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Home Front: Culture Wars
US Dept of Education urges schools to teach Islam to 'create anti-bias learning environment'
2016-02-14
Muslim students, and those perceived to be Muslim, could be bullied, and the government wants teachers to know how to "create an anti-bias learning environment" by focusing specifically on those students and their faith.
Perhaps this photo will help.
'This means incorporating the experiences, perspective and words of Muslim people into the curriculum through social studies and current events instruction, children's literature, in order to learn about different cultures,' the blog reads.

'When you teach about world religions,
Huh?
be sure to include Islam. ... It's also important to be aware that some Muslim students may feel relieved and comfortable discussing these issues in class and others may feel nervous, scared or angry to be talking about a topic so close to home.'"
One of the better core classes I took in college was a survey of world religions. No proselytizing, a true survey: here's what various religions believe, here's why they believe it, here's how it influenced the culture of the people. Quite useful in understanding the world.

If that's what the DoE was proposing I'd be 100% in favor. But it isn't, and so we should be suspicious.
Posted by:Blossom Unains5562

#10  Unbiased Biblical and religious history will never fly with the NEA. Schools should require classes on what it means to be an American and read the Constitution for themselves. It's the rule book that is common ground and the source of equality before the law, regardless of religious belief, yet most citizens haven't even read it. "These truths are self-evident"....If Muslims want to live here peacefully and lawfully as Americans respecting our laws, fine, but I would gladly relocate any Islamists to Paki-waki land or the hellhole of their choice. Just watched Bridge of Spies and the constitutional convictions Hanks voices are the crux of the issue. The real James Donovan did believe that everyone deserves a defense. "Our principles are engraved in the history and the law of this land," Donovan said in 1962. "If the free world is not faithful to its own moral code, there remains no society for which others may hunger" (The Milwaukee Journal). Destroy the Constitution, destroy America and all it represents.
Posted by: Thor Lumumba3940   2016-02-14 20:01  

#9  This department needs to be cut open and strangled with it's own entrails, and fed to rats.
Posted by: newc   2016-02-14 19:16  

#8  It's a zoning thing, right Pappy?

I joke. Actually, the whole "no state religion" thing is one of the more clever bits in the Constitution, IMHO.
Posted by: SteveS   2016-02-14 19:01  

#7  Okay, that's first stage separation.
Our faiths formed a useful foundation,
But now that we're smarter,
Let's fire Muslim ardor
For burn of uncertain duration.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2016-02-14 17:57  

#6  Look up the definition of that, Tom.
Posted by: Pappy   2016-02-14 16:38  

#5  Separation of church and state, anyone?
Posted by: Tom   2016-02-14 16:07  

#4  Read the Koran side by side with the matching Biblical sections, and discuss the archeological evidence that supports or contradicts what was written.

Granted, pious Muslims are unlikely to feel comfortable with this, as their tradition forbids that kind of approach, and also unbelievers in any way questioning or contraditing Muslim claims about their faith. Some pious Christians and Jews are also likely to feel uncomfortable about contradictory external evidence.
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-02-14 15:52  

#3  Fine. Make sure they read the whole Crayon, not just the PC parts of it, and that they understand the idea that the later parts trump conflicting earlier parts.
Posted by: gorb   2016-02-14 14:11  

#2  Thanks, Ship.
Posted by: Pappy   2016-02-14 10:11  

#1  Hey that's NASA's job, that and long range weather forecasting.

The future:
Capcom: Chimperoo please throw breaker 4532B, we want to realign the SCOG.
Chimperoo: cheep, cheep!
Capcom: Thanks Chimp, we're coasting for awhile.
Capcom: Belay the coasting Chimperoo, sorry. Initiate Auto-Mecca sequencer for the Astronaut.
Chimperoo: mofo mofo mofo!
Posted by: Shipman   2016-02-14 07:41  

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