For nearly a year some Tennessee parents have been up arms about the teaching of Islam to seventh graders in their public schools. They are disturbed that more attention has been given to “studying” Islam than to Christianity or Judaism. And they especially were upset that the students were asked to recite and write out the Shehada, in a unit on the Five Pillars of Islam: “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet.” Some called it “indoctrination.” And the Tennessee State Board of Education, in response, has decided to omit the section “Islamic World, 400 AD/CE-1500s” from the seventh-grade social studies curriculum. Instead, the schools will, in a “streamlined” form, still teach 7th graders about Islam, but now in a history section titled “Southwest Asia and North Africa: 400-1500s,” and omitting subjects previously taught, such as “the origins of Islam” and “the life of its founder Muhammad.”
It is easy to imagine how this played out in the mainstream press. Tennessee, the buckle on the Bible Belt, where less than a century ago a certain Mr. Scopes was put on trial for teaching evolution, is at it again. A bunch of narrow-minded parents in Maury County, rubes right out of central casting, pitchforks at the ready, have managed to show just what prejudice and Islamophobia can do, and have forced an end to seventh-graders in Tennessee from learning all about the “religion of 1.6 [sic] billion people.” One of the photographs accompanying an article about the parents’ protest shows the hand of a student pointing to a page in an open Qur’an; the caption underneath reads “Parents fear their kids will know too much about this book.”
But was this really a victory for the Know-Nothings, the haters of diversity, the right-wing Christian fundamentalists who don’t want their children to learn anything about the faith of more than a billion people? Or did those parents have a point? And if they had a point, might there be another way of making it?
The teaching of Islam, if done rightly, would not eliminate but, rather, reinforce, any sensible Infidel’s deep doubts about the “religion of peace.” What the students were taught was comically superficial, but they no doubt came away thinking that they had learned something about Islam, and discovered there was nothing to worry about. After all, these are 7th graders.
They learned that Muslims are monotheists, just like Christians and Jews. A comforting thought. But they did not learn that Muslims are taught to regard those fellow monotheists as the “vilest of creatures,”and Muslims as the “best of peoples.” They did not learn that Islam divides the world uncompromisingly between Muslims and non-Muslims, and that a permanent state of war exists between them, and will continue to exist, until Islam everywhere dominates, and Muslims rule, everywhere. They learned that, as one of the fill-in-the-blank questions given to them asked, “the Muslim word for God is Allah.” But they did not learn that the Muslim God is different in almost every respect from the Christian one. They did not learn that the expression “Allahu akbar” does not mean that “God is great,” but that “Our Muslim God is greater than yours,” and that it is a war-cry.
They did learn to write down the Five Pillars of Islam: Shehada, Salat, Zakat, Sawm, Hajj, but what did they find out about what those words mean?
They not only wrote out but recited the Shehada, the declaration of the Oneness of God: “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.” They learned that the Shehada is what non-Muslims recite in order to become Muslims, to join the faith, the community, the umma of Islam. But they were not told that once you become a Muslim, you can’t get out, that the punishment in Islam for apostasy is death. So these American kids recite and write out the Shehada in class, you can imagine with what naïve solemnity (or on the playground, as they talk about it later, hilarity), and begin to think that “Wow, I could be a Muslim now if I wanted” or at home, reciting it to annoy their parents, “See Ma, I said it and nothing happened. I didn’t turn into a terrorist, I didn’t start throwing bombs. Chillax.” The parents are annoyed, of course, but do not think to ask their children if they realize why anyone can become a Muslim merely by reciting the Shehada, when to become a Christian or a Jew requires extensive study. The reason, they could tell their children if they knew it themselves, is that Muslims want to make it easy for non-Muslims to convert, for these converts are seen not so much as individuals learning about, and wrestling with, theological matters of moment, but regarded more like recruits to an army – just recite here — the Army of Islam.
When the students were taught about the Second Pillar of Islam, Salat, they learned that it is the ritual prayer said five times a day by all Muslims. They may have been impressed with how devoted Muslims must be. But they did not learn the contents of those prayers. How many Americans know that every Muslim, in saying his daily prayers, is denouncing the Kuffar – Christians and Jews — seventeen times a day? Do you think the teachers in Tennessee knew this? Do you think, if they learned it, they would dare to mention it to their classes? Wouldn’t that get them in trouble with a cheerfully denying local member of CAIR (“who told you this nonsense”?), or with some self-righteous journalist who insists that this cannot possibly be true, it’s one more Islamophobic canard? Of course it would.
