Reading, Writing, And Murder
Matthew Barakat reports for the AP on yet another episode of poisonous Muslim thought infiltrating the USA:
McLEAN, Va. (AP) -- Textbooks at a private Islamic school in northern Virginia teach students that it is permissible for Muslims to kill adulterers and converts from Islam, according to a federal investigation released Wednesday.Other passages in the school's textbooks state that "the Jews conspired against Islam and its people" and that Muslims are permitted to take the lives and property of those deemed "polytheists."
The passages were found in selected textbooks used during the 2007-08 school year by the Islamic Saudi Academy, which teaches 900 students in grades K-12 at two campuses in Alexandria and Fairfax and receives much of its funding from the Saudi government.
The academy has come under scrutiny from critics who allege that it fosters an intolerant brand of Islam similar to that taught in the conservative Saudi kingdom. In the review, the panel recommended that the school make all of its textbooks available to the State Department so changes can be made before the next school year.
...The county conducted its own study of the textbooks last year at the request of Supervisor Gerald Hyland, whose district encompasses the academy.
Hyland and the county never released results of what they had found, but Hyland said in approving the lease that he is comfortable with the school's teachings, though he did so with a qualification.
"I would be less than frank if I didn't tell you that the curriculum does contain references to the Quran, which, if taken out of context and read literally, would cause come concern," Hyland said at the meeting at which the lease was extended.
This is the problem. This guy's a schools supervisor, but yet another dimwit who wants to believe the Quran is some sweet book filled with teachings of peace and tolerance, when the stuff they're talking about here -- killing the infidel -- is precisely what the Quran commands.
We're seeing more and more of this -- the infiltration of American schools and society by Islam. There are a more examples in a terrific Cinnamon Stillwell piece on SFGate, who reports that some public, charter and voucher-funded private schools are using tax dollars to teach Islam and bring in speakers with Islamist ties or sympathies. For example:
Last month, students at Friendswood Junior High in Houston were required to attend an "Islamic Awareness" presentation during class time allotted for physical education. The presentation involved two representatives from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an organization with a record of Islamist statements and terrorism convictions. According to students, they were taught that "there is one God, his name is Allah" and that "Adam, Noah and Jesus are prophets." Students were also taught about the Five Pillars of Islam and how to pray five times a day and wear Islamic religious garb. Parents were not notified about the presentation and it wasn't until a number of complaints arose that school officials responded with an apologetic e-mail.
People need to wake up to the slow creep of Islam into America. I believe Europe is lost, and will be under Sharia law in my lifetime. But, with our vast territory and huge population, we still have a chance -- if we wake up instead of going like sheep to the slaughter...like the commenters below Stillman's piece who cry "Islamophobia." Phobia? Phobia? Your religion commands you to behead me, and I'm "phobic"? Right.
Repeat after me: No, not "Baaaa!" But, "Islam is totalitarianism tarted up as religion." And, by the way, there's no such thing as a "moderate" Muslim; there are only Muslims who are uninformed about what's in the Quran, or who ignore what's in the Quran, which is incitement after incitement to violence against the "infidel."
"which, if taken out of context and read literally, would cause come concern," Hyland said"
Looks like Mr. Hyland is going to be one of the first cowardly head-nodding yes-men hoping to not have his head separated from his shoulders should Muslim fascism ever take over in his lifetime. Could he be more groveling, pathetic, and strategically placed?
Juliana at June 12, 2008 11:56 PM
To paraphrase Lenin, the West will sell Islam the rope it needs to hang us.
There is a line of thought that this is driven by in-group status striving here in the West, e.g. Gerald Hyland gets ahead if he can punish or bring down in some way those above him, and he sees Islam as a way to do this, so he encourages its rise in his passive way. Down the road his head might get cut off if Islam becomes too dominant, but he calculates it won't go that far, and he will be better off with more Islam to keep down those he hates (taxpayers).
I now will press the 'submit' button...
doombuggy at June 13, 2008 6:32 AM
I think it's yet another example of why the Department of Education needs to be abolished. If my kid was in that school, and they pulled this crap, I would yank her out so fast...as well as my money. The lesson to school leaders would be a financial one, as people would be able to vote with their feet and wallets.
If you want to teach Islamic crap in your school, so be it, but certainly not on my dollar or childs time.
Ryan at June 13, 2008 7:20 AM
There is a real issue with Islamic presenters, paid with public money, to discuss their religion in a public school. Religion has no place in the schools, whether it be christian, jewish, muslim, hindu, whatever. I would do more than complain, I would fight for the dismissal of anyone involved in the expenditure of public funds for a religious presentation.
Of course, if you allow the teaching of christianity in the schools, then you should also allow the teaching of other religions to balance it - which brings me back to my earlier statement that religion has no place in public institutions.
Let us not forget though that the people of that community elected those idiots to the school board. If they are reelected on the next go-round, the community at large has only itself to blame for any more acts of idiocy perpetrated on their children.
We had an issue here in Pennsylvania where a local school board tried to introduce creationism (intelligent design?) into the curriculum. The community was outraged and voted out the entire board on the next election. The people of Houston need to do the same.
steveda at June 13, 2008 7:50 AM
"If my kid was in that school, and they pulled this crap, I would yank her out so fast...as well as my money."
If this is a public school, getting the child out of the school is easy, but forget your money. You will continue to hand it over every year, as well as your neighbors who ironically may have never had children to put into the school district to begin with. Look at your property tax breakdown. Where I live, more than half of my property taxes go to the school district. And my children don't attend this district, I shell out $10k a year (oops, make that $13k this fall when my youngest starts) to go to a private school across town. Why? I don't want my children to be indoctrinated into this very sort of poison. I have to PAY EXTRA to defend my kids, and I don't get my property tax dollars reduced, nor do I get a writeoff on my federal or state. My state doesn't do vouchers either; it votes blue so the teacher's union rams it up everyone's tailpipe around here.
Juliana at June 13, 2008 9:51 AM
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3486177601646533834&postID=5209736326036491964&page=1
Woman running this blog condems those parents who were upset that their kids were spoon fed PR strained islamic crap
lujlp at June 13, 2008 1:49 PM
Here's the comment I left on that blog (held for "moderation" at the moment...funny word, considering the topic):
Amy Alkon at June 13, 2008 2:06 PM
Glad luljp is getting in there. I'm held for moderation as well. I love the last comment she's made about "if we only ever look at our own reflection, how can we expect to grow." What a lovely bit of horseshit.
Thanks, but I'd prefer not to grow in any direction that takes away from enlightened values. I judge that to be wrong.
moreta at June 13, 2008 3:59 PM
Oh, so I'm supposed to look at a woman in a burkha, who isn't allowed to drive, and whose testimony in court is worth half that of a man, and this will somehow help me grow?
Yeah, throw off those tired Enlightenment values and improve your life with Islam!
Amy Alkon at June 13, 2008 5:20 PM
You could always try your luck on the interfaith challenge... see Mary Jackson's article The 72-Virgin Question at
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/21168/sec_id/21168
lizzylights at June 13, 2008 8:53 PM
> Phobia? Phobia?
Payback. All those people (ahem) who argued that one couldn't distinguish consequences of homosexuality without expressing some psychologicly weakness have have brought this upon themeselves.
Slam the fork behind your teeth, bite down and swallow
Crid at June 14, 2008 10:05 PM
Sorry, I meant to say psychologically ignoble.
That was a fun comment to write, and I got ahead of myself.
Tee hee.
Har har.
Heh.
Crid at June 14, 2008 10:07 PM
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