Remember TIZA, the tax-funded charter school in Minnesota the state Department of Education cited for impermissibly advancing Islam?
Remember the school in California last fall that launched an "Islamic Awareness Week," only to pull the plug when parents complained?
Now we have CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, promoting Islam during class time in a public school in the Houston area. Outraged parents and members of the community have vigorously protested this action, and some are calling for the principal to be fired.
Below is a WorldNetDaily story. At the end of the story we have inserted a link to an organization called the Houston Area Pastor Council. If you click on that link you will be able to read the Pastor Council's press release, an email from a parent whose child sat through the mandatory presentation on Islam, and the principal's weak rationale for scheduling the mandatory session. You'll note that parents were not informed in advance nor were they given the opportunity to opt their children out.
BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS
Texas children roped into Islamic training
Class by CAIR teaches: 'There is one god, Allah'
http://WND.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=65659
Posted: May 30, 2008
1:00 am Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
Friendswood Junior High
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Public school students at Friendswood Junior High in the Houston area have been roped into Islamic training by representatives from the Council on American-Islamic Relations during class time, prompting religious leaders to protest over Principal Robin Lowe's actions.
Pastor Dave Welch, spokesman for the Houston Area Pastor Council, confirmed the indoctrination had taken place and called it "unacceptable."
"The failure of the principal of Friendswood Junior High to respect simple procedures requiring parental notification for such a potentially controversial subject, to not only approve but participate personally in a religious indoctrination session led by representatives of a group with well-known links to terrorist organizations and her cavalier response when confronted, raises serious questions about her fitness to serve in that role," the pastors' organization said.
According to a parent, whose name was withheld, the children were given the Islamic indoctrination during time that was supposed to be used for a physical education class.
"I am simply trying to get the word out to those whose kids may not have told them about an Islamic presentation that all kids were required to attend," wrote the parent, who was working to assemble protests to the school board.
WND previously has reported how public school textbooks being used across the nation have begun promoting Islam, teaching even the religious doctrines.
WND also has reported on several other school situations in which Islam has been taught as a required subject, and when administrators have defended those decisions.
In the Texas case, a school e-mail to parents provided only a half-hearted acknowledgement that such mandatory religious indoctrination might not have been the best decision.
Click here to link to the additional information provided by the Houston Area Pastor Council: http://www.imakenews.com/hapc/
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