Stop the Madrassas: What’s happening in your neighborhood schools?
Last Friday, I interviewed Pamela Hall of Stop the Madrassa about the taxpayer-funded
Arabic school known as the “Khalil Gibran International Academy.” Video here in case you missed it.
Pamela mentioned her group’s efforts to shed light on the school’s curriculum and agenda through public information requests. The NYPost today reports on the latest info uncovered by the group:
Internships with Muslim lawyers, trips to the Middle East and community activism are the hallmarks of the city’s Arab-themed school scheduled to open this fall.
The controversial Khalil Gibran International Academy’s grant application for private funds says the school wants to produce “agents of change” and “ambassadors of peace” by focusing on the “complexity of Arab history and the diversity of Arab culture.”
Principal Dhabah “Debbie” Almontaser – who backtracked this week from comments condoning the “Intifada NYC” T-shirts that are sold by activists with ties to her – insists political dogma will not be on the curriculum.
More documents here.
Meantime, Pamela points to “The Islam Project” in our public schools, flagged by Brigitte Gabriel:
This is a project run by people like the convert Susan Douglass of the Council on Islamic Education and the Islamic Society of North America. They are very well organized and have been orchestrating this comprehensive educational plan for many years with great success. Douglass has been very active and effective in Islamicizing the curriculum and textbooks used in the California public schools, the largest textbook market in the country and a bellwether for the U.S. This is how programs like the required three week course on Islam for all California 7th graders get implemented.
Check out the extensive list of Islamist organizations working on this project under “Community Engagement.” It all looks very innocent and legitimate on the surface. They started in CA in the California public schools, the largest textbook market in the country — next comes TX; then NY. This must be monitored and stopped.
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AllahPundit linked this last week, but it’s worth pointing to again:
Kids told to write ‘Allah is God’
ANGRY parents have blasted a teacher for telling ten-year-olds to copy a Muslim prayer saying “There is no God but Allah”.
Helen Green is said to have picked the Muslim call to prayer as HAND-WRITING practice.It includes the lines “Allah is the greatest” and “I bear witness that there is no God but Allah”.
Pupil Billy Darbyshire’s stepmum Hayley Clayton said: “The explanation was that the children were learning about Islam in RE.
“But this was like he was taking an oath. A Muslim child would never be asked to write a Bible passage.
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INSANE!
Soon, Spanish will be the official language and the Islamic allegiance will be required.
Sickening.
This is the USA – isn’t it???
You know, Muslims will be the first to tell you that Christians and Muslims believe in the same GOD. So, this just makes an old Christian dude like me scream “where are the separation of church and state cry-babies at?” History has been rewritten in our public schools and our Christian history has been replaced with evolution and now, Islam. I am glad my kids are all grown up and know the truth and will raise their kids knowing the truth about our CHRISTIAN heritage.
I hope I offend someone:
GOD Bless America!
This is why I send my children to a private Christian school.
Mixed feelings on this one.
On one level, it’s good to learn some things about Mohammedanism, just like during the Cold War it was helpful to understand what Communism was all about, why it was attempting to spread worldwide, and why that spread should be opposed.
Our education system should never find itself fostering ignorance about our own cultural and spiritual heritage, nor that of other significant cultural and spiritual systems that we must deal with – or sometimes, against.
On the other hand, it wouldn’t have been a good idea to let the Soviet Union determine what should be learned about Communism in our schools. Likewise with allowing Islamists or their water-carriers to dictate textbook and coursework curricula about Mohammedanism.
I’m afraid, however, that we’re entering a stage where schools are giving students the worst of both worlds: “Multiculturalism” teaches that all cultures are the same, except for Western Civilization which is uniquely bad; so students don’t learn what it is about their own society that is worth standing up for.
At the same time, students are exposed to material about Mohammedanism that seems more promotional than educational.
Teach about the “complexity and diversity” of Arab history and culture? Fine – if we’re going to reach any kind of lasting co-existence with or victory over the wellspring of militant Islamism, we need to understand it first.
Just make sure that it’s a wholistic approach: don’t forget that most of Islam’s gains through history have been through military conquest, that it’s built-in system of government and law is inextricably stuck in the 7th Century, and that for all its diversity and complexity the most important contribution of Arab culture to the modern world has been the perfection of the suicide vest.
“This is how programs like the required three week course on Islam for all California 7th graders get implemented.”
Can you imagine someone trying to implement a 3-week course on Christianity in a public school in California????? Or on Judaism?
The ACLU would be all over them like white on rice….
This is scary as hell….only because no one outside of these blogs is paying attention to it.
This makes me sick. It reminds me of Ann Coulter’s article, “It’s the Winter Solstice, Charlie Brown!” which can be found at http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34772.
Most relevant paragraph from the article: “Between issuing laws prohibiting discrimination against transgendered individuals and running up a $38 billion deficit, the California Legislature mandated a three-week immersion course in Islam for all seventh-graders. A “crash course” in Islam, you might call it, if that weren’t so ironic. Students are required to adopt Muslim names, plan a trip to Mecca, play a jihad game, pray to “Allah, the Compassionate” and to chant “Praise to Allah! Lord of Creation!” They are encouraged to dress in Muslim garb. Students are discouraged, however, from stoning girls at the school dances, abusing their “Jew” math teachers or blowing up their classmates.”
