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Schadow
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 Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 1:59 pm Post subject: Teaching Johnny About Islam |
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Investor's Business Daily on Friday carried this story about the effect of the radical U.S. Ninth Circus Court of Repeals on the education of California's school children:
| Quote: | Teaching Johnny About Islam
Posted 5/19/2006
Education: In our brave new schools, Johnny can't say the pledge, but he can recite the Quran. Yup, the same court that found the phrase "under God" unconstitutional now endorses Islamic catechism in public school.
In a recent federal decision that got surprisingly little press, even from conservative talk radio, California's 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled it's OK to put public-school kids through Muslim role-playing exercises, including:
Reciting aloud Muslim prayers that begin with "In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful . . . ."
Memorizing the Muslim profession of faith: "Allah is the only true God and Muhammad is his messenger."
Chanting "Praise be to Allah" in response to teacher prompts.
Professing as "true" the Muslim belief that "The Holy Quran is God's word."
Giving up candy and TV to demonstrate Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting.
Designing prayer rugs, taking an Arabic name and essentially "becoming a Muslim" for two full weeks.
Parents of seventh-graders, who after 9-11 were taught the pro-Islamic lessons as part of California's world history curriculum, sued under the First Amendment ban on religious establishment. They argued, reasonably, that the government was promoting Islam.
But a federal judge appointed by President Clinton told them in so many words to get over it, that the state was merely teaching kids about another "culture."
So the parents appealed. Unfortunately, the most left-wing court in the land got their case. The 9th Circuit, which previously ruled in favor of an atheist who filed suit against the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, upheld the lower court ruling.
The decision is a major victory for the multiculturalists and Islamic apologists in California and across the country who've never met a culture or religion they didn't like — with the exception of Western civilization and Christianity. They are legally in the clear to indoctrinate kids into the "peaceful" and "tolerant" religion of Islam, while continuing to denigrate Judeo-Christian values.
In the California course on world religions, Christianity is not presented equally. It's covered in just two days and doesn't involve kids in any role-playing activities. But kids do get a good dose of skepticism about the Christian faith, including a biting history of its persecution of other peoples. In contrast, Islam gets a pass from critical review. Even jihad is presented as an "internal personal struggle to do one's best to resist temptation," and not holy war.
The ed consultant's name is Susan L. Douglass. No, she's not a Christian scholar. She's a devout Muslim activist on the Saudi government payroll, according to an investigation by Paul Sperry, author of "Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington." He found that for years Douglass taught social studies at the Islamic Saudi Academy just outside Washington, D.C. Her husband still teaches there.
So what? By infiltrating our public school system, the Saudis hope to make Islam more widely accepted while converting impressionable American youth to their radical cause. Recall that John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban," was a product of the California school system. What's next, field trips to Mecca?
This case is critical not just to our culture but our national security. It should be brought before the Supreme Court, which has outlawed prayer in school. Let's see what it says about practicing Islam in class. It will be a good test for the bench's two new conservative justices. |
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Words fail me. The Supremes will surely get this case eventually but isn't it a shame that good people must spend good money on lawyers to try to correct the insanity of this insufferable appeals court?
Schadow
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dusty
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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I'm speechless on this one too Schadow. My brain won't process the words I"m reading into rational understanding sometimes lately.
Instead of the 'Majority Rules' concept, I grew up with we now have 'Insanity Rules'.
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Anker-Klanker
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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| The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is deservedly infamous. It's almost as if this Court thinks it is the Supreme Court of some other country (and culture). As long as it continues with its present make-up, it will continue to be the court-of-choice for every lunatic, progressive liberal, secterian cause in the country. What I just can't understand is how it happened, i.e., how did our Constitutional Judicial system not forsee how to remedy something so obviously out of balance - a court that, I think, really doesn't see itself as governed by the Constitution. |
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DADESID
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Anker-Klanker wrote: | | The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is deservedly infamous. It's almost as if this Court thinks it is the Supreme Court of some other country (and culture). As long as it continues with its present make-up, it will continue to be the court-of-choice for every lunatic, progressive liberal, secterian cause in the country. What I just can't understand is how it happened, i.e., how did our Constitutional Judicial system not forsee how to remedy something so obviously out of balance - a court that, I think, really doesn't see itself as governed by the Constitution. |
To be fair, there are a few decent judges on the 9th CCA. They are just outnumbered by radicals.
Diarmuid O'Scannlain, Alex Kozinski, and Robert Gould are conscientious and fair. They are just outnumbered. |
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| DADESID wrote: | | Anker-Klanker wrote: | | The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is deservedly infamous. It's almost as if this Court thinks it is the Supreme Court of some other country (and culture). As long as it continues with its present make-up, it will continue to be the court-of-choice for every lunatic, progressive liberal, secterian cause in the country. What I just can't understand is how it happened, i.e., how did our Constitutional Judicial system not forsee how to remedy something so obviously out of balance - a court that, I think, really doesn't see itself as governed by the Constitution. |
To be fair, there are a few decent judges on the 9th CCA. They are just outnumbered by radicals.
Diarmuid O'Scannlain, Alex Kozinski, and Robert Gould are conscientious and fair. They are just outnumbered. |
the others never had a beatin' in their life. |
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Deuce
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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and parents of these social guinea pigs (ie, school kids) with lotsa vacation time really should institute an annual 2 week vacation during Mexifornia's annual 2 week IslamoIndoctrination to do some 'multicultural' training of their own...outside the school of course. Leaving kids to these kind of teachers is a crime in itself.
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fortdixlover
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| Anker-Klanker wrote: | | The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is deservedly infamous. It's almost as if this Court thinks it is the Supreme Court of some other country (and culture). |
People: it's both simpler and far more insidious than it looks.
When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras or unicorns.
This court and leftists like this are deliberately taking actions to destroy this country, Christianity and the Judeo-Christian tradition to help bring in their 'secular utopia' where they can then live their amoral lives unmolested. I'm not joking or making this up. That is their agenda.
They think that once western culture falls, they'll take care of Islam too.
Very bad assumption on their part.
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Schadow
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I'm shocked. Shocked that the ACLU did not take up the cause of the parents involved. After all, the schools' actions were in clear violation of the ACLU's most cherished cause, the prohibition of religious study or teaching on government premises.
Oh, I forgot, the ACLU's zeal is focussed only on the prevention of Judeo-Christian teachings. Silly me.
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DLI78
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Crap. I live in California. Anybody out there know how to say "Allah be praised" in Spanish?
I guess I'll have to buy another couple of guns and move to Arizona or something.
 
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