My latest in PJ Media:
Prayer in public schools has been a hot-button issue in the United States ever since the Supreme Court ruled against it in the landmark 1962 decision Engel v. Vitale. But now it’s back, at least in one school district in Newsomland. EdSource reported Monday that California’s “Elk Grove Unified School District began offering culturally appropriate meals and setting aside rooms in many of its middle and high schools for prayer during Muslim holidays in preparation for the additional Afghan refugee students it expects in the next month.”
Ironically, as Daniel Greenfield noted, the Elk Grove Unified School District “became famous for Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, in which an atheist sued the school because the Pledge of Allegiance includes the word, ‘Under God’. The case was an awkward mess that went to the Supreme Court, but should never have gotten that far and ended up being tossed out because Newdow didn’t actually have custody of his daughter.”
There was, however, a case in Texas in 2017 that establishes an important precedent for what Elk Grove Unified School District is doing for Afghan evacuee students now. Liberty High School in Frisco, Texas, established a prayer room for Muslim students, drawing a rebuke from Texas Deputy Attorney General Andrew Leonie, who said: “Liberty High School’s policy should be neutral toward religion. However, it appears that students are being treated different based on their religious beliefs. Such a practice, of course, is irreconcilable with our nation’s enduring commitment to religious liberty.”
Indeed. One parent put it this way at a Frisco school board meeting in 2017: “Liberty High School is not a mosque. It’s not a synagogue. It’s not a tabernacle. It’s not a temple. It’s not a church. It is a school. It is a public school supported by taxpayers for the purpose of educating our children.”
However, Liberty High was able to assuage concerns. Several weeks after Leonie’s statement, Marc Rylander, director of communications for the Texas attorney general’s office, issued another statement, saying: “We are grateful for Frisco ISD’s prompt response and have been in contact with their attorneys. They assured us today that students of all faith, or no faith, may now use this meeting room during non-instructional time on a first-come, first-served basis for student-led activities. Religious liberty is a cornerstone of our society and we are glad that students at Frisco ISD may practice their faith in accordance with their beliefs.”
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gravenimage says
Prayer in Public Schools Is Back…as Long as It’s Prayer to Allah
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The law can always be ignored for Muslims. And how many Infidels realize that Muslim prayers call for the destruction of the Kuffar?
By the way, Elk Grove is just outside the California state capitol of Sacramento.
Maemae says
How insidious of them. They know exactly what they’re doing and because American’s are too cowardly to stand up. When American’s say nothing they’re literally following sharia. Their silence is their submission. Foolish kafirs, when will they ever learn. They’re throwing away their own children’s way of life and freedoms to appease Islam. Meanwhile, our jizya continues to rise under the guise of “welfare”. Smh.
Graham Bryant says
Well said and true!
gravenimage says
So true, Maemae.
mortimer says
Noah Webster a forefather of American education stated that “Education is useless without the Bible.”. The American republic was created by and for a moral people and many Fathers of the Revolution were knowledgeable Bible readers.
However, the idea of SPECIAL ACCOMODATION and SPECIAL PLEADING for Muslim supremacists has taken hold, mainly because naïve Pollyannas in political positions have virtually no understanding of political Islam and do not realize how permeating and deceitful it is.
The goal of Islamic education is not just to worship in the prescribed manner, but to create a SUPREMACIST ARMY of young men ready, willing and able to conduct jihad against the filthy, disbelieving KUFAAR.
Those naïve, American Pollyannas have NO IDEA about the canonical hatred against kafirs being inculcated in seemingly innocent Islamic prayers.
john smith says
Every time the drop to knees to pray they curse and denounce us.
somehistory says
Yes, they chant that their demon ‘god’ will allow them and empower them to slay us all, to cut our throats, etc.
And this is being allowed while those same atheists who oppose Christians so aggressively, don’t say a word, not a peep of the…wrong…”separation of church and state” they have used to keep Christians from even mentioning the word God or the name of Jesus in schools and other places.
Many people are unaware that the different State Constitutions have written within, much concerning the Bible and the God of the Bible, with many atheists making the claim that this has never been a nation where most were Christians…”A Christian Nation.”
Now those same groups stand aside while the mozlums wish to attack us all…including the ones who hate Christians so very much…and “pray” for it to be.
Graham Bryant says
This is gross wickedness.Does not God know?The Lord is angry with islam and those who appease islam and their fake god allah. The Lord God is being pushed aside-America shall indeed pay for these evil actions not standing up against the evil as they should be.
Graham Bryant says
The prayer to God for the school should be to the great God of the bible not allah of islam. And islam muslims should pray away from the school on their own time as they desire-of course it has no benefit to them.The USA comes under the God of the bible and the bible promises follow through America because they are God s national lsrael!
