ACLU Biased On Religion?
Saturday, 1. April 2006, 05:49:12
The ACLU is eternally vigilant in removing religious language and symbols from government places and enforcing a strict (overly strict, in my opinion) version of separation of church and state. We get the annual stories about someone being forced to take down a natavity scene, remove an easter bunny, remove religious sentiments from a high school graduation speech.
Apparently this strict formulation of the separation doctrine does not apply to Islam.
I don't see a problem with immersing 12 year olds in a different culture. But the religious overtones (star and crescent, reciting prayers, performing religious rituals) is the type of thing that should set off every alarm at the ACLU. Oddly, they are silent. On the 36 foot prayer tower being built on federal land? Silence.
Also oddly, Google is filled with links to cases of CAIR and the ACLU working together. The chairman of CAIR was placed on the board of the Florida ACLU. I wrote 3 posts a few days ago on CAIR; it is the oddest of bedfellows for the ACLU: founded and funded by terrorist organizations, a supporter of terrorist acts, unwilling to defend itself against charges that it would like Sharia law implemented in the US. Yet, a friend of the ACLU.
ACLU: complete separation of church and state.
Islam: complete integration of church and state.
I suspect this will be a short-lived alliance and not too much damage is done before the ACLU comes to their senses.
Apparently this strict formulation of the separation doctrine does not apply to Islam.
According to the Thomas More Law Center, for three weeks, “impressionable 12-year-old students” were, among other things, placed into Islamic city groups; took Islamic names; wore identification tags that displayed their new Islamic name and the star and crescent moon; handed materials that instructed them to ‘Remember Allah always so that you may prosper’; completed the Islamic Five Pillars of Faith, including fasting; and memorized and recited the ‘Bismillah’ or ‘In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate,’ which students also wrote on banners hung on the classroom walls.
Students also played “jihad games” during the course, which was part of the school’s world history and geography program.
I don't see a problem with immersing 12 year olds in a different culture. But the religious overtones (star and crescent, reciting prayers, performing religious rituals) is the type of thing that should set off every alarm at the ACLU. Oddly, they are silent. On the 36 foot prayer tower being built on federal land? Silence.
Also oddly, Google is filled with links to cases of CAIR and the ACLU working together. The chairman of CAIR was placed on the board of the Florida ACLU. I wrote 3 posts a few days ago on CAIR; it is the oddest of bedfellows for the ACLU: founded and funded by terrorist organizations, a supporter of terrorist acts, unwilling to defend itself against charges that it would like Sharia law implemented in the US. Yet, a friend of the ACLU.
ACLU: complete separation of church and state.
Islam: complete integration of church and state.
I suspect this will be a short-lived alliance and not too much damage is done before the ACLU comes to their senses.
