Columnist Says Public School Promoting Islam Should Be Sued

by Jim Brown
November 3, 2004

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(AgapePress) - A freelance writer from Virginia is protesting what he calls the Islamic indoctrination of grade school students in one of the country's largest public school districts.

During the ongoing month of Ramadan, children in the third through fifth grades in Herndon, Virginia, schools are being taught about the Muslim holiday and about other Islamic customs and practices. With the help of so-called "multicultural trainer" Afeefa Syeed," the young students are reciting Muslims' sacred words and imitating their faith practices." Prayer rugs are given out, Islamic prayers are recited, and as columnist Dave Gibson recently commented, "a happy face is put on the most dangerous religion the world has ever known."

Gibson, who writes for AmericanDaily.com, is outraged that the Fairfax County school district prohibits recitation of the Lord's Prayer but encourages students to pray to Allah. "We have chased those Christian ideals out of our school system, and now we're bringing in Muslim ideals. It's most troubling that these children are not being given the whole story -- the true face of Islam."

The conservative columnist says secularists who want God removed entirely from schools are also noticeably silent about the Islamic indoctrination occurring in the Virginia public school system. Where, he wonders, are the American Civil Liberties Union lawsuits and the public indignation so often unleashed on any expression of Christian faith in the public schools?

"What angers me," Gibson remarks, "is the ACLU has not been heard from on this. I can guarantee you, if someone had brought in Christian Bibles or wanted to teach about Judeo-Christian beliefs, the Herndon school district would be sued immediately."

Instead of showing indifference toward the brainwashing of their children, Gibson says Herndon parents should be pulling their kids out of the city's schools and suing the school district over its Islamic indoctrination program. Jack Dale, chief of Fairfax County Schools, declined to comment for this story.