CAIR wants school to allow Muslim prayers; attacks voluntary Bible lessons

[Busybody]

CAIR wants school to allow Muslim prayers; attacks voluntary Bible lessons



DEARBORN, Mich. – How is the radical Council on American-Islamic Relations bending public school policy to its will?

Two stories from Michigan tell the tale.

From a CAIR press release:

CAIRThe Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) said today that a Detroit-area school district has apologized for handing out permission slips for Bible study classes to elementary school students.

CAIR-MI sent a letter to Roseville Public Schools after receiving a complaint from two parents of children who attend Huron Park Elementary School about distribution by teachers of permission slips for the Bible classes at a local Baptist church.

CAIR Executive Director Dawus Walid wrote in a letter to the school district, “School staff and teachers are not to serve as advocates for one particular religion or congregation within a religion by passing out slips inviting parents to give permission for their children to attend religious instruction.”

But that’s precisely what CAIR sought in the nearby Dearborn district.

The Arab American News reported that CAIR staff “recently met with Dearborn Public Schools Superintendent Brian Whiston to discuss concerns from some parents regarding prayer accommodations in Dearborn Public Schools.

“Dearborn Public Schools has implemented a policy which fully accommodates student-led prayer in all the schools, as well as unexcused absences for students who leave early on Fridays for Jumu’ah prayers. CAIR-MI is currently in discussion with Melvindale Public Schools to get similar accommodations for students that are now in place for Dearborn Public Schools.”

So Muslims can conduct religious activities within a public school, but Christians can’t go off-site to receive voluntary Bible lessons? What’s wrong with this picture?

Is political correctness accommodating such hypocrisy?

 

[koalabear]

Diversity.

 

[Busybody]

juan way

 

[Busybody]

,,

 

[warrior queen]

All schools everywhere should cut all religious studies.
That's not to say you can't have schools that cater to a particular faith - just that they shouldn't actively teach the faith to students.
For example.... a Catholic school can have the ten commandments as part of its rules, and a Muslim school can segregate classes and require head-coverings. But to actually teach the religion as part of the curriculum? That should not be allowed.
It promotes discord from a young age.

That's just my opinion though.

 

[Busybody]

Not the point

 

[badbabysitter]

actually, that's entirely the point


the teachers were handing out bible study permission slips to the students.. some who were not christian

meanwhile the muslim kids were given accomadations due to their religon


the only way it would have been an equivalency is if the christian kids were being told to go to muslim services

so essentially you're saying... freedom of religon applies to me, but not to thee

 

[Busybody]

Slit Muslim throatz

 

[warrior queen]

Not the point

How is that not the point?
That's where it all starts.
I'm fairly sure that most parents of pre-schoolage children don't go pointing out religious differences/preferences to 3, 4, and 5 yr old kids.
All that comes when they start school, and see one religious group (in this case Christians and their bible studies) getting preference over others.

 

[imalickin]

So, the teachers hand out permission slips and Muslim parents are stupid enough to believe that attendance is mandatory? Or are they just to stupid to ignore it and move on? Or both?

I don't get it...the school is bending over backwards to allow Muslim students to pray while they are in school, yet permission slips to leave school to attend bible study is a no-no. I say all public schools should be religious free zones.

Private schools can do as they please, they are privately owned after all.

 

[Beco]

As long as they dont blow up the school, Im okay with it.

 

[badbabysitter]

So, the teachers hand out permission slips and Muslim parents are stupid enough to believe that attendance is mandatory? Or are they just to stupid to ignore it and move on? Or both?

I don't get it...the school is bending over backwards to allow Muslim students to pray while they are in school, yet permission slips to leave school to attend bible study is a no-no. I say all public schools should be religious free zones.

