The Islamization of the Public Schools

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Muslims anxious to use schools and textbooks to proselytize for Islam have found a welcoming environment in American public schools that are indefatigably committed to multiculturalism. With the imperative to be “tolerant” robbing many educators of their ability to evaluate non-Western cultures critically, all too many public schools and individual teachers have proven to be susceptible to an organized campaign by U.S.-based Islamic organizations and their primary benefactor, Saudi Arabia, to present a view of Islam that whitewashes its violent history and intolerant doctrines.

Many of the Islamic groups that vet American public school textbooks for the accuracy of their material on Islamic doctrine and history are Saudi-funded. They make sure that the Islamic instruction in these textbooks presents a picture of Islam that is so pristine and whitewashed that it sometimes crosses the boundary from mere pro-Muslim bias into outright Islamic proselytizing.

The taboo about teaching religion in the public schools, so zealously established and guarded against Christian prayer by the ACLU and the Supreme Court over the last few decades, is increasingly set aside in American public schools, as presentations on Islam frequently cross the line between teaching facts about the religion and teaching the religion as fact.

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We have seen this just recently, when Mountain Ridge Middle School in Gerrardstown, West Virginia instructed students to copy out the Islamic profession of faith (shahada), ostensibly as a calligraphy exercise. Parent Rich Penkoski recounted: “I saw the assignment of writing the Shahada in Arabic. Their excuse was calligraphy. I was like, ‘Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!’ First of all, calligraphy was invented in China 3,000 years prior to Muhammad. The fact that they were trying to get my daughter to write that disturbed me. I said, ‘That is not happening. My daughter is not doing that.’ My daughter told me that if she didn’t do the assignment, then she was going to get a [detention] slip.”

Branch contradicted Penkoski, claiming: “The teacher has told her class several times that this is a study of world religions and that she is not trying to advocate for any religion over another. She has told her class that if they had questions about religious beliefs, that those conversations should take place with their parents.” He said that Christianity and Judaism were given “equitable treatment” in the same class.

Penkoski’s daughter, Brielle, however, said that the class spent much less time on Christianity and Judaism than it did on Islam. Penkoski pointed out that the accompanying exercises were also less extensive for Christianity and Judaism than they were for Islam: “Notice no Bible verses, no reciting the Ten Commandments or the Lord’s Prayer. [There’s] no practicing writing in Hebrew as compared to the Islamic packet.”

This stealth proselytizing is nationwide. Last January, parents filed a federal complaint against Chatham Middle School in Chatham, New Jersey, for forcing students to watch videos that proselytized for Islam. One video, according to the complaint, describes “Christians and Jews as ‘infidels’ and prais[es] Muhammad in gruesome detail for slaughtering them.” Parent Libby Hilsenrath characterized the accompanying assignment as “replete with biased, chastising statements encouraging the students…to follow the Quran and become Muslim.” Another video, according to Hilsenrath, depicts a Muslim boy teaching his non-Muslim friend about Islam, after which both go to “learn how to pray.”

The complaint adds: “Due to the fact that these doctrinal messages calling for conversion to Islam were included in video format with vivid images and text, they possess greater communicative impact and are more likely to be accepted by the students viewing them than information that is spoken in a classroom or even written in a book.”

These accounts are not singular. High school students in Newton, Massachusetts in October 2017, according to Fox News, “pretended to be Muslims in the ‘Islamic’ city of Jerusalem as part of a class assignment.” The assignment also included a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel article. Judicial Watch Senior Investigator Bill Marshall remarked: “Citizens of Newton have been waging a minor war with school officials for years now, trying to get them to use balanced curriculum in their teaching materials on the subject of Islam and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” Dr. Bill Saxton, chairman of Citizens for National Security, said that the assignment was a “purposeful attempt to indoctrinate our impressionable high-schoolers with the ‘virtues’ of Islam at the expense of Christianity, Judaism and other religions.”

Meanwhile, Georgia parent Michelle King noted in 2016: “My daughter had to learn the Shahid and the Five Pillars of Islam, which is what you learn to convert,” while not teaching Christianity or the Ten Commandments. One homework assignment in Walton County, Georgia, stated: “Allah is the [blank] worshiped by Jews & Christians,” with students having to fill in the blank with “same God.”

Parent Steve Alsup added: “It seemed like half the truth to me, they didn’t talk about the extreme Islamics.” Kim Embry, a spokesperson for Walton County Public Schools, said revealingly: “We are teaching the same stuff that everyone else is teaching.”

Indeed. In 2015, students at Spring Hill Middle School in Spring Hill, Tennessee were forced as part of an assignment to write, “There is no god but Allah; Muhammad is his prophet.” Mother Joy Ellis remarked: “This is a seventh grade state standard, and will be on the TCAP. 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, Brandee Porterfield, observed: “It really did bother me that they skipped the whole chapter on the rise of Christianity and they spent three weeks just studying Islam….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.”

Maury County Director of Schools, Chris Marczak, defended the curriculum: “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.” Porterfield, however, shot back: “They are not going over anything else. So for the students to have to memorize this prayer, it does seem like it is indoctrination.”

