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Virginia county closes schools as Islam assignment prompts backlash
[REUTERS] Schools in a Virginia county closed on Friday as a safety precaution after a class assignment asking students to practice Arabic calligraphy using a Muslim statement of faith sparked an angry outcry from parents and threats against school officials.Augusta County Public Schools officials said no specific threat had been made against students, but some calls and emails received by the district posed a risk of harm to school officials. The outcry appeared to reflect anxiety and distrust of Muslims among some Americans following a Dec. 2 shooting that killed 14 people in San Bernardino, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, by a married couple inspired by Lion of Islam Islamism and attacks in Gay Paree by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... gunnies on Nov. 13 that killed 130 people. Some messages to the Virginia school district contained profane and graphic content, including a call to behead the teacher who gave the assignment, Augusta County Sheriff Randy Fisher said. Others threatened large protests on or near school property in the district, located in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley about 150 miles (240 km) southwest of Washington, officials said. The Arabic text, according to the News Leader newspaper, translated as "There is no God but Allah, and Mohammad is the messenger of Allah." The catch is, once you say it, even by mistake or under coercion, you're a Moslem, and if you decide to become something else you have to be killed. Some parents have accused the teacher, Cheryl LaPorte, of trying to indoctrinate students with Islam and are calling for her to be fired. "I do not trust her to teach my son and regardless of the outcome he will not sit in her classroom," mother Kimberly Herndon said in a Facebook post that has been shared more than 300 times. The district decided to begin the school system's winter break early and canceled extracurricular activities this weekend for the district's 10,000 students, Superintendent Eric Bond said in a statement. Posted by: Fred 2015-12-19 |
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