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Duane:

I am getting ready to send an e-mail to my son’s public school Social Studies teacher. He is an “A” student on his new school (public school now) but my husband is worried that it will hurt his grades on that class. It has to do that at his school the 7th graders were being taught about the Muslim religion and so, forth.

I forward his teacher the 1954 Social Studies test and reminded her that many of students probably do not know or understand their own country constitution and that more emphasis should be placed on learning our own American history.

I do not mean to be anti- Muslims but, I think that portraying the religion as a very peaceful religion to 12 years old I think falls on the line of indoctrination….

The e-mail to the teacher read as following:
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Dear Mrs. XXX

I believe that the 7th graders were shown a video called the “30 Days As a Muslim” a 44 minutes video. I looked at some information regarding this video in the internet and it claims the following “…Intended only for mature audiences. Viewer discretion advised”.

http://www.videosift.com/video/30-Days-As-A-Muslim-44mins

I am just curios why the video labelled for “…Mature Audiences. Viewer discretion advise” is shown to 12 year old students without the parents notification or permission.

In one of the parts of the video (Day 27) there is a comparison between the Oklahoma Bombing and 9/11 as being one of the same act or attack. In another segment near Day 27 a Muslim Leader tried to clarify to the main Character David that…” As a Muslims I do not need to apologized for 9/11…” when the main Character David suggested that American Muslims should publicly reject the actions of Muslim terrorists.

It seems that the video was shown to emphasize tolerance and understanding toward Muslims in the United States and the Muslim religion and that Islam is a religious of peace.

I know that in your class you are addressing other religious such as Christianity, Judaism and now the Muslim religion. But, from what I understand only 1% of the population in the USA is of the Muslim religion. So, why the lenghly emphasys on this subject such as assigments given below?

Quiz 2-1 – Islam
study Chapter 2 lesson 1 materials and Islamic Outline

11/2/2009 Quran Activity
done in class

10/30/2009 p. 22 5 Pillars of Islam
notes in class

10/30/2009 Islamic Outline
Due 10/30
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End of e-mail

This whole incident reeks of Grade A bovine scat. This is one of the rare times that I agree with Obama during his presidency when he says not to jump to conclusions. That doesn’t mean I’m likely to agree with his conclusion when he reaches it, but…too many conflicting reports, waaay too many conflicting reports…and he wasn’t KILLED IMMEDIATELY, on an Army base? Someone, please, open a window…the smell is DISTRACTING…
(This is why I won’t touch the pseudoscience called psychiatry with a ten-foot pole.)

As far as 2012 is concerned, we know why Emmerich didn’t pulverize the Pyramids. He knows best than to mess with Kemet!

Let’s be clear. The Oklahoma attack and 9/11 can be compared. They were acts of terror. One fueled by the literal translation of a religious book (Quran) and the other by ill perceived governmental controls. The only difference is the number of people killed. If he would have had his way everyone in the building would have died. Do you think the men and women that died in either case felt any less terror because of the religion of their murderer. It amazes me that people don’t want their children to have exposure to Islam (tomorrow it will be something else). I want my son to be exposed to a vast array people and cultural. This world is getting smaller and smaller. Your community is made up of a wide variety of people. No one has condemned ALL Rwandan Hutu’s for the slaughter of 800,000 Tutsis. No one blames all whites/Europeans for the slave trade. So why do we condemn Islam for what extremist are doing? If we as Americans don’t open our eyes to the fact that we must change our views on other cultural then we will continue to walk in fear. I heard more hate speech from my white professors in college than I ever did in my days as a Muslim… But I’m just saying….