The shahadah is not like an oath, it is and oath, the way to display one’s conversion to Islam. Realizing that it is being trivialized as a handwriting exercise should upset Muslims most of all.
[crickets]
Kevin posted:
“Students are discouraged, however, from stoning girls at the school dances, abusing their “Jew” math teachers or blowing up their classmates.”
LOL…I’d forgotten about that article… what a beautiful piece of sarcasm to highlight the absurdity of the entire subject…. Love it.
This is crazy. If there was a 3 week course in Christianity the ACLU would be all over it – it just ain’t going to happen.
If Islam is a religion – then it should not get special privileges in our schools. If it is a ‘culture’ then the mosques need to lose their religious-based tax-exempt status.
Boy, that sure sounds terrible. Next thing you know Jewish high schools will be sending kids to Israel and Christian schools will go on field trips to the Vatican. THIS IS MADNESS!!!
Rusty – Taxpayer funded Jewish High Schools, and taxpayer funded Christian Schools?
Separation of Church and State anyone? Do they get a three week course in Christianity? Do they get to practice their writing with Jesus is the Messiah?
Where are all the atheists now?
Rusty- Not on the taxpayers dime they won’t. This NYC madrassa is part of the NYC school system.
I’m against the use of tax funds for religious schools in all situations. I was just being cheeky.
Although how people could be against this but not “faith-based initatives” is beyond me.
The is the natural result of Americans allowing the ACLU and liberals to stamp out our Judeo-Christian heritage in the classroom and government. Something will replace it. . .and it appears to be Islam.
Rusty, the difference is Islamic and “multicultural” values are NOT what made our country great. Judeo-Christian and classical values are.
My son goes to middle school in 2 years, where in his second year, he will have to take the 3 week component required by *state law* on Islam (used interchangeably with ‘Arab culture’).
This requirement was put through very quietly after 9/11. All in the name of appeasing the Saudis.
Will check to see if there is federal footsie going on through No Child Left Behind legislation.
We are planning a visible protest of this requirement. Legal groundwork is underway.
If it works for the atheists, it should work for us.
We are well past the time to organize.
It was said well on another site, that wherever Christianity failed to fight the Islamic tide, it ceased to exist.
When I read that a Rabbi in NYC is on the advisory board for this Madrassa, and that he was reassured by “Debbie” Montaser that her “Intifada” remarks meant no harm, I got sick to my stomach.
“Tolerance” of one’s mass murdering enemy is the kiss of death.
I pity anyone dependent on that man for guidance on how to survive the violence that is coming to this country, the infrastructure for this already being here.
Like someone said the other day on this list- it’s time to get in the gym.
Physical preparation for a hard long struggle to root this cancer out of our public life and communities.
Islamic jihad comes in many forms.
I will not submit.
I have a 5th grade daughter…I live in California…there will be no Islamic teaching unless they tell her it’s a primative religion, seeped in hate and used by unbalanced scum to further their agenda…and unless they balance it out with Chrisianity and the Jewish religion and what about Buddhism, Shintoism, Confucism(?) ..etc..etc..etc… this is only PC social engineering…
jferg49….i’m all over that. we can stop this. it’s weak and paper thin and under the radar.
Remember 9/11!
Islam is a CULT! a DEVILISH CULT!
It is starting to look like the idiots on the left will be the first ones converting to islam. As for me, I guess my head will roll.
I am and I agree, all religons should be represented or none.
Me too. And to anyone who might say that sending my child to a Christian school (in my case, a Catholic school) is the same as a Muslim sending a child to a Muslim school, there are a couple of big big differences:
1. My religion teaches that murder is wrong, and that is what is taught in the religion courses.
2. The school does not include teaching children to be “agents of change” in its teaching mission.
3. The school teaches US HISTORY, not Arab culture.
What do the Saudis do with Christians in thier country?
BTW, Guess what I learned in school today.
Allah is a false god, and there are many like him.
Allah is a false god, and there are many like him.
For those of us who are in a perpetual struggle to finance double educations for each of our children, it’s always good to remember the very important reasons and principles that gave us cause to opt out of the government indoctrination system.
You can petition your local school board after attempting at the local school level first!
If there is a subject that creates a conflict with your personal beliefs, it can be done.
Just submit a letter/copy to Superintendent, requesting that your child be put in another class during that class period.
It’s done all the time in this state.
Usually, the board will comply.
If not, then take legal action.
sarc on/
martyr on-virgins off!
martyr on-virgins off!
