Islam in public schools

According to the San Francisco Chronicle (via Jihad Watch):

Islamists have taken what's come to be known as the "soft jihad" into America's classrooms and children in K-12 are the first casualties. Whether it is textbooks, curriculum, classroom exercises, film screenings, speakers or teacher training, public education in America is under assault.

Capitalizing on the post-9/11 demand for Arabic instruction, some public, charter and
voucher-funded private schools are inappropriately using taxpayer dollars to implement a religious curriculum. They are also bringing in outside speakers with Islamist ties or sympathies. As a result, not only are children receiving a biased education, but possible violations of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause abound.

What follows in the article are examples of specific cases.

It absolutely astounds me how organizations like the ACLU, People of the American Way and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State--which have been so active in their anti-religion war in American schools--have been so silent as Islam steadily creeps in. Apparently these organizations were not so much anti-religion as they were anti-Christian.

Tax funded hate

According to CNSNews:

Federal taxpayers are subsidizing a college in New York whose art school is currently displaying works that include a drawing of a man with a crucifix coming out of his rectum, a drawing of a man with a rosary coming out of his rectum, and rosaries decorated with penises.Over the last eight years, at least $4.6 million in federal tax dollars have been provided to the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, which is displaying the controversial artworks. Some of the money has come in the form of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

If any public school spends a dime in a way that looks like it is promoting Christianity, the ACLU, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, or People for the American Way are all over it like flies on cowpies! Where are they when a tax subsidized college degrades and vomits hate speach against Christianity? Isn't that a separation of church and state issue as well?

Minnesota churches harrassed

In a move that can only be described as guilty until proven innnocent:

"Officials in Ramsey County, Minnesota have sent letters to more than 800 churches and related entities there demanding various documents to justify the tax-exempt status of the ministries" (OneNewsNow).

Congress needs to put a stop to this harrassment of churches. Under the first amendment, churches should be able to preach pretty much whatever they want short of calling for violence or the overthrough of the governement. They should even be able to support Barack Obama without having their tax exempt status challenged! The Fair Tax would put an end to this harrassment.

Where is the ACLU when you need them?

State-funded Muslim school

LGF has an article on a publicly funded Muslim school in Minnesota.

I have just two questions.

First, how did they ever get away with this? If Christians sought public funding for a Christian School, their chances of getting it would be less than zero.

Second, where is the ACLU when you need them?

Public Islamic schools

According to an article just published in Human Events:

Can you imagine a public school founded by two Christian ministers, and housed in the same building as a church? Add to that -- in the same building -- a prominent chapel. And let’s say the students are required to fast during Lent, and attend Bible studies right after school. All with your tax dollars.

Inconceivable? Sure. If such a place existed, the ACLU lawyers would descend on it like locusts. It would be shut down before you could say “separation of church and state,” to the accompaniment of New York Times and Washington Post editorials full of indignant foreboding, warning darkly about the growing influence of the Religious Right in America.

But such a school does exist in Minnesota, in a different religious context, and so far the ACLU has uttered nary a peep.

Unbelilevable! The longer the ACLU, People for the American Way and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State remain silent about these kinds of issues, the more they enforce the idea that they really aren't anti-religion. They are just anti-Christian!

Read the entire article in Human Events.

ACLU defends Christians

"The ACLU likes saying it defends Christians but when you analyze the number of cases on its websites where they came to the rescue of Christians, the numbers come to about 40 over the last 15-20 years. Considering that the ACLU, according to some of its web pages, files 6000 lawsuits a year, the percentage of such defenses amount to being thrown an occasional bone to adherents of the Judeo-Christian faith" (Stop the ACLU).

Tax funded Islam at Normandale

Yet another story of Islam sponsored by your tax dollars, this time at Normandale Community College in Minnesota. Do you suppose the ACLU, People for the American Way or Americans United for the Separation of Church and State will protest?

I wouldn't hold my breath.

Discrimination at Target

Debbie Schlussel just wrote a post about how Target bends over backwards to accommodate the religious beliefs of their Muslim employee’s, but that they recently fired a Christian employee for exercising his religious beliefs.

I think Target should be able to fire, or refuse to hire Muslim or Christian employees who will not or cannot do the job, but to accommodate Muslims while refusing to accommodate Christians, smacks of anti-Christian bigotry. Unfortunately, this anti-Christian discrimination seems to be a growing trend.

For example, while organizations like the ACLU have expended millions enforcing their flawed view of church-state separation, they seem to be turning a blind eye when it comes to the public funding of Islam, for example, at Savannah State or the University of Michigan.

While radical gay-lesbian advocates want to institute hate crimes laws to silence any opposition to their agenda, they apparently have no problem with the sick, anti-Christian “hate-speech” displayed in events like the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco.

