A taxpayer funded public school in Maryland instructed its students:
“Most Muslims’ faith is stronger than the average Christian.”
“Islam at heart is a peaceful religion.”
Jihad is a “personal struggle in devotion to Islam, especially involving spiritual discipline.”
“To Muslims, Allah is the same God that is worshiped in Christianity and Judaism.”
“Men are the managers of the affairs of women” and “Righteous women are therefore obedient.”
Imagine the shock when 11th-grader at La Plata High School, Caleigh Wood, revealed this to her parents. More students and more parents need to actively need to get involved as Caleigh Wood did. She bravely stood up for her rights as a Christian. She stated that, as part of an assignment, she “was also required to profess in writing, the Islamic conversion creed, ‘There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.’” For refusing to concede to the sharia and standing “firm in her Christian beliefs”, Wood was punished for it and given a failing grade for non-compliance.
Her case has now gone to the supreme court. “The Thomas More Law Center has submitted a petition asking the high court to take up the case of student Caleigh Wood.” Its president, Richard Thompson warned:
Under the guise of teaching history or social studies, public schools across America are promoting the religion of Islam in ways that would never be tolerated for Christianity or any other religion.
Jihad Watch reported on May 19th that a Washington school district was caught promoting Islam for Ramadan through a CAIR initiative. Now lawyers have sent a cease and desist letter. Islamization happens rapidly if unnoticed and unchallenged. Parents need to be paying attention to what their children are being indoctrinated with and taught in schools.
“U.S. SCHOOL FAILS CHRISTIAN STUDENT FOR REFUSING ISLAMIC PRAYER”, World Net Daily, May 19, 2019:
The declarations could have been made by an imam in a mosque sermon.
“Most Muslims’ faith is stronger than the average Christian.”
“Islam at heart is a peaceful religion.”
Jihad is a “personal struggle in devotion to Islam, especially involving spiritual discipline.”
“To Muslims, Allah is the same God that is worshiped in Christianity and Judaism.”
“Men are the managers of the affairs of women” and “Righteous women are therefore obedient.”
The problem is that those statements were part of the instruction in a public school in Maryland, and one of the students in the classroom now is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to condemn such religious lessons funded by taxpayers.
The Thomas More Law Center has submitted a petition asking the high court to take up the case of student Caleigh Wood.
“As a Christian and 11th-grader at La Plata High School in Maryland, Caleigh Wood was taught that ‘Most Muslims’ faith is stronger than the average Christian.’ She was also required to profess in writing, the Islamic conversion creed, ‘There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.’ Ms. Wood believed that it is a sin to profess by word or in writing, that there is any other god except the Christian God. She stood firm in her Christian beliefs and was punished for it. The school refused her request to opt-out or give her an alternative assignment. She refused to complete her anti-Christian assignment and consequently received a failing grade,” the legal team explained Wednesday.
Lower courts have given a free pass to the school district to teach Islam, and so TMLC filed the request with the Supreme Court to decide “whether any legal basis exists to allow public schools to discriminate against Christianity while at the same time promote Islam.”
“Under the guise of teaching history or social studies, public schools across America are promoting the religion of Islam in ways that would never be tolerated for Christianity or any other religion,” said Richard Thompson, TMLC’s president.
“I’m not aware of any school which has forced a Muslim student to write the Lord’s Prayer or John 3:16: ‘For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life,’” he said.
“Many public schools have become a hot bed of Islamic propaganda. Teaching Islam in schools has gone far beyond a basic history lesson. Prompted by zealous Islamic activism and emboldened by confusing court decisions, schools are now bending over backwards to promote Islam while at the same time denigrate Christianity. We are asking the Supreme Court to provide the necessary legal guidance to resolve the insidious discrimination against Christians in our public schools,” he said.
Unresolved include whether or not schools can make preferential statements about one religion over another, and whether students may be required to assert religious beliefs with which they disagree.
And how do those concepts align with “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”?
