Islamic Brainwashing now
a part of California Schools
By Jon Christian Ryter
Jon Christian Ryter
This article has been updated, see it in full at
http://www.jonchristianryter.com/2002/020119.html
It was one of those cyber stories that just popped up on the Internet
one night a week or so ago. Initially it seemed destined to remain
there. It was one of those “right-wing” stories that, even though it had
a certain ring of truth to it, it seemed almost too extreme to be true.
Since 1947 the United States Supreme Court has hammered any school, or
school teacher, in America who has ever entertained the idea of
promoting religion in the classroom. The wall of separation between
Church and State that has now become an “iron curtain” was initially
conceived in the minds of the nine old men on the high court in 1898. It
has pretty much been the “rule of law” since Everson v Board of
Education in 1947 and McCollum v Board of Education a year later. That
fact notwithstanding, it was now being reported by various Internet
sources that a public school system in California was mandating that all
students—even fundamental Christian and Jewish students whose ideology
would be diametrically opposed to Islam—to study the Muslim faith in the
classrooms. Of course, since it is construed as a violation of the
Constitution to mandate any religious studies in the classrooms of
America’s public school systems, this was one of those stories that
seemed too incredulous to believe.
Of course, astute Americans have long realized that the “wall of
separation” between Church and State in the United States was an
extremely selective “wall.” It has been focused specifically and
exclusively on Christianity. When you examine the landmark Supreme Court
cases on religious rights and the abridgment of those rights you will
quickly discover that in every instance where religious rights were
abrogated the rights lost were lost to Christians...and in every
instance where religious rights were broadened they were expanded to
non-Christian faiths such as Buddhism, Islam...or witchcraft (which is
the religion of Satan).
The State of California has long been viewed by the more
“straight-laced” Christian community as “Sodom on the Pacific,” with San
Francisco, America’s first homosexual haven, serving as Gomorrah.
Hollywood—together with its morality-challenged movie actors and
actresses who view life through a warped rose-colored prism—doubles as
Sodom. It is no wonder then that a program demanding the forced “study”
of Islam could be mandated in the California school system.
The first inkling that something was “constitutionally amiss” with the
California school system came shortly after the Christmas/New Year’s
break when students in San Luis Obispo, Byron and Brentwood, California
returned to their classrooms to discover that they would be forced to
“study” Islam during a three week program. What infuriated Christian
parents most is that those same students who were being forced to study
a religion which denies the deity of Jesus Christ were denied the
right—by the same school board—to wear crosses or other symbols of
Christianity or Judaism because that jewelry defied the Supreme Court’s
standing “separation” theory (even though, by the widest stretch of the
imagination—and based on case law—students cannot be construed as the
target of the separation doctrine. The separation doctrine deals
exclusively with government or quasi-government or public agencies or
offices—such as the public school system that cannot legally mandate
that their students “study” the Muslim faith (even under the guise of
“ancient culture”).
The first inkling that something was wrong in Sodom came when students
brought home handouts that discussed what was being taught in their
classrooms. Adding insult to injury after the September 11 tragedy,
parents discovered that their children were forced to wear an Islamic
robe, adopt a Muslim name by which they would be addressed throughout
the course of study and, in one school in San Luis Obispo, to stage
their own Jihad. In this post-September 11 era, parents argued most
vehemently that forcing their children to pretend they were Muslim
warriors fighting for Islam was wrong. In addition, students were
required to stage a make-believe pilgrimage to Mecca. One angry parent
complained to the Washington Times (the only major newspaper in the
nation to report the story) that they ‘...could never teach Christianity
like this.” Students who cannot bring a Christian Bible to school, or
quote Scriptures from their Bibles without running the risk of being
suspended, were forced to memorize Islamic scriptures from the Koran (Qu’ran)
in a course on Islam that is one of eleven “special education” units
that has been added to California’s social studies classes that is now
being taught all over the State. In other words, the initial reports
which suggested that the Islamic training course was isolated to a few
counties, was incorrect. The class, which is now included in
California’s curriculum standards, was approved by State officials in
1998.
