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PUBLIC SCHOOLS EMBRACE ISLAM - A SHOCKER
By Reverend Austin Miles
Special to ASSIST News Service
Wednesday, January 9, 2002
BRENTWOOD, CA (ANS) -- As children return to school this week, following
the Christmas break, 7th graders in a growing number of public schools,
who are not permitted to wear a cross or speak the name of Jesus, will
be required to attend an intensive three week course on Islam; a course
in which students are mandated to learn the tenets of Islam, study the
important figures of the faith, wear a robe, adopt a Muslim name and stage
their own Jihad.
In Byron, California, parents were outraged when students came home with
their handouts and were told what was being taught. Their complaints to
the school principal not only were ignored, but officials of this public
school, funded by tax dollars, essentially fluffed them off.
The public schools in California so stealthily slipped this course into
the 7th grade curriculum that even another 7th grade teacher, Elizabeth
Christina Lemings, was totally in the dark that this was being taught
until her son, Joseph, who is a 7th grader in the same school where she
teaches, brought home the handouts.
“We could never teach Christianity like this,” Lemings said
to ANS during anon-site interview. “We can't even mention the name
of Jesus in the public schools, but over there…,” she pointed
to the building next to hers, “they teach Islam as the true religion,
and students are taught about Islam and how to pray to Allah.”
Lemings, in her second year of teaching in the Byron (Northern California)
Union School District, has been a Christian since 1987. The government
school system requires that she teach evolution in her science class with
no reference to creationism or any contrasting viewpoint to Darwin’s
theory. She quickly learned that God and Christianity are out (forbidden)
but that Islam is in.
The textbook used for the Islamic course, Across The Centuries, is published
by Houghton-Mifflin (Boston, Ma). It is described as a Social Studies/History
book and has been adopted by the California School System.
In it, Islam is presented broadly in a totally positive manner, whereas
the restricted references to Christianity, is centered on The Reformation,
Martin Luther and The Catholic Church. Everything Christian is shown in
a negative light, with events such as the Inquisition, the Salem witch-hunts,
etc., highlighted in bold, black type.
This is proper for a complete study of history. However, there is not
one negative to be found about Islam in this one-sided account, such as
the wars, massacres, cruelties against Christians and other non-Muslims
that Islam has consistently perpetrated over the centuries.
Nor is any mention made of the way Muslims treat their own people, cutting
off hands, feet and heads for even the slightest violations of the Islamic
tenets of faith, or the shocking way they treat their women.
The ‘miraculous’ events leading up to the Koran, the ‘holy’
book of Islam, and other ‘revelations’ are presented as factual.
Any reference of the miraculous regarding Christianity is always set next
to a disclaimer stating that; “It was (is) believed by Christians
(or an individual such as Martin Luther) that…..,”implying an
absence of credibility about the stated event.
For example, the representation that Gabriel the archangel came to Muhammad
(Note: not believed to have come to Muhammad) and dictated to him the
Koran, a whole new revelation and idea that would surpass all other religions.
What needs to be explained by the Houghton-Mifflin historians, is why
Gabriel (which translates, “Man of God”), the archangel of both
Christians and Jews, who was a part of all of God's plan, who interpreted
for Daniel the vision of the ram and the he-goat, and comforted him after
his prayer with the prophecy of the ‘seventy weeks’ and who
heralded the good tidings by declaring the coming of the predicted Messiah,
would at that point in time and history, call on Muhammad, one who did
not believe in Jehovah God or Jesus as the Son of God, and ‘reveal’
to him the words of the pagan god Allah to lead his people with. How's
that again?
It would be most interesting to have the Houghton-Mifflin experts explain
what possessed Gabriel to turn on the God of Abraham and Jesus Christ
to lend assistance to what would become a murderous cult with no regard
for life, the very antithesis of Christianity. There is a deplorable lack
of information here.
And too, the Book of Revelation clearly states that no words should be
added or taken away from that book. So this in itself poses a major contradiction
and problem.
The faulty textbook, Across the Centuries, has more than its share of
deceit. It is stated as fact that Islam, Judaism and Christianity share
in common the belief in one god. This is a half-truth, which is the worst
kind of lie. Christianity and Judaism worship one God, the God of Abraham.
Islam worships one god named Allah. This hook is misleading on the part
of Houghton-Mifflin. The publisher apparently is attempting to legitimize
Islam.
If this were an authentic history, the textbook would explain that the
god of Muhammad was man's creation. Arabia was a pagan nation that worshiped
over 300 gods. One of those was the moon god named, al-ilah. Legend has
it that the moon god mated with the sun god and had two daughters, both
of whom were worshiped as goddesses. When Muhammad claimed to have had
his ‘vision’ and ‘revelation from Gabriel’ he chose
al-ilah as the god to build his army around.
Muhammad shortened the name, al-ilah, to, Allah, and declared that he
alone should be worshiped. He forbade the worship of the daughters. To
this day, a crescent moon can be found at the front of every mosque, acknowledging
that Allah was, and is the moon god. All of this is missing from the Houghton-Mifflin
accounts.
It is also to be noted, even though not publicized, that Allah is also
known as, The God of War. So why isn't this important study of Islam included
in the history books?
The handouts used in this course, obtained by ANS, are considerable.
They include a history of Islam and the life of Muhammad its founder.
Muhammad is portrayed as an extremely moral man who wanted a society
of purity. A vast body of historical accounts will refute this image.
Historians will show that he had multiple wives, a sexual problem, and
among his wives, he took a 10-year-old girl for his pleasure (some accounts
list her age as 6).
And Islam promises its followers that those who become suicide bombers,
killing themselves and others, will go directly to Allah's paradise where
they will be given 72 virgins for unbridled sexual pleasure for all of
eternity.