The Charles County public schools and officials are defendants.
The filing explains the lower courts, despite the First Amendment’s requirements, “upheld the ability for [the school] to denigrate Petitioner Caleigh Wood’s faith and require her to write out statements and prayers contradictory to her own religious beliefs.”….
Lory says
I’m glad that this is going to the Supreme Court. And I hope there is much publicity so people might be aided in waking up.
Lydia Church says
I know I left a comment here yesterday, but just wanted to add these items to the lesson plan assignment list below:
“allah is the devil, and mohammed is his messenger”
“The Biblical God is the one true God, He is NOT allah, and mohammed is NOT His messenger”
“Yahweh is the one true God, and He DOES have a Son, and His name is JESUS, and He died for our sins and rose again!”
“Jesus is Lord and God!”
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Haaa!
I love it!
(see other comment below as well)
I love this girl for standing up for her rights!!!
Finally, a professing Christian with backbone!
My signature quote all over the web should be, as it is a recurring theme in my comments:
“No one can force you… without your consent!”
~Lydia Church
na says
I think this is not a real news “Forbes top 5 Islamophobic 2019 list” 1 Trump 2 Dalai lama (He often gets threat convert to Islam) 3) Muhammad Bin Salman (Saudi)
Meet the virgin of desert Rashida bint hint (bearing fruit) mother of 9 children 18 year old who has never had sex .
If it is true “protagonists – generating Islamophobia”
gravenimage says
Why does na post silly stuff like this?
na says
No I just mentioned this for awareness, there are many news like this not real, for example
A Chinese first time visited USA in 19th century, he was surprised later he came to china and wrote a book “In the USA even Chimpanzees speak English fluently. We are low iQ people”
(In fact that man was a black negro) An internet meme.
Another article is “Jesus cursed a fig tree” he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again”.
Many scholars are still debating that fig tree is a woman. A symbolism.
na says
*(In fact that man was a black negro) Chinese thought he is a chimpanzee.
CRUSADER says
Na, you are very sophomoric!!! LEARN before spouting off…
Please! …get your comprehension of Christ’s Gospel correct!
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The reason why Christ cursed the fig tree was because its fruit should’ve come prior to leafing. There was no fruit found…. That was an allegory, which is a metaphor in which a character, place or event is used to deliver a broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.
Note, the fig fruit is to appear before the leaves. Thus, to see a leafed fig tree (even at an unseasonable time), warranted the assumption that there would be fruit on the tree.
But this tree was an oddity; the leaves were there, but it was fruitless. This phenomenon, therefore, served as a perfect “visual aid” for an important lesson that the Savior wished to teach.
Centuries earlier, the Hebrew nation had been separated from the pagan peoples of antiquity to serve in a special role in the divine economy. In the days of Moses, the people of “Israel” were designated as Jehovah’s “firstborn” (Ex. 4:22), i.e., they were granted a priority status. God thus said to Pharoah, who held Israel captive, “let my people go” (Ex. 5:1).
Across the centuries, however, the Israelite people frequently rebelled against their Creator.
Though they had enjoyed every conceivable spiritual advantage, they had become, for the most part, an utterly renegade nation.
In the symbolism of the Scriptures, a fruitless, withered tree was worthy of nothing more than being cut down (cf. Psa. 90:6; Hos. 9:16). “Withering” was a symbol of imminent death (Joel 1:12). In the blasting of this fruitless fig tree, the Son of God was suggesting this:
The nation, as a political entity, had become a worthless mechanism in the sacred scheme of things. It thus was worthy of nothing but destruction. That destruction would shortly come (within forty years — A.D. 66-70) with the invasion of the land by the conquering Roman armies (cf. Mt. 22:7ff; 24:15ff). The punishment would be complete and final; the “tree” would be dead from the very “roots” (Mk. 11:20).