Of what conceivable value is memorizing the word “Salat” and learning “Muslims pray five times a day” unless students find out what those prayers contain, and especially what they say about Infidels? As with the Shehada, something very important has been left out.
Robert Spencer explains what is in the five canonical prayers:
In the course of praying the requisite five prayers a day, an observant Muslim will recite the Fatihah, the first surah of the Qur’an and the most common prayer in Islam, seventeen times. The final two verses of the Fatihah ask Allah: “Show us the straight path, the path of those whom Thou hast favoured; not the (path) of those who earn Thine anger nor of those who go astray.” The traditional Islamic understanding of this is that the “straight path” is Islam — cf. Islamic apologist John Esposito’s book Islam: The Straight Path. The path of those who have earned Allah’s anger are the Jews, and those who have gone astray are the Christians.
This is not my interpretation; it comes from the classic Islamic commentaries on the Qur’an. The renowned Qur’anic commentator Ibn Kathir explains that “the two paths He described here are both misguided,” and that those “two paths are the paths of the Christians and Jews, a fact that the believer should beware of so that he avoids them. The path of the believers is knowledge of the truth and abiding by it. In comparison, the Jews abandoned practicing the religion, while the Christians lost the true knowledge. This is why ‘anger’ descended upon the Jews, while being described as ‘led astray’ is more appropriate of the Christians.”
Students learn that Zakat is the charitable giving required of Muslims. Admirable, they think, good for Muslims. But what is not said is that in the giving of Zakat, the recipients of that charity are only other Muslims. It would make no sense for Muslims to support those who have not accepted Islam. As Quran 8:55 puts it: “Surely the vilest of animals in Allah’s sight are those who disbelieve” And the Quran (28:86) adds: “Never be a helper to the unbelievers.” The Quran (48:29) also says: “Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are hard (ruthless) against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves.”
How many of those students in Tennessee do you think were told that “Zakat” can only go to fellow Muslims? Or, even more unlikely, how many might have had that practice explained to them by reference to 8:55 and 28:86 and 48:29? Why none, of course. The students will learn, and their teachers too may well think, that Muslims are unusually generous because one of Islam’s Pillars is this required giving of alms. But the alms are only intended to support and promote Muslims, not to help humanity.
The last two pillars – Sawn and Hajj — are in themselves inoffensive. But piquant details connected to their observance could have been added.
Sawm is the dawn-to-dusk fasting, during the month of Ramadan. Some liken it to Lent, though it requires refraining, during the day, from food altogether, and not, as for Christians at Lent, giving up this or that pleasurable practice (e.g., drinking wine, smoking, eating a particular food). Do you think the students knew that Ramadan is associated with an upsurge in violence by Muslims? Or learned that Muslims have been known to attack, and even kill, Infidels for eating during Ramadan?
Hajj is the fifth pillar of Islam. Muslims are required to make, at least once in their lives, the pilgrimage to Mecca, to circumambulate the Ka’aba seven times widdershins, and perform certain other rituals, such as the flinging of pebbles at the Devil, represented by three pillars in Mina. Muslims of every race and sect, make the hajj. But beneath the outward display of unity, sectarian strife continues, even in regard to the hajj. The Iranian government, for example, this year did not permit its own citizens to make the hajj, as a way of expressing displeasure with the Saudis. And the Saudis have always forbidden Ahmadis, whom they regard as not real Muslims, from making the hajj. Was any of this mentioned?
The objection to the teaching about Islam should not have been that students learn too much about Islam, but that they learn too little. The recital of the Shehada, as we noted above, is a quick and easy way to swell Muslim ranks. But having these American students recite the Shehada, and merely pretend to “be Muslims,” is not without consequences. They may have imprinted on their young brains an impression of a harmless Islam that later will be hard to dislodge. Some people think, for example, that Obama’s memories of being a child in Indonesia, where he was taken with the muezzin’s call to prayer (“the call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset”) may partly explain his consistently sympathetic – and wildly inaccurate – descriptions of Islam.
But what else has been left out? Why, in what is effectively an “Introduction to Islam” unit, was the duty of Jihad apparently not mentioned? Shouldn’t Islam be described properly as a “fighting faith”? How did Islam spread, so rapidly, across North Africa, and through the Middle East? What happened to the many non-Muslim peoples subjugated by conquering Muslims? And if Jihad was mentioned after all, was the word glossed as “an internal struggle to be a better Muslim” or as what it is, a real war for territory, to enlarge Dar al-Islam, and to subdue the Infidel? Of course not.
