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Tennessee openly promotes Islam: 7th graders made to recite Islamic statement of faith

Sep 10, 2015 5:12 pm By Ralph Sidway

More Islamic dawah in Tennessee: The Maury County School District skips chapters on the Rise of Christianity and Judaism, but spends three weeks on Islam, and expressly instructs students to write and recite the Shahada, the Islamic profession of faith, by which one becomes a Muslim. Parents are rightfully outraged at this blatant attempt at indoctrinating their children into the tenets of Islam. The preferential treatment of Islam in public education may also open Tennessee to lawsuits for violating the U.S. Constitution’s “establishment clause.”

Pamela Geller warned about such tactics in a landmark 2013 article, in which she surveyed just some of the outrageous Islamic proselytization being forced upon public school students:

Public schools in Florida are teaching that Muhammad is “God’s messenger.” In Indiana, a Muslim family went from classroom to classroom in a public school, handing out material proselytizing for Islam. Texas public school students were made to wear burqas. In January 2013 in Maryland, Muslim high school students demanded prayer accommodations in a public school.

In August 2013, a Tennessee elementary school banned pork to avoid offending Muslims. Children are drawing the five pillars of Islam in Tennessee public schools. The Nashville, Tennessee public school system is teaching dangerous lies in an Islamic lesson plan written by Islamic dissemblers and rife with grammatical errors and poor English. Where are the children’s drawings of Christ on the cross? Where are the teachings of the Rashi? Where is the Chumash?

This isn’t public education. This is dawah. And it is happening all over, but patriots are fighting back: in September 2013, an Ohio mom got an Islamic proselytizing video removed from her child’s seventh-grade history class. In November 2013, hundreds of parents protested against pro-Islam indoctrination contained in a public school textbook.

Parents, be aware of what your children are being taught! Make your voice heard! Public confrontation of such tactics is often successful in forcing government officials to back down and remove Islamic propaganda from school curricula, as Geller’s article documents. For more encouragement and resources, see also this excellent recent article, Fighting Islamization and antisemitism in America.

“7th-graders in Tennessee made to recite ‘Allah is the only God’ in public school,” by Thomas D. Williams, PhD, Breitbart News, September 10, 2015:

Middle school parents in Tennessee are up in arms on learning that their children were instructed to recite and write, “Allah is the only god,” as part of a world history project.

In the Maury County School District, students were assigned a Five Pillars of Islam project that included the translation of the pillar of “Shahada” as being, “There is no god but Allah; Muhammad is his prophet.”

Joy Ellis, the mother of a seventh-grader at Spring Hill Middle School, said that Christian children should not be instructed to write the Shahada.

“This is a seventh grade state standard, and will be on the TCAP,” Ellis said. “I didn’t have a problem with the history of Islam being taught, but to go so far as to make my child write the Shahada, is unacceptable.”

Another mother of a seventh-grade girl, Brandee Porterfield, complained to officials at Spring Hill Middle School because of its overemphasis on Islam to the exclusion of Christianity and Judaism.

Porterfield said she has no objections to her daughter learning details of the Islamic religion, but she objects to the fact that the history unit didn’t devote similar time to Christianity or Judaism.

“It really did bother me that they skipped the whole chapter on the rise of Christianity and they spent three weeks just studying Islam,” she said.

Porterfield and other parents were also concerned with the school’s decision to have children write and recite the Islamic creed.

“But what really did bother me,” Porterfield said, “was that they did this assignment where they wrote out the Five Pillars of Islam, including having the children learn and write the Shahada, which is the Islamic conversion creed.”

“I spoke with the teacher and the principal,” she said. “They are not going to learn any other religion, doctrines or creeds and they are not going back over this chapter. Even though they discuss Christianity a little bit during the Middle Ages, they are not ever going to have this basis for Judaism or Christianity later.”

Porterfield said the class skipped Christianity because it’s not required by the state’s standards. Those standards, TN Core, are very similar to the national Common Core standards, though in May Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill eliminating Common Core.

In Tennessee, 85 percent of the residents identify as Christian, according to a comprehensive U.S. Religious Landscape Survey conducted by the Pew Center in 2008. Only one percent of state residents identify as Muslim.