Jennifer Shroder, [hey that's me!] the parent who sought help from the
Pacific Justice Institute, was told by the principle of the San Luis
Obispo school principle that she could not “opt out” of the program on
religious grounds. Clearly, if the school board in San Luis Obispo had
decided to hold a three week study on Christianity and a principal
denied the parents of an Islamic student the right to “opt out,” several
things would have happened. First, such an egregious act would have
headlined the evening news on every television network. Second, the
principal would have been fired before breakfast the next day. Third,
the American Civil Liberties Union would have filed a multi-million
dollar lawsuit against the school board. Fourth, the U.S. Justice
Department would have launched an investigation. Finally, Maxine Waters,
Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan and the Islamic Council for
Religious Something-or-other would have been fighting each other for air
time to denounce the Christian bigots who were proselytizing for
converts in the Islamic pool.
Peggy Green, the superintendent of the Union School District in Byron
told the Washington Times on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2002 that her schools are
only “teaching” about Islam, not promoting Islam as a faith. “We are not
teaching religion,” Green insisted. “We are teaching the California
state-mandated standards with state-adopted textbooks. Dressing up in
costume, role-playing and simulation games are all used to stimulate
class discussion and are common teaching practices used in other
subjects as well,” she said, adding, “There’s nothing to get upset
about.” Green added that “...her schools teach all religions in the same
way.” By that, Green apparently meant all non-Judeo-Christian classes
since California—like the other 49 States—believe that teaching anything
about Christianity (even the basic tenets of that faith) violates the
constitutional precept of separation as devised by nine old men who
apparently never read the 1st Amendment.
Learning that the Washington Times was investigating the myriad of
Internet reports on the Islamic brainwashing, Roger Wolfertz, the deputy
general counsel for the California Department of Education told the
newspaper that promoting any religion in a public school would violate
State code. Of course, everyone knew that. Wolfertz should have sat in
the class. Just as forcing students—regardless of their theological
perspective—to read the Holy Bible could, and very likely would, be
construed as promoting a religion, it is hard to understand how Wolfertz
or Peggy Green could, with a straight face, insist that forcing students
of any theological perspective to read, and memorize, Koranic scripture
could be construed as anything other than promoting a religion.
What the State of California did in 1998 is expressly forbidden by the
1st Amendment. By mandating a “course” in Islam, the State of California
legislated a state-sanctioned religion and then tried to disguise it as
a course in “ancient culture.” Critics of the program who learned about
the course from Internet reports initiated by the Pacific Justice
Institute and an article written for Assist News Service by Assembly of
God pastor and former PTL associate Austin Miles were outraged when they
learned that California schools were forcing Christian students to
“study” Islam. “I don’t think 7th graders should be reading the Koran,”
Phyllis Schlafly, president of Eagle Forum told the Times. “They
shouldn’t be playing games with another religion...It’s just an
outrage.” Ken Conner, who replaced Gary Bauer as president of Family
Research Council agreed with Schlafly. Conner told the Times that if
students were to dress up like Pilgrims and give thanks to God in the
classroom, civil rights activists “...would be apoplectic. [It] reflects
a terrible double standard. Anything that smacks of Christianity is
systematically excluded in the classroom, but everything less like Wicca
to Islam is welcomed. This case exhibits all the more that Christians
find themselves in a disfavored class of religion...”
Conner’s assessment was, unfortunately, all too correct. The California
liberals have shown, all too graphically and much too frequently, that
it is not the free exercising of religious liberty which they find
objectionable, it is the exercising of Christianity which they find
distasteful. The California State School Board used such secrecy and
stealth to implement the new class, called World History and Geography:
Medieval and Early Modern Times that only teachers with a “need to know”
were “in the loop.” Elizabeth Christina Lemings, a school teacher in the
Union School District, was one of those not important enough to be in
the loop. She found out about the program when her son Joseph, a student
in the school where she teaches, brought home one of the handouts.
Angered by the double standard, she contacted Assist News. Miles
interviewed her at her school. “We could never teach Christianity like
this,” Lemings told him. “We can’t even mention the name of Jesus in the
public schools, but over there...” she pointed to the adjacent building,
“...they teach Islam as the true religion—and students are taught about
Islam and how to pray to Allah.”
Continued on page 2
Read the
Court ruling by Judge Phyllis Hamilton [a Clinton appointee] authorizing
public schools to REQUIRE students to get on their hands and knees and pray
to Allah by memory along with any other practices of faith "in
demonstration." This ruling was upheld by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
and the US Supreme Court refused to hear it, thus allowing it as setting
precedent, a tool used to uphold the decision in other states.
In my opinion, this reduces our children to slaves, for slaves have
the right not to believe as they are forced to take the position and
pray to foreign gods. - Jen Shroder 11/27/2010
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