We are told that the “life of Muhammad” was taught to students in Tennessee. But what about his life was taught? That he raided camel caravans, and received messages from Allah through the angel Gabriel? Do you think the students were also told that he took part in dozens of military campaigns? That he observed with pleasure the decapitation of several hundred bound prisoners? That he led a raid, for women and loot, on the inoffensive Jewish farmers of the Khaybar Oasis? That he consummated his marriage to little Aisha when she was nine years old? That he was delighted when his followers killed Asma bint Marwan and Abu ‘Afak for mocking him? That – despite or because of this record — Muhammad is considered the Model of Conduct (“uswa hasana”) and Perfect Man (“al-insan al-kamil”) for all Muslims, and for all time? Parents should demand not that the life of Muhammad be omitted from the curriculum, but that it be taught in greater detail.
If you are not Muslim, what would you most want to know about Islam? Surely you would want to find out what is said about non-Muslims in the Qur’an and Hadith. Students should not be shielded from the many passages in the Qur’an that denounce the Unbelievers; they have a right to know, and teachers a duty to teach, this aspect of Islam, rather than have it remain unremarked, or deliberately hidden. It is not too late for the parents to draw up their own syllabus, one that they should make public, in order to force discussion of all of these unpleasant but indispensable matters. Instead of allowing themselves to be caricatured as the “parents who fear their kids will know too much about this book”— the Qur’an — the parents in Tennessee might consider demanding a fuller study of Islam in the schools, “because we want our children to be able to answer such questions as these”: Why is it so easy to convert to Islam by reciting the Shehada? And why is it so hard – and so dangerous — to leave Islam? Why is Zakat limited only to other Muslims? Why, in the five required daily prayers, is an imprecation against Jews and Christians repeated seventeen times? Why does Islam still permit slavery? Who are the “vilest of creatures”? Who are the “best of peoples”? Who was Aisha? Who was Asma bint Marwan? What is “Jihad”? What is a “dhimmi”? What is “jizyah”?
That’s a start.
What can CAIR and its willing collaborators respond?

David Rice says
Common Core was designed by non-educators, all of whom are preparing our children for the NWO under Sharia Law. If you want to read what the next textbooks are teaching our children, you need to read this. Our children are taught that Islam, like Christianity and Judaism, their is only one God. However they are taught prayers in Islam along with the Five Pillars of Islam but they are not taught what it means. They are not taught from an historical perspective has violent Islam has been over the centuries even though this is a World History Class and that our children are leaning Islam because it it history. When our family confronted the World History teacher we were told our daughter could skip this Chapter but she would nonetheless be tested on it. There are 3 pages of Judaism, 10 pages on Christianity and 80 pages on Islam. I wouldn’t mind if the book were even-handed which it is not. Our leaders, most of whom are part of the Establishment supporting the NWO believe that they know what is good for us even though they have not informed any of us of their evil plans. If you are part of the governing elite, then as in any other country with a dictatorship, you will have a decent life. The rest of us will be their slaves.
Myrtle Linder says
Common Core, Sharia Law, antichrist, change America from Christian to an antichrist nation, in tune with 2 Timothy 3:8-17
Troybeam says
Wrong, Common Core(CC) was developed by Obama and Arabs. It began in Dubai, it holds its confrences in Dubai, an American teacher there was killed attending, this Common Core was divised to dummy down our children and confuse them, nothing more.
Math for example in CC it takes 7 moves to get answer, old math American takes a simpler basic approach such as 3+2=5.
CC also gives Islam credit and presents it as non threating while American history is presented as the evil of the world, same for expanding on religion.
CC is simply Obama’s way of expanding Islam in America, parents who have children in school pay attention to what your child is learning at all times our nations culture, freedom and Constitution depend on your awareness to the education system.
They have buried the information on Dubai however when I find the link I will post it.
Troybeam says
Some links, not the one I’m looking for but useful:
https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2014/11/02/why-did-hundreds-common-core-implementers-meet-in-dubai/
https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2015/10/07/common-core-conference-in-dubai-is-happening-again-this-year/
https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2014/01/04/california-hilton-anaheim-hosting-education-forum-for-unindicted-co-conspirator-isna/
https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2013/11/26/florida-doj-forced-cancellation-of-school-board-meeting-on-islam-bias-in-textbooks/
https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2014/02/06/obama-unilaterally-changes-immigration-law-allows-immigrants-who-support-terrorists-into-us/
https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2014/08/17/doj-forces-dearborn-heights-school-district-to-teach-in-translate-all-documents-to-arabic/
https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/harvards-muslim-chaplain-sees-wisdom-in-killing-apostates/
Note to the above: Supreme Court Justice Kagan accepted millions from Arabs when head of Harvard, in return they built a Sharia Law wing on campus: Seriously is she for America when she rules on cases.
bostongal912 says
This is why more and more parents are home schooling their children! I have to say that I don’t blame them if this is the kind of crap they are teaching. It’s outrageous!