Jan Hanvey, Maury County Public Schools’ middle school supervisor, said that most of the three-week unit discussed things like government, culture, geography, and economics, rather than theology. She also said that the chapters on Christianity and Judaism are scheduled to be taught at the end of the year with the “Age of Exploration” unit.

Maury County Director of Schools, Chris Marczak, defended the curriculum in a statement, saying that the school system is in no way endorsing Islam over other religions or trying to “indoctrinate” students.

“It is our job as a public school system to educate our students on world history in order to be ready to compete in a global society, not to endorse one religion over another or indoctrinate,” Marczak said.

Porterfield, however, finds Marczak’s assurances unconvincing.

“They are not going over anything else. So for the students to have to memorize this prayer, it does seem like it is indoctrination,” she said.

A meeting between parents and school teachers and administrators has been scheduled for Sept. 17 to allow Porterfield and other concerned Springhill parents to voice their concerns about the state’s history curriculum.

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  1. Angemon says

    Sep 10, 2015 at 6:40 pm

    Porterfield said she has no objections to her daughter learning details of the Islamic religion, but she objects to the fact that the history unit didn’t devote similar time to Christianity or Judaism.

    “It really did bother me that they skipped the whole chapter on the rise of Christianity and they spent three weeks just studying Islam,” she said.

    And she’s absolutely right – there’s a clear discrepancy between the time allocated to islam and all the other religions combined. And I’m guessing the expansion of islam isn’t presented as the series of bloody conquests it was (see, for example, Raymond Ibrahim’s articles regarding the conquest of Egypt) but as something innocuous. I bet that the expansion of islam was presented along the lines of “people were being oppressed by Christian rulers, muslims came along and preached equality for all, people liked living under islam and comverted, and if any war was fought between muslims and Christians it was muslims defending themselves from unwarranted Christian attacks”.

    Porterfield said the class skipped Christianity because it’s not required by the state’s standards.

    Why would it be required? Just because the core Western values stem from Christian values? sarc./ off…

    Jan Hanvey, Maury County Public Schools’ middle school supervisor, said that most of the three-week unit discussed things like government, culture, geography, and economics, rather than theology.

    If anyone believes that it was anything other than how wonderful and “multicultural” life was under islamic rule, filled with “interfaith dialogue” and where Jews and Christians were considered “protected people”, then I have a bridge I want to sell you…

    She also said that the chapters on Christianity and Judaism are scheduled to be taught at the end of the year with the “Age of Exploration” unit.

    Let me guess: it’s about how the evil, imperialist, racist, white, Christian Europeans went out of Europe and committed genocide all over the world, with death counts in the 7-8 digit range, because they were evil, imperialist, racist, white and Europeans acting upon Christian creeds.

    There’s no reason to why islam is taught first, over Christianity or Judaism, seeing how they precede it by centuries. Not only that, America was discovered and colonized by (Christian) Europeans, not by muslims. Again, no reason to why so much time was dedicated to study islam over Christianity, which was the ruling religion in Europe.

    Maury County Director of Schools, Chris Marczak, defended the curriculum in a statement, saying that the school system is in no way endorsing Islam over other religions or trying to “indoctrinate” students.

    “It is our job as a public school system to educate our students on world history in order to be ready to compete in a global society, not to endorse one religion over another or indoctrinate,” Marczak said.

    So why not dedicate those three weeks studying, for example, the religion and culture of Chine (world’s greatest economy, IIRC)? Are we really supposed to believe that Sudan or Afghanistan, or Syria are, or will be, attractive prospects?

    • sinantara says

      Sep 11, 2015 at 12:16 am

      Like I already stated, PC is a radical Christian heresy that states that your neighbor is The Other. Samaritans and Romans and sinners when Christ was teaching, the poor in the middle ages, blacks in the sixties, and Muslims in the present, because there are no Others who are so Other. PC should be deconstructed by re explaining Christianity, it should be explained that Christianity is about love, and that if ISIS has nothing to do with Islam, then believing in creationism, bombing clinics, crusading, burning heretics at the stake has nothing to do with Christianity. It should be taught that the whole concept of democracy, equality before the law, human rights, political correctness, etc are Christian to the core–but should be tempered by common sense.

      • Jay Boo says

        Sep 11, 2015 at 9:41 am

        No surprised to see a TROLL Ho-ing it for MO

        Mo Ho-ing in public schools is a very sensitive issue with Muzzies
        Let’s keep it hidden just like Muhammad’s dishonorable life.