None of the encroachments of Islam in public schools should come as any real surprise. Multiculturalism, after all, amounts to respect for every culture except one’s own. The embarrassment, regret, and even self-hatred that has been inculcated in American public school students for decades now has created a vacuum, which Muslims have shown themselves to be all too eager to fill. Certainly those who are furthering the Islamization of the schools would deny that they would like to see Islamic law implemented in the United States, and would indignantly reject the claim that their efforts were furthering that end in any way. They would say that they are doing it all for tolerance, pluralism, and multiculturalism.

Unfortunately, in the end it amounts to the same thing.

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His new book is The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.

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Jim McCormack
Jim McCormack
5 years ago

LIBERAL SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS CAN’T WAIT TO CONVERT OUR KIDS TO ISLAM. THEY STUPIDLY IGNORE THE KORAN’S TEACHING OF RAPE, KILLING THE INFIDEL ETC. IT’S HAPPENING ALL OVER THE WORLD AND WE’LL BE SEEING BEHEADINGS LIKE THE ONE IN OKLAHOMA MORE OFTEN. WE’RE ALREADY SEEING MANY “HONOR ” KILLINGS AND THE STUPID SCHOOLS ARE TEACHING THIS CRAP. WE’LL REGRET WE DIDN’T STOP THIS SOME DAY.

joanofark06
joanofark06
5 years ago
Reply to  Jim McCormack

No need for caps. It means your “shouting”, but then again, with what you said, it’s pretty much forgivable.

mardabo
mardabo
5 years ago
Reply to  joanofark06

That’s why you should have kept quiet about it.

And if you like correcting try this: it’s not YOUR –

It’s you’re.

chris VN
chris VN
5 years ago
Reply to  mardabo

And there should be a comma after correcting., ” And if you like correcting, try this .”

Pathfinder0100
Pathfinder0100
5 years ago
Reply to  mardabo

So it’s NOT about the message but the spelling??

Cai
Cai
5 years ago
Reply to  joanofark06

People are not listening so there is EVERY NEED for SHOUTING, it should happen MORE OFTEN. I hope YOU’RE listening!

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
5 years ago

Another reason for School Vouchers, so parents can choose not to send their kids to schools like that.

Joseph
Joseph
5 years ago

Another reason we home school our kids

santashandler
santashandler
5 years ago

“The teacher has told her class several times that this is a study of
world religions and that she is not trying to advocate for any religion
over another.” And, next week, when the teacher has all the students fitted for dirty night shirts, she will tell them, ‘this is not to advocate for any religion over another.’ And next year, when islamic prayers are mandated in the school system, she will politely tell the students, ‘I’m not advocating for any religion over another.’ Right.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
5 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

As you know, money is funding this untrammeled invasion of American schools by Islam. It has always been “follow the money” or “where there is dough, that is where you go!”

The so-called “separation of church and state” argument was intended intended to diminish and indeed, marginalize the Christian faith. No other religious systems need worry about this treatment.

santashandler
santashandler
5 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

Indeed, it would be very interesting to see where that money trail goes.

joanofark06
joanofark06
5 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

I’ll bet ya a thousand dollars, it’s starts from Saudi Arabia….

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
5 years ago

The United States crossed its point of no return almost 3 years ago, June 26, 2015. Since then, in spite of the President’s efforts to reverse this disaster in other ways, we plunge headlong into the affirmation of our own doom that the God of the Bible is no longer welcome in America – indeed He is despised, rejected, mocked, vilified, cursed …

Kilauea is not erupting for no reason. Skeptics will claim we’ve seen this before; they will claim the eruption in Hawaii is no precursor for divine judgment. God’s patience with America is down to a thin wire. Get ready for more calamity and judgment.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

More brainwashing and propaganda…America must not become like Pakistan, where children are taught lies about Islam from a very early age.

Andy Schuetz
Andy Schuetz
5 years ago

It is obvious that the American Educational System is virtually infested with their precious ‘Multiculturalism’ to the point that they are no longer able to use good judgement and/or reasoning.

Any parent exposing their children to such BS is asking for nothing but Big Time Trouble.

Marianne
Marianne
5 years ago

This indoctrination of Islam onto American students should come as no surprise; it was Omar Ahmad, the founder of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations) who told the Minneapolis Star in 1993 in an interview, that he “wants to see the U.S. become a Muslim country.” “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future,” he told the paper. “But I’m not going to do anything violent to promote that. I’m going to do it through education.”

joanofark06
joanofark06
5 years ago
Reply to  Marianne

You wouldn’t happen to have evidence/proof on that? I’d like to see that, for my islam archive. And yeah, that doesn’t surprise me about CAIR. It’s really sad that their almost every state, and no one will shut them down.

mardabo
mardabo
5 years ago
Reply to  joanofark06
Cai
Cai
5 years ago
Reply to  Marianne

A Freudian Slip. If he hadn’t had violent thoughts as to the path to the ‘ islamification’ of the USA he wouldn’t have denied that he would do it.

