Christmas break came early for the students in the Staunton, Virgina school district when their classes were canceled due to the controversy surrounding the Islamic calligraphy lessons given to the ninth grade World Geography class. As reported by Truth and Action, the “district closed schools the Friday before Christmas holiday as the media covered the complaints regarding the assignment, resulting in an onslaught of phone calls and emails. An increased police presence was felt necessary, as well as the closure, as some of the tweets and emails raised concern.”
More has been uncovered since the original story about the forced writing of the shahada-the Islamic statement of faith took place.
Not only were the students forced to practice Islamic calligraphy, that said, “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah”, but the Koran was circulated and girls were forced to put on a hijab and photographed for the yearbook, as well. One student in particular refused the headdress but ultimately felt forced to comply.
The teacher, Cheryl LaPorte, and the district seem to have no qualms regarding the one-sided exercise in religion and claim it lines up with state standards.
No where in the lesson were other religions, that are part of the Arab culture, brought in; nor did LaPorte pass around a Bible or Torah as a comparative pieces of literature.
The Virginia Department of Education curriculum framework for the World Geography lessons demonstrate that LaPorte’s Islamic indoctrination is not compliant with state standards.
Read about the standards on page two and evaluate for oneself LaPorte’s subversive intentions.
Okay so what’s the difference if she circulated the bible to children whose parents aren’t religious? Isn’t that forcing something on them? Can we stop with the Muslim phobia now?
Why is this all of a sudden happening in America ? Why would we teach our children this in school???? School is for learning about history and math not practicing religion!!!!!
Fire this total incompetent fool
Get her politically correct, Socialist Muslim Loving butt away from the students! Fire this wench!
Send her to$#%&!@*land and let her be a goathumper woman
This is shameful.
I saw this on the news ! Where the hell does separation of church & state come into play here ? Grounds for dismissal !
I hope she lost her job.
1 generally religion is kept OUT of public schools
2 the few times it is discussed not much is discussed beyond the moors were muslim, the crusaders were christian, jews lived in modern day israel/jordan/syria etc…
3 select works that reflect religious beliefs (not the actual holy books) such as dantes inferno, greek/roman mythology, are frequently read and discussed
4 when discussion goes more in depth the title of the class usually reflects this or the discussions are limited to relevent historical events.
Ceasar, Ptoleme and egypt
Constantine and the roman empire
Moorish invqsion of spain
Christian crusaides of the holy land.
Martain Luthor, Calvin, and how they relate to King Henry VIII and the prodestant church.
Important popes and how they affected politics of europe… etc
Religion and how it relates to history is important but some of the described exercises are irrelevent to appropriate discussions on islamic contributions to history
Esta es una radical e hija de puta