“A U.S. school that allowed Muslim students to interrupt classes to ‘convert’ students to Islam now faces a grilling from a constitutional legal team.”
Memorial High School in New Jersey has an Islamization issue that is keeping it in the news. First, its actions prompted a “cease and desist” letter to be sent out by The Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund to the school’s West New York School District’s superintendent at the end of May, “demanding that two district-sponsored Ramadan posters in Memorial High School be taken down.” One poster offered “Warm greetings from Memorial High school and wishes students to Have a blessed Ramadan.” Another states that “MAY ALLAH CONTINUE TO SHOWER YOU LOVE AND WISDOM.”
As the posters were finally scrapped by mid-June more news unfolds that the school is still under the microscope and is now facing a “grilling” by The Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund “for allowing Muslim students to interrupt classes to convert students to Islam.”
If that were not bad enough….
“The school bulletin boards send students to a website run by the North Hudson Islamic Educational Center’s “Dawah Committee,” which explains its mission is to convert public school students to Islam. On the website, the committee praised the two Muslim students involved “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.”
While The Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund is offering a necessary service, parents also need to be paying attention to what their children are being taught in schools and ask them questions.
Islamic indoctrination in schools is an ongoing issue.
Northshore School District in Bothell in Washington, was also recently sent a “cease and desist” letter from the The Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund, for promoting an ambitious CAIR-suggested policy change….
“The policy directs teachers to create “safe spaces” for Muslims, plan with Muslim students to let them “quietly slip away” from class for prayer, “privately offer information” about nutrition during their Ramadan fast, give “a lesson” on Ramadan and privately ask Muslim students what accommodations they want.”
Last year a Christian dad sued mountain Ridge Middle School in West Virginia for Islamic indoctrination of his teen daughter who was given an assignment to:
- Write the Shahada, the Islamic conversion creed, “There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah,” in Arabic as part of “calligraphy” practice.
- Fast for 24 hours and give lunch money and food to a food bank, to sympathize with Muslims going through Ramadan.
- Read chapters from the Koran.
- Learn the Five Pillars of Islam.
Three years ago The American Center for Law and Justice launched a “Stop Islamic Indoctrination in School” petition, which drew almost 227,000 signatures.
U.S. school lets Muslims interrupt classes to ‘convert’ students”, World Net Daily, June 24, 2019:
A U.S. school that allowed Muslim students to interrupt classes to “convert” students to Islam now faces a grilling from a constitutional legal team.
As part of its Project for Constitutional Rights in Education, the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund monitors school districts to ensure that officials are educated about the “threat of Islamic indoctrination and religiously preferential ‘anti-Islamophobia’ bullying programs.”
FCDF said it sent the West New York School District in New Jersey a public records request to see documents “that could show whether the district is unlawfully promoting religion.”
The concern centered on a decision to hang a large banner at the school “beseeching ‘Allah’ to ‘shower’ students with ‘love and wisdom.’”
FCDF said it also is seeking documents related to two Muslim students who were given permission to interrupt classes during the school day to convert students to Islam “under the guise of teaching them about Ramadan,” the group said.
It was the same school that drew a “cease and desist” letter from FCDF only a few weeks ago regarding the banner.
“The district removed the poster but left intact massive bulletin boards designed by Muslim students to teach students about Ramadan,” the organization said.
The school bulletin boards send students to a website run by the North Hudson Islamic Educational Center’s “Dawah Committee,” which explains its mission is to convert public school students to Islam.
On the website, the committee praised the two Muslim students involved “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.”
“When public school districts enact policies or otherwise expose students to religious indoctrination, they choose to place ‘diversity’ and ‘cultural awareness’ over the First Amendment,” said FCDF Executive Director Daniel Piedra.
“FCDF will not tolerate this intentional effort to propagandize to schoolchildren. We will continue to warn all school districts to reconsider any policy or action that tramples on our children’s constitutional rights.”…
gmcmi says
Every adult involved in this should face charges and jail time. They also should be fired and ordered to pay huge fine.
PRCS says
Well, not to start a fight, but:
They should face whatever consequences our laws dictate.
Nothing more.
Nothing less.
b.a. freeman says
+1
Pearl says
I find your comment to be troubling and misguided. First, let’s not labor under the delusion that rule of law exists in these United States any longer. Second, when any group or individual is able to bring the subversion of America into the light, the last concern should be strictly limiting the scope of that scrutiny and the ultimate consequences.
