There is nothing wrong with students learning about Islam in school. The problem is that because of influence from pressure groups such as the Council on Islamic Education, public school textbooks are for the most part heavily biased, with scarcely a critical word about Islam, Muhammad depicted as a cross between Gandhi and Fred McMurray in My Three Sons, no mention of jihad or dhimmitude, and harsh criticism of Christianity.
“Marine Dad Banned From School After Complaining About Islam Assignment,” Fox News, October 29, 2014 (thanks to S.B.):
A Marine Corps father has been banned from his daughter’s school after he complained about her homework assignment on Islam.
Kevin Wood said his 11th grade daughter was asked to write a three-page essay about Islam’s five pillars, Mecca and Mohammed at La Plata High School in Maryland.
He argued that students can’t study Christianity in schools “but we can force-feed our kids Islam.”
Wood asked the school to give his daughter an alternate assignment, but officials refused and defended the subject matter.
“We’re not teaching religion, we’re teaching world history,” school spokesperson Katie O’Malley-Simpson said. She also alleges that Wood was threatening to cause a disruption, which is why they banned him from school property….
Steakman says
We’re not teaching religion we’re teaching History…Really.??
I would call that propaganda…and classic Left wing appeasement…if it were my daughter, time to pull her out of that indoctrination centre…
The smug arrogance of the Left eh.?
Salah says
“if it were my daughter, time to pull her out of that indoctrination centre…”
Why not get organized? why not a general strike? we need to stand up to these jihad enablers, we can’t just sit back and watch.
bindon blood says
If they want to teach history then they should be teaching some of the facts; dhimmitude. slaughter of millions of Christians,Jews,Zoroastrians,Hindus etc.,enslavement of millions from all over the world, Piracy and kidnap by the Barbary pirates,institutional ill treatment of women.That should keep them busy for a few months at least;and the children will learn the truth.
bindon blood says
Isn’t it strange that the left seems to have invaded and captured the educational establishments in the USA and Britain and parts of Europe at the same time and with the same agenda? It makes me think the whole sorry mess was planned and co-ordinated.
chase says
Yes the whole sorry mess is most likely planned, along with everything else that has occured in the past few hundred years.Why?, destroy Christianity and enslave the masses.I suggest you Google a site called, ‘radio Fatima the great conspiracy’-ning.
The William Cooper videos on youtube will explain a lot too,start with ‘Behold a pale horse’
RaymondofCanada says
From what I learned about Islam in history, Islam is far from a peaceful “religion”, but I doubt that schools are teaching that part. I sympathize with the father who feels his hands are tied because being treated as an outsider like this is difficult enough to cope with. Educators have all the power on their side (unions et al) so don’t expect too much “give” from them. If your child has to go back to that place, I would suggest you get some books on Islam (go for all out for the truth if you want and get some books by Robert Spencer), and teach your child the truth about Islam. Be sure to also alert your child to other behaviours from left-wing professionals in promoting their hate so start harming yourself with good literature. What happened to you is a good thing!
bindon blood says
When my granddaughter was at secondary school she was told to recite a Muslim prayer;she refused stating that she was a Christian and could only pray to God,not Allah. The teacher was silenced and never asked her again. These lily livered Islam appeasers are everywhere.
somehistory says
The History of islam would not be of its *pillars* but of its violent pillaging, raping, theft, brutality, murder of innocent humans as sacrifices to the devil, etc.
Homeschool! Somewhere in the Constitution is a paragraph about parental rights. Many years ago, a pioneer in the idea of *homeschooling*…quoted it in a book about the practice he advocated. Can’t recall his name, but he gave many reasons why homeschooling is a grand idea. Eyesight being one of them. The practice of old where parents taught their children…reading, math, science, etc. after teaching them how to feed themselves, dress themselves, walk, talk, behave honestly and ethically, and other things parents teach every day should not be rare. Many famous people, like A. Lincoln. learned at home.
The muslim beast of islam is trying to rule the world. It will have many more victims before it is vanquished (Revelation 13).
mike ryan says
There are always TWO sides to every story. I will admit, though, that Islam is given an inordinate amount of space in elementary, junior high, and secondary world history texts. Teacher friends have complained about this to me. I am glad that I am not teaching a grade which requires me to participate in the charade of a white-washing of Islam since I would not be willing to cooperate.
People who oppose this trend need to organize themselves on a local level and work upward towards the place where educational policies are made and text books are written and authorized.
dumbledoresarmy says
You stated – “People who oppose this trend need to organize themselves on a local level and work upward towards the place where educational policies are made and text books are written and authorized.”
