At last, some pushback against what is a nationwide problem.
“Massachusetts Taxpayers Sue Over Anti-Semitic, Pro-Islam School Lessons,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, August 17, 2018:
A group of Massachusetts-based taxpayers are suing the school committee in the city of Newton, a wealthy, liberal enclave, over what they claim is the leadership’s ongoing promotion of anti-Semitic school materials and the promotion of Islamic religious beliefs, according to an announcement from the organization handling the lawsuit.
Education Without Indoctrination, a local community group driving the lawsuit, “claims multiple violations of the Massachusetts Open Meeting Law stemming from the school committee’s handling of a burgeoning scandal over anti-Semitic lessons and the promotion of Islamic religious beliefs as objective facts in the public school district’s history classes,” according to a press release from the group.
The lawsuit stems from a controversy of Newton Public Schools use of what the group claims are “unvetted educational materials” produced by the Saudi Arabian oil company ARAMCO and the Qatari government, which has long been cited for its funding of terrorism.
“In teaching world history, Newton Public Schools (NPS) use unvetted educational materials funded by the Saudi oil company ARAMCO and the government of Qatar. As a result, Newton public school students are propagandized with materials that slander Israel and the Jewish people, and that falsify history to promote the Islamic religion in public schools,” the press release states.
“Just this past May, Newton North High School invited an anti-Semitic group to screen Palestinian propaganda films to its students,” it continues. “For this, NPS Superintendent David Fleishman earned a rebuke from the New England branch of the Anti-Defamation League and Boston’s Jewish Community Relations Council.”
Concerned parents have been stonewalled in their attempts to gain information from the school leadership about these activities, the group claims….
Norger says
Teaching this stuff in Newton public schools is totally “in your face;” Newton is one of most heavily Jewish towns in Massachusetts.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that background, Norger.
Jay says
Thx to obama and his 8 years of liberal progressive destruction, this type of propaganda was able to reign freely in our public school systems and in our government! Betsy DeVoss has an enormous job to rid our American schools of this type of false misleading information. All government funds should be withheld from these public schools and people should be fired!! This is America! And this should never be allowed! Thank goodness we have a true patriot in Pres Trump! ??????????
Peggy says
What I find interesting is that none of the academia ever said anything about it while it was going on.
Was there no teacher or lecturer concerned enough to say something?
jule says
They never bother to read the stuff or check with al Azhar (the Sunni authority) or Mullahs of Iran who say Islam is EXACTLY as said in the Qur’an for yesterday, TODAY, and tomorrow until Judgement Day. There is no moderate Qur’an. Its a problem when Educators remain ignorant and are not required to do the research.
StellaSaidSo says
Excellent idea. Let’s hope it catches on. This indoctrination is happening in schools throughout the Western world, and absolutely must be stopped.
Savvy Kafir says
Agreed. I hope the same thing can be done in American universities, which have become indoctrination centers for creating PC snowflakes & clueless SJWs.
brane pilot says
Take a look at who is on the school boards and you will understand what is going on.
While Muslims represent a tiny, single digit percent of the population, they tend to be heavily represented on school boards.
This is not an accident.
Their Leftist-Progressive fellow board members dare not do anything but rubber stamp their suggestions or risk losing PC virtue signaling credibility.
Same has been going on in Britain for a couple of decades longer. See how it turned out for them.
Sad.
balam says
Disallow Muslim/Arab PETRO DLLARS being PUMPED into the American schools and colleges and UNIVERSiTiES ..NEVER ACCEPT A GIFT FROM A MOHAMMADAN!!!!
jule says
And not allow private Muslim schools and building more Mosques with money, clerics from Qatar, Saudi, Turkey or Iran. Not from any Muslim country or Muslim orgs in supposed ‘Free Countries’. Just get the MONEY of donations out of schools and politics. We should not allow ourselves to be BOUGHT off.
jewdog says
Now that Islamists have learned to weaponize the language of civil rights, they have all the gullible liberal elites in places like Newton kissing their butts. I hope the parents win the lawsuit.
Lydia Church says
Someone finally learned their lesson!
Good for them for standing up against evil!
Lydia Church says
“Evil triumphs when good people do nothing.”
gravenimage says
Hear, hear, Lydia!
Wellington says
While Islam is steeped in anti-Semitism, as aptly demonstrated by mortimer’s 2:13 P.M. post above, it is instructive how many non-Muslims jump on the bandwagon of anti-Semitism when given even the slightest chance to do so. Just as Islam is iniquitous, so is anti-Semitism practically ubiquitous.
Yes indeed, two scourges through the centuries—Islam and anti-Semitism. And neither, unfortunately, are going away anytime soon.
Peggy says
I have never been able to understand why so many people accept antisemetism.
How can so many be convinced about “evil Jews” when there is no evidence to support it? Don’t sensible people need evidence before they accept something like this?