Panda says
“they could tell their children if they knew it themselves…” Therein, friend Hugh, lies the rub. They don’t, and most are unwilling to learn. Speaking of canards, how about this one: “Know thine enemy.”
Defen0derofIsliam says
To teach Islam you need more pages than Christian and jew religion is that the students already know the basic about those religions. Australia military send three year given stone age tribes from than than other nation they have as than protected to have then be self rule. They live as our forefathers 40000 year ago. You are just than bigot.
gravenimage says
The appalling “Defen0derofIsliam” wrote:
To teach Islam you need more pages than Christian and jew (sic) religion is (sic) that the students already know the basic (sic) about those religions. Australia military send (sic) three year given (sic) stone age tribes from than (sic) than (sic) other nation they have as than (sic) protected to have then (sic) be self rule. They live as our forefathers 40000 year ago. You are just than (sic) bigot.
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Well, “Defen0derofIsliam” seems to be even more incoherent than usual here…
Jay Boo says
The perpetrators of such treachery should be rounded up and forced to give a public apology or else be arrested for endangering the public and go to jail.
Michael Copeland says
Thank you for this important article. Perhaps, Mr. Fitzgerald, you could design a short resource expressing these points which could be downloadable from JihadWatch, for print-your-own.
Islam – Important Facts and Salient Questions
It would be useful.
gravenimage says
Michael, here’s “Islam 101”:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/islam-101
It’s a very useful introduction.
BobC says
To make time for a class about religious stupidity what science and math lessons do they throw out? There should be nothing about religions in a public school. It’s a waste of time and can only cause problems.
If students are interested in religious insanity that’s what google is for.
Idania says
In Florida schools they have been teaching Islam in 6th and 10th grade. Is mostly Islamic Doctrine. Florida books are published by a publisher whose main owners are the Dubai Royal family. Education should not be controlled by the federal. It should be an State matter.
Elaine McMurren says
Public education is nothing but government propaganda from beginning to end.
Kay says
Public education used to locally controlled. Now there is too much government and too much big money, evidently from questionable sources.
Donna says
Go back to the middle East already and take Obama and Hillary with you . North America is Christian land . Out with the invaders! Enough already. I thought we had stupid Muslim lovers in Canada. America seems worse when it comes to kissing up to them. We have to unite a d throw them out beginning with your Muslim president and our stupid dumb prime minister
Godwin says
Vote Trump.
particolor says
You got that Right !!
Dacritic says
And here I’m hearing news stories coming out of the US that since Donald Trump is reported to be winning, some Americans are considering moving up to Canada. The world has a big Islamic and leftist problem. The Left is as dangerous as Islam.
Robert McKenna says
Canada is not far enough for these “Americans” to move !
They aren’t going anywhere anyhow. They are all semi famous actors and media folks who have been moderately successful and have opinions of themselves that are far greater than their statures.
America won’t miss them for one second. That is, if they really do leave. I mean, who really shives a git (translations available) about Rosie O’Donnell ?
Emilie Green says
Lefty Headline, “Parents fear their kids will know too much about this book”
Better, “Parents know what’s in this book, and correctly worry”
Kay says
Leftists are so good at twisting truth. Knowing “about” something is not the same as practicing it, even in the most rudimentary form.
Christian parents believe in the spiritual world and know that incantations to evil spirits are a danger to one’s soul.
ele says
In social studies the Missoula MT HSs are also learning about Islam, the 5 pillars, and Mosque description. Now this. BTW It’s funny how the govt watches young men going to Muslim countries as possible to- be Isis recruits. Yet this program is granted. Woder how many girls are going? Missoula to Casablanca: Arabic students taking first trip to Morocco | Local | missoulian.com
http://missoulian.com/news/local/missoula-to-casablanca-arabic-students-taking-first-trip-to-morocco/article_5672c02e-1b49-5287-b704-dca40a4695ba.html
beyondculturewars says
About five years ago, I saw a You Tube clip of all those TN rubes at a CAIR/community sponsored event to welcome Muslims into a town. The rubes shouted down the government speakers with nothing more than chants of “Taqiyya, taqiyya!” (It’s long gone. You can only watch the state sponsored Welcome videos.)
