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Title: 7th Graders in Tennessee Made to Recite ‘Allah Is the Only God’ in Public School
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Breitbart
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern ... the-only-god-in-public-school/
Published: Sep 10, 2015
Author: Thomas D Williams, PhD
Post Date: 2015-09-10 09:37:17 by cranky
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Views: 1771
Comments: 9
In the Maury County School District, students were assigned a Five Pillars of Islam project that included the translation of the pillar of “Shahada” as being, “There is no god but Allah; Muhammad is his prophet.” Joy Ellis, the mother of a seventh-grader at Spring Hill Middle School, said that Christian children should not be instructed to write the Shahada. “This is a seventh grade state standard, and will be on the TCAP,” Ellis said. “I didn’t have a problem with the history of Islam being taught, but to go so far as to make my child write the Shahada, is unacceptable.” Another mother of a seventh-grade girl, Brandee Porterfield, complained to officials at Spring Hill Middle School because of its overemphasis on Islam to the exclusion of Christianity and Judaism. Porterfield said she has no objections to her daughter learning details of the Islamic religion, but she objects to the fact that the history unit didn’t devote similar time to Christianity or Judaism. “It really did bother me that they skipped the whole chapter on the rise of Christianity and they spent three weeks just studying Islam,” she said. Porterfield and other parents were also concerned with the school’s decision to have children write and recite the Islamic creed. “But what really did bother me,” Porterfield said, “was that they did this assignment where they wrote out the Five Pillars of Islam, including having the children learn and write the Shahada, which is the Islamic conversion creed.” “I spoke with the teacher and the principal,” she said. “They are not going to learn any other religion, doctrines or creeds and they are not going back over this chapter. Even though they discuss Christianity a little bit during the Middle Ages, they are not ever going to have this basis for Judaism or Christianity later.” Porterfield said the class skipped Christianity because it’s not required by the state’s standards. Those standards, TN Core, are very similar to the national Common Core standards, though in May Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill eliminating Common Core. In Tennessee, 85 percent of the residents identify as Christian, according to a comprehensive U.S. Religious Landscape Survey conducted by the Pew Center in 2008. Only one percent of state residents identify as Muslim. Jan Hanvey, Maury County Public Schools’ middle school supervisor, said that most of the three-week unit discussed things like government, culture, geography, and economics, rather than theology. She also said that the chapters on Christianity and Judaism are scheduled to be taught at the end of the year with the “Age of Exploration” unit. Maury County Director of Schools, Chris Marczak, defended the curriculum in a statement, saying that the school system is in no way endorsing Islam over other religions or trying to “indoctrinate” students. “It is our job as a public school system to educate our students on world history in order to be ready to compete in a global society, not to endorse one religion over another or indoctrinate,” Marczak said. Porterfield, however, finds Marczak’s assurances unconvincing. “They are not going over anything else. So for the students to have to memorize this prayer, it does seem like it is indoctrination,” she said. A meeting between parents and school teachers and administrators has been scheduled for Sept. 17 to allow Porterfield and other concerned Springhill parents to voice their concerns about the state’s history curriculum. 
Middle school parents in Tennessee are up in arms on learning that their children were instructed to recite and write, “Allah is the only god,” as part of a world history project.
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#1. To: cranky (#0)
Sounds like the parents need to introduce some teachers, and school board members to a blanket party. Si vis pacem, para bellum
It is past the time to get all Christian children out of the public schools.
Im just amazed that they can get away with this and if you bring a bible to school they go into full lock down to find the bible and then burn it.
That is doctrine they are teaching,not history. It's not only unacceptable,it is un-Constituitional. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
I will shock many here no doubt. But I agree with the opinion of Porterfield above. Here's why. Islam as well as Christianity, Judaism and many other religions are rooted in human history. You cannot teach history properly without examining the beliefs of the various cultures throughout history and their effects (good or bad) on cultures in modern times. I went to Catholic school through University so we did not muddle Christian theology in with the 'other' world religions; but did have history classes and focused on the full spectrum of influences on each nation: religion, politics culture, economy etc. Now...the above article looks as if the children in the middle school had poor 'shepherds', teachers who made this project come out as Muslim proselytizing. This could have been avoided by allowing students (or directing them) to preface the Shahada with "Muslims believe the following..." Problem solved. I also agree with the parents who were fumed that there was not equal time for a historical examination of Christian and Jewish beliefs. Seems to be an agenda there too. So the parents have a right to be fumed as some Islamophile obviously ginned up this school history project. Porterfield said the class skipped Christianity because it’s not required by the state’s standards. Those standards, TN Core, are very similar to the national Common Core standards, though in May Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill eliminating Common Core. Well there you have it. The direction comes straight from Chief Mufti of DC Imam Zero Obolo. “It is our job as a public school system to educate our students on world history in order to be ready to compete in a global society, not to endorse one religion over another or indoctrinate,” Marczak said. Their actions betray them. Basically the above is a lie given one religion is given the bulk of the instruction. So either be consistent or don't study religions at all. But keeping out religion (all types) and its effects on people and nations, is like playing 5 card poker with only 4 cards. Oui, Dieu a tant aimé le monde qu'il a donné son Fils, son unique, pour que tous ceux qui placent leur confiance en lui échappent à la perdition et qu'ils aient la vie éternelle.
I was raised Catholic as you know. Catholic parents figured that one out decades ago. Evangelical/Baptist/Non-denominational Christians figured that out starting in the 1990s. In Texas Christian schools are growing as well as homeschooling. For God louede so the world, that he yaf his `oon bigetun sone, that ech man that bileueth in him perische not, but haue euerlastynge lijf.
Yes bringing a Bible into a public school is like sun light to a vampire. They are afraid of the light: 19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.” For God louede so the world, that he yaf his `oon bigetun sone, that ech man that bileueth in him perische not, but haue euerlastynge lijf.
As I remember -
What bothers me is that the students were taught so little about Malmoud's bloody conquest of India, the conquest of Spain which was ended in 1492, the islamic conquest of Serbia on islam's way to lay siege to Vienna in 1527 and 1683 in an attempt to conquer Europe that was finally ended by the king of Poland. The grand total of deaths due to islams steadfast aggressiveness approaches 300,000,000 people. Yet the cluck students are merely taught that islam merely uses a different term in referring to God. Islam is a severe form of paranoid aggressive psychopathogy that is a dangerous communicable disease presented in glowing abstract terms as an interesting form of multiculturism.
" 7th Graders in Tennessee Made to Recite ‘Allah Is the Only God’ in Public School "
#2. To: cranky (#0)
#3. To: cranky (#0)
#4. To: cranky (#0)
“I didn’t have a problem with the history of Islam being taught,
#5. To: cranky, Vicomte13, GarySpFc, liberator, tomder55, CZ82, nolu chan, *Religious History and Issues* (#0)
Porterfield said she has no objections to her daughter learning details of the Islamic religion, but she objects to the fact that the history unit didn’t devote similar time to Christianity or Judaism.
#6. To: BobCeleste (#2)
It is past the time to get all Christian children out of the public schools.
#7. To: Justified (#3)
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Im just amazed that they can get away with this and if you bring a bible to school they go into full lock down to find the bible and then burn it.
John 3:
#8. To: cranky (#0)
Even in 7th grade I would have been expelled.
#9. To: cranky (#0)
(Edited)
“But what really did bother me,” Porterfield said, “was that they did this assignment where they wrote out the Five Pillars of Islam, including having the children learn and write the Shahada, which is the Islamic conversion creed.”
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