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As children return to school this week, following the
Christmas break, 7th graders in a growing number of public schools, who arenot permitted to wear a cross or speak the name of Jesus, will be requiredto attend an intensive three week course on Islam; a course in whichstudents are mandated to learn the tenets of Islam, study the importantfigures of the faith, wear a robe, adopt a Muslim name and stage their ownJihad.
In Byron, California, parents were outraged when students came home with their handouts and were told what was being taught. Their complaints to the school principal not only were ignored, but officials of this public school, funded by tax dollars, essentially fluffed them off.
The public schools in California so stealthily slipped this course into the 7th grade curriculum that even another 7th grade teacher, Elizabeth Christina Lemings, was totally in the dark that this was being taught until her son, Joseph, who is a 7th grader in the same school where she teaches,brought home the handouts.
“We could never teach Christianity like this,” Lemings said to ANS during anon-site interview. “We can’t even mention the name of Jesus in the public schools, but over there,” she pointed to the building next to hers, “theyteach Islam as the true religion, and students are taught about Islam andhow to pray to Allah.”
Lemings, in her second year of teaching in the Byron (Northern California)Union School District, has been a Christian since 1987. The government school system requires that she teach evolution in her science class with noreference to creationism or any contrasting viewpoint to Darwin’s theory.She quickly learned that God and Christianity are out (forbidden) but that
Islam is in.
The textbook used for the Islamic course, Across The Centuries, is publishedby Houghton-Mifflin (Boston, Ma.). It is described as a SocialStudies/History book and has been adopted by the California School System.
In it, Islam is presented broadly in a totally positive manner, whereas the restricted references to Christianity, is centered on The Reformation, Martin Luther and The Catholic Church. Everything Christian is shown in a negative light, with events such as the Inquisition, the Salem witch-hunts,etc. highlighted in bold, black type.
This is proper for a complete study of history. However, there is not onenegative to be found about Islam in this one-sided account, such as thewars, massacres, cruelties against Christians and other non-Muslims that Islam has consistently perpetrated over the centuries.Nor is any mention made of the way Muslims treat their own people, cuttingoff hands, feet and heads for even the slightest violations of the Islamic tenets of faith, or the shocking way they treat their women.
The ‘miraculous’ events leading up to the Koran, the ‘holy’ book of Islam,and other ‘revelations’ are presented as factual. Any reference of the miraculous regarding Christianity is always set next to a disclaimer stating that; “It was (is) believed by Christians (or an individual such as MartinLuther) that…”, implying an absence of credibility about the stated event…
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Christmas break, 7th graders in a growing number of public schools, who arenot permitted to wear a cross or speak the name of Jesus, will be requiredto attend an intensive three week course on Islam; a course in whichstudents are mandated to learn the tenets of Islam, study the importantfigures of the faith, wear a robe, adopt a Muslim name and stage their ownJihad.
In Byron, California, parents were outraged when students came home with their handouts and were told what was being taught. Their complaints to the school principal not only were ignored, but officials of this public school, funded by tax dollars, essentially fluffed them off.
The public schools in California so stealthily slipped this course into the 7th grade curriculum that even another 7th grade teacher, Elizabeth Christina Lemings, was totally in the dark that this was being taught until her son, Joseph, who is a 7th grader in the same school where she teaches,brought home the handouts.
“We could never teach Christianity like this,” Lemings said to ANS during anon-site interview. “We can’t even mention the name of Jesus in the public schools, but over there,” she pointed to the building next to hers, “theyteach Islam as the true religion, and students are taught about Islam andhow to pray to Allah.”
Lemings, in her second year of teaching in the Byron (Northern California)Union School District, has been a Christian since 1987. The government school system requires that she teach evolution in her science class with noreference to creationism or any contrasting viewpoint to Darwin’s theory.She quickly learned that God and Christianity are out (forbidden) but that
Islam is in.
The textbook used for the Islamic course, Across The Centuries, is publishedby Houghton-Mifflin (Boston, Ma.). It is described as a SocialStudies/History book and has been adopted by the California School System.
In it, Islam is presented broadly in a totally positive manner, whereas the restricted references to Christianity, is centered on The Reformation, Martin Luther and The Catholic Church. Everything Christian is shown in a negative light, with events such as the Inquisition, the Salem witch-hunts,etc. highlighted in bold, black type.
This is proper for a complete study of history. However, there is not onenegative to be found about Islam in this one-sided account, such as thewars, massacres, cruelties against Christians and other non-Muslims that Islam has consistently perpetrated over the centuries.Nor is any mention made of the way Muslims treat their own people, cuttingoff hands, feet and heads for even the slightest violations of the Islamic tenets of faith, or the shocking way they treat their women.
The ‘miraculous’ events leading up to the Koran, the ‘holy’ book of Islam,and other ‘revelations’ are presented as factual. Any reference of the miraculous regarding Christianity is always set next to a disclaimer stating that; “It was (is) believed by Christians (or an individual such as MartinLuther) that…”, implying an absence of credibility about the stated event…
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