of church and state in the 1st Amendment so that we can have a stable government and religious and secular freedom for all people and not just those of the majority sect.
I agree but, I must add this to it, was the teacher she had who put the FOX News Op-Ed in her homework trying to tell her and, her fellow students what to think?
Apparently, the Op-Ed was anti-Muslim if it offended her and, since she was bullied after Trump was elected, as her parent I would have been worried that with the class assignment she might have been further bullied by the students and, the teacher in the class. Would you be offended Buzz if the teacher had presented an assignment that dealt with a alt-right group saying that the Holocaust was a hoax? I think you would Buzz. Perspective is a good thing.
Indeed it was. This is from the original reporting in the Gilroy Dispatch (before is was mangled by Buzz and World Nut Daily):
Yes, I would have been offended. That was a matter that required the teacher to be disciplined. CAIR was not needed for that purpose.
I'm getting awful tired of that libel. I've made it clear many times over that I only am concerned about RADICAL ISLAM and RADICAL MUSLIMS but you keep slandering me. In fact if I could support Muslims like Dr. Jasser I would.
I guess because you hide behind a pseudonym you feel you can libel and slander whoever you want.
That's not libel, Buzz. It's your own words which condemn you.
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Yeah, right. ROFLMAO. THe underlying story is about a schoolgirl who was bullied because she's Muslim, yet somehow you and your "news" sources have twisted that into something else entirely.......even the very title of this seed is bogus and has nothing to do with the underlying facts.
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I have noticed that some schools these days don't discipline teachers who assign such homework as is described in your story, the school doesn't see how it could offend anyone, yet, it does often offend, just like the example I gave and, the school won't or, can't discipline the teacher for such an action. Many decades ago it might have been possible for a teacher to get away with denying the holocaust in a classroom and, not received any disciplinary action from the school, especially in the south, without some one speaking out like CAIR did here.
What's good for the (Christian, Hebrew) Goose is Good for the (Islamic) Gander, no?
Not to people with irrational hatred of all things Islam.
And Christians only have themselves to blame.
I don't like it, but if Christians are permitted to evangelize to students on public school property then other religions get to do the very same. This action why we need a strict separation of church and state for all religions and not a version that gives Christians just a few more rights than everyone else, despite the majority paying lip service to equal religious rights for all.
A public school is not a place for mythology or religious brainwashing. Let them knock on doors or rant on street corners like the other sky fairy believers.
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Or, like the saying goes: 'Don't pray in our schools and we won't think in your church.' One of my favorites!
I can see the headline now, "High School Football Team Prays To Allah Before Game, Crowd Furious". The Coach rolls out several prayer rugs on the field and the players kneel facing east as the crowd starts to go nuts.
The easy answer, of course, is to just keep all religion out of our public schools. Kids will never be prevented from bowing their heads in a moment of silent prayer whenever they want, but we don't need all the other ways religion is injected into the curriculum, from Muslim teachers having calligraphy students practicing scriptures from the Koran to art teachers assigning Christmas, Easter or Halloween art projects and music or drama teachers putting on Christmas shows or plays. But Christians will never accept true religious equality, they want religious freedom for their religion, freedom to get preferential treatment over other religions they deem "evil", "wicked" or "false".
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Keep all religion out of public schools as per the Establishment Clauses separation of church and state. Everyone has their religious rights in private but public institutions are to be a neutral zone on religion in the US. Pray before the game or do it privately but you can't involve others or taxpayer money in your religious beliefs. The fact that prayer is illogical, even by religious belief should be understood by all.
Fair is fair after all. Allow one mythology, gotta allow them all.
I hope that I am still alive when logic becomes a proven vaccine for religious belief. Given the current situation, there will still be groups of idiotic anti-vaxxers ranting on Facebook.
This being a relatively controversial topic, since I will be turning my computer off for the night in a few minutes, this article will be locked for the next 10 or 11 hours.
This article is now unlocked and open for civil comments.