Conclusion:
There was a very good reason why Jesus Christ acted as He did on this occasion. It was not an impulsive act, it was not a misguided, irresponsible gesture. It was a deliberate, highly instructive warning. Unfortunately, the lesson conveyed has been lost upon the minds of many.
na says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=444AS3AVCi0
CRUSADER says
Much of what na brings across here is silly.
Not sure why na does that….
It’s like mixing silly puddy into pudding.
na says
My comment is not related to the above news, I just shared some comments for a discussion .Yes Jesus story what you are saying is right. I mentioned that many scholars are interpreting that in wrong way. I hope you are okay.
Shirley Ann says
Another American Law, Broken To Bits. I thought TaxPayer Supported Public Schools were NEVER to teach Religion, but the Muslims slipped another Knife into us. Their Belief System is also a “Legal” System, with the Cult of Islam,Tagged on at the Very End! Let’s See, Slavery, Polygamy & the Cult of Islam, Now Forced on all Students in the Public(State) System! Where’s the OutCry?
gravenimage says
The outcry is in the story above. Please read it again.
duh swami says
We all worship the same God…
No we don’t…That’s fake news…
munchenfez says
allah is NOT Yahweh.
CRUSADER says
BA’AL became AL-LAH….
and the moon god worshiping Muzzies have been lost ever since….
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Prophet Elijah went before the people and said,
“How long will you waver between two opinions?
If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.”
(Kings 18:21)
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Stupid adherents to the wayward and militant Nation of Islam
probably thought this was in reference to Elijah Muhammad
(born Elijah Robert Poole; October 7, 1897 – February 25, 1975)
Dawne says
This is absolutely disgraceful. Can US citizens support this student in any way?
gravenimage says
Here’s the Thomas More Law Center. They may be able to help:
http://www.thomasmore.org
Heidi says
Isn’t it the same everywhere in the west? Politicians, courts, teachers and many of the general public are bending over backwards to accomodate them with the result that they demand more without an end being in sight because they insist that we owe it to them. https://onenewsnow.com/education/2019/04/14/germany-fines-parents-for-keeping-son-from-mosque-trip-lessons
Westman says
Imagine this assignment was a regular each year in the schools of Sweden and years later Islam has control of government. The Imams call for mandatory meetings(like Muhammad’s call for prayer or being burned in house) and the Imam questions the attendees: “Raise your hand if you wrote the Shahada while a school student. OK, a clerk will come to each of you and record your name and info, You are now Muslims and expected for prayer at your nearest Mosque.”
Making a student write the Shahada is no different than asking a Muslim to declare himself a Christian. This is an absolute violation of the Constitution of the US. If SCOTUS can’t get this right then nothing in the US Constitution will resist the corrosive political and immoral forces trying to destroy it.
gravenimage says
Westman wrote:
Making a student write the Shahada is no different than asking a Muslim to declare himself a Christian.
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Given Islam’s death penalty for leaving Islam it is, of course, much worse.
mortimer says
La Plata High School in effect established Islam as the official religion of La Plata High School.
The constitutional prohibition of not establishing one religion over another should be invoked.
The statements quoted about are HIGHLY CONTENTIOUS, since they make bold statements in favor of Islam that have been debunked as follows: 1) the strength of one’s faith is subjective 2) jihad is called ‘holy war’ by Islamic sages throughout the ages 3) jihad is primarily a political and military struggle according to Islamic source texts 5) Allah and Jehovah are deities with totally different personalities in the source texts 6) Islamic misogyny is based on extremely unflattering descriptions of women by Mohammed in the source texts which were written by misogynistic, pious Muslims.
mortimer says
correction: The statements quoted ‘ABOVE’ are HIGHLY CONTENTIOUS
CogitoErgoSum says
In all fairness they should begin a class on Christianity and have the students learn how to baptize one another in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It would be mandatory to pass the class. If any Muslim students refused to participate they would fail the class … because, after all, they believe in the same God as Christians, don’t they?