There are many verses in the Koran that must be memorized in this Public
School course and students are taught to pray, “in the name of Allah,
the Compassionate, the Merciful” and to chant, “Praise to Allah,
Lord of Creation.”
There are 25 Islamic terms that must be memorized, six Islamic (Arabic)
phrases, 20 Islamic Proverbs to learn along with the Five Pillars of Faith
and 10 key Islamic prophets and disciples to be studied.
“Can you imagine the barrage of lawsuits and problems we would have
from the ACLU if Christianity were taught in the public schools, and if
we tried to teach about the contributions of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
and the Apostle Paul?” teacher Elizabeth Lemings lamented. “But
when it comes to furthering the Islamic religion in the public schools,
there is not one word from the ACLU, People For The American Way or anybody
else. This is hypocrisy!”
Even more disturbing; students are to pretend that they are Muslims,
wear Muslim clothing to school, stage their own Jihad via a dice game,
and pick out a Muslim name (to replace their own) from a list of thirty.
ANS asked some of the students what they thought about this course. All
of them felt that “it was fun,” while others described Islam
as “a pretty culture." This included a pastor's son! Joseph
Lemings, 12, said, “The Jihad was like playing a video game,”
even though the true violent nature of Jihad was well concealed.
Lemings is disturbed by the “fun” description. She sees it
as a tool, not only to engender sympathy and support for the Muslim cause,
but for recruitment. “This is not just a class of history of examining
culture,” she said. “This course is entirely too specific. It
is more about indoctrination.”
Lemings, upon learning of the course on Islam, approached the principal
of Intermediate-Excelsior School of Byron, Nancy Castro, requesting the
right to teach Christianity in the manner that Islam is taught and for
the same length of time.
Castro has not responded to her request. Lemings later received, round
about, information that the only way she could do this would be to teach
the Christianity class (as a Christian Club) after school hours where
students would come of their own accord. Otherwise, she would violate
the law of (selective) Separation of Church and State. Excuse me?
In an interview with Nancy Castro, the principal of the schools in Byron,
she stated to ANS that the Islam course (hidden within “History of
Cultures”) reflects California (educational) Standards that meet
State requirements.
When asked about the intensity of the Islamic course, Castro stated that
the course “is not religion, but Ancient Culture and History. And,”
she pointed out, “the text is a State Adopted textbook. We do not
endorse any religion, we just make students aware.”
She stated that the textbook is now in use throughout California. When
asked if she would allow Christianity to be taught the same way that Islam
is taught, Castro stammered before saying that Christianity is already
taught in the History and Culture class, “which,” she said,
“actually starts in the 6th grade.”
She said that this class started a year ago. The Christianity that is
taught is brief, taught as a myth, and strictly negative. This is how
it is portrayed in the textbook.
Lemings had stated to ANS that there were many, many parents who protested
this course on Islam, especially after September 11th (which, coincidentally,
is when the course began). Nancy Castro contradicted this account.
Asked if there was any response from parents about this course, Castro
answered, “Oh a couple of parents called to express concerns, three
to be exact.”
Peggy Green, Superintendent of the Byron Union School District did not
return calls by press time.
The Muslim's intentions are clear and the public has been continually
notified of that fact. In nearby Fremont, where the majority of the over
150,000 Muslims living in the Bay Area reside, Omar M. Ahmad, chairman
of the board of the Council on American-Islamic relations said this at
the Flamingo Palace banquet hall: “I urge Muslims not to shirk their
duty of sharing the Islamic faith with those who are on the ‘wrong-side.’”
He said that Muslims should not assimilate into American society. “If
you choose to live here, you have a responsibility to deliver the message
of Islam…Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but
to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America,
and Islam the only accepted religion on earth,” he said. These quotes
were published in the ”San Ramon Valley Herald” on July 4, 1998,
(ironically on our Independence Day), 3 years, 2 months and 7 days before
September 11, 2001. And like everything else, Americans and church leaders
didn't pay any attention to it. In the same article, Ahmad stated: “Everything
we need to know is in the Koran.” And bear in mind that the Koran
clearly states that Muslims are obligated to kill Christians, Jews and
all other infidels.
So why would the American Public School System and the politicians want
to further the Islamic faith, push to have it become the One World Religion
and nix Christianity?
Simple. Christians cannot be enslaved. Islam, an oppressive religion
of control, cruelty and fear does enslave, which can keep people subdued.
This is precisely what the future leaders of the One World Order want
to achieve. And the misinformed, make nice, politically correct crowd
seem eager to help them accomplish it.
But the greatest driving factor in all of this is money. There are the
profiteers and politicians who stand to grow in unspeakable wealth and
power by cooperating with the Arabs and finding favor by helping them
and their pagan religion take control. They have no compunction in selling
us out, and our freedom, to accomplish their goals. These greedy, self-serving
investors stands alleviating on both sides of the oil pump.**(see below)
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For a related story, see,
“HistorianRebuts Columnist's Islam Take.”
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Rev. Austin Miles is a chaplain, author, historian, speaker and educator.
He has been Master-of-Ceremonies for major events in Madison Square Garden,
The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Radio City Music Hall and at the United
Nations inNew York **where he was M.C. for the opening of the new Libyan
Embassy. He was not surprised at the various world leaders he introduced
who were there as friends of Libya. But what unsettled him was the number
of American financiers and oilmen who were there as friends of this terrorist
nation.
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**Additional ANS stories can be found at www.christianity.com/assistnews
** You may use this story with proper attribution.
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Do not dismiss this or simply shake your head if you happen not to be
a California resident. If it starts and continues in one state, how long
will ittake to travel across our nation. This is VERY serious.
Shalom,
Barbara
http://www.foryourglory.org/
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