Freedom of religion.
Freedom FROM religion.
Does that apply to Christianity as well? The first amendment protects ALL religions EQUALLY.
In my opinion, it should. Teaching religion should be restricted to university level. When I went to school there was never a lecture or a class or a homework project in any religion. One course I took in university was Comparative Religions, and at that level of maturity I was not indoctrinated into any particular faith. Leave the religion to the home and place of worship while children are mentally and emotionally vulnerable. I thought it was required by your First Amendment.
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Like Christians, Muslims need to fuck off when it comes to jerking themselves off in public.
Of course that wasn't the issue here at all. Buzz's seed is fundamentally dishonest and Islamophobic, and it even cites an anti-LGBT hate group as credible. CAIR's only role here was to help address Islamophobia in the school district.
The link to the Gilroy Dispatch article shows what it really was all about:
Why is it necessary to teach the shahida and ANY religious doctrines for the purpose of combating Islamophobia? Especially when that is contrary to the 1st Amendment (and you are familiar with the Establishment legislation - how is teaching a specific religion in compliance?)
Why don't you read the Gilroy Dispatch article and learn what the issue really was rather than using NT to post Islamophobic crap from hate groups and World Nut Daily?
You're part of the problem, Buzz. You're definitely not part of the solution.
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Stop Islamization of America, also known as the American Freedom Defense Initiative, is an anti-Muslim, pro-Israel American organization known primarily for its controversial, Islamophobic advertising campaigns. The group has been described as extremist and far-right. The Southern Poverty Law Center lists SIOA as an anti-Muslim hate group. SIOA was founded in 2010 by its current leaders, Pamela Geller and author Robert Spencer, …
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Maybe you can try to justify your use of hate groups and Islamophobic nuts as credible sources for your seeds?
Or at the very least try to explain what your Islamophobic views have to do with the bullying of schoolchildren? (here's a hint......your views are the underlying problem).
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Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller are not mainstream sources, they are among the 3 or 4 most anti-Muslim media personalities in America. Just because you like what they have to say does not make them acceptable sources.
This is what the media checking source that Perrie uses says about Robert Spencer's website Jihad Watch
A questionable source exhibits any of the following: extreme bias, overt propaganda, poor or no sourcing to credible information and/or is fake news. Fake News is the deliberate attempt to publish hoaxes and/or disinformation for the purpose of profit or influence ( Learn More ). Sources listed in the Questionable Category may be very untrustworthy and should be fact checked on a per article basis. See all Questionable sources.
Bias: Extreme Right, Propaganda, Conspiracy, Hate Group
Notes: Jihad Watch is a blog affiliated with the David Horowitz Freedom Center , run by blogger Robert Spencer, it has been described as one of the main homes of the anti-Islamic Counter-jihad movement on the internet. It has been repeatedly criticized by numerous academics who believe that it promotes an Islamophobic worldview and conspiracy theories. (10/21/2016)
I really don't care, religion in general needs to fuck off in public schools. Christians, Muslims, Jews, or fucking martians, all need to kiss their own asses in private.
Martians?? Why are you lumping Martians in with delusional godders? Also, there is a very plausible theory that life on earth began on Mars which would make us all Martians...
After 10 pm where I am and I will be turning the computer off for the night, so this seed will be locked. It will NOT be re-opened for two reasons. First, it became a pain in the ass to moderate - there's enough purple ink on the comments to drown an elephant. Secondly, instead of just discussing the seed, the members saw fit to spend their time attacking the seeder, as the purple ink indicates. So as Nixon said on his way out the door, you're not going to have me to kick around any more.
Why don't you instead read the seed I posted that is Dr. Jasser's essay on the Reform Islam Movement? Although he's a devout Muslim, you can call HIM an Islamophobe because he disparages radical Islamists, Extremist Fundamentalist Muslims and Jihadi terrorists just like I do. CAIR doesn't like him, just as they most likely don't like Ayaan Ali Hirsi.