Private schools can do as they please, they are privately owned after all.

one.. you're missing the point... if your child came home with a permission slip for you to sign for a prayer sessions at a mosque.. you might be pissed

that's what they did here in reverse

two... the school also bends over backwards for Christians..or they wouldnt have christians handing out permission slips to non christians...plus Christmas is a national holiday... Ramadan is not

3. it was a public school...not a private one

 

[Busybody]

one.. you're missing the point... if your child came home with a permission slip for you to sign for a prayer sessions at a mosque.. you might be pissed

that's what they did here in reverse

two... the school also bends over backwards for Christians..or they wouldnt have christians handing out permission slips to non christians...plus Christmas is a national holiday... Ramadan is not

3. it was a public school...not a private one

you get MORE INSANE by the day

 

[Busybody]

How is that not the point?
That's where it all starts.
I'm fairly sure that most parents of pre-schoolage children don't go pointing out religious differences/preferences to 3, 4, and 5 yr old kids.
All that comes when they start school, and see one religious group (in this case Christians and their bible studies) getting preference over others.

the point is schools all over the US expunge all religion but Islam

THATS THE POINT

I have had dozens of threads showing just that

The PROBLEM ISNT RELIGION

THE PROBLEM IS ONE RELIGION

ISLAM!

 

[kbate]

the point is schools all over the US expunge all religion but Islam

THATS THE POINT

I have had dozens of threads showing just that

The PROBLEM ISNT RELIGION

THE PROBLEM IS ONE RELIGION

ISLAM!

All you need do is create a religion with the religious requirement for prayer at regular intervals, two of which fall during the normal school day and your children will be permitted to break for their prayers.

I happen to think that those parents who wish their children to follow devout religious practices, should place their children in religious schools - but since you grow a new grey hair every time a new Islamic school opens that solution wouldn't please you either.

 

[Busybody]

All you need do is create a religion with the religious requirement for prayer at regular intervals, two of which fall during the normal school day and your children will be permitted to break for their prayers.

I happen to think that those parents who wish their children to follow devout religious practices, should place their children in religious schools - but since you grow a new grey hair every time a new Islamic school opens that solution wouldn't please you either.

I would say this

You wanna PRAY

Don't expect it in PUBLIC SCHOOLS where the PLEDGE is prohibited, where Mothers/Fathers Day is prohibited, where Halloween and Christmas are verboten, etc etc

 

[kbate]

I would say this

You wanna PRAY

Don't expect it in PUBLIC SCHOOLS where the PLEDGE is prohibited, where Mothers/Fathers Day is prohibited, where Halloween and Christmas are verboten, etc etc

I don't believe that anyone should be indoctrinated into flag worship in public schools.

 

[Busybody]

I don't believe that anyone should be indoctrinated into flag worship in public schools.

but you don't want those that

WORSHIP the flag


TO PROTECT YOU!

 

[kbate]

but you don't want those that

WORSHIP the flag


TO PROTECT YOU!

That didn't even make sense. You need to slow down, breathe deeply and then take a day off to look at the clouds.

 

[Busybody]

it did

 

[JudasIscariot]

Democracy, you vote for it so deal with it

 

[Busybody]

Democracy, you vote for it so deal with it

what the fuck does this mean?

 

[JudasIscariot]

It means all the fucking moaning about Muslim schools, preaching etc is pointless.

The U.S is built in freedom of speech, but you pick and choose what you want to be free and what you want oppressed, well anybody in the U.S from any sexual, religious or any other background has the right to be heard.

It's a democratic nation therefore has this as rule of thumb, if it pisses you off so much why don't you move?

 

[Busybody]

It means all the fucking moaning about Muslim schools, preaching etc is pointless.

The U.S is built in freedom of speech, but you pick and choose what you want to be free and what you want oppressed, well anybody in the U.S from any sexual, religious or any other background has the right to be heard.

It's a democratic nation therefore has this as rule of thumb, if it pisses you off so much why don't you move?

who wants ANYONE OPPRESSED?

 

[JudasIscariot]

All schools everywhere should cut all religious studies.
That's not to say you can't have schools that cater to a particular faith - just that they shouldn't actively teach the faith to students.
For example.... a Catholic school can have the ten commandments as part of its rules, and a Muslim school can segregate classes and require head-coverings. But to actually teach the religion as part of the curriculum? That should not be allowed.
It promotes discord from a young age.

That's just my opinion though.

Lucky for the world your not a politician