While anti-Christian groups won their battle to keep Christian prayer out of public schools, they seem remarkably silent now that some schools are allowing Muslim prayer in public school.

While a Christian student was threatened with disciplinary action just for reading her Bible during lunch time, other schools in Oregon, Ohio, and California appear to be actively promoting Islam.

While the American Library Association screams bloody murder about any attempt by a misguided Christian to remove a book from a library, the ALA turns a blind eye when a librarian nearly looses his job for recommending a Christian book or when a teachers are forbidden to tell students about a Christian book located in their in the library!

It almost seems that in the eyes of the Left, hate speech and discrimination are terrible sins, unless committed against Christians.

Censoring religion in prisons

"We are afraid to affirm the value of our own civilization. We are afraid to say that Christianity is a religion of peace and Islam isn't, and so have to make these outlandish gestures to appease the god of multiculturalism and relativism." So says Robert Spencer regarding the Bureau of Prisons' new policy of purging thousands of religous books from the libraries of our prisons (DhimmiWatch).

If the prison policy is to reject books that incite violence, it is undoubtedly only one religion that is usually affected. So rather than risking charges of discriminating against this one religion, the Bureau of Prisons has decided to discriminate againat all relgions. They are creating a small list of approved religious books that can be in prison libraries. All the rest--thousands of books--are being discarded.

Is this even constitutional? The ACLU will defend the "rights" of people to have child pornography and the American Library Association will fight against any effort to keep pornography away from children in public libraries, but will they fight to allow prisoners to have religious books? I'm not going to hold my breath.

I agree fully with Robert Spencer's assessment.

Child porn and the ACLU

"A man who for 12 years served as president of the Virginia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union was sentenced to seven years in prison yesterday for downloading what authorities said was some of the worst child pornography they have ever seen" (Washington Times).

Perhaps the rest of the ACLU should be investigated as well.

Muslim madrassa in NY

Since 1963 when Madeline Murray O’Hare launched her attack on prayer in public schools, all hints of Christianity in public schools have been relentlessly attacked under the guise of “separation of church and state.” It seems, however, that to some on the Left, this separation only applies to Christianity. Some state colleges are now using tax dollars to construct places for Muslim foot washing and New York City has even established a tax funded Muslim school!

Of course the Muslims responsible for this school swore that it was not for religious instruction but, according to Kevin McCullough, that turned out to be a lie on the very first day the school was open. As it turned out, the principal of the school had ties to Hamas and Hezbollah. She has since been relieved of her duties but the school goes on, at taxpayer expense!

Have the ACLU, People for the American Way, or Americans United for the Separation of Church and State opposed any of these things? Until they do the American people have every right to suspect that these organizations are not really interested in separation of religion and state, they are just interested in suppressing and censoring Christianity.

ACLU and foot washing

According to Brit Hume on Fox News, the ACLU has announced that it will not oppose the spending of $25,000 by the University of Michigan to install footwashing basins for Muslims. This confirms what many of us have long known. The ACLU is not really about civil liberties. It is not even about the separation of church and state. It is, in effect, the Anti-Christian Legal Union.

Where is the ACLU now?

The University of Michigan is about to spend tens of thousands of dollars to install Muslim "footbaths" (Debbie Schlussel.Com).

The American Left in general, and especially organizations like the ACLU, People for the American Way, and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State often attack every hint of Christianity in the public sector. Yet when Islam is imposed on students in public schools, or when colleges like the Minnesota Technical and Community College or the University of Michigan want to spend thousands of taxpayer dollars accommodating Islam (and no other religion), why do these groups remain so silent?

I don't think it is necessarily unconstitutional for a state university to provide Muslims with "footbaths" as long as similar funding is provided for Christian and Jewish students. But for a state university to financially support just one religion and neglect others has to be seen as unconstitutional by any thinking person. Why can the Left see this and where is their outrage?

More on Christian terrorists

A couple days ago I posted on "Chistian Terrorists," about a public school that ran a mock terrorism drill with "Chistian terrorists" as the bad guys. Yesterday, a constitutional attorney weighed in saying that the school's actions may have been unconstitutional:

Frankly, this kind of anti-Christian bigotry by school officials is despicable
and is not related in any way to the legitimate purposes of a hostage drill. In
fact, the Constitution forbids public school officials from demonstrating this
kind of open hostility towards religious beliefs with which they disagree.
Furthermore, the whole predicate of the exercise is outrageous. The perpetrators
of the hostage-taking were allegedly motivated because their daughter had been
expelled for praying before the beginning of the school day. Not only do
students have the right to pray before the school day, but Burlington Township
officials acknowledge that they have that right. So this entire scenario was
unrealistic, unnecessary and offensive....Could you imagine the outrage if this
fictional scenario involved any other religious group? No other religious group
in America would tolerate this kind of insult (Townhall).