I have a feeling that ACT for America is organising people to do just that. They’ve already started, and are beginning to make inroads.
I hope in fact that this dad can be put in touch with ACT for America; he could share his experience with them, they could look at what his daughter has been taught and what she’s been asked to do, and advise him on what to do next, so as to *push back* against the stealth Islamisation of the curriculum and “grooming” of children for dhimmitude or…worse…conversion to Islam.
In the meantime, he could get hold of Mr Spencer’s “Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran” and “Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades”, along with “The Truth About Muhammad” and use *those* to educate his daughter.
And since he’s a U S Marine, he could get C S Forester’s wonderful little book, “The Barbary Pirates”, which is about America’s very first military campaign against Muslims, ever; the crucible within which the Marines were *created*. Forester wrote it with bright teenage kids as his intended readers. It’s accurate and well researched (Forester being also the author of the “Hornblower” series of books about marine warfare during the Napoleonic wars).
William says
Mr. Spencer was being kind or restrained when he wrote that public school books, for the most part, are biased in favor of Islam. I would say they outright lie. I am sure you’ll find in them something about the golden age and flourishing of Muslim Spain in the Middle Ages with great peace, prosperity, and tolerance. Everyone lived happy lives, until those evil, intolerant Christians drove out the alien Mohammedans out of their formerly Christian land.
The father of that child should not have gone the way he did. Instead, he should have helped his child by providing reading material to present a thoroughly critical view of the pillars of Islam and maybe, at the same time, do a compare and contrast with some other religion, or even with secularism. That, I believe, would cause the authorities to wet themselves, in shock. Parents need to start wising up to these propagandists and use words to challenge them. I don’t think that is illegal yet. The school gives a writing assignment about Islam and the student and the parents should see that as a golden opportunity. You go to the school and confront them, and you lose. They only have to call the authorities (police) on you for threats perceived.
terry says
Hi William,
I answered back to your answer to me, around three days ago, in a previous post of JW.
Check it out. Here is the link:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/10/uk-75-year-old-man-charged-with-racially-aggravated-harassment-for-saying-im-not-muslim-at-airport-security-check#comments
Wellington says
The problem is not the teaching of Islam. The problem is the great double standard by which Christianity can be examined under an historical microscope, with blame aplenty attached to Christians and sometimes just downright distortion about Christian history, while Islam gets a pass time and time again, from its founding and its founder onwards.
An additional problem is that many teachers know little about Islam, or are functioning in stupid liberal mode, or both. One thing is for sure and that is that an even-playing field when presenting Islam and Christianity in the classroom (and textbooks) is simply non-existent in our time in Western nations, though meanwhile in Muslim-majority nations the most inaccurate and vile assessments of Christianity (Judaism too of course) are quite commonplace.
This is all disgusting, hypocritical and stupid but no remedy of this rot is in sight. Or is it? I mean increasingly you get stories like this one, in America, in Britain, in Denmark, in France, et al., whereby commonfolk have had it with the continued exculpation of Islam and the denigration of Christianity. The laggards here in the West, of course, are the elites, the present crop of which are doing more damage to Western Civilization than any other crop of Western elites in past ages ever did. Not even a close call.
R Cole says
Kids – today’s lesson is: World history and the 5 Pillars of Islam. And how the Prophet Mo’hammad [peace be upon him] was kind to all the Christians and the Jews.
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Across Europe Muslim kids openly object to being taught about the holocaust. They put their hands on their ears.
If they started to do the same in US schools – likely there’d be a frenzy of activity – to find ways to accommodate – this growing sentiment.
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Neo-Inclusiveness
In this ‘new inclusive’ world – tolerance extends only one way and every other concern expressed – is to be deemed hostile.
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People like at this school – authority – do things because they believe they are absolutely right – and fall into a ‘just following orders mindset’ [‘often they are afraid to be called racists – for considering other opinions’]- the trouble is were are we heading with it.
What they are teaching the children is it is wrong to question Islam [as it is presented in the west] – and in fact that could not be more wrong.
The Islam school kids are learning in the Middle East – is completely different.
And don’t forget the groups who wrote the Islam text books also want Shari’a law in America. And not the tree-hugging version of Islam and the Koran we get here – the real Middle East Shari’a deal.
medina says
My child would complete the assignment, all right, complete with footnoted facts and color pictures. The teacher would be getting the lesson.