PRCS says
You’re a bigot and your entire post is pure bullshit!
spiro says
So what are then non Muslims going to do about the rights being
Ignored just sit on their hands most likely
Unless there’s push back your going to be second class citizens
In your country
Spiro says
Bad typing again
somehistory says
When I was in school, in ninth grade, the homeroom teacher would allow anyone who wished to read something from the Bible. She never said anything about what she believed, but after the reading, she would allow us time to pray before going to our first class. If the person reading was in the middle of a verse when the bell rang, she wanted the student to finish before we all got up to go.
Then, along came what’s-her-face, m.m. o’hare and her demands. Then, students could still talk about belief and whether or not, but the teachers were not allowed to say anything pro or con. No more asking kids if they wanted to read a verse.
Some years ago, my son and I were discussing the fact that football teams, valedictorian, etc. are not allowed to even say Jesus or God at school and he said, “But it’s good because how would you like it if the mozlums could talk about their ‘god’ and read their book; and if Christians can, then so can mozlums.”
Now, we are at this stage. The schools in CA are having kids say prayers to the Aztec ‘gods.’ And all over the place, mozlums are having it as they wish…preying rugs, having their ‘pillars’ part of the study and the children having to say that the mass-murdering, raper of children, sex-mad slave-trading thief, sack of maggot dung, lying son of satan is a “prophet,” and “lessons” on the rest of the filth from satan.
In the days of Noah, God saw what the people were doing, but He gave mankind 120 years to keep living and then He brought the flood; and all but Noah, his wife, his three sons and his three daughters-in-law perished because they refused to listen and do as God decreed.
Jesus said, “Just as in the days of Noah, they were eating, they were drinking, men were marrying, women being given in marriage and they took no note, until the flood came and swept them all away. So it will be in the time of the Son of Man (referring to Himself and the “time” when He returns.).”
God has allowed mankind to come to the brink of wiping themselves off the face of the earth. Why? “God is patient with you because He does not desire that any be destroyed, but that all should attain to repentance.”
But just as His patience had a limit….120 years…in the time of Noah, His patience now has a limit set on it. He will not allow these scum to destroy His creation, but will soon bring an end to the evil. Every last bit of it.
Peacelover says
+ yearning for the time
somehistory says
Thank you. So am I.
Politicallyincorrectistruth says
WHAT A LOAD OF SUPERSTITIOUS NONSENSE. Religious nutters have been saying for years that their fictitious god is going to kill EVERYONE but his believers. You are actually calling for billions of people to be exterminated….sick and delusional. I’m shocked that you are so sinister.
If you used your brain for just 1 minute you would see how the Noah’s arc story is laughable nonsense….
Reality not religion.
Graham Bryant says
lndeed it is true that the Lordg God shall deal with islam in his wrath to come…and thos who appease islam and their god allah of the quran who is non-existent!! THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY IS INDEED THE TRUE CREATOR AND HE IS A JEALOUS GOD. And islam claims that Jesus is in their quran-THAT IS RUBBISH!! JUST ANOTHER LIE BY ISLAM…AS USUAL!! ISLAM muslims continue to use various platforms to progress their islam agenda – to islamize the host land to make it a muslim country with sharia law as rule-PITY THEY WORSHIP THE WRONG GOD!! OUR BELOVED CREATOR IS BEING REJECTED BY WHITE MEN WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER by appeasing islam and their god allah who is not God!!
PRCS says
“lndeed it is true that the Lordg God shall deal with islam in his wrath to come”
No, it’s what you believe.
And about your obvious racism…….
PRCS says
“lndeed it is true that the Lordg God shall deal with islam in his wrath to come”
No, it’s what you believe.
And, about your obvious racism…..
gravenimage says
Islam is not actually a race–it is a religion and an ideology.
PRCS says
Times have changed.
Public school students, no matter the religion followed–or none, are no longer subjected to readings from another’s “sacred” texts.
Thankfully.
tgusa says
Over time, witnessing what has been going on, I have changed from follow the rule of law to telling the establishment and their rule of law, gfy.
We need a, gfy #metoo, movement.
Clifford Fodor says
I am concerned about the Jews in America and about Israel. As more and more Muslims are brought into our country, we are slowing turning from being Israel’s best friend to a neutral country, to someday becoming Israel’s enemy. AOC, Ilhan, and Tliab tried to delete funds for Israel’s missile defense (Iron Dome). This is only a taste of what’s to come as more and more Muslims are elected to Congress.
Walter Sieruk says
This abhorrent systematic mind programming of impressible youngsters into the Islamic indoctrination system Islamic thought under the false premise of being “open minded” and the politically correct concept of multiculturalism under the guise of “education” shows the strong unrelenting influence of the stealth jihadist Muslims in the American public school system is both detestable and loathsome.
