You’re damned right that it’s a provocation and these parents are right in protesting it.
This is the product of Leftists having been allowed to run amok in our school system at all levels. Push back is needed at all levels to stem their influence, that means parents and activists have to mount a concerted front to challenge them at every step.
“There was no trying about it. The sheet she gave out was pure doctrine in its origin,” she told WHSV. “I will not have my children sit under a woman who indoctrinates them with the Islam religion when I am a Christian,” she said.
All schools shut down in a Virginia county over Islam homework assignment
(CNN)After a teacher at a Virginia school handed out a standard homework assignment on Islam, such an angry backlash flooded 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.
And social media exploded over the school lesson — a simple drawing assignment — into a caustic discussion about religion and education.
Draw this
When the world geography class at Riverheads High School in Staunton rolled around to the subject of major world religions, homework on Islam asked students to copy religious calligraphy.
It read:
“Here is the shahada, the Islamic statement of faith, written in Arabic. In the space below, try copying it by hand. This should give you an idea of the artistic complexity of calligraphy.”
The illustrative 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.”
Angry calls
When students took it home, it was like a spark hitting a powder keg. Some of their parents saw the homework as an attempt to convert their children to Islam.