Marianne
Marianne
5 years ago
Reply to  Cai

You just have to listen to the words of Oxford Professor of Islamic Studies, Tariq Ramadan on what the goal of Islam is:

“We are not here to adopt Western values.
We are here to colonize the US and Canada, and
spread Islamic Sharia Law. Canada has one of the easiest
legal systems to penetrate and advance Sharia
from within – but if that doesn’t work,
we won’t hesitate to use violent jihad.”

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  Marianne

Alas Canada.

mardabo
mardabo
5 years ago

I’m totally hostile to the nation of Islam and I think, truly, that ALL moslems should be forced back to their
countries of origin because terrorism and Islam go hand in hand. Where ever Islam exists terror follows.
Our society is at risk because it is nothing but a TOXIC ideology that is poisoning western civilization.

CreoleGumbo
CreoleGumbo
5 years ago
Reply to  mardabo

I agree with you Mardabo but unfortunately there if anyone running for public office incorporated that into their platform the press would destroy him/her.

Cai
Cai
5 years ago
Reply to  mardabo

Western society is at risk primarily because of the traitors within our midst, who are facilitating the incidious cancerous creep of this savage ideology throughout our society. Without their traitorous facilitation, islam wouldn’t have a hope in the West.

Pathfinder0100
Pathfinder0100
5 years ago
Reply to  Cai

Ya know Cat?? Arab money sure has corrupted so many in power here in America, huh?? Sad!

Pathfinder0100
Pathfinder0100
5 years ago
Reply to  Cai

Ya know Cat?? Arab money sure has corrupted so many in power here in America, huh?? Sad!

MajorTom
MajorTom
5 years ago

I wouldn’t put my child in a government indoctrination centre today……….

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

There is NO ucking way any American kid needs to be indulged into Islam. They might as well teach that the Moslem Negro and sodomite obama was a great “President”. Oh wait, they DO teach that crap!

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
5 years ago

While substitute teaching in a geography class last week I looked through the textbook being used. It is as far left as one could imagine. An entire chapter is devoted to the global warming hoax without citing one stitch of scientific proof, obviously part of a larger pattern.

Dave Falanga
Dave Falanga
5 years ago

Islam in America’s Public Schools (2001) and Hindu prayer, Senate

https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=qTuRa8IsUOo

Islam and the Textbooks – A Report of the American Textbook

https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=RnFtetwRG_0

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
5 years ago

Somehow Trump needs to ban all forms of Islam been taught, Make the Principal job sackable if he cannot control what is taught, with the teacher.

Schools should know exactly what is taught, if they do not know they should not be teachers.

insectman
insectman
5 years ago

I am a retired teacher and unequivocally proclaim that there is no hope for America as long as Christians and conservatives allow our children to be indoctrinated in the pagan schools. See specifics at http://www.insectman.us/exodus-mandate-wv/index.htm I am not raising funds. My goal is to rescue children.

Patriotic American
Patriotic American
5 years ago

The business of Saudi money and terror-tied groups shaping the curriculum of all things Islam in our schools is just the least of it. We see it too in the indoctrination of our children into the LGBT lifestyle, with curricula dictated entirely by groups with alphabet names like GLAAD, GLSEN, PFLAG, HRC, GSA et al., funded by the likes of George Soros and Tim Gill – all one-sided propaganda that is a sales pitch for the lifestyle, and proselytization by any definition. Both subsets have forced “Be _______ for a Day” exercises, all designed to convert them to the respective strains. Both are made mandatory by schools with no opt-out whatsoever. Likewise, corrupting our kids’ moral compass, converting them to homosexuality and even transgenderism, and even surgically mutilating, disfiguring and deforming their bodies (and on top of it, wrecking their body chemistry with hormone treatment drugs) in the name of “transitioning” – plus forcing normal children to abide by a big lie, which transgenderism is – is also being carried out in the name of “tolerance” and “respect” and “diversity.” And as with parents who object to the Islamization of their children being slammed as “Islamophobes” and “xenophobes,” we see parents pushing back against the homosexualization and transgenderization of children (likewise a deliberate strategy of the Left rooted in the same self-hatred and contempt for Western civilization that has fueled this inculcation into Islam) being smeared and defamed as “homophobes” and “transphobes.”

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

Why don’t you just FO back to your muslum sh!ttystan then?

Lydia Church
Lydia Church
5 years ago

You should fill in that blank with “not the same God”! That is all total indoctrination and everyone should refrain from completing any of those assignments. It is totally biased. If a Christian writes that stuff, it is denying their faith, which a Christian cannot do if they want to remain a Christian. The God of the Bible is the one true God, and Jesus is His Son, Messenger, and also God Himself. Allah is the devil and mohammed is the devil’s messenger, not God’s. You just have to resist, and don’t accept any ‘detention’ for refusing either. People just have to stand up to this stuff. I get so tired of the wimping out excuses of ‘but… but… they will do this to me and they will do that to me and but, but, but’! But nothing! You just have to refuse to go along with denying your faith, no matter what! Just stand up to it and refuse, grow a pair and do it, come what may! And yes, that is what Jesus expects us to do, because He already told us so in His Word; the Bible. Matthew 10; 32-33, etc.

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taxpayer22
4 years ago

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