If this had been a poster calling upon Jesus, the ACLU and numerous other groups would have been all over this case. But with Islam having preferred victim status, it will be interesting to see if this poster reappears next Ramadan, if no outsiders are paying attention by then.
An update on this story. “After FCDF Threatens Lawsuit, N.J. District Scraps Posters Calling upon ‘Allah’ to ‘Shower’ Students with Blessings,” FCDF, June 3, 2019:
School Officials Had Unwittingly Partaken with Local Mosque’s “Dawah Educational Awareness in the Public Schools” to Convert Schoolchildren to “Accept Islam with Allah’s guidance.”
Two days after FCDF sent a “cease and desist letter” to the West New York School District, attorneys for the school district’s Board of Education notified FCDF on Friday that “the poster(s) that may have been deemed legally impermissible in a public educational setting have been removed from Memorial High School.” Early last week, a Memorial High teacher had contacted FCDF, expressing grave concerns that the high school was unlawfully promoting Islam.
Despite the school district taking down the posters, FCDF is continuing to investigate the matter—including submitting a public records request—after alarming new facts have come to light about the extent of Islamic influence in Memorial High School.
At issue is two Muslim high school students going class-to-class during school hours, interrupting lessons, and trying to convert students to Islam under the guise of teaching them about Ramadan. The students are also allegedly responsible for creating massive bulletin boards promoting Islamic religious practices and inviting students to learn more about the benefits of being a Muslim.
Ramadan bulletin board sponsored by local mosque’s “Dawah Committee”According to FCDF’s investigative findings thus far, the two Muslim students’ proselytizing is sponsored by the North Hudson Islamic Educational Center’s “Dawah Committee.” According to its website, the Dawah Committee’s mission is “sharing the guidance of the Glorious Quran and the mercy of the prophet Muhammad (PBUH) with our neighbors and friends.” The committee is “also committed to empowering Muslims to be advocates of the message of Islam.”
In an article entitled “Sharing Islam (Dawa) in Public Schools,” the Muslim advocacy group Sound Vision states “Dawa [or Dawah] means to share the message and traditions of Islam with fellow non-Muslims.” Sound Vision declares that “spreading the message of Islam” in the public schools is part of the “obligations of Dawa.”
As part of its public school outreach, the Dawah Committee provides a School Ramadan Outreach Kit 2019. The kit teaches public schoolchildren that Mohammed is “a prophet and righteous person” and that Allah is the “One God.” Among dozens of “activities” and lessons, the kit also encourages teachers to have their students fast, invite imams to school to extol students about the “spirit of Ramadan,” and “arrange for students to be part of an Iftar gathering at the Islamic Center or a [Muslim] parent’s home.” The kit encourages teachers to email the mosque at dawa@nhiec.com for more materials.
In its “Sharing Islam (Dawa) in Public Schools” article, Sound Vision has a section with the heading, “School Students: Receptive to New Ideas.” The section states:
Schools students are routinely exposed in their classroom to new information and opinions, hence they tend to be more receptive to new beliefs and ideas. Schools are therefore fertile grounds where the seeds of Islam can be sowed inside the hearts of non-Muslim students. Muslim students should take ample advantage of this opportunity and expose their school mates to the beautiful beliefs of Islam.
“Sharing Islam (Dawa) in Public Schools”At Memorial High School, as part of their Dawah “obligations,” the two Muslim students posted a link on the Ramadan bulletin board to www.mybestramadan.com, operated by a “community of devout Muslims observing Ramadan.” The website has a post entitled “Ramadan in the Public Schools,” which chronicles the two Muslim students’ Dawah efforts at Memorial High School. The post states:
Jazaakum Allahu khairun – way to go! We congratulate Sr. Nour Hasan and cousin for their outstanding dawah educational awareness in the Public Schools. We pray that other students and parents will follow suit in the near future. May Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala reward them manifold.
We also thank Memorial H.S. for their kindness and inclusivity of our Muslim students.
The post also features a narrative of one of the Muslim student’s “dawah educational awareness”:
The NHIEC Ramadan in Public School Package [see above, the School Outreach Ramadan Kit 2019] was helpful. I also contacted Project Eid Awareness. Sr. Marjana sent me a banner – a white one you can see in the pictures.
