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| 2005-10-20 |
| ANN ARBOR, MI — On Wednesday, October 19, 2005, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, California, will hear oral arguments in Eklund v. Byron Union School District. The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, represents several parents and children who challenged the Byron Union School District’s practice of teaching twelve-year-old students "to become Muslims." For three weeks, impressionable twelve-year-old students were, among other things, placed into Islamic city groups, took Islamic names, wore identification tags that displayed their new Islamic name and the Star and Crescent Moon, which is the symbol of Muslims, were handed materials that instructed them to “Remember Allah always so that you may prosper," completed the Islamic Five Pillars of Faith, including fasting, and memorized and recited the "Bismillah" or "In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate," which students also wrote on banners that were hung on the classroom walls. A federal district court judge in San Francisco had previously determined that the school district had not violated the constitution. According to Richard Thompson, Chief Counsel of the Law Center, "There is a double-standard at play in this case. If the students had done similar activities in a class on Christianity, a constitutional violation would surely have been found. If the public school's practice is upheld on appeal, all public schools should begin teaching classes on Christianity in the same manner as the Islam class was taught in this case." Read More at Stop The ACLU |
| Posted by:Jay |
| #11 Oops. That should be 'life style' |
| Posted by: Bob 2005-10-20 19:45 |
| #10 Don't you know, Islam is not a religion, it's and 'alternative live style.' |
| Posted by: Bob 2005-10-20 19:44 |
| #9 I'd keep an eye on the high school chemistry class ... |
| Posted by: DMFD 2005-10-20 17:51 |
| #8 Am I missing something. What the school is doing is forcing the children go BECOME MUSLIM IN FACT. Since all one has to do to become muslim is to recide 'There is no god but allan...' right? This also means that these children are also locked into Islam -- since leaving Islam is justification for murder in most Islamic states. As far as the ACLU is concerned - the ACLU is not against religion - just christianity and Judism. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-10-20 16:47 |
| #7 Man....I was a smart-ass in grade school. I prolly would have showed up wearing a suicide belt and been expelled or something..... |
| Posted by: Mark E. 2005-10-20 16:20 |
| #6 Given the proximity to the Bay area, the only reason that they are teaching the kids to Muslim is because the teachers there perceive muslims to be the enemy of the United States and the enemy of their enemy is their friend. |
| Posted by: RWV 2005-10-20 15:42 |
| #5 Given the proximity to the Bay area, the only reason that they are teaching the kids to Muslim is because the teachers there perceive muslims to be the enemy of the United States and the enemy of their enemy is their friend. |
| Posted by: RWV 2005-10-20 15:42 |
| #4 Things like this are why it is important to pass Propositions 74 and 75. It is also inidicative of why the teachers unions are so hysterical in their opposition to them. |
| Posted by: RWV 2005-10-20 15:38 |
| #3 "If the public school's practice is upheld on appeal, all public schools should begin teaching classes on Christianity in the same manner as the Islam class was taught in this case." Nah. I think that we all know that this ain't gonna happen. I'd be more interested to know who thought this was a good idea in the first place. In a real world with real investigative journalists, there'd be a Pulitzer Prize in uncovering this infamy. But...we live in a world where the only way to a PP is to vilify anyone who's not solidly liberal. |
| Posted by: gromky 2005-10-20 15:14 |
| #2 So, Islam is ok, but christianity is not because it violates the seperation of church and state according the the ACLU. Am I fucking missing something here or is this the biggest piece of hypocritical crap I have ever seen? |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-10-20 15:13 |
| #1 A federal district court judge in San Francisco had previously determined that the school district had not violated the constitution. Abso-phuquing-lutely amazing. But nothing that a good-sized nuke couldn't solve.... |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-10-20 14:53 |