Benedict says
“She was also required to profess in writing, the Islamic conversion creed, …..”
Another example of compelled speech. We need vigilant people like Jordan Peterson in all areas of politics and religion. The religion of the genderless society in Canada also advocates compelled speech, and catapulted thereby JP to fame to its eternal regret. So thanks to Christine Douglass-Williams for the article.
Spiro says
Very few parents ever get involved with their children’s schools
Schools are a dumping ground to take the parents place and responsibility
The indoctrination is in most schools and parent don’t see it
Colleges are ever worse
As for Islam they are counting on ignorant lazy citizens
gravenimage says
I’m glad Caleigh Wood’s parents have proven to be an exception.
Richard Bramwell says
It is an error to focus on the attack on Christianity alone, however true that may be. The attacks on Christianity are mainly because is the one religion with as many or more adherents than Islam! But Islam will not stop with Christianity. It aims to oppress and assimilate every religionist and every atheist on Earth. This point should be made clear every time a report of Islamic activity is made!
gravenimage says
This is true, Richard.
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
She stood firm in her Christian beliefs and was punished for it.
I always feel a little proud and relieved when I hear non-muslims standing firm in their own convictions against islamic intimidation. Yeah!
JW fans know this type of thing happens all the time in our schools, that is, islam getting promoted to the point of proselytizing. Strong arm tactics are used to cram islam down the throats of students under threat of academic punishment or worse. Forcing students to recite alien religious beliefs in such a context is unethical, unconstitutional, and a potential humiliation for students and their families. And the statement, “Most Muslims’ faith is stronger than the average Christian” is a bigoted thing to say with no rational basis, ones faith cannot be measured like water in a glass. And it may be reasonable to teach a student that muslims believe that “there is no god but allah,” but to force students to “profess” the same is religious thuggery. This seems to me like another case of islamic infiltration with the help of our educational system, other religions are degraded while islam is elevated to superior status–nothing new about that.
The powers that be have decided it’s easier to try and condition non-muslims to accept islam’s demonic bigotry than risk offending muslims by granting everyone equal treatment. Instead of standing firm in what’s good and right for all, some schools prefer to appease muslim bigotry at the expense of our intellectual freedoms and moral integrity. I gotta be honest, I don’t like that one bit. America is supposed to be a democracy, not a theocracy that favors one religion over another under duress. I know I’m not saying anything profound here, I just felt the need to spill my mind on this troubling trend. We really need to watch for these sneaky intrusions by muslims that will ultimately undermine our entire way of life, jeopardize our security, and destroy our freedoms. Muslims don’t have a “stronger” faith in god, that’s impossible because one cannot live in true “faith” toward allah. Allah is a brutal and immoral god that promotes murder against those who do not believe. One cannot love or trust such a god in faith, such a god is morally insane and cannot be truly trusted in faith anymore than one can trust a murderous psychopath to respect all human life equally. Please, stop pretending islam is a worthwhile religion deserving respect. It ain’t, it’s simply 7th century plagiarisms mixed in with a lot of violence, ignorance, and immorality, for a god who was himself violent, ignorant, and immoral. One cannot be of a “stronger” faith in believing in such a god; instead one is far weaker in faith, as that faith is for a god that lacks the requisite qualities that allow for a faithful relationship in trust and love and with a universal commitment to moral and equitable treatment for all.
In short, allah is a violent and hateful fraud who can’t be trusted. “Faith” is just a five letter word when talking about a god like allah. There’s no spiritual “strength” in that, just spiritual delusion and intellectual tomfoolery.
SB says
Audit, audit, audit. Someone’s getting their pockets lined.
seabird says
Isn’t it ironic that the ACLU’s decades-long battle to separate “Church from State” and its validation in the US Supreme Court has now
given us the legal “firewall” against any religious intrusion into any public institution?
Get the paperwork ready for violators.
This is a good example of why we must always remain vigilante.
Nice job of pouncing on them down there.