Many people accept “religion of peace” BS when there is so much evidence to dispute it but accept negative impression of Jews when there is no evidence to support it.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Wellington, Peggy, and Joan.
jule says
USA CAN do it. Truly, we can because showing the Qur’an to be AntiSemitic is the BEST and winning way to go at it. it cannot be taught, preached, recruited for here. BUT neither can neonazigroups, whiteSupremacists, KKKlan and this must be faced by the right. They are all antiSemitic, AntiMulticultural, which cannot be taught in UsA as legal.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
What a crummy news report! Where is the bill of particulars detailing “anti-Semitic lessons and the promotion of Islamic religious beliefs as objective facts in the public school district’s history classes”? Not a single example is given!
revereridesagain says
Here you go. Remember, this is Marxachusetts and the media will put as few incriminating examples into a report as they can. And don’t you love that “the group claims” bit? Well, here’s the backup for those claims! The people opposing what has been going on in the Newton schools have been banging their heads against this stone wall for years.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/07/case-study-biased-curriculum-on-israel-and-islam-in-a-massachusetts-school-system/
Older Canadian says
Thank you the link.
It is absolutely shocking not just the contents but for the length of time this has been going on. It is an awakening. We all should be checking the doings in our school in our area.
gravenimage says
Thank you for the link.
jule says
Please read the Qur’an! Its all in there and the Qur’an IS Islam fro yesterday, TODAY and tomorrow until Judgement Day. JUST READ IT. Just check out al Azhar (authority of Sunni, Cairo) and Mullahs in Iran. They will set you straight. Its the Qur’an which IS Islam and all the warlord added kill the Jew and replace Judaism with ISLAM ONLY as the One Legit and True Abrahamic Religion….as Allah cursed the Jew. Its all in the Qur’an. And NO Multicultural allowed in Islamist countries or by order of Qur’an/Islam!
Crusades Were Right says
When will Westerners finally understand that the Islamic world stands in opposition to the West and its core values? Remember the communists? Even if we weren’t engaged in direct conflict with them we understood that deep down they were out to get us, and we took appropriate measures to ensure that didn’t happen. Imagine what the world would be like today if we had never even tried to resist communism.
Wellington says
“When will Westerners finally understand that the Islamic world stands in opposition to the West and its core values?”
Could be never. If so, the West is in deep shit.
Elisha says
Are these the same taxpayers that reject God’s truth in the Holy Bible? Too funny. Reap what you sow! The West’s rejection of God’s truth and His sacrifice on the cross at Calvary is plain to see in the punishment it now receives from Him, just as the rebellious Israelites, over and over and over again:
“I will make justice the measuring line
And righteousness the level;
Then hail will sweep away the refuge of lies
And the waters will overflow the secret place.
Your covenant with death will be canceled,
And your pact with Sheol will not stand;
When the overwhelming scourge passes through,
Then you become its trampling place.
As often as it passes through, it will seize you;
For morning after morning it will pass through, anytime during the day or night,
And it will be sheer terror to understand what it means.” – Isaiah 28:17-19
“You only have I chosen among all the families of the earth; Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.” – Amos 3:2
Are we learning yet?
revereridesagain says
First Amendment. Please read it. I DO NOT have to subscribe to YOUR RELIGION to effectively fight for my own freedom from anyone else’s. So many of you Christians blather about how you “respect” our choices about what to believe, but your constant thundering about what your gods are going to do to those of us who don’t accept your myths as reality make me doubt that. I’ve worked in whatever ways I can trying to warn people about the Islam threat since 9/11, and still your gods — if they existed — would consign me to an eternal fire in hell?
StellaSaidSo says
+1
fredoniahead says
I think you drastically confuse true Apostolic Biblical Christianity with false Churchianity which evolved over centuries from Roman paganism and neo-Platonist thought.
Unfortunately, the latter is the most prevalent with many false and unbiblical pagan doctrines having been syncretically mixed into Apostolic Christianity. Thus, causing most of these false dogmas people blindly adhere to. Like ‘flying off to heaven’ or ‘burning in hell’. Neither are biblical and come out of Greek mythology and the popularity of Dante’s Inferno. The truth is far more wondrous than these limited narrow views of mainstream churchianity.
And, yes, Jesus Christ is the only way, truth, and life. PERIOD!!. There is no debate…It’s an easy choice.
But this is a topic far too involved to delve into here.
I am thinking about building a site of my own to try and clear up many of these false beliefs people have which cause many folks to turn away, instead of too, our Saviour. My problem is, I am techno-challenged in that regard, so I am going to have to learn.