I did the Bulletin boards which I have the presentation slides on.
When I asked the school if I could hang a banner up the school made their own banner that they put in the entrance of school.
I did the presentation in 5 different classes: 3 History, 1 English and 1 French class. One was a freshman class and the rest were 10th grades. I made goody bags that had candy and I asked questions. Afterwards, I gave out the treats to whoever answered the questions. I also made some Arabic sweets for one of my classes. No one else helped in the presentations except for my cousin. She did the one about the traditional food and stuff that we have during Ramadan.
The Muslim students’ actions adhere to Sound Vision’s strategies from its article “Sharing Islam (dawa) in Public Schools.”…
mortimer says
Double standards for Muslims? Why? Double standards have not been permitted for Christians by the US Supreme Court, even though the US has maintained Christian traditions without interruption since the founding of the American colonies. So why would the courts allow ISLAMIC TRADITIONS to be introduced when the foundational traditions of America have simply been wiped out by a stroke of the pen?
Leftards in the school system have fallen for the ‘victim narrative’ of Islam. Mark Durie has pointed out how it works:
“… there’s a phrase in Arabic, “tamaskan tatamakan” = Show a victim’s face, and you will take over”. Do you understand what that means? Act the victim, and then after a while, you’ll take over the other person.”
Leftards are falling for this fallacy uncritically. Mohammed migrated to the Jewish town of Yathrib, changed the name to Medina and within two years, there were no Jews and Mohammed established Medina as his imperial capital. That is the pattern Muslims follow.
Jayell says
“New Jersey school district scraps posters calling upon “Allah” to shower children with blessings”……on this side of the pond, schoolgirls in places like Rotherham already know what sort of ‘blessings’ Allah is likely to bring them.
BVC says
Well said jayell. That is a lesson one should never forget
Keith Ellerby says
So true and well said
John Allan says
More Allah’s disciples than Allah.
Ravi says
Right on. We all know what blessings Allah showered on a child Ayesha, nine year old wife of Muhammad.
gravenimage says
Good post, Jayell.
BVC says
I am left wondering if the imams would be just as pleased if muslim children in the schools were approached by christians teaching about Christ during Christmas or easter? Or if jewish kids were teaching them about the torah and Moses during passover? I have a distinct feeling they would brand these children “islamophobic” and order the school to ask for a “cease and desist”.
With the muslim populace, its always a one-way street. They dont understand (obviously) that this countries Constitution seperates church and state, and public schools ARE state.
Shame on the teachers in this case, for they should have known better. They should have politely explained to these two students that it can not happen during school hours.
John Allan says
‘With the muslim populace, its always a one-way street. They dont understand (obviously) that this countries Constitution seperates church and state …’
Oh, they understand alright. They just think it shouldn’t apply to them.
gravenimage says
+1
Dee says
Actually, there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution about the separation of church and state. This was brought up in a letter from Thomas Jefferson to a pastor. The IDEA of the separation of church and state is in the 1st Amendment that states the government will not impose any religion on anyone. After living under a monarch’s rule which imposed a certain religion on all, the founding father’s didn’t want this. The framers wanted a Christian based society and government that would support that. But again, nowhere in the U.S. Constitution does it say “separation of church and state.”
Spiro says
The schools don’t care about separation it’s PC to the max
The voters and/or parents need to get involved and bring this to a stop or Muslims will push to the point of control
gravenimage says
They *have been* getting involved–that’s why the school district stopped doing it.
Spiro says
Then It’s a start but follow up with more pressure would be nice and in all 50 states
Or is that wishing for to much
gravenimage says
Agree, Spiro.
Dyan Schecterson says
I think they know full well about the separation, but the mission creep for Sharia law is what they are all about. They pretend not to know.
Emilie Green says
“N.J. District Scraps Posters Calling upon ‘Allah’ to Shower”
Given all the dirty acts like mass murder for which Islam and its Allah have been / are responsible that would seem the least that their Allah should do.
