All schools shut down in Augusta County, Virginia, over Islam homework

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  1. PARTIZAN1

    PARTIZAN1 Well-Known Member

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    http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/18/us/virginia-school-shut-islam-homework/index.html

    All schools shut down in Augusta County, Virginia, over Islam homework.
    After a teacher at a Virginia school handed out a standard homework assignment and this chapter was on Islam. An angry backlash flashed up in that it prompted officials to close every single school in the county as a safety precaution.

    "While there has been no specific threat of harm to students, schools and school offices will be closed Friday, December 18, 2015," Augusta County Schools said. Extracurricular activities were shut down Thursday afternoon.

    Draw this http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/da...assignment-islam-00000908-medium-plus-169.jpg

    Students were given an assignment to draw Arabic calligraphy BUT the illustration was the "classical" Arabic phrase was the basic statement in Islam. It translated to: "There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is the messenger of Allah." .


    You would think that after what have happened in the last two weeks the schools would know better than have students draw something in Arabic prose especially the allah phrase and mentioning MO as the prophet messenger. What the hell were those teachers thinking ? Oh I know they were not thinking.

    Does anyone else her believe as I do that there should not be any assignment about Allah or MO - at least not until we destroy ISSIS?
     
  2. Aphotic

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    Isn't this what ISIS wants? Terror and fear?

    Moreover, what does one expect in a class focusing on world geography that also covered religion?

    More manchurian BS. Anyone afraid of ISIS and muslims needs to go get their head checked. Once you take off the tinfoil hat, you may find life is far more vibrant then fearing barbarians in caves.
     
  3. Think for myself

    Think for myself Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    School was shut down.....over a calligraphy lesson?

    Good lord America, pun intended, get a grip on yourselves.
     
  4. TrackerSam

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    I thought God wasn't allowed in school, or is it only the Christian God that isn't allowed?
     
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    Yup! Ya got it.........
     
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    Aren't you the first ones to scream about keeping religion out of public schools?
     
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    God - NO!

    Allah however is fine.
     
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    Teaching of religion in public schools should be limited, but it should be comprehensive it taught. You can't just overlook the fact that 1.6 billion people exist.
     
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    There's a difference between learning that's there's 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, and the First Pillar of Islam.
     
  10. mudman

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    and if the caligraphy assignment was to write 'jesus is lord and savior' you'd be ok with that too?
     
  11. yardmeat

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    I don't see the problem with learning about Islam in a geography or history class, but yeah, I can see people being upset over the nature of the calligraphy.

    But seriously? Shutting down every school in the county? That's insane.
     
  12. yardmeat

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    A calligraphy assignment? No. If there were a geography assignment that offered extra credit for learning the 5 Pillars of Islam, the Noble Eightfold Path, the 10 Commandments and the Lord's Prayer in a historical context, then sure. I'd be fine with that.
     
  13. AlphaOmega

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    Says the guy who doesnt want god mentioned in the pledge of allegience.
     
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    I could be wrong, but from this press release, it seems that the school system was receiving threatsÂ… at least in tone and content. Seems like overreaction from parents and "concerned citizens" over calligraphy followed by overreaction by the school system.

    I enlarged part of the quote because for some reason, people on PF think PUBLIC schools are somehow now indoctrinating students in religion instead of studying the world's religions as they played a part in creating the political boundaries found in world geography, and not really as part of a response to your post.
     
  15. AlphaOmega

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    And Trumps gonna hit 75% when this goes viral.
     
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    What a bunch of ignorant backward yahoos

    they better stop drinking this then

    Coffee: The earliest credible evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree appears in the middle of the 15th century, in the Sufi monasteries of the Yemen in southern Arabia.It was in Yemen that coffee beans were first roasted and brewed as they are today. From Mocha, coffee spread to Egypt and North Africa, and by the 16th century, it had reached the rest of the Middle East, Persia and Turkey. From the Muslim world, coffee drinking spread to Italy, then to the rest of Europe, and coffee plants were transported by the Dutch to the East Indies and to the Americas

    and also give up trigonometry, Ibn Muʿādh al-Jayyānī introduced the general Law of sines in his The Book of Unknown Arcs of a Sphere in the 11th century. This formula relates the lengths of the sides of any triangle, rather than only right triangles, to the sines of its angles.

    fearful ignoramuses
     
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    I agree and when the class comes to the study of Italy they should ask the kids to write "Jesus is the Savor". Do you think that the mu-slimes would be OK with that??

    Just the mean old Jesus is banned from schools.

    We understand that they exist but it in the liberal horde's creed that we not care what their religion is.

     
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    When Muslims gain a majority they will throw out almost all the books but the Koran, and cut off the heads of teachers who don't demand their students write that Allah is their God.
     
  20. Think for myself

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    In a comparative religion context in a geography class, yes.
     
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    I disagree. Religious education has no place in schools. Schools should not even mention religion unless they absolutely have to.
     
  23. PARTIZAN1

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    Just because some of us do not want to have our children/grandchildren be exposed to Islam at this point in time does not equate to fear. It's just smart caution.

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    Ok I will accept that shutting down all the schools in the county was way over the top. But having the kids do that quote at this time was just asking for trouble. That was the point of my OP.
     
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    Yep. Over the top. I'd love to hear how much this cost the county, because it is probably at least in the hundreds of thousands. And sure, it is just asking for trouble, because it comes very close to our classrooms promoting a religion. However, "at this time" only has anything to do with it if we are equating all Muslims with ISIS, which I have no interest in doing. And, if someone does have that interest, then perhaps education about Islam should have a more elevated place in geography and history classes.
     
  25. PARTIZAN1

    PARTIZAN1 Well-Known Member

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    That was my point this was the wrong time to have students even learn about that quote. I love history and geography but when we are in a war with terrorists inside our own country and people are on edge and even scared this was like throwing gasoline on fire.
     

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