        But this filth of Islam indoctrination may be good news in disguise.
        It gives us the opportunity to slam the door on the faces of the haters.
        They wish to talk about Islam.
        OK fine
        Let us tell students about the real life of Muhammad with all its disgusting revelations.

        • Shmooviyet says

          Sep 11, 2015 at 12:42 pm

          Brilliant!
          “Mo-ho-ing” had me ho-ho-ing.
          (Pardon the bad rhyme)

        • David says

          Sep 12, 2015 at 1:18 am

          Jay Boo I agree with you. However, you and me both know this school will not show the negative side of Islam ( which is nearly all sides you muzzies). Assuming you have read parts of the Koran ( especially the first few chapters) that give the impression that it’s a kind religion. Sometimes I think these idiots that think the muzzies are loving people have only read the first few chapters of the Koran. Thats the part that shows them being nice and spiritual. This story did not even make Sept 11ths headlines.

      • Jay Boo says

        Sep 11, 2015 at 9:43 am

        sinantara
        Your desperation is showing

    • Lia Wissing says

      Sep 11, 2015 at 5:02 am

      Class action by Tennessee parents!

      • Pathfinder0100 says

        Sep 11, 2015 at 1:39 pm

        Absolutely Lia. Recall all of those school board members now!! Get em out of school!!

        • David says

          Sep 12, 2015 at 1:26 am

          Lia and Pathfinder, if my kid went to this school, he would be pulled out until the board was replaced and the teacher fired.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 11, 2015 at 4:35 pm

      Angemon wrote:

      She also said that the chapters on Christianity and Judaism are scheduled to be taught at the end of the year with the “Age of Exploration” unit.

      Let me guess: it’s about how the evil, imperialist, racist, white, Christian Europeans went out of Europe and committed genocide all over the world,..
      ………………………….

      Good catch, Angemon–I’d missed that detail, but I’m sure you’re quite right. And also, as you note, it is likely they are tossing Judaism in with ‘evil” Christianity.

      What witless PC crap–while I’m sure they teach the false “Golden Age of Islamic Tolerance” whitewash.

  2. somehistory says

    Sep 10, 2015 at 7:00 pm

    islam’s government: satanocracy with unlawful code of conduct of oppression, torture and death The government members selected from the most awful of males who dictate every move, every thought for all of the people under the control of the government.
    islam’s culture: supremacy of males over females, children, non muslims of both genders; torture of animals for food, no art, no dance, no games, no fun, no laughter, all dictated by the unlawful code of conduct from the satanic government
    islam’s geography: all countries taken by force from any other people, killing and subjugation of other peoples with extortion, subjugation, torture and death for all who refuse to worship the beast.
    islam’s economics: stealing, extortion, selling of slaves, all dictated and commanded by the unlawful code of satanic origin through a murderer and raper of children who claimed to be a prophet and demanded to be worshipped.

    These things are not the things taught in the public schools to the children of Christians, Jews and others, with and without a faith. Lies and then a forced conversion in which the children aren’t even aware they have participated.

    • Pathfinder0100 says

      Sep 11, 2015 at 1:43 pm

      Somehistory, you damn well know what you are talkin’ about!! Keep it up by all means!!

  3. somehistory says

    Sep 10, 2015 at 7:15 pm

    OT but not completely. Watched a video of a street altercation between a muslim who looked like he just dropped in from pakistan and a couple of guys preaching about Jesus on a busy street in Tampa, FL.

    The muslim bloodied one of the guys by hitting him in the face with his (own) head, finally arrested only because he refused to leave the area and the guy who was attacked and injured was given a citation…to sign or go immediately to jail…which he signed, charging him with inciting (he claimed free speech and it was) and “religious intolerance”…against which there is no law.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Sep 11, 2015 at 7:59 am

      CAN YOU PROVIDE A URL LINK TO THAT VIDEO ? Robert then could determine if the AFDI might want to represent the cited guy for a 1st Amendment test case in Tennessee.

      • somehistory says

        Sep 11, 2015 at 3:57 pm

        I will try. It was posted on Sons of Liberty, I believe. If I can find it, will post.