I knew the indoctrination would not fly in TN. Now there is legal precedence. Thanks to vigilant Tennesseans.
Jay Boo says
Wake up class!
Let’s learn Islam
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Daddy’s little Girl
Fifteen years before that horrendous day, little Muslima Anusha wiggled to life with a scream and a cry. She delighted all with her soft giggle, as she practiced to speak and to smile. All the neighbors were impressed at the sight of Allah’s precious gift.
But sadly, as she grew into a young woman her typical Muslim father became controlling and perversely jealous. Muslim fathers like him have unnatural desires that they dare not confess.
Anusha was accused of glancing at a boy on a motorcycle. Pious accusations project all guilt onto the male dominate religion’s Islamic daughter whenever dirty secrets of the Muslim father bear witness against the ‘image’ of Islam’s honor?
Her father beat “God’s precious gift” with his feet and fists then Anusha’s mother drenched Anusha with acid to assist.
Fifteen years earlier Anusha Zafar wiggled to life with a scream and a cry.
See this baby girl who once so delighted all with her giggle and her smile.
“HONOR KILLING” ANUSHA ZAFAR died October 30, 2012 Kashmir, Pakistan
Writhing in agony from acid burns and alone locked in a room (She was left to suffer for 2 days without any medical treatment)
We are told to look away from the true face of Islam. It is so easily forgotten by those who wish to believe, its lies.
But, every Muslim still knows for each daughter murdered, the true sordid reasons these “honor” killings hide. YET, NO PROTESTS, NO OUTRAGE, at this INSULT and the news media quickly accepts to forget
what is not politically correct to inspect, the sins of this filthy evil religion that turns insult into pride.
Raja says
Jay, Your contribution, hopefully should not go in vain. It made a good reading.Thanks…
Jay Boo says
Thank you, Raja
gravenimage says
Here’s the horrible story, Jay Boo:
“Pakistan acid attack parents ‘feared dishonour'”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-20202686
mortimer says
There are 4,300 different religions. We believe in fairness. Children should study them ALL or none.
Children would have to study 40 religions every day of the school year and have no time to study anything else.
Kay says
Right. And it seems part of the basic learning (even when it is about) Islam is that it is the third Abrahamic religion.
Yet theologians debate whether Mohammedens worship the same God or not. Yes they call him Creator, but is any of the rest of his character the same as the Christian or Jewish God? I think not.
So people (children) learn as a simple truth of Islam what some debate and others say is false.
Sacco Shahin says
If you are going to teach the young children about islam, you better mention that Muhammad was born 4 years after his so called Abdulla died, that he married six years old Aisha when he was at the age of 55, that he forced his son in law Zaid bin Haritha to divorce his wife Zaineb and he married he, he ordered the killing of Um Kirfa by tying her to two Camels and tore her apart. He killed close to 1000 Jewish men from beni Kuratha and enslaved the woman and children and were sold in markets. We always hear 1.5 billion Muslims which false because they don’t count those who left islam. they believe that once you are a muslim you can not allowed to leave islam. Millions have been killed for leaving this Satanic cult.
t. says
I hope that enough people, who are willfully or otherwise ignorant about Islam would read your comment, Sacco!
Dacritic says
The Zaid story is very fascinating. Instead of doing his own dirty work and wrestling Zaynab over himself, he used his evil puppet/alter ego Allah to help him get her off his adopted son. “Duh, I didn’t say it, but God wanted you to let go of your wife so that I could f*ck her.”
davej says
The Devil is in the Details. These children are being brainwashed to see Islam as a respectable equivalent to Christianity while hiding the fact that their Allah is a hateful God who wishes to see all other religions eliminated by force. This fact should disqualify any false equivalence and instead alert us to the clear and present danger that Islam actually represents. These children are being led like lambs to the slaughter.
Pal says
California: Muslim slams car into veteran, says ‘did it on purpose, in the name of Allah’:
https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2016/10/02/california-vehicular-jihad-in-the-name-of-allah/
gravenimage says
Pal, that appalling story was also covered at Jihad Watch here:
“California: Muslim plows vehicle into veteran’s car ‘in the name of Allah’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/10/california-muslim-plows-vehicle-into-veterans-car-in-the-name-of-allah
Norger says
And the MSM will continue to fail to address the implications of any of these questions.
