DAR AL HARB - U.K.: CHILDREN SHOULD HAVE THEIR 'RELIGIOUS' EDUCATION SPICED UP BY PRETENDING TO BE MOSLEMS

Children set for lessons in Islam?

HEADTEACHERS are being advised to 'spice up' their religious education lessons by getting children to dress up in Muslim clothes, learn about the five pillars of Islam and make prayer beads.

A newsletter, due to be sent out by North Somerset Council to primary and secondary schools, suggests that pupils should be taken to an exhibition in Birmingham where they can learn about the faith, history and practice of Islam.

Once there, North Somerset schoolchildren will be able to explore five areas of the religion including family life, Islam and science.

They will be given the opportunity to wear traditional hijab headwear and the children will be guided by specially trained Muslim stewards.

In the 'faith and history' section, children will be able to learn about important figures in the Koran and in the 'five pillars' part they will be able to understand about a Muslim's pilgrimage to Mecca. In the activities room they will learn how to write their name in Arabic.

According to the exhibition's website the idea is to 'help educate people about Islam and to bring a better understanding of Islam to people residing in the United Kingdom.'

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And if you think that you are safe in America, you are wrong because the same type of indoctrination is occurring in our schools, just take a look at this article (and if you want to learn more at the bottom of it, you will find several other links):

'Five pillars of Islam' taught in public school'
Education practice wouldn't last 10 seconds if kids told to dress as priests'

Another school has been "teaching" Islam by having students study and learn Muslim prayers and dress as Muslims, and a lawyer who argued a previous dispute over this issue to the U.S. Supreme Court said such methodologies wouldn't "last 10 seconds" if it were Christianity being taught.

"Would it have been 'just cultural education' if students were in simulated baptisms, wearing a crucifix, having taken the name of St. John and with praise banners saying 'Praise be to Jesus Christ' on classroom walls?" asked Edward White III, of the Thomas More Law Center.

Parent Kendalee Garner, however, objected to having her son being taught Islam and also to the time the public school system spends on the subject.

She told WND that her 13-year-old son is being "indoctrinated that Islam is a religion of peace, and being dressed up as a Muslim, being taught prayers, and scriptures out of the Quran."
"I just don't understand the ban on Christianity but Islam has free rein," she said.

She said the guest speakers and skits and reports were wrong, but what set her off was a class in which students in all three social studies classes dressed in traditional Islamic outfits.

"The only reason I knew about it was because my son told me about it," she said. "They sent him to the library instead of stopping what they were doing. I'm sure people would be outraged if they dressed up as the pope."

That was White's point exactly.

If that's how teaching about religions is done, he said, "then teach all religions in the same way, Christianity, Judaism. Have the kids study Native American religions, do the dance, smoke the pipe. Have the kids dress up as priests and hear confession."

He said when he suggests that, school managers and even judges get that "panic-stricken" look.

He knows because he argued the same dispute up to the U.S. Supreme Court after complaints of similar teachings in the Byron Union School District in California.

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SEPARATION OF CHURCH & STATE FOR ME, BUT NOT FOR THEE...


Pertinent Links:

1) Children set for lessons in Islam?

2) 'Five pillars of Islam' taught in public school