Islamic Prayer In Schools
Posted on July 3, 2007
We all know how the ACLU would react if a Christian student wanted to express their religion publicly at school. One would expect the same reaction if the students were Muslim, especially if the prayer was led by an aide. We won’t hold our breath however.
Michelle Malkin reports on the hot topic of the day from the San Diego Union Tribune:
A San Diego public school has become part of a national debate over religion in schools ever since a substitute teacher publicly condemned an Arabic language program that gives Muslim students time for prayer during school hours.
Carver Elementary in Oak Park added Arabic to its curriculum in September when it suddenly absorbed more than 100 students from a defunct charter school that had served mostly Somali Muslims.After subbing at Carver, the teacher claimed that religious indoctrination was taking place and said that a school aide had led Muslim students in prayer.
An investigation by the San Diego Unified School District failed to substantiate the allegations. But critics continue to assail Carver for providing a 15-minute break in the classroom each afternoon to accommodate Muslim students who wish to pray. (Those who don’t pray can read or write during that non-instructional time.)
Some say the arrangement at Carver constitutes special treatment for a specific religion that is not extended to other faiths. Others believe it crosses the line into endorsement of religion.
Personally, I think the Islamic students should be allowed to express their faith, but equal time should be given to students of other faiths as well. I just don’t like double standards. All or nothing.
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That’s a tricky one because Islam has specific prayer times. I certainly don’t like the idea of a break in action for prayer, but I’m not sure what a better solution would be. We demand that children attend school during certain hours and government institutions are obligated to be accommodating (though not preferential) towards religion.
It seems like the only proper solution is to drop the compulsory attendance bit, so then the government institutions don’t have to worry about accommodating those that wish to march to a different beat.
I have to agree with Jeff. I think that prayer should be allowed if it is supposed to happen at specific times. If that were the case for Christian or Jewish students, I would feel the same way. Maybe they could pray while the Muslims are praying. Although honestly, how many kids would feel the need to pray in school if it weren’t required?
Don’t forget that the ACLU is a Semitic-based and Communist-based organization. The ACLU’s founder was good friends with Communist Israel Cohen (google him).
So, the ACLU is taking away the rights of the Gentile, while giving it their Semitic brethren.
Don’t forget, it was 19 Semitic hijackers on 9/11 – the media never reported it as that.
But the ACLU is making sure that are giving them [Terrorist-related peoples] liberties while taking-away the majorities (who are Christian Gentiles) unreported this way in the media, of course.
Is it not amazing how little national coverage this is getting? I mean, I’ve only seen this on the net. If there ever was an example of liberal media bias through non coverage this is it. What are the libs afraid of? An airing of their double standard?
It wasnt that long ago that this very site posted an article about Christian students in the North West denied the right to pray in a lunch room before school was in session. Now I read this. Muslim sensitivity is destroying Europe and like the Europeans we are bending over and spreading our cheeks the same way.
Wait a minute, wasn’t this the same thing said after the ban was passed? That time was set aside for students who wish to pray, but no one is forced to. The left screamed that this was just a sneaky way to encourage prayer in schools, but since this is a Muslim prayer, I guess we cannot argue, can we?