J-pal says
…scary future…studying the counterfeit before the true money! I cannot see how an indoctrinated mind would be able to accept the teaching on Jewish and Christian faith after being threatened with death by studying the “counterfeit-religion” first. The distrust is written into the Quran – by libel. There was a death penalty on libel in the Roman Empire, but is not in islam. Islamophobia is inate in the Quran itself – so how can a child really understand things about religion by being indoctrinated first??? The “platform” to understand ‘god’, built up by the Quran, is fearing “blasphemy”. And the Original religion(s) Jewish and Christian faith, from which islam has stolen most of its ideas, are seen as blasphemy… studying islam before the Original ideas before the “counterfeit-religion” is to give a child and antodot against the Truth
J-pal says
.should be “antidote”…sorry
Angemon says
Great article.
LR says
I’m for teaching comparative religion in High Schools as extracurricular…
Have debates, healthy questioning…’What is the difference between a religion and a cult?…etc…
People need to learn about different religions…Re: Islam, there are plenty of educated debates online about it…Listen to Oxford and Cambridge debates in class, etc…Internet makes it easy for that these days.
Serving simplistic pablum to 7th graders, is such a waste of good educational time.
gravenimage says
LR wrote:
Serving simplistic pablum to 7th graders, is such a waste of good educational time.
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Oh, it’s *much* worse than that, LR–whitewashing Islam to Infidel children is suicidal, and makes it less likely that they will be able to recognize and face the threat of Islam before it is too late.
Charles Nutter says
Idiocy has always been with us. The teachers need to ask only one question of the students, “Is there any evidence?” And, of course, there is not All of the religions are based on stories without evidence. I think children can understand the idea of evidence!
mach37 says
There are several dozen verses in the Quran that ought to be on posters in the halls of every US school. School children should read them as often as it takes for them to understand that Islam is not a peaceful or tolerant religion. Here are a few of my ‘favorite’ verses, all conveniently narrowed down to two chapters:
5:32, 5:33, 5:38, 5:51,5:78
8:12, 8:39, 8:59, 8:60
Dacritic says
Those smart parents could ask their teenagers: “Well it really does seem so easy to convert to Islam. I’m wondering what if you need to get out?”
Islam the religion of killers says
Why can’t the parents just pull the kids from religious studies, the school system can’t force students to be taught dangerous & untrue lessons..
If it was my kids I’d be pushing for classes that teach the truth or giving them free study periods for other subjects.
How could CAIR object to the truth
Robert McKenna says
These were NOT “religious studies” ! This sh*t was hidden in Social Studies. The people responsible should be jailed !
Carolyne says
I live in Tennessee and I am quite proud of my fellow Tennesseans who put a stop to this indoctrination of our young people into the evil “Religion” of Islam. I do not believe any religion should be taught in public schools and certainly not this medieval cult of the devil.
Lioness says
All parents should be able to opt out their children from any religious teachings in school. I am sure that muslim parents object strongly to their children learning the Torah or reading the Bible. Religious freedom is at stake here, and every parent should be able to withdraw their child from a class that teaches a religion that is incompatible with their own beliefs.
Leon Kushner says
This was brilliant and right on point! We need to be taught exactly what Islam is and it must be done properly, otherwise don’t do it at all.
abad says
The only thing – if any – children need to learn about Islam is this:
Christians want to convert you.
Muslims want to kill you.
Period.
overman says
https://pics.onsizzle.com/you-cant-seriously-expect-me-to-believe-this-shit-com-2697381.png
gravenimage says
Hugh Fitzgerald: Teaching About Islam In Tennessee
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Indoctrination is exactly what this is–and this is happening in America’s heartland.
Robert McKenna says
Find the people responsible in the education system and see that they have no more contact with anything to do with schools for the rest of their lives. And may that time be short !
Buford says
It is a disgrace anything associated with Islam is Demonic & a sham Peace does not exist when
Muslims are involved there solution is not co-existing but rather to Chop off a head or torture somebody who is non Muslim the Hell with that. Kick them out of the US and they can preach this garbage in the Middle East where it belongs.
Robert McKenna says
How many of those 7th graders were told of people accused of being homosexual being thrown off tall buildings and then stoned if they weren’t dead ? How many were told of girls screaming in pain while some old crone sliced their crotches open ? How many were told of the little donkeys set on fire ? How many were told of the cats crucified alive ? How many were told of the wives being beaten ? How many were told of the dogs that were poisoned ? How many were told of the sons and daughters killed by their fathers for not following the tenets of islam ?
Why not give them a COMPLETE education of islam ?