Public Schools Embracing Islam
by Glen on 2002-01-13 00:05:42
As children return to school this week, following the Christmas break, 7th
graders in a growing number of public schools, who are not permitted to
wear a cross or speak the name of Jesus, will be required to attend an
intensive three week course on Islam; a course in which students are
mandated to learn the tenets of Islam, study the important figures of the
faith, wear a robe, adopt a Muslim name and stage their own Jihad.
Reported at mcjonline.com
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
an on-site interview. “We can’t even mention the name of Jesus in the
public schools, but over there