Such stealth jihadist infiltration and subversion of the public schools that manipulates youth who are very impressionable and susceptible a procedure that in nothing more that a gradual Islamic brainwashing of children is a process of a slow mind control for Islam is totally unconscionable.
This Muslim stealth jihad approach or other jihadist technique of Islamic interference in American public schools needs to be stopped now for sake of the children and for the future of America.
Maemae says
How insidious of them. They know exactly what they’re doing and because American’s are too cowardly to stand up. When American’s say nothing they’re literally following sharia. Their silence is their submission. Foolish kafirs, when will they ever learn. They’re throwing away their own children’s way of life and freedoms to appease Islam. Meanwhile, our jizya continues to rise under the guise of “welfare”. Smh.
tgusa says
As an American you don’t have to take it. Push back hard. Millions of Americans are already doing that and that number will increase as we are just getting started. Yes, small un-alighned forces are aligned against us, so what.
Walter Sieruk says
Yes ,you are 100% right Good posting
gravenimage says
Patriotic Americans have to speak out.
Jim says
Hopefully the idea is turn the other cheek or the Golden Rule or respect for other faiths. But it does seem like admitting Islam to the schools is a surrender or appeasement. People know how violent certain people get if anyone opposes their wishes. My grade school let students go to a private home for religious instruction for an hour once a week. There was also the pledge of allegiance. There was no prayer in school, and in the grades 7 to 12 there was no more religion in school, as far as I know. If only Muslims can practice their five prayer sessions a day or other religious practices, but the rest of the school is prohibited, then it is basically capitulation to Islam. I would say that religious activities should not be allowed in the schools. People should arrange for their five prayers a day or their calls to prayer in the private sphere and not be able to propagate their faith in schools, other than private religious schools.
tgusa says
Voluntary is the keyword here. Voluntary religious services must be allowed in government institutions as per the US Constitution. All should be allowed but if you are preaching, lets kill everyone else, well, I believe a line has to be drawn there.
PRCS says
“I believe a line has to be drawn there”
Absolutely.
gravenimage says
+1
David says
I say religious freedom for all peaceful religions. Islam calls itself ‘the religion of peace’, but it is clearly NOT a peaceful religion. Peace for muslims means when there is total submission to islam by everyone.
Graham Bryant says
True! What islam muslkims do not know is that there shall be a day of wrath and reckoning with all islam who worship a false idol god(allah of the quran) rember Elijah AND THE 350 PROPHET OF BAAL(ISLAM) after they called upon their god(allah) he did not answer then when the Lord God answered ELIJAH he rained down fire from heaven in the sight of all the lsraelites and it consumed the water in the trench and the wood and the sacrifice completely- thereafter the 350 false god idolators(islam) were taken to the brook Kidron and were slaughtered as instructed by the Creator-THAT WHAT GOD THINKS OF ISLAM AND THEIR FALSE GOD WHO(SANCTIONED BY THEIR QURAN WRITINGS) KILLS THE INFIDEL INNOCENT AND RAPE THE INFIDEL WOMEN AND CHILDREN- No wonder God is coming in anger and WRATH against islam and this evil present world!! Nuclear war ia at the door………the Lord s coming draws nigh people of this earth-and you shall ALL see it with your own eyes!!!
Politicallyincorrectistruth says
Your delusional words remind me of the kid at school who has a argument with another kid and he says “oh yeah, well my dads bigger than your dad and could beat him”. Your fictitious “sky daddy” is going to KILL, KILL, KILL. It’s serious mental illness….delusional nonsense. Religious nutters have been saying it for years and years, that their magic sky daddy is going to KILL, KILL, KILL. What happened to the love you people keep going on about? If your magic sky daddy is so powerful, why doesn’t he just make everybody at birth believe your nonsense? Instead of killing all non-christians in a big lake of fire (that “somehistory” loves to go on about), why doesn’t your magic sky daddy just prove muslims wrong by appearing and change their minds? And what about Hindus? Are they all going to die in this big plan of yours? Stop with the death threats that you keep sprouting…your imaginary god doesn’t need you making announcements for him…….
somehistory says
Yes, I **Love** to “go on about” What our Creator is going to do.
I don’t “go on” about the “lake” but you seem to focus on my comments more than you do any others, so I’m sure you have read those words a time or two.
I write them as a warning…as my God has instructed, commanded, me to do so everyone…even mockers and the spiritually ill such as your are…can know ahead of time, so if one decides to keep mocking and deriding, then that one is at fault when Judgment is meted out to all who have not shown that they have a good heart and a will to do what is right toward other people.
You can mock all you want to…until God says the mocking time has expired.
And yes, millions probably will die. Jesus said that ” wide is the gate and broad and spacious is the road leading to destruction and ***many*** are going in through it.”