You seem to emphasize a strict observance of rules to only and always be applied against the community trying to protect itself from moslem aggression, but never against the aggression itself.
PRCS says
Scrutiny is one thing.
Enforcing OUR laws is another, as Richard Reid, Nidal Malik Hasan, Naser Jason Abdo, Abdella Ahmad Tounis and others are well aware.
Let’s not sink to their level.
Obama's husband says
PRCS says “Let’s not sink to their level.” This is another way of saying we give up and beg for their forgiveness. You allow the enemy to dictate the terms and accept them you have all ready put the chains on.
I say you need to face reality.
PRCS says
We ‘give up’, ‘beg for their forgiveness’ and ‘allow the enemy to dictate the terms’ by enforcing OUR laws rather than sinking to their level?
Sure.
Donovan Nuera says
The other students should interrupt classes and re-enact what happens to women or girls who “dishonor” their families or if one becomes apostates…… fight fire with fire..
William A Carr says
“quietly slip away” from class for prayer. Do they mean nobody would notice? Perhaps comfy beds for them to lie on if they feel a bit tired from lack of food. They are there to learn, not to pray!
Also asking students to fast for 24 hours is not only unhealthy but in excess of what the Muslims are expected to do!
The Political Oracle says
Please view!
https://youtu.be/sMfXdjbHloc
https://youtu.be/QexrSeqoZLA
CogitoErgoSum says
It sounds as if the ones at this school who need a “safe space” are the Infidel students so that they can escape the on-going dawah being waged against them. The Muslims are following Quran 9:29 and fighting against those who have not yet submitted to them. Their Allah encourages them to do this until everyone submits to Islam — by converting, or humbly agreeing to pay tribute to the Muslims (as their overlords) or by ceasing to breathe the air that the Muslims believe rightfully belongs to them. So yes, the Infidels need a safe space alright – and it should consist of the entire school building.
PRCS says
I do wonder how long that’s been going on there.
As I recall, at least one teacher knew the rules, and dropped the dime on her colleagues. Perhaps because she’d just had enough of that overt violation of the law.
norman says
govt.warning will not suffice but will only embolden the death cult to intensify its creeping influence among American young minds – immediate and stiff penalties would be more effective – cos this is how the islamists ,entrenched in the country, intend to bring the house down.- nip it at the bud b4 it’s too late!
Watto35 says
I’m sure the moslem students could learn all about Islam – in Saudi Arabia.
Jaladhi says
Along with the Principal and other officials who allowed this to happen!!
norman says
warning is like a band aid on a deep wound -it will only embolden the islamists who’re already well entrenched in American society – stiff penalties both crimiinal and civil would be more sufficient to shake the stupids from the country’s public schools not to ever allow the creeping indoctrination among young American minds ever again – this is how the satanic death cult intends to bring the house down – they look so polite @ benevolent but going deeper one can only see that islam is based upon nothing but the writing of a murderous, insatiable pedo – who set beaheading of non muslims, enslaving women and child marriages among others as islamic must do items.
CRUSADER says
Help the Freedom Center to STOP K-12 Indoctrination:
https://www.stopk12indoctrination.org
b.a. freeman says
thanks for that link, CRUSADER; i’ll see if i can help them. unfortunately, they’re about 30 years too late; i saw signs of this kind of indoctrination in the public school system in the town in which i lived at the time in the early 1990s, but couldn’t get anybody to pay attention to it. of course, at the time, i only had access to the internet through my employer, and html was just another protocol (like gopher, wais, etc.) that i didn’t use, so email and ftp were my main uses of it, and it never occurred to me to look for allies on line. also unfortunately – *very* unfortunately – i didn’t worry about it very much, because i thought that most people would see through all the leftist bulls**t. boy, was i *EVER* wrong about that!
Jaladhi says
See – this what Muslims mean Islam is propagated peacefully. All by deception, deceit, ;ies and force if necessary! When would our authorities fully understand the mission of each and every Muslim who is here in this country?? They do not have any good intentions of living in the West!!
Tom says
Accommodating Islam is like placing a noose around ones neck and allowing it to be tightened without any effort to constrain the amount of tension put on the rope.
Left wing educators will be the conduit through which Islam will subvert our society.
Paul J says
Yes, between muslims in one ear and marxists in the other, what chance do children have of getting a decent informed education these days. This same indoctrination is all pervasive in the Australian educational system too. Parents who can be bothered to be informed about what’s happening face prosecution under a law 18c (racial and vilification act) with “hate speech” if they compain. The future does not look rosy.