      • somehistory says

        Sep 11, 2015 at 4:10 pm

        http://sonsoflibertymedia.com/2015/09/sharia-law-is-attempting-to-replace-the-u-s-constitution/

        There are two videos embedded in the article. The one from Tampa, Florida, outside a Lady Gaga Concert, is at the bottom of the page.
        Sorry this is so late in the day, but I had to be away from the computer until now.

  4. vlparker says

    Sep 10, 2015 at 9:04 pm

    I guess the Democrats miss slavery in Tennessee.

    • David says

      Sep 12, 2015 at 1:32 am

      Good comment VlParker. Wish most Americans were as smart as you. I love America, but we got a lot of dumb Americans.

  5. mortimer says

    Sep 10, 2015 at 10:11 pm

    It’s intolerable to allow the teaching of blood-thirsty, misogynistic Islam as a valid faith as it is to teach the Aztec religion as a valid faith.

    Islam contradicts everything that the US constitution represents: freedom, equality and fraternity.

    • sinantara says

      Sep 11, 2015 at 12:17 am

      Like I already stated, PC is a radical Christian heresy that states that your neighbor is The Other. Samaritans and Romans and sinners when Christ was teaching, the poor in the middle ages, blacks in the sixties, and Muslims in the present, because there are no Others who are so Other. PC should be deconstructed by re explaining Christianity, it should be explained that Christianity is about love, and that if ISIS has nothing to do with Islam, then believing in creationism, bombing clinics, crusading, burning heretics at the stake has nothing to do with Christianity. It should be taught that the whole concept of democracy, equality before the law, human rights, political correctness, etc are Christian to the core–but should be tempered by common sense.

      • Jay Boo says

        Sep 11, 2015 at 9:44 am

        sinantara
        Your desperation is showing again
        You cannot hide Muhammad’s filth so easily

      • Western Canadian says

        Sep 11, 2015 at 9:49 pm

        Even for gibberish, this is extreme!!!

    • sinantara says

      Sep 11, 2015 at 12:26 am

      In multiculturalism the aztec religion should be allowed, to forbid it smacks of cultural imperialism. of course only consenting adults may be sacrificed. but some of the burnt offerings volunteered, and are all in aztec heaven. i advise that you cultural imperialists should prepare to accept whale hunting, headhunting, widow burning, wife stealing, slavery, wife beating, female infanticide, it is all cultural you see… Of course christianity should be forbidden since it pracitices evangelizing, which is may be offensive to non christians,

      • Jay Boo says

        Sep 11, 2015 at 9:45 am

        Your desperation is showing
        Off Topic

  6. Mo says

    Sep 10, 2015 at 10:34 pm

    This is beyond comprehension.

    Where are the shrieking liberals, protesting day and night? You know, the same ones that shriek at the mention of anything remotely smacking of Christianity?

  7. John Magne Trane says

    Sep 11, 2015 at 5:13 am

    In Norwegian that sentence has a welcome twist.

    The word rasool or “prophet” is very close to the Norwegian for a**ehole… And when the first part can be pronounced just a little bit wrongly like “Little Allah is really bad” you have all the criticism of both the Moon God and his Mass Murderer rolled into one , easily remembered sentence…

  8. DiMu says

    Sep 11, 2015 at 8:36 am

    THE WEST COMMITS SUICIDE.

  9. duh_swami says

    Sep 11, 2015 at 9:03 am

    #All my allusions matter…and must be shared with children…

    Dawah disguised as ‘World History ‘ is a lie, a scam and stealth jihad…
    The school officials who advocate and defend this crap should be fired or even jailed……

  10. Mark says

    Sep 11, 2015 at 9:58 am

    https://youtu.be/t_Qpy0mXg8Y

    Please share this video.

  11. gravenimage says

    Sep 11, 2015 at 4:19 pm

    Tennessee openly promotes Islam: 7th graders made to recite Islamic statement of faith
    ……………………………

    Doesn’t anyone involved–except the Muslim Da’wa artists, of course–realize that by Islam lights that reciting the Shehada *makes one a Muslim*–and that if the reciter goes back to practicing Christianity, or Judaism, or no faith at all, that he is regarded as an apostate, and hence *can be lawfully murdered*?

    Muslims may not be poised to take this last step in great numbers right now in places like Tennessee–but they *will be*, if things continue as they are.

    And with a generation of Infidel schoolkids primed to recite the Shehada from their youth, it will make forced or inadvertent conversions to Islam all the easier for them.

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