I’m mad as hell about my tax dollars (or anybody else’s for that matter) going to fund a public islamic school. If the state of New York isn’t going to create schools for every other religion out there then how in God’s name can they get away with this legally? Where are the lawyers? Where are the lawsuits? I say sue the heck out of the city demanding equal treatment for all religions and they immediately start building public schools for at least christianity, judaism, buddhism and the hindu faith. The more equality we demand the more impossible it becomes to show preference to any one religion. and isn’t that the point? Why is the government showing religious preference. Public funds for all or nothing. If the islamists of the world want to try and indoctrinate our children let them try on their own dime. And even then they had better be focusing on american history and culture to some extent.
Bear, i too have a young daughter who will be entering the public school system in a few years and i am deathly afraid on what she will be “learning” from these “schools”. I want to do anything i can to help the legal process you mentioned earlier. please post some info on how and where i can donate money or time or otherwise get the word out. thank you.
gayle, in reference to the petitions you mentioned, thank you for the information. I think that most informed people will take the necessary steps to shield their child from biased falsehoods that will no doubt be presented throughout these islamic courses. the majority of parents however will be in the dark about it’s existence and will probably only find out after their child has been forced to sit through three weeks of this crap, and that’s assuming they are even involved in their child’s life or take an active interest in their education. Sadly many do not. We have to do whatever we can to force the issue into the American public’s eye and get the issue talked about on the local and national level. Teaching our own few children the truth will not matter a bit if the majority of the country’s youth has been brainwashed. Especially in a world where Christians and non-muslims are treated as second class citizens. America must take action now!
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
I went to a Catholic high school where I took a course on Islam. It was presented as a beautiful religion in the Judeo-Christian tradition. There was no “sharia creep.”
Obviously my view of Islam has evolved and I agree that Islam is given too wide a birth by the “MSM.” That does not mean a 3-week class on Islamic culture will turn your sons and daughters into martyrs for Mohammed. I benefitted from taking classes on Islam and Buddhism and Atheism and Judaism along with my Christian studies. There’s nothing wrong with learning other perspectives. Even if it’s the perspective of the enemy.
There is something wrong with violating the seperation between Church and State. In any situation. Focus on that. It comes off a lot better than tinfoil conspiracies of a future dystopian America where we’re all under sharia law speaking Spanish. That sort of talk is nuts. Why are liberals the ones who are always sterotyped as having the tinfoil hats?
well goody for you! was your Catholic school public or private?
maybe you should go talk to the madrassa being set up in New York and convince them how well you benefitted from diverse religious teachings from a christian school. i’m sure they will be more than willing to incorporate some enlightening classes on the other religions in the world other than islam and the students will become more worldly, informed and tolerant in the process; because everybody knows how tolerant and accepting of opposing viewpoints Islam is compared to Christianity.
Personally, I am not worried about a three week course turning the average american into martyrs for mohammed. I’m worried about that three week course being a larger part of a unified effort from outside forces to convince not only the MSM, but also the average american into giving Islam a wider birth.
I’m not against learning other perspectives. But if all perspectives are not represented fairly, as in all religions given equal time, then you either pay out of pocket to send you kid to a private school or they wait until they go to college and then study whatever they want…for a price, that is.
It’s a simple test to see if the government’s enthusiasm for every religion but the Christianity-flavored ones is unfair: Substitute the Christian aspects and lingo for the faith in question and see if the ACLU and Feds would allow children to be compelled to perform such acts.
If writing “Jesus Christ is the Son of God” is wrong, then “Allah is God” is verbotten, too. If the Allah item is OK in the name of diversity, then so are mentions of Christian tenets.
As if that would happen!
Ryskind had a good cartoon last week about this double-standard.
Does anyone find it ironic that Kahil Gibran (sp) was a Lebonese Christian????
Rusty- It must have been a very liberal “Catholic” high school to present Islam in that light. I’m getting an M.A. in Theology at a Catholic grad school in the evenings, and I can tell you Islam is NOT in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
Roy Schoeman, a Jewish convert to Catholicism, has discussed this in Salvation Is from the Jews published by Ignatius. Catholics believe that Judaism was the only religion with the fullness of truth until Christ. Other religions before Christ, such as Buddhism and Hinduism, had aspects of the truth.
Islam is the only major religion to have been revealed after Christ, which Catholics believe set up the Church. So, by Catholic belief, “Allah” could not possibly be the same God that we believe in. It was probably a fallen angel, in fact the moon god of Arabia.
Devout believers generally become more like the diety they believe in. For Christians, the aim is to become more humble, charitable, and pure. For Muslims, devout believers generally become more violent, intolerant, and sensual.
So your “Catholic” high school presented a false picture of Islam, leading me to believe it was not an orthodox Catholic school.
“If writing “Jesus Christ is the Son of God” is wrong, then “Allah is God” is verbotten, too.”
Agreed – and this is all occurring during a time when a graduating student cannot even speak of how they were granted their success by God at a graduation ceremony without their microphone being turned off and censored.
But yet the taxpayers are expected to fun a segregationist school for Muslims?
See how far a request for public funds to build an anglo-Christian school would go.
We have a Jihad Academy going in about 2 miles down the road on CITY PROPERTY!
What is up with that?
Sharia Creep.
Contact the ACLU and see if they will sue on your behalf. I’m guessing not, but give it a try.
And please report back the results.