I don’t know how many are the “many,” but no one who is of a good heart and wants to do right will be destroyed.
If a man builds a house and then decides to tear it down, that is his right. If a man plants a garden or field and then decides to ploy it under, that is his right.
God made the earth and all things on it, including humans. He has the “Right” to do anything He pleases with any or all of it.
But, you go on with your mocking. Makes no difference to me what words you call me. I am secure in my belief. If you were secure in yours, you wouldn’t feel the need to call me and others names for ours.
tgusa says
You are wasting your time somehistory. Politicallyincorrectistruth is an agent provocateur, an adversary, using a name like, love and kisses, when in reality it is the polar opposite and it might as well be, death and destruction. Naming conventions are a long used leftist tactic.
somehistory says
tgusa,
I know. He’s one of those who are paid to try to influence others to the wrong way of thinking. My comments to him are a waste for him, but perhaps not for all others who may be on the fence still.
And, he can’t say he wasn’t informed, warned, beforehand.
I was thinking about Noah last night…He was a “Preacher of Righteousness” so that means he tried to influence others, to get them to be saved from the flood, but when he went in the Ark and God shut the door, that ended the preaching and warning from Noah.
Someday, we will no longer warn people of what is coming.
I hope you are having a good day, and thank you.
PRCS says
You’re an idiot.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Hello, David. You say, “Islam calls itself ‘the religion of peace'”. Please prove this assertion. A citation of the relevant verse in the Quran will suffice. I am particularly interested in the use of the word “the”, which implies that there is only one religion of peace.
gravenimage says
The “Islam is a religion of peace” thing is quite recent–it dates to a magazine article in India in 1930. This is intended to fool Infidels–there is nothing in the Qur’an or other Islamic texts that says this.
Peacelover says
+
Graham Bryant says
True! What islam muslkims do not know is that there shall be a day of wrath and reckoning with all islam who worship a false idol god(allah of the quran) rember Elijah AND THE 350 PROPHET OF BAAL(ISLAM) after they called upon their god(allah) he did not answer then when the Lord God answered ELIJAH he rained down fire from heaven in the sight of all the lsraelites and it consumed the water in the trench and the wood and the sacrifice completely- thereafter the 350 false god idolators(islam) were taken to the brook Kidron and were slaughtered as instructed by the Creator-THAT WHAT GOD THINKS OF ISLAM AND THEIR FALSE GOD WHO(SANCTIONED BY THEIR QURAN WRITINGS) KILLS THE INFIDEL INNOCENT AND RAPE THE INFIDEL WOMEN AND CHILDREN- No wonder God is coming in anger and WRATH against islam and this evil present world!! Nuclear war ia at the door………the Lord s coming draws nigh people of this earth-and you shall ALL see it with your own eyes!!!
Politicallyincorrectistruth says
Your delusional words remind me of the kid at school who has a argument with another kid and he says “oh yeah, well my dads bigger than your dad and could beat him”. Your fictitious “sky daddy” is going to KILL, KILL, KILL. It’s serious mental illness….delusional nonsense. Religious nutters have been saying it for years and years, that their magic sky daddy is going to KILL, KILL, KILL. What happened to the love you people keep going on about? If your magic sky daddy is so powerful, why doesn’t he just make everybody at birth believe your nonsense? Instead of killing all non-christians in a big lake of fire (that “somehistory” loves to go on about), why doesn’t your magic sky daddy just prove muslims wrong by appearing and change their minds? And what about Hindus? Are they all going to die in this big plan of yours? Stop with the death threats that you keep sprouting…your imaginary god doesn’t need you making announcements for him…….
somehistory says
My goodness: a copy and paste.
You know piit, if you were as intelligent as you believe yourself to be, you would realize that what you call yourself means we are correct….that what we write is Truth.
As for your last line…Our GOD is powerful enough to act without anyone making announcements for Him and if we did not, He still would act. However, we are showing our willingness to do His Will by obeying His commands to **tell others**…Ezekiel sets the example and tells us that we are to be watchmen and sound the warning.
You don’t have to listen, but your constant mocking shows clearly that you are hearing the warning. You just are so insecure that you can’t ignore it as you would like to, so you mock and ridicule.
OLD GUY says
WTF. It seems that the same left that took prayer out of school now wants islamic prayer in school. Sorry can’t have it both ways. Bring christian prayer Bach into our schools and we will have a better society over all.
PRCS says
As these prayer rooms are on and in taxpayer-funded properties, will Muslim boys be prevented from forcing girls to the back of the room during those prayers?
Kenneth J Johnson says
Some lawyers shoould have a field day with litigatiion on this one Ken
gravenimage says
It doesn’t really matter what your views are about prayer in the schools in general–this bowing to Islamic norms is bad for Christians *and* secularists–and any other non-Muslims.
PRCS says
III