Middle East studies in the News

[Racerbvd]

Your thoughts as many here are against saying prayers in school and the anti-American aclu sues when students say a prayer at graduation

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Middle East studies in the News
Jihad in Schools? [on Carver elementary school in San Diego]
by Editorial
Investor's Business Daily
July 10, 2007
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=268874251390676

Political Correctness: Seems the ACLU couldn't care less that a San Diego public school has set aside 15 minutes of classroom instruction time for Muslim students to pray, while non-Muslims twiddle their thumbs.

Right now it has no plans to legally challenge the budding madrassa as endorsement of a religion by government. Apparently the establishment clause only applies to the practice of Judeo-Christian rituals in public places.

The special accommodations for Carver Elementary's nearly 100 Somali Muslims don't stop with organized prayer. The school cafeteria has banned pork and other foods that conflict with the Islamic diet.

And the K-8 school has even added Arabic — the language of the Quran — to its curriculum, while segregating classes for girls, a la the Taliban.

In effect, Carver administrators have carved out a school within a school expressly for Muslims, elevating them above Christian and Jewish students. They've had 15 minutes of instruction time taken away from them, so Muslims can roll out their pray mats.

It amounts to a special privilege afforded a specific religion, which plainly does not have our best interests at heart. That same privilege is not extended to other faiths that are part of our traditional culture — and do not wish us ill or pray for the demise of our system of government.

Tough, say Muslim-rights groups. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, which is defending the Carver program, insists public schools must cater to the growing number of Muslim students. "Our country is transforming demographically, religiously," said the spokesman for CAIR's San Diego chapter. "Our country has to now accommodate things that are not traditionally accounted for before."

But when does accommodation become promotion? In California's brave new schools, Johnny has been forced to recite the Quran along with Ahmed.

Seventh-graders at a San Francisco-area school were required, even after 9/11, to "become Muslims" for two full weeks as part of California's world history curriculum. This included reciting the Muslim profession of faith — "Allah is the only true God and Muhammad is his messenger" — and chanting "Praise be to Allah" in response to teacher prompts.

Parents naturally were outraged that teachers would be shoving Islamic beliefs down their children's throats. And some of them sued the school district, only to lose in federal court. They appealed, but the ultra-liberal 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals out of San Francisco ruled that such Islamic catechism is constitutional.

There's a stealth jihad under way in our schools, and school officials, wittingly or not, are aiding it. The ACLU, which operates from a double standard, refuses to step in. That leaves it up to parents to stand up and insist that the purpose of our tax-supported public schools is to educate our children in English as Americans.

If Muslims want to spend class time bowing and praying to Allah and learning in Arabic, they have the right and the freedom to attend private Islamic schools.

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[Porsche-O-Phile]

If prayer in school is so important to these budding fanatics, why don't they attend a religious school? I don't give a flying fig if you're Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Xian or whatever. Keep it the ***** out of school. Or go to your own private brainwashing camp on your own dime. It has no place whatsoever being funded by my hard-stolen tax dollars.

[Racerbvd]

Originally posted by Porsche-O-Phile
If prayer in school is so important to these budding fanatics, why don't they attend a religious school? I don't give a flying fig if you're Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Xian or whatever. Keep it the ***** out of school. Or go to your own private brainwashing camp on your own dime. It has no place whatsoever being funded by my hard-stolen tax dollars.

Why isn't the anti-American aclu doing anything???

[Tobra]

The ACLU is silent because they don't want the Muslims to get pissed and fly a plane into their headquarters or park a truck full of fertilizer and diesel fuel in front.

When I first saw this story I thought, thank goodness they are screwing up so bad they are putting prayer rooms in the public school, surely this will piss off the left enough to stand up and say no way Jose(or more accurately, no way Abdul).

No dice, Newdow trying to get the pledge of allegiance stopped is front page for weeks, this, nothing

[Evans, Marv]

This whole thing was started after a substitute teacher exposed it after an assignment in that school.
According to her, it's not 15 minutes of prayer time. It is an hour of time right after lunch, when a class of around 30 females (the class she was subbing for) wearing scarves close the curtains of the classroom and a special muslim teacher comes in to conduct the prayer sessions. The hour, according to the substitute is part of the lesson plan. The school district denies it claiming it is part of a recess time - which is immediately after the lunch break. According to the substitute teacher, the U.S. flag was wrapped up during the prayer session.
Additionally, the teacher claims she left her notes on clipped to the lesson plan for the regular teacher when she left as she usually does and didn't make a copy. After all of the publicity, she asked for a copy of the lesson plan from the district, and hasn't received it yet.
I agree, with those asking why the ACLU isn't on this like flies on schittt.

[DanielDudley]

There is a difference between praying in school, and being forced to pray in school.

[slakjaw]

Originally posted by Porsche-O-Phile
If prayer in school is so important to these budding fanatics, why don't they attend a religious school? I don't give a flying fig if you're Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Xian or whatever. Keep it the ***** out of school. Or go to your own private brainwashing camp on your own dime. It has no place whatsoever being funded by my hard-stolen tax dollars.

+1

[Joeaksa]

Originally posted by DanielDudley
There is a difference between praying in school, and being forced to pray in school.

Do not know of anyone ever being "forced" to pray in school.

This is plain BS and needs to stop immediately. If the muslims get prayer time then all other religions do as well. If not then stop any prayer in school, period!