God Bless and keep the mind open. Don’t conflate human folly with God.
jule says
Really, none of that matters over the issue of Islam/Qur’an being unconstitutional and against our laws. Try not to confuse people about Islam’s core goals with any other religion. Islam is not a religion like others and is political and covers every aspect of life and MUST be believed by them or get punished/killed. That goes for non Muslims in their countries and is the goal for here. Read their Qur’an which IS Islam, no denying possible and see the PROBLEM. This is not about Islam over Jesus only (who THEY say was actually a Muslim) but Islam over EVERYONE and every religion, especially Judaism. they cannot practice in UsA.
jule says
The thing that this attitude must learn is that ISLAM says the SAME thing about their book and its just we say-you say argument with no end. One Religion cannot fight another religion with faith or reason. It will not work. Do you really want to end this thing and show that Islam is against our constitution or our values of freedom or NOT? then keep you views but do not use them as argument. Use the Constitution and Free speech which HAS Borders & is against any incite, slander, libel, treason,(and a few others) but reading the Qur’an in mosque as it is or teaching it to people is AGAINST all of these. So are Nazigroups, white Supremacists and KKKlan and they All have to go. Freedom does not cover AntiFreedom seekers. These groups Teach/recruit anti-freedom. Thats treason. They just cannot do it and it is our Duty to stop it and keep what we are Supposed to be. Islam/Qur’an is pure Racism to Jewish everyone and teaches Jews are cursed by Allah and all are enemies of Islam to be fought until Judgement Day. It just does teach that. No Muslim will Dare change it or he be X-Muslim with apostasy to be punished or killed. That is the law of Islam.
Religion cannot fight another Religion. The constitution CAN fight antiFreedom false laws/teachings. If Hitler were here today we would be duty bound to arrest/or deport him.
gravenimage says
Elisha, the idea that God wants us to be raped and murdered and conquered by ravening Muslims is *very* questionable.
abad says
I am surprised this is happening in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
jule says
It will happen many more places as the antiSemitism that Islam, nazigroups, KKKlan, white Supremacists do teach is against the constitution and law and will not be allowed here. We would deport Hitler if he were today for his anti freedom anti Multicultural views. The Qur’an, which most of us read, is pure antiSemitism, anti Judaism as a legit Religion of Abraham. We can show you many passages and even one is too much. No other religion says kill the muslims or erase Buddhism or Hindus. But Islam/Quran teaches that. There is NO moderate Qur’an. Al Azhar and Iranian Mullahs would NEVER ALLOW IT. So your sunk here. Its just a matter of time.
Jayell says
Well done, the Massachusetts tax-payers! Western authorities, whoever and wherever they are, have absolutely no excuse not to understand their own well-established standards of properly-informed respect, moral decency and integrity, so quite how the islamomaniacs managed to get this sort of thing past the powers-that-be should be investigated. And quite how it was imagined that they could get away with it defeats me unless we’re dealing with a level of blinkered, bigoted arrogance that hitherto hasn’t been characteristic of the respectable circles in the West.
John Forbes says
Very small but encouraging start to Democratic protection.
Now all schools need to stop Isalmisation
Frank says
Qatar and Saudi Arabia developed and financed Common Core which is one reason why public schools are seeing the white-washing of Islam in their textbooks. We need to pull the plug on this insidious methodology which is dumbing down our children.
jule says
absolutely. There is NO Moderate Qur’an and Qur’an AS WRITEN is ISLAM. A Muslim must be a BELIEVER in every word of the Qur’an for yesterday, TODAY and tomorrow until Judgement Day and they cannot deny it. Any moderate descriptions are pure deception. No One can Change the Qur’an and all Muslims have to read it and BELIEVE (believe that Jews are cursed and the most evil enemies of Allah & Islam, who they say are the ONLY legit religion of Abraham. Thats why they say they must take over, per Allah. And ‘Allah’ or what they pretend he said, outweighs any countries laws. What they SAY Allah commanded IS against our Laws)
Richard Courtemanche says
Good on the taxpayers since the administrators are irresponsible and usillanimous.
TWG says
They’ve been doing this to our youth for years. It’s way past time to shut them down, prosecute them, and punish them accordingly for their crimes against society.
I’m glad to see parents and other taxpayers actually DOING SOMETHING about this nightmare. So many kids lost to islammunism already………..
jule says
many of the kids on the left hear Islam follows Marxism so they think its grea. But they no nothing og the antiJew, anti Multicultural, Muslim ONLYstuff and have never read the Qur’an. They just know our economic system is rigged, unfair and no one has the chance for the ‘American Dream’ anymore. We are highjacked by Multinational globalist Private Corporations. Totally highjacked. Even Washington has become PRIVATE, not for public anymore. The ones who grabbed it, will not let go easily. Not even for Trump and not even completely By Trump himself..though he is not as easily bought by just anyone….STILL..he is a corporation and will not give up the power it wields or make policy that would hurt him or his. Still, he seems against globalism/NAFTA/WTO which gutted us.
gravenimage says
Massachusetts: Taxpayers sue over anti-Semitic, pro-Islam public school lessons
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Good for them! I hope they win.