CRUSADER says
Parents need to join ACT for AMERICA
http://www.ACTforAmerica.org/issues
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Kids need to have their textbooks revised!
Volunteer to review for Truth In Textbooks!
https://truthintexastextbooks.com/volunteer-reviewer-info/
vladdy says
I remember telling my principal in seattle that it was wrong to let the muslim kids go off anytime they said they needed to pray. She looked at me, wide-eyed, insisting, “No, it’s legal. The courts said…” In other words, she still has a 5-yr-old’s definition of “wrong” — “Am I allowed to? Will I get in trouble” instead of thinking about the morality of it. Geesh!
b.a. freeman says
well, it shouldn’t be *too* surprising, since the favorite argument of a leftist (nominal or hard-core) is to call his opponents names. and that is what my kids used to do when they were 5!
Paul J says
Morality is quaint concept these days, only legalities matter.
Angemon says
Good – sue them to their last cent.
Angemon says
Ramadan 101 – spend the whole day hungry, say the fast is a sign of religious devotion, pig out in the evening. It’s like saying you’re on a hunger strike to protest against something only to add “I gotta eat something, BRB”.
owensgate says
WHAT? Write out the “sh ithada”? In ARABIC? To practice “calligraphy”? I thought I knew what insanity was, but now I’m not so sure. Is there ANY possible REASON for knowing how to do this in 21st Century USA? The “establishment” idiots must think we’re about to become an “Islamic republic”, or they are planning it. That, plus the fact that the Democrats plan to open the Southern Border from the Caribbean to the Pacific, if they get the White House. No fence, no wall, no border markers, just “come-on-in”. The “Tree of Liberty” will need to be replanted for sure.
b.a. freeman says
the tree will *certainly* be watered, and soon; sadly, the watering will start with blood of innocents, since the cretins of the left and the ummah love to kill them most.
James Lincoln says
Let me see if I have this straight:
The United States got rid of prayer in public schools in 1962.
Before that, many classes recited the Lord’s prayer found in Matthew 6 and Luke 11. You could opt out with a moment of silence.
I was a youngster, but I remember it. We said the prayer right after we all stood for the Pledge of Allegiance.
We also celebrated Christmas with a Christmas tree in the classroom and we sang some religious Christmas carols.
No one seemed to mind… to me it was a warm peaceful time.
Fast-forward to 2019 and a New Jersey public school lets Muslims interrupt classes to “convert students to Islam.”
Insanity.
Lydia Church says
Exactly.
They want nothing to do with the truth of God; Christianity, in public schools per the devil.
But every variety and flavor of false religion is given the red carpet treatment…
from islam to yoga to gender madness to other evils.
And note that in mid June, ramadan is over anyway.
While anything like that was being promoted, as a Christian I would evangelize that school for Jesus from top to bottom… and let them complain because they can’t then! I’d put up big posters for Christian holidays and all kinds of stuff like that.
CRUSADER says
This is just the beginning…. Firstly, it is Leftist Identity Politics with LGBTQXYZ….
….They will see what sticks with such antics as pushing “stonewall” agendae
and then keep pushing the hash-markers till the pitch of the field favors their minority views….
Look at how “intellectual freedom” is casted as a relative term!
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/02/22/drive-ban-library-books-lgbtq-content-erupts-iowa/362102002/
Drive to ban library books with LGBTQ content erupts in Iowa…
More than 300 people have signed a petition to either ban or label and group materials related to homosexual and transgender content in the Orange City Public Library.
The Rev. Sacha Walicord of Grace Reformed Presbyterian Church rose before an overflow crowd of more than 100 at the Orange City Public Library Board of Trustees meeting Tuesday and said that LBGTQ books and other library content are “pushing an agenda” that is counter to those in the faith community.
“We won’t roll over,” he said. “We will stand up and we will fight.”
Others defended the selections, saying that a library is a place of diverse ideas and that library patrons are free to choose what to view or ignore.
“No one is putting a gun to anyone’s head,” said Sue Kroesche, former director of Orange City Public Library.
The controversy erupted in one of Iowa’s most conservative Republican counties in northwest Iowa after somebody filed a statement of concern to the library about a book on its shelves that featured LGBTQ content. Library director Amanda Vazquez said the complaint was rescinded after the person discovered it had kindled a firestorm.