I wonder if the ACLU or Americans United for the Separation of Church and State will complain about this school's violation of the separation of church and state? I wouldn't hold my breath.

ACLU supports sex offenders

Once again the ACLU shows its true colors. They apparently believe that convicted sex offenders have a constitutional right to live near schools, playgrounds, or day care centers! What about the rights of children to be safe from these predatory perverts? Read the article at Townhall.

Child porn and the ACLU

Yesterday, ABC News reported that

"Federal agents arrested Charles Rust-Tierney, the former president of the
Virginia chapter of the ACLU, Friday in Arlington for allegedly possessing child
pornography. According to a criminal complaint obtained by ABC News,
Rust-Tierney allegedly used his e-mail address and credit card to subscribe to
and access a child pornography website.

The videos apparently included the violent rape of little girls. The fact that this one former ACLU chapter president is a very sick pervert does not necessarily reflect on the rest of the ACLU any more than the hypocrisy of Ted Haggard reflects on the National Association of Evangelicals. But on the other hand, the NEA has never supported Haggard’s lifestyle while the ACLU actively supports the sale and distribution of child pornography. Perhaps the investigation of Charles Rust-Tierney should be widened to include other ACLU leaders as well.

Kitzmiller v. Dover: a miscarriage of justice?

Last year Recliner Commentaries posted a series of articles on the Kitzmiller v. Dover case on Intelligent Design (see "Intelligent Design" in the subject index for previous posts). Now, a new revelation has come to light. Excerpts of a WorldNetDaily report appear below:

"One year ago, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones' 139-page ruling in Kitzmiller v. Dover declared unconstitutional a school board policy that required students of a ninth-grade biology class in the Dover Area School District to hear a one-minute statement that said evolution is a theory and intelligent design "is an explanation of the origin of life that differs from Darwin's view."

"But an analysis by the Discovery Institute, the leading promoter of intelligent design, concludes about 90.9 percent – 5,458 words of his 6,004-word section on intelligent design as science – was taken virtually verbatim from the ACLU's proposed "Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law" submitted to Jones nearly a month before his ruling."

John "West is vice president for public policy and legal affairs for the group's Center for Science and Culture, which issued a statement saying, 'The finding that most of Judge Jones' analysis of intelligent design was apparently not the product of his own original deliberative activity seriously undercuts the credibility of Judge Jones' examination of the scientific validity of intelligent design."

"We were stunned," said West, who pointed out Jones even copied several clearly erroneous factual claims made by the ACLU."

"The revelation that Judge Jones in effect 'dragged and dropped' large sections of the ACLU's 'Findings of Fact' into his opinion, errors and all, calls into serious question whether Jones exercised the kind of independent analysis that would make his 'broad, stinging rebuke' of intelligent design appropriate."

This discovery raises serious questions. For example, since the ACLU was supporting the winning side, how can it possibly be ethical for the judge to have essentially cut-and-pasted his conclusion from arguments previously prepared by that side? Was the judge just a biased tool for one side of the dispute? Was this really a fair trial at all, or was this just a kangaroo court in which the judge had already made up his mind from the very beginning?

Given the fact that I read the decision and often found the judge’s reasoning to be ludicrous, my conclusion is that this case has moved beyond the issue of Intelligent Design to an issue of judicial ethics and the miscarriage of justice! If there is a mechanism in place for the investigation if judges, it needs to be applied in this case.

Islam in public schools

Earlier this month Recliner Commentaries commented on a school in California which has been given the legal right to have children "role play" Islamic religious practices in public school. Then there was a public school in Oregon which had students dress as Muslims and learn Muslim prayers. Now there is a public school in Ohio showing preference for Islam.

No word of any protests by the ACLU, People for the American Way, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State or the National Education Association. Apparently the idea of separation of church and state just means that all Christian influence must be erased from public schools.

Islam in another public school

A few days ago Recliner Commentaries commented on a public school in California which has been given the legal right to require students to "role play" Islamic practices in school.

Now another school (this one in Oregon) has now come to light which is getting away with indoctrinating children in Islam (Dhimmi Watch).

Apparently, the idea of separation of church and state only applies to keeping Christianity out of the public square. Where is the ACLU, People for the American Way, or Americans United for the Separation of Church and State now?

ACLU vs. NSA; a conflict of interest

Readers may recall that recently the ACLU brought suit against the National Security Agency for illegal wiretapping. Even some who were sympathetic to the outcome were critical of the judge’s reasoning in the decision. Judicial Watch, a “watchdog” organization in Washington DC has now charged that Judge Anna Diggs Taylor who presided over the case served as the secretary and trustee for a group that recently gave a grant of $45,000 to the ACLU. Some are suspecting that the NSA did not get a fair shake in this decision. This issue will surely come up in appeal (USA Today).