Rarely says
Hmmm. Teaching islam advocates that “Men are in charge of women and therefore a woman is observant if she is obedient”. That must sit well with the teenage girls in the class. Ever try to tell your 16 yr old daughter who she could or couldn’t date or what clothes she could wear or how much make-up she could put on? Good luck with that. It sort of undermines anything else they might be saying about islam. Why not throw in a few comments about how gays are to be treated and the relationship (or lack thereof) muslims are allowed to have with non-believers.
Without much effort the class would be taught to despise islam. In fact that would be achieved by teaching just the bare bones of islam since teaching this “women must obey men” idea is a great start.
My fear is that they are teaching this garbage to the younger grades who are much more impressionable.
BTW I expect that the SCOTUS will come up with a very interesting decision that the muslims aren’t going to like. We’ll see.
CRUSADER says
Throw THE BOOK at ’em !
GreekEmpress says
To all here at JW—
I just got off the phone with a gentleman from the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund. I have been trying to follow the case of Bill Larion, a city employee in Detroit who made the “Camels R Us”
crack about the Sports Illustrated swimsuit model in a burkini. CAIR went after him and so the city fired him—. I wanted to find out how to help, and came across this organization.
People posting at JW are so incredibly savvy about what’s going on that you probably already know about this organization that fights against CAIR.
But I’m posting this in case there may be others (like me) who didn’t know of the incredible work they’re trying to do. And they happily accept donations—which are also tax deductible.
FCDF (Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund)
PO Box 9520
Rancho Santa Fe
CA 92067
Tel: 858-759-9948
I’m writing a check right now!
gravenimage says
Here’s a link to their website, Greek Empress:
https://www.fcdflegal.org/
Lydia Church says
test
Lydia Church says
Then let’s have the Christian conversion creed forced on everyone in public schools:
There is no God but Yahweh, and Jesus is His Son and final Messenger, and He died for our sins and rose again!!!
(atheist, muslim, pagan, whatever. If they don’t write it, they get failed.)
Can you hear the outrage already???
As for the statements, they can be corrected in a similar way for the assignment:
“Most Christians’ faith is stronger than the average muslims’.”
“Islam at heart is a violent religion.”
“Christianity is a religion of peace and love.”
Jihad is a “cultural struggle in devotion to Islam, involving violence, oppression, and murder.”
“Evangelism is what every Christian should do to every non Christian.”
“Allah is NOT the same God that is worshiped in Christianity and Judaism.”
“Women are the managers of the affairs of men” and “Righteous men are therefore obedient.”
(I threw that last one in just to throw a twist in and some of the ladies’ groups might appreciate it.)
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HA!!!!
And just remember, what do I always say?
NO one can force you to do ANYTHING.
(Unless they can fool you into thinking that they can. It’s still you who is falling for it and caving into it.)
Kepha says
To wax fundamentalistic, Christian women are the joint heirs of salvation with their husbands; they must submit to their husbands, and the husbands must love their wives as Christ loves his church (see First Corinthians 15 for how far that went; as well as I Peter 2:24 and Mark 10:45).
As for most Christians’ faith being weaker than most Muslims’, those poor, benighted ejjikumators in Maryland probably never saw any “Christianity” save the kind of liberalized Protestantism or post-Vatican II Roman Catholicism that obligingly rolls over and plays dead whenever told to by its cultured despisers (a term from Schleiermacher, who I see as one of the theologians responsible for this state of affairs). They believe they are sophisticated because they abominate Evangelicalism (**Ugh!!-fundamentalism!) while accommodating to Salafism. Claiming to be “atheists”, loftily above such silly religious disputes of Islam and Christianity and teaching “tolerance” to both (or, at least to the former), they are too blind to see their own idolatries of self, science, state, or the image of whatever is the “progressive” cause du jour.
gravenimage says
Muslims claim that the faith of Christians is weaker than that of Muslims because Christians do not slaughter people in the name of their religion.