PJG says
I know a West Papuan young man who came to Australia as a refugee from Islamic oppression. At the Christian school he went to here, he was given an assignment about Islam from his teacher who was part of the campaign to bring Islam into the classroom. The boy was asked why Muslims pray five times a day, and his answer was simply “Brainwashing.”
He was very annoyed that his Christian school was promoting Islam. This must be a common feeling among students who have come to our countries as refugees escaping from Islamic persecution.
dumbledoresarmy says
Good on that young West Papuan man!
the thing is – he’s right!
I hope he’s been educating his class-mates and telling them what he and his people have been put through, at the hands of Muslims.
Because the teacher can tell them a bunch of rose-coloured nonsense…but then that cool black kid whose forebears were wild warriors in the jungle before becoming Christians (and some of whose Christian contemporaries are *still* warriors in the jungle fighting desperately against invading murderous Muslims, just like the long ago baptised barbarian warriors of Europe fought against Muslims in Spain and at Poitiers) has got a thing or two to say, from personal experience,and maybe *his* story will get more “street cred”.
Jen says
Yes, this pretending that Islam is a friendly “religion” happens in schools, even in NZ. It makes me annoyed now when I think about how much they hid reality from us. They made us compare Christianity, Judaism and Islam but they never once gave us materials which said anything negative about Islam.
Not a single bad word about Muhammad. He was compared alongside Jesus as the equivalent in Islam.
Wtf? says
Home school now preferably or distance education. Better still a catholic school or even the Mormons. America stand up now you have two more years of Obama you must send a message!!!!
Lion Rampant says
By way of comment.
When I went to school i was taught something called ‘Comparative Religion’ and believe it or not, our role as citizens in the Secular State.
I believe Americans were taught “Civics”. Is this still true ?
Do any other countries feature these in their curriculums ?
I only ask this because schools can be the place where we as citizens and more importantly, parents can actually tackle the insidious indoctrination of our children head on. It will mean giving up evenings after a day’s work, neighbourhood meetings and generally sitting in at schools, universities and other learning centres.
I think it is time for the silent majority to find a voice. Our schools are an ideal place to use it.
mach37 says
I can accept this assignment, if the same class also has assignments on Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. But, on the other hand, I don’t see that the reports have to be favorable to the religions, and this would be an opportunity for the girl to report her own opinion of Islam. After all, Thomas Jefferson studied Islam and was not converted to it by his study, why should others of intelligence be swept away by it?
Doug Chance says
More comprehensive news reports of this situation contained quotes from one of the school administrators stating that the class includes coverage of Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism.
Kumar says
The sonnor we stop using their oil the sooner we can get some amount of control back. The muslims should realise how selfish their religion teaches them to be. Muslims must start applying logic and critical thinking to analyse their belief.
The issue with Abrahamic religions is philosophy, logic and religion do not mix when compared to eastern religion. People believe jesus, mohammed, krishna, buddha without any basis to logic and reason. We are deceiving ourselves.
Brother Mark:) says
Some of the atrocities of Islam have been making the news lately. This is a simple example of the defensive self denial involving Islam being passed off on the children.
Can you imagine how ridiculous they would all find it if you were to try and justify having them write a three page essay about the four gospels, Jesus, and Jerusalem as world history? Every atheist and liberal group in town would justifiably be very upset! The teachers would not even suggest such a thing in the first place.
Brother Mark:)
http://www.talktruthful.com
WCM says
Equally likely is that these kids do not know (except for the Marine’s daughter) who G. Washington is.
DiMu says
This is like forcing children to read ‘Mein Kampf’ of the ‘Communist Manifesto’ when we were at war with those two ideologies!
Dawid ben Haggai says
As far as I remember from my studies about Jefferson, he read the Koran to know what was in it – just as he also read the Bible and other religious books. It doesn’t mean that he thought the Koran was something extraordinary. Much to the contrary, he made some remarks about it and the prophet, that today would be considered inappropriate.
brtzg says
Why, why is there such a strong push by American schools to promote Islam? Is it the Leftist ideology, which is so anti-America? Leftist insanity has infested the educational system from grade school through graduate school. Little do they know that when Islam has chased the Jews out of America by its anti-Israel crusade, then the Muslims will come after Christians and other non-Muslims. Their time will come.
abad says
Yes, it is Leftist ideology. Take a good long look at Islam being taught in UK schools.
I happen to be childfree but if I had children you can bet I’d be homeschooling them.
profitsbeard says
How about she does an alternate assignment on Islam. VIZ~
“How many people did Mohammad personally behead, according to Islamic sources?”
That’s “history”, too, right?