Spiro says
So now our schools are promoting a religion that is anti thesis to the very core of the US
What will it take for locals to wake up and take back our country
I guess unless the threat is sitting in their living room it’s not a problem
John Allan says
‘At issue is two Muslim high school students going class-to-class during school hours, interrupting lessons, and trying to convert students to Islam under the guise of teaching them about Ramadan.’
And the school is letting them get away with it? They should either be put in their place or dismissed from the school.
Walter Sieruk says
Scraping those Islamic propaganda posters is a good and wise decision. If this stealth jihadists scheme to influence and then brainwash impressionable children is not stopped the very next stealth jihad lie and false would be the bogus claim that the God of the Bible and the god of Islam are the same.” That ,of course is a completely false claim.
For the God of the Bible is not really Allah the god of Islam. To explain, through the passing of time it has become widely accepted that the word “Allah” is just the Arabic word for God. This started when truth compromising Bible “translators” substituted the word Allah where the word God should have had been uses in the Arabic translation of the Bible. Furthermore, in the glossary in the book ASSASSINS! By Dr. Haha Lung it defines Allah as the “Pre-Islamic Lunar god : the god of Islam. “ Likewise, in the book entitled INSIDE ISLAM by a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Reza F. Safa ON PAGES 22, 23 it reads “In pre-Islamic times both Allah –worship and Baal-worship involved the worship of the sun, the moon and the stars which h defines them as astral religions. [Which are condemned in the Bible, Second Kings 23:5] The crescent moon, which was the symbol of moon worship, is also the symbol of Islam.” In conclusion the Islamic god, Allah, is not the God of the Bible.
The words in brackets are my own. In addition other some other books that expose this little known truths are WHO IS THIS ALLAH ? by G..J.O.. Moshay also UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet caner and Emir Fethi Caner and THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey . There is also PHILISTINE by Ramon Bennett and ANSWERING JIHAD by Mabeel Qureshi .
Walter Sieruk says
That Muslim propaganda poster about the “Blessing” of the Islamic god ,Allah . is nonsense .For who cares about receiving a “blessing from a pagan moon god. in other words ,a false god.
Furthermore,with this outright propaganda for Islam, and Islam’s god , Allah, in an American public school system very much,needs three points be made clear.
First, just think about it, which is the total outrage that Muslim parents would have with their children n public schools if assign was put up parsing the God of the Bible, Yahweh . Those Muslim parents would not stand for it.
Second, , In the Bible it gives the account of the Prophet Elijah declared “If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal be ,then follow him.” First Kings 18:21.[N.K.J.V.] In other words follow one of the other. Not both.
Third, , many people say that the God of the Bible and the god of Islam are one the same. Is the majority always right? That’s not always the case. As an example the Christian pastor and scholar, Michael Youssef, who is also an Arab in his book entitled JESUS, JIHAD AND PEACE on page 69 informs the reader that “The name Allah comes from pre-Islamic times, and it corresponds to the Babylonian mane Bel or Baal. According to the Middle East scholar E.M. Wherry, pre-Islamic Arabs worshiped gods they called Allah. Both pre-Islamic Allah-worship and Baal –worship involved worship of the sun, the moon and the stars, which is why they are called astral religions. The crescent moon, the symbol of pagan moon worship, is also the symbol of Islam. It is printed on flags of many Islamic countries and placed atop minarets and mosques.” Likewise, a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Dr. Daniel Shayesteh, who used to live in the Middle East but now he lives in America . In his book ISLAM AND THE SON OF GOD. On pages 7,8. Reads “Allah is the generic term for God in many Middle –Eastern cultures. Allah is identified as one of the 360 or so idols worshiped by the Arabian people for centuries before Muhammad was born. Many do not know that Allah was the good god of the Arabians. This explains the crescent moon found on minarets and mosques and the flags of Muslim nations. .. .Historic writings also identify Allah with Baal.” It’s also worth mentioning that the Bible condemns such astral religions. As in, for example, Second Kings 23:5.
Therefore, now in modern times, it may be rightly said “If Yahweh Lord of the Bible , be the one True God follow Him. Yet if Allah the lord of Islam be the one true god then follow him.” The case is very clear cut.
gravenimage says
New Jersey school district scraps posters calling upon “Allah” to shower children with blessings
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Glad that sane people protested this.