But a flier was distributed door to door throughout Orange City last weekend that denounced such materials along with a petition document and call to attend Tuesday’s board meeting. The flier said that the library was distributing “homosexual/transgender promoting materials … some aimed at pre-K kids, using your tax dollars!”
It quoted denunciations of homosexuality in the Bible as well as allegations of detrimental health and social effects tied to LGBTQ communities. It said that library materials were counter to the Christian faith and values of a majority of the community, and it asked proposed that the materials be labeled and separated from other content and to halt acquisitions of the material until “a public discussion can be held about the acquisition so valuable feedback can be given by important stakeholders such as parents, teachers, and faith communities.”
Sioux County Conservatives, a Sioux Center-based political group formed 18 months ago to mobilize conservatives, took the lead on the petition drive, which yielded more than 50 signed petitions and 283 online.
“(The materials) are targeting pre-K children to promote a behavior that is harmful to human beings,” said Jacob Hall, the group’s spokesman, in an interview. “It is clear there is an agenda there.”
Vazquez denied any agenda and said it’s important to let library users make the choice of materials they want to view.
“As a public library, we try to serve the needs of a diverse community,” she said.
The meeting Tuesday was held to gather public comment and no action was taken. The library board will consider public input and review its collection development policies, said board president Jared Weber. The board can decide to weed out books in the collection, which is picked by the library director and her staff.
There are 168 books that feature LBGTQ content in the library out of a collection of 64,000 materials.
Three books, which all received mostly positive reviews by critics, were featured on the petition flier: Two Boys Kissing, a young adult novel about Harry and Craig, two 17-year-olds who are about to take part in a 32-hour marathon of kissing to set a new Guinness World Record; Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress, a children’s book about a boy who likes to wear a tangerine dress, though other children don’t understand; and This Day In June, a children’s book about a LBGTQ pride parade.
The uprising in Orange City “made the biggest waves” of any Dan Chibnall remembers seeing recently in Iowa. The vice president of the Iowa Library Association and Drake University STEM librarian attributes the outcry to its location in a community with a strong Christian heritage, increased use of social media to gather support, and a widespread increase in challenges to library materials as a backlash “because LBGTQ people have more rights than ever before.”
Numerous comments flooded the Orange City Public Library’s Facebook page, some defending a right to choose materials from diverse viewpoints, while others said the collection was all part of an activist plot.
Some parents who spoke Tuesday said the library shouldn’t take over the role of educating their children on such matters and asked that the board, at a minimum, provide a labeled and separate location for books with LGBTQ content.
Chibnall said such separations “erect barriers to everyone with new or conflicting ideas,” and librarians should not be “guardians or gatekeepers” of materials.
He said parents can read easily accessible reviews online and monitor their children’s reading.
Some who spoke at the meeting said they were offended by many things in a public library, but it wasn’t their place to tell other people not to read them.
A man who identified himself as gay said that he knows of gay or transgender children in the community and that seeing their lives mirrored in the materials is important to them. Others stood to read sections of the Bible which they say spoke to behaviors represented in the books that are immoral.
Other citizens questioned the idea of total intellectual freedom, saying there are limits such as pornography.
“We will not have illegal information in the library,” Vazquez said in an interview.
It isn’t the first formal challenge to a book at the library, she said. Several years ago, a citizen wanted a book on health and human sexuality removed, but the request was denied. Vazquez said another book was challenged Monday, Morris Micklewhite, and will be considered at the March meeting.
Library policies on its collections are clearly stated, she said. They read, in part: “The library recognizes that any given item may offend any one person, but because the library follows accepted principles of intellectual freedom, it will not remove specific titles solely because individuals or groups may find them objectionable.”
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Paul J says
So the library will be stocking copies of Mein Kampf by Hitler in the interests of “diverse opinion”. The fact that it is illegal shouldn’t matter, there is more anti-Semitism in the Qur’an than Hitlers little book. Perhaps the Qur’an should be illegal too; the only reason MK is, is because of the aforementioned anti-Semitism. More double standards. The fact is authorities are scared of the “peaceful” beast they have unleashed on our societies.
gravenimage says
Mein Kampf is not illegal in the United States.
That doesn’t mean you want to give it to school children, though.
Battle says
The patients are running the asylum.
Battle says
The patients are running the asylum.
gravenimage says
New Jersey school lets Muslims interrupt classes to “convert students”
…………………..
