The Islamic Jihad On America's Schools

An excellent article is put out by Cinnamon Stillwell here at the San Francisco Chronicle that details how the islamists are switching to a "soft" jihad and their main target is America's schools. Let's look at just one example that Stillwell cites in her article:

Last month, students at Friendswood Junior High in Houston were required to attend an "Islamic Awareness" presentation during class time allotted for physical education. The presentation involved two representatives from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an organization with a record of Islamist statements and terrorism convictions. According to students, they were taught that "there is one God, his name is Allah" and that "Adam, Noah and Jesus are prophets." Students were also taught about the Five Pillars of Islam and how to pray five times a day and wear Islamic religious garb. Parents were not notified about the presentation and it wasn't until a number of complaints arose that school officials responded with an apologetic e-mail.

I really encourage you to read the entire article - it is frightening how this jihad is taking place throughout the U.S. and of course, there is NO reporting going on about it. Let's look at one more example:

Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy, a charter school in Inver Grove Heights, Minn., came under recent scrutiny after Minneapolis Star-Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten brought to light concerns about public funding for its overtly religious curriculum. The school is housed in the Muslim American Society's (the American branch of the Egyptian Islamist group the Muslim Brotherhood) Minnesota building, alongside a mosque, and the daily routine includes prayer, ritual washing, halal food preparation and an after-school "Islamic studies" program. Kersten's columns prompted the Minnesota chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union to issue a press release expressing its own reservations about potential First Amendment violations.

This is the jihad that we now face in America. It is my view that there are two main strategies behind this:

1. An indoctrination of America's young people and children to islam will lead to what the jihadists view as a more "accepted" position of islam and when the islamists eventually demand preferrential treatment in America, they will have positioned the claims as "religious rights."

2. The numbing of America with a constant but subtle indoctrination of islamic rituals will further coat the islamists in teflon as after a time, Americans will come to view extremist islamic behaviour as the norm for their religion.

It really is pretty simple - the islamists and terrorists and jihadists in America are manipulating the civil liberties of America to position their form of jihad as protected in this society and at the same time, they are pushing the envelope as to how "special" they can build their case as they seek to maneuver new interpretations of the current laws and rights.

We have just seen this past week where members of CAIR in Michigan put pressure on Barack Obama's advisers to declare their objection to any form of "islamaphobia" in this country. The islamists simply want to create a society in America where ANY criticism of Islam and its followers will be labeled as "islamophobic" and will qualify as a hate crime.

Make no bones about it - the islamists seek one thing - total and complete control of America but they realize they cannot do it by blowing up our buildings or killing our citizens. They will accomplish it by jacketing themselves in special laws and putting forward legislation that will eventually allow them the rights of sharia law in this land. And they are starting this process with our children.

Islam in America's public schools: Education or indoctrination?

With fatal terrorist attacks on the decline worldwide and al Qaeda apparently in disarray, it would seem a time for optimism in the global war on terrorism. But the war has simply shifted to a different arena. Islamists, or those who believe that Islam is a political and religious system that must dominate all others, are focusing less on the military and more on the ideological. It turns out that Western liberal democracies can be subverted without firing a shot.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the educational realm. Islamists have taken what's come to be known as the "soft jihad" into America's classrooms and children in K-12 are the first casualties. Whether it is textbooks, curriculum, classroom exercises, film screenings, speakers or teacher training, public education in America is under assault.
Capitalizing on the post-9/11 demand for Arabic instruction, some public, charter and voucher-funded private schools are inappropriately using taxpayer dollars to implement a religious curriculum. They are also bringing in outside speakers with Islamist ties or sympathies. As a result, not only are children receiving a biased education, but possible violations of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause abound.

Equally problematic are the textbooks used in American public schools to teach Islam or Islamic history. Organizations such as Southern California's Council on Islamic Education and Arabic World and Islamic Resources are tasked with screening and editing these textbooks for public school districts, but questions have been raised about the groups' scholarship and ideological agenda. The American Textbook Council, an organization that reviews history and social studies textbooks used in American schools, and its director, Gilbert T. Sewall, have produced a series of articles and reports on Islam textbooks and the findings are damning. They include textbooks that are factually inaccurate, misrepresent and in some cases, glorify Islam, or are hostile to other religions. While teaching students about Islam within a religious studies context may be appropriate, the purpose becomes suspect when the texts involved are compromised in this manner.