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You make less sense than me.
I'm impressed.
CAIR invades the already hopelessly inept public school system
Christians in the pubic school system? EAT AND DIE.CAIR-MD/VA will conduct diversity training for some of the school's newer staff.
CAIR-MD/VA has also launched an initiative to visit local middle and high schools to review their policies for accommodating the religious needs of Muslim students during Ramadan, Eid and throughout the school year.
CAIR also offers a booklet, called "An Educator's Guide to Islamic Religious Practices," that is designed to help school officials offer reasonable religious accommodation to Muslim students.
You make less sense than me.
I'm impressed.
Hmmm, uninformed much on the rampant anti-christianity in public schools and the NEA?
Take two students, one a Christian, one a Muslim. Tucked under the arm of each student a Bible and a Koran respectively. One book has a much much higher chance of being conviscated than the other. Venture a guess?
Taxpayer funded Public School should be a religion free zone...ANY RELIGION. It belongs in your home and your house of worship.
Oh yeah. That point has been made CRYSTAL clear among Christians. Let's see how things pan out for Muslim students. Call it a hunch, but I think things will be a little different for Muslim students.
We don't have these kind of problems in Mississippi, know what I mean?
"religion free zone...ANY RELIGION"
Then there should be school on Christmas day and Easter Monday.
That would be a nice comparison if the original story hadn't been about wearing shorts in gym class.
"Gd" help us, indeed.
There are not bigger victims than conservatives in this country. They certainly cry the loudest.
Just keep watching how one religion is treated versus the other. In present day, you don't have to go very far to find examples of school teachers and administrators hyperventilating over a Bible spotting on campus, or the word "Jesus" mentioned in a commencement speech. If they want to scrub Christianity completely out of the school system, fine, but I fully expect the exact same treatment given to the muslim faith. Am I out of line?
Although there certainly are a fair share of loud conservatives, I'll start the liberal list, you start the conservative; we'll see who runs out of names first:
1. Jane Fonda
I was once asked by a retired Army colonel upon meeting him, "What have you done for your country today". The only reply I could come up with at the time was, "I hated Jane Fonda". He then told me, "good answer".
Priceless
Christian students are excused from wearing shorts in gym class because of their religion, how is this different?
And who does the ACLU and others support? Go to court over and sue
everyone in sight if something christian appears in public.
Keep it in church where it belongs and stuff it in a locker before you leave.
Here is another little article that should be a wakeup for some on this board. I
mentioned this the other day, and got no comment. Hugh also crossed himself and
said a prayer before the assembly. If Bush had done it, holy smokes, the world would
have been in an uproar. Anyhow read and heed folks. This is who we are facing,
like it or not.
It's a mad, mad world
Deafening silence
By Chuck Colson
Friday, September 29, 2006
Imagine an American president addressing the United Nations and concluding his remarks by praying that God would hasten Christ’s return and unleash the apocalypse. What do you suppose public opinion would be?
Well, something even scarier actually happened at the UN last week, and the world said... nothing.
That’s because the president in question was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. At the end of his September 21 address to the General Assembly, he prayed that Allah would send “the perfect human being promised to all by you.”
That “perfect human being” Ahmadinejad prayed for was the Mahdi, a Shiite messianic figure. What made the prayer so scary was that, in Shiite eschatology, the Mahdi’s return will be preceded by an apocalypse that leaves much of the world dead.
Since Ahmadinejad isn’t some nutcase in a backwoods cabin but, rather, the president of an oil-rich nation actively pursuing nuclear weapons, his prayer should have sent shivers down spines. What we got instead is polite applause and business-as-usual.
The response to a speech by Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez was even worse: After Chavez called President Bush “the devil” and joked about smelling sulfur left over from Bush’s appearance two days before, delegates broke into applause and laughter.
Now, President Bush doesn’t need me or anyone else to defend him, but the response to Chavez and Ahmadinejad, both inside and outside the UN, was appalling. It’s more evidence that historian Niall Ferguson is right when he says that “it’s a mad world.”
Ferguson, who teaches at Harvard, compared what happened at the UN to a “university faculty meeting.” “Extravagant, long-winded denunciations of the president is what we’ve come to expect from professors,” not politicians.
The madness is a lot more than rhetorical, however: Ferguson cited the coup in Thailand, rioting in Hungary, and the recent assassination of the deputy chairman of the Russian central bank.
Add to this Islam’s violent response to the Pope’s remarks in Regensburg, and the last thing the world needs to do is encourage an apocalyptic Holocaust-denier and a Fidel Castro-wannabe. Yet that’s exactly what happened.
To his credit, President Bush has shown remarkable restraint. That’s good because somebody needs to be the adult. While we all wish that there had never been a September 11 and that history, as some intellectuals in 1990s proclaimed, was over, we didn’t get what we wanted. As the events of the past few weeks show us, we live in an incredibly dangerous world.
This makes what happened at the UN last week and the silence in its aftermath so shocking. We’re in a clash of civilizations being waged by people, Islamo-fascists, who really do want to destroy us, no matter how much we prefer to think otherwise.
What’s more, as the New Republic recently noted, an “alliance of authoritarian regimes” is using oil as a weapon in its efforts to stop the spread of democracy around the world.
Christians, who should understand the religious and cultural dimensions of this threat, need to help our neighbors understand the volatile world we live in — and the dangers facing Western civilization itself.
For further reading and information:
Today’s BreakPoint offer: “Clash of Worldviews: Defending the Truth” — Chuck Colson’s speech on Christianity and Islam.
Niall Ferguson, “Insanity on a Global Scale,” Los Angeles Times, 25 September 2006.
John Hughes, “Don’t Reward Ahmadinejad or Chavez for Their UN Tirades,” Christian Science Monitor, 27 September 2006.
BreakPoint Commentary No. 060814, “Preparing for the Mahdi: What’s Really Scary about Iran’s Nuclear Program.”
BreakPoint Commentary No. 060919, “Proving His Point: The Pope’s Speech.”
Copyright © 2006 Salem Web Network. All Rights Reserved.
All of these countries want weapons because Bush will invade without just cause.
I noticed no one answered my question yet. Just in case anyone missed it:
Christian students are excused from wearing shorts in gym class because of their religion, how is this different?
"One book has a much much higher chance of being conviscated than the other"
Please show evidence of Bibles, Korans, Torah, rosaries, yarmulke, Muslim girl headscarves, scapular, and other religious paraphernalia are forbidden to be carried/worn by public school students.
Last edited by boutons_; 09-29-2006 at 12:03 PM.
It's not academic.
Christian students are excused from wearing shorts in gym class because of their religion, how is this different? --RG
?? Clarify. Your sentence can have a few different meanings.
Depending on interpretation, Revelations says much the same thing about Jesus. Even Watergate convicts know this.That “perfect human being” Ahmadinejad prayed for was the Mahdi, a Shiite messianic figure. What made the prayer so scary was that, in Shiite eschatology, the Mahdi’s return will be preceded by an apocalypse that leaves much of the world dead.It's the only issue that was was in dispute, quite contrary to this Bible vs. Koran canard. If all students had been forbidden to wear shorts because it violated Islamic law, someone may have had a point.It's not academic.
Certain sects of Christianity are allowed to not wear shorts in Gym class because of their religious beliefs.
NeoCon simply wants to jump on the whiner/victimization bandwagon, by claiming some sort of victimhood for himself.
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