Censorship in a Texas School

[Boxlicker101]

A teacher in a Texas school was disciplined for distributing this to students:

https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/teacher-under-fire-for-anti-muslim-lesson-115945553072.html

I don't know just how factual it is. Some of the figures might be overstated but it is, essentially, true.

ETA: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-support-the-death-penalty-for-leaving-islam/

 

[RjThoughts]

A teacher in a Texas school was disciplined for distributing this to students:

https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/teacher-under-fire-for-anti-muslim-lesson-115945553072.html

I don't know just how factual it is. Some of the figures might be overstated but it is, essentially, true.

In the US, PUBLIC SCHOOLS cannot disseminate material which shows a favoritism towards a religion and conversely, shows a bias against another.

Religion should never be discussed in public schools.

 

[Boxlicker101]

In the US, PUBLIC SCHOOLS cannot disseminate material which shows a favoritism towards a religion and conversely, shows a bias against another.

Religion should never be discussed in public schools.

At the same time, Truth should never be suppressed.

 

[RjThoughts]

At the same time, Truth should never be suppressed.

It doesn't matter. The religiousness of the material makes it illegal to be discussed.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Religion should never be discussed in public schools.

It is pretty important to discuss it in history classes. What a teacher should never do is imply any certainty that a given religion is right or wrong or true or false; it should be discussed academically. This Islamophobic propaganda is way over the line.

 

[Boxlicker101]

It doesn't matter. The religiousness of the material makes it illegal to be discussed.

Not so. Comparative religion classes are quite common in public schools.

 

[RjThoughts]

It is pretty important to discuss it in history classes. What a teacher should never do is imply any certainty that a given religion is right or wrong or true or false; it should be discussed academically.

Only if the teachers do right and teach that Christianity was one of the major factors behind the near genocide of the Native Americans.

 

[RjThoughts]

Not so. Comparative religion classes are quite common in public schools.

Comparative? Only if the instructor isn't a dye-in-the-wool fundamentalist Christian.

 

[Busybody]

^^This is what is wrong with America today!

 

[Sean Renaud]

Not so. Comparative religion classes are quite common in public schools.

If by public schools you mean K-12 and not community colleges I would like to know where. I would happily have taken it. You don't even have art in schools any more. And that was more than fifteen years ago. Maybe we started funding schools while I was away?

 

[Boxlicker101]

It is pretty important to discuss it in history classes. What a teacher should never do is imply any certainty that a given religion is right or wrong or true or false; it should be discussed academically. This Islamophobic propaganda is way over the line.

It's not Islamophobic propaganda any more than teaching about the Inquisition or the European religious wars or the Nazi pogroms are Christianophobic propaganda. Some of the statistics may be somewhat inflated, but everything I read is basically true.

 

[RobDownSouth]

A teacher in a Texas school was disciplined for distributing this to students:

https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/teacher-under-fire-for-anti-muslim-lesson-115945553072.html

I don't know just how factual it is. Some of the figures might be overstated but it is, essentially, true.

ETA: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-support-the-death-penalty-for-leaving-islam/

I can see how cherry-picked anti-Muslim zealotry would have enormous appeal to a muslim hating religious bigot such as yourself. Too bad that the United States Constitution ("just a fucking piece of paper" - Dubya) stands in your way of a Christian Reich.

 

[RjThoughts]

If by public schools you mean K-12 and not community colleges I would like to know where. I would happily have taken it. You don't even have art in schools any more. And that was more than fifteen years ago. Maybe we started funding schools while I was away?

In NY, you can line item vote on school budgets: Each part of the school budgets are voted for individually. The only time our district did it, sports passed with 60something percent. Books, Art, Music all passed with 90something.

 

[Sean Renaud]

In NY, you can line item vote on school budgets: Each part of the school budgets are voted for individually. The only time our district did it, sports passed with 60something percent. Books, Art, Music all passed with 90something.

That is simply awesome.

Which still didn't answer my question of where in the nine realms is comparative religion common in K-12.

 

[Wrong Element]

Left out of the discussion in here so far: the guy was an economics teacher, and he's handing out anti-Islam propaganda which isn't germane to economics in any way. If he wants to do that, stand on the street corner and chase people down. Don't take advantage of the captive audience in your classroom.

 

[Busybody]

it was an economic discussion of terrorism

in direct refutation of what CUNT HARF said

 

[BotanyBoy]

In the US, PUBLIC SCHOOLS cannot disseminate material which shows a favoritism towards a religion and conversely, shows a bias against another.

Religion should never be discussed in public schools.

Except in FL....there they can push religious propaganda for the purposes of recruitment/conversion to religions.

They passed it under "it's for all religions!" it passed....then the other religions showed up and found themselves prohibited in short order making it essentially a christian/jew privilege law.

everything I read is basically true.

This explains EVERYTHING.

 

[domroger]

Left out of the discussion in here so far: the guy was an economics teacher, and he's handing out anti-Islam propaganda which isn't germane to economics in any way. If he wants to do that, stand on the street corner and chase people down. Don't take advantage of the captive audience in your classroom.

^^^^^
This .

 

[Boxlicker101]

If by public schools you mean K-12 and not community colleges I would like to know where. I would happily have taken it. You don't even have art in schools any more. And that was more than fifteen years ago. Maybe we started funding schools while I was away?

Here is one. And it's not that far from Fontana. http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma/newshour.html

I'm reasonably sure there ore many others, but I am loath to spend the time tracking down all the locations.

 

[phrodeau]

A teacher in a Texas school was disciplined for distributing this to students:

https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/teacher-under-fire-for-anti-muslim-lesson-115945553072.html

I don't know just how factual it is. Some of the figures might be overstated but it is, essentially, true.

ETA: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-support-the-death-penalty-for-leaving-islam/

No, she hasn't been disciplined.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Here is one. And it's not that far from Fontana. http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma/newshour.html

I'm reasonably sure there ore many others, but I am loath to spend the time tracking down all the locations.

One is plenty but if I understood properly it's relatively new and went through years of talks.

 

[Busybody]

where does ANYONE see this as anti Islam or a discussion of religion?

and IT is a discussion of economics

 

[RobDownSouth]

where does ANYONE see this as anti Islam or a discussion of religion?

and IT is a discussion of economics

^^^This is the stupidest comment (non-Queerbait division) I've read today.

 

[Busybody]

^^^This is the stupidest comment (non-Queerbait division) I've read today.

I didn't expect otherwise from yu

 

[Boxlicker101]

I can see how cherry-picked anti-Muslim zealotry would have enormous appeal to a muslim hating religious bigot such as yourself. Too bad that the United States Constitution ("just a fucking piece of paper" - Dubya) stands in your way of a Christian Reich.

I'm not sure just what you mean by "Cherry-picked anti-Muslim zealotry." There are a number of statements in the pamphlet under consideration, and the numbers are all estimates but not far from the actual figures. The statements of facts, especially regarding such things as apostasy or homosexuality or adultery are all well known. So what has been cherry picked?

I am not a religious bigot. I would hate to live in a Christian theocracy almost as much as I would hate to live in an Islamic theocracy.

When did Dubya ever refer to the US Constitution as "just a fucking piece of paper?" If he ever said such a thing as that, he was being quoted out of context and, in context, actually said the opposite.