So this was even worse than we had thought. Suicidal madness. Glad it is being stopped now.
owensgate says
It’s being stopped? Really? I’ll wager they’re doubling down on it. They will find another way to do their conquest. They are worse than an infestation of bedbugs, and a lot harder to get rid of. Our FIRST problem is the “Left” is infatuated with them. Our SECOND problem is the rest of us won’t do anything about it.
Linde Barrera says
I just called 201-553-4110, the number of Memorial High School in West New York, NJ. I identified myself as a retired NYC public school teacher and spoke with the male principal for about 45 seconds. I told him that I read in Jihad Watch about his school being subject to the Freedom of Conscious investigation, and it was deplorable that Islam is being taught in a public school. I also told him if he wants to know what Islam is really like to Google verses 8:12 and 9:5 in the Quran.
PRCS says
If you ever get another phone call with him, tell him to check Qur’an 24:31 and 33:59 in order to understand hijab’s true purpose is:
That Muslim women will ‘be known” (i.e., easily distinguished from) uncovered, ‘unbelieving’ women–in order to avoid abuse from Muslim men.
This young Iraqi refugee girl–in Utah–knows its purpose”–and explains it to the ‘filthy kuffar’ at the table:
https://fox13now.com/2018/11/15/letter-encourages-schools-to-adopt-religious-clothing-guidelines-after-boy-rips-girls-hijab-off-during-recess/
gravenimage says
Good for you, Linde!
brane pilot says
The only thing the idiotic SCOTUS ruling banning religion from schools accomplished is to eliminate the competition for Muslims.
Unlike other religions, Muslims do not respect secular law or the US Constitution.
Nice going.
owensgate says
Nailed it.
Shirley Ann says
I have read that Muslims Are Now Involved in all phases of The Public School,TextBooks, E Books, etc., & are Front & Center in The Unions of the Public School “Educators”. Administrators are Giving the OK to indoctrinate Students into the Anti-Christian CULT OF ISLAM. Parents are the only ones, who are Fighting Against this Deadly Trend, but the Threat of Lawsuits does not seem to dissuade the “Education Cabal” from continuing to Islamtize Our Children.
C T says
If they want to promote Islam, let them…AS LONG AS they allow others to put up posters of women being stoned, gays being hanged or thrown off roofs, and ISIS prisoners being executed by being burned alive. After all, it’s just “free speech”, right?
Mark Carpenter says
Islam is not compatible with the U.S. because there can never be a separation of church and state with it.
Carter Burger says
Imagine the food fight that would start if a Christian organization sued the school so student could preach the Gospel to convert other students. THAT is what needs to happen. THEN let he lawsuits commence.
Gaye says
I put this together some time ago.. and there is a push from even churches (NOT islam) to bring these two religions together. they are calling these blended churches, ‘Chrislam’….
Muslims try to tell us that their god is the same God as the Christians, but the bible says that by your fruits you will know them, and the fruits of the spirit are…. love, joy peace patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” HOWEVER, all islam brings is pain, fear, hatred of all who do not submit to islam, it brings slaughter, poverty, rape, and bareness of their lands.
Some muslims are taking a look at their leader (mohammad) and seeing the violence and hate, that he advocated from his beginning, then they look at the leader of Christianity (Jesus) and they see that he preached to love one another and not just those who believed, there was not violence taught…We must not be fooled by the half verses or odd verses that say to be kind etc.. look at what their leader did and muslims are told to follow the example of their perfect prophet. who raped, raided villages while they slept as well, slaughtered etc..
Both the bible and the quran gives us a very clear clue as to who Allah is.
Allah is described as the greatest deceiver in the Qur’an (Surah 3:54); in fact the best makr there is: (makr means DECEIVER),
HOWEVER,
Hebrews 6:18 say, “It is impossible for God to lie”, hmmm, so this alone means that Allah is not the same god as the God of the Jews and Christians.
The bible says it is Satan who is described as the deceiver, and in just one place alone (Rev 12:9); it says… ‘And the GREAT dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which DECEIVETH the whole world”: And today we have the whole world being deceived and even our own politicians seem to be deceived.
(John 8:44) says…Satan was a murderer from the beginning. And the great esteemed prophet of the muslims whose example they are told to follow implicitly, himself murdered people even with his own bare hands, he raided villages, raped, tortured and took sex slaves. M. M. Pickthall , It is not fitting for a prophet to take captives until he has made a great slaughter in the land.
Or…. Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985) It is not fitting for a prophet that he should have prisoners of war until he hath thoroughly subdued the land.