Kepha says
Disgraceful. Unfortunately, here in Maryland, the deepest indigo state in the land, Islam is “cool”. It is supposedly the religion that gives dignity and pride to the downtrodden black man (Malcolm X would never lie–and interesting how the feminists and gender-bender crowd never kvetch about this turn of phrase), fights imperialism (just look at Algeria in the 1950’s!), and, best of all, is not Christianity.
And note how ACLU stays far, far away from a case like this.
gravenimage says
Maryland school denigrates Christianity, promotes Islam; case gone to supreme court
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Good for Caleigh Wood and her parents, and the Thomas More Law Center for taking the case.
CRUSADER says
***The Existence of God***
If there is such a thing as Evil. there is such a thing as Good…
Ravi Zacharias explains….question of the Moral Law….
What of the Moral Law GIVER ?
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(minute marker 09:00 is crucial)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRRuKDXT7Kg
CRUSADER says
*** Must the Moral Law Have a Lawgiver? ***
(Article By Ravi Zacharias Ministries, John M. Njoroge)
Atheists don’t believe we need God to understand what is right and wrong. Yet Christians point to a moral law that is written on our hearts by God, and our conscience testifies either for us or against us with regard to morality.
….article explains….
https://www.rzim.org/read/just-thinking-magazine/must-the-moral-law-have-a-lawgiver
James says
I can remember that when I went to grade school, we were released for an hour to go to the home of a woman a block away from school, where we had religious instruction. It was Christian, but I forget what we learned, it was so long ago. We also said the pledge of allegiance to the flag. There was no teaching about Islam, and certainly not in the school. That would have been a violation of the separation of church and state principle. Now it seems that this rule only holds for Christians and Jews, for Muslims other rules are coming into to practice that favor Islam over the others. Is this good for America? I think not. There are many nice Muslims, but I would say that most are Muslim in name only or they practice only the harmless rituals and not sharia law. They probably never read any of the Islamic scriptures and never practice most of the laws in them. In a hostel where i spent time I was talking to someone who claimed to be Muslim and from Africa, but he drank alcohol, including hard liquor. So, I think that he was not a serious candidate for jihad or for propagandizing for Islam, which made him much more sympathetic than the bad examples of people who are fanatical.
CRUSADER says
But, many of those nice Muslims still are expected to go to Mosques and hear what their local Imam has to tell them….
gravenimage says
Then there is also Taqiyya.
na says
A local news, In Oman a Jihad woman arrested for killing her husband. Later she convinced police that his husband was not praying properly(Namaz).One day he wanted to visit king,King may ask about his faith. He had no prayer bump. So he asked his wife to hit his forehead (temple) with a hammer to create one prayer bump soon. She obeyed his husband . His husband died.
na says
sorry for ***her husband . Her husband died.
gravenimage says
Well, this all seems *highly* unlikely–no woman would ever be urged to attack her husband in Dar-al-Islam (wife beating is in the Qur’an, husband beating is not).
Then, Oman is a Sultanate–it has no king.
The only story I can find about an Omani woman killing her husband is this one:
“Omani woman sentenced to death for killing husband”
https://gulfnews.com/world/gulf/oman/omani-woman-sentenced-to-death-for-killing-husband-1.2246348
The only story I could find in the region of a woman killing her husband with a hammer was this one, of an Egyptian woman living in Kuwait:
“Egyptian woman killed the husband with hammer”
http://www.kuwaitup2date.com/egyptian-woman-killed-the-husband-with-hammer/
In neither of these cases, of course, was the murder done at the behest of a Muslim leader for Islamic reasons.
c matt says
“Most Muslims’ faith is stronger than the average Christian.”
Well, depending on how that is interpreted, that particular statement may unfortunately be accurate. It sure seems some Muslims take their faith more seriously than many Christians do.
gravenimage says
Muslims enjoy threatening and murdering Infidels, if this is what you mean.