Dawid ben Haggai says
To begin with, the prophet personally beheaded or supervised the beheading of 800 to 900 Jewish tribesmen, who wouldn’t accept him ad G*d’s envoy. From then on, the Muslims swept all over North Africa, Spain and were only stopped by Charlemagne at Poitiers. How many more they beheaded, G*d only knows. No doubt this is a most peaceful religion.
abad says
This incident should force everyone look at what is happening to Islam being taught in schools in the UK – this Marine father spoke the truth about Islam and the liberal-run school could not handle the truth about Islam.
Get Islam out of American schools now before it is too late with our children being brainwashed into The Evil Religion of Islam.
onisac says
“To learn who rules over you
simply find out who you
are not allowed to criticize”.
Voltair
nancy tartol says
After 9/11 my high-school daughter was given an assignment on Islam. She could pick from a number of aspects; the food, dress, culture, and other
light fare or you could pick a topic related to Islam. I suggested the question “Is there something inherent in the Islamic faith that leads and justifies the different terrorist attacks the world had been seeing from radical Muslims?” The teacher at first rejected her taking on this topic. I went in to the school, spoke with the teacher, and after some back and forth she gave my daughter permission. I had been studying Islam for the last 15 years prior to 9/11 and directed her to some books, news articles and the Koran. Her paper ended up receiving an A+++ and a humble comment from the teacher, blew us away. She wrote that the information she learned from the paper were things she never knew, she had no idea. I wonder today if the teacher would have been as giving to accept this topic. (Although it took awhile to get her to accept her topic.)
Uncle Vladdi says
Islam SHOULD be taught in schools – in CRIMINOLOGY CLASS!
😉
abad says
Not a bad idea, Uncle Vladdi!
In fact, Islam can be sandwiched between Hitler and Pol Pot.
shosh7154 says
1. Shahadah: declaring there is no god except allah, and Muhammad is Allah’s Messenger
Compared to the Living G-d in the history of the Jews, that is the Torah, the hundreds of Prophets and the Writings in the Bible, the Muslim god has only one witness, Mohamed, and this one witness never hears the voice of his god, only the voices of jinn or spirits, which disqualifies Mohamed as a prophet by definition. It is written that one witness cannot possibly establish the truth. Try doing that in a court of law even today. You being the defendant stand as the single witness to your innocence in a traffic violation.
2. Salat: ritual prayer five times a day
This ritual is demonstrated by bending down and pointing the part of the body you sit on toward Jerusalem in Israel which is rather unsightly to most cameramen who photograph the event definitely from the front and never from the back.
3. Zakat: giving 2.5% of one’s savings to the poor and needy
The monies are forthrightly given to jihadis (faithful shahid (suicide bombers) and others who further the cause of allah with their possessions and their lives until the religion is only for allah.
4. Sawm: fasting and self-control during the holy month of Ramadan
The faithful muslim skip breakfast and lunch but eat all night so that it is easy to wait for the evening meal and many of them sleep during the day. I know people who skip breakfast and lunch routinely and don’t even know how to spell ramedan.
5. Hajj: pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a lifetime[5][6] if one is able.
When Ezekiel 38 is fulfilled in the immediate future, there will be no more Kaabah (black box structure in Saudi Arabia housing a rock which is in the shape of a woman’s reproductive anatomy) which rock is the actual representation of allah, the moon god since the rock originates from the moon and fell to the earth. Originally there were 450 rocks, three of which were the daughters of allah whose mother was the sun rock, (no kidding) but Mohamed’s uncle who was the keeper of the house of rock(s) was instructed to throw out all the rocks except the moon rock and today muslim come to worship the rock and caress and kiss it, only female muslm are not allowed to kiss it.
All of the above statements about islam can be found in the quran and the hadith (9 volumes of Mohamed’s sayings)… Happy reading… but I warn you… Mohamed is a really nasty character whose image is truthfully characterized in the actions of ISIS, a group that Mr. Obama says has nothing to do with islam, as it is in name only. What’s in a name?
Obama Video News says
Comment and complain all you want it won’t stop these bastards. Laws need to be clear that religion in schools will be punished with jail time.
Islam and its followers are skilled manipulators. They will claim they are being persecuted when in fact its the skill of manipulation.
The dumb ass hippies running our schools get sucked in easy. They are the cattle on the way to the slaughter house.
Islam is a clear and present danger to America and needs to be treated as such.
Obama will not do his job and protect American’s so your on your own people.
Ive been searching for emails and addresses of this school. Someone needs to write a post with contact info of these idiots so we can complain to the source.
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