Perhaps Educational System Believes a Mosque isn’t a Church?
Parents object to Muslim presentation at Gulf Coast school
The Associated Press
FRIENDSWOOD, Texas — Parents of some junior high students are upset they weren’t notified about a school presentation on Islamic culture, an omission that violated school district policy.
The parents’ letter-writing campaign stems from a May 22 presentation at Friendswood Junior High, where two Muslim women gave a 30-minute presentation about Islamic life as part of a yearlong study of respect, tolerance and culture, The Galveston County Daily News reported Saturday.
The guest speakers discussed Muslim culture, including topics such as food, religion, dress, beliefs and famous Muslims.
School district spokeswoman Karolyn Gephart said principal Robin Lowe had “best intentions,” but Gephart acknowledged not informing parents beforehand was a mistake.
District policy states parents are to be informed about the purpose and content of presentations so that they can keep their children out if they think the material might be offensive or inappropriate.
Still, Gephart said, “If you pulled a book about Islam from the library, you would find the same stuff in the book. There was no proselytizing.”
Kim Leago, whose son is in the eighth grade, said she’s still upset he was exposed to the “inappropriate” presentation.
“We can’t say ‘One nation under God’ in school, so I definitely don’t think (the presentation) was the right choice,” she said. “I’m not a prejudiced person … but Muslims, from what I know of the faith, don’t want to be incorporated with Americans. Look at what’s going on in the world right now, with the war and with 9/11.”
The exact number of parents who objected or wrote letters wasn’t known.
Dr. Ahmed Ahmed, a member of the board of directors for the Galveston Islamic Center, said there’s a common misperception that Muslims are somehow un-American. The few Muslims who have tainted the faith as terrorists have helped spread the myth that Islam is violent and extremist.
“Muslims in the U.S. are Americans, not intruders,” he said. “They are not invaders; they are not outsiders. We are all Americans, and we are all working toward a better America.”
Friendswood is a town of about 35,000 between Houston and Galveston on the Gulf Coast.
That’s the only thing I can think of they could use as an argument to justify allowing this travesty to happen… without even informing parents. One wonders if there was also a presentation of Christianity for this yearlong study of respect, tolerance and culture, but I believe I know the answer without ever asking the question.
H/T Michelle Malkin
Posted by Stephanie
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Imagine the ACLU getting a whiff of any school doing a twenty minute Christian presentation, er uh, was that proselytizing session?
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:29 pm
“Dr. Ahmed Ahmed, a member of the board of directors for the Galveston Islamic Center, said there’s a common misperception that Muslims are somehow un-American.”
Can’t imagine how folks could get _that_ idea…!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2058935/Police-advise-Christian-preachers-to-leave-Muslin-area-of-Birmingham.html
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:54 pm
THERE ONCE WAS A RUGHEAD NAMED AHMADINEJAD,
HE HAS LESS BRAINS THAN WE THOUGHT HE HAD,
UP TO HIS OLD TRICKS OF SKULDUGGERY,
WAS THIS CROSS EYED INDULGER IN SHEEP
BUGGERY,
HIS DESTINY IS WITH A PROCTOLOGIST NAMED VLAD*.
(* THE IMPALER)
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:36 pm
To paraphrase Mikey, His 72 virgins will be 72 virgils!!!
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Texas school principal wants to indoctrinate child
There is a rightful outrage in Friendswood, Texas, about a local school’s giving its students Islamic training by representatives of CAIR, the unindicted co-conspirator in terrorism (Hat tip: The Hot Joints, whose blogmaster is from the town, and Mic…
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:52 am
Yesterday I was buying a large bag of Purina dog chow for Blanche, our hunting dog, at Wal-Mart and was standing in line about to check out. A woman behind me asked if I had a dog. First thing I thought was where is your sign, lady? but decided to go with it. So, on impulse, I told her that no, I didn’t have a dog, and that I was starting the Purina Weight Loss Diet again. I said I probably shouldn’t, because I’d ended up in the hospital last time, but that I’d lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IV’s in both arms. I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and> that the way that it works is, you load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry and that the food is nutritionally complete, so I was going to try it again. I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line was by now enthralled with my> story to say the least. Totally horrified, the lady asked if I ended up in> intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no, I had stepped off a curb to sniff an Irish Setter’s ass and a car hit us both. I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard. Wal-Mart asked me not to shop there anymore.
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:57 am
>>Wal-Mart asked me not to shop there anymore.>>
C’mon….I don’t believe that…!!!