A Christian parent in West Virginia has voiced outrage after his seventh-grade daughter brought home a packet from her social studies class this week that includes a page asking students to practice writing the Islamic declaration of faith in Arabic calligraphy.
Christian Post Rich Penkoski, a conservative Christian who runs an online ministry called Warriors for Christ, contacted Principal Ron Branch at Mountain Ridge Middle School in Gerrardstown to voice his concerns about the packet on Islam that was given out as part of the class’ world religions unit.
While the packet went into detail about the history of Islam, the prophet Muhammad and the five pillars of the religion, Penkoski was most upset with a worksheet toward the end of the packet that instructs students to practice calligraphy by copying the Arabic form of the Shahada by hand.
The Shahada, one of the pillars of Islam, is the Islamic profession of faith that declares belief in one true God and Muhammad being a messenger of God.
“I saw the assignment of writing the Shahada in Arabic. Their excuse was calligraphy,” Penkoski told The Christian Post. “I was like, ‘Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!’ First of all, calligraphy was invented in China 3,000 years prior to Muhammad. The fact that they were trying to get my daughter to write that disturbed me.'”
“I said, ‘That is not happening. My daughter is not doing that,'” Penkoski continued. “My daughter told me that if she didn’t do the assignment then she was going to get a [detention] slip.”
After contacting the school, Penkoski was told that the teacher, Katherine Hinson, did not actually assign the packet to the class to complete for a grade but simply printed it out and gave it to the class as an optional reading. However, the Penkoskis claim that the school is only now saying it is optional because they raised concerns.
Penkoski also claims that on Tuesday, the day after he voiced his complaint, his daughter came home with the same exact packet. Although certain areas of the packet were crossed off this time, Penkoski’s daughter, Brielle, contends that the calligraphy assignment was still given to the class.
“The teacher told them they have to do that one,” Rich Penkoski asserted. “I called the principal again.” According to Penkoski, Hinson explicitly assured the class on Wednesday that the packet was optional and that she is not advocating for any religion.
“If it was optional, then why was there no option for comparison for Judaism and Christianity? There was no option to recite any of the Lord’s Prayer and Ten Commandments. There was no option to write Hebrew,” Penkoski said. “Why is it only Islam?”
Brielle Penkoski told CP that she doesn’t recall there being any instruction on the Lord’s Prayer.
“We did [the unit on Christianity] and watched two different videos. We didn’t finish them. They taught a little bit about Moses and the Ten Commandments, Peter and Paul,” she explained. “We learned about the Israelites and how they are being persecuted by the Romans. We were told about the Jews and told a little bit about Jesus.”
Penkoski shared with CP other packets that were handed out to the students on Christianity and Judaism. “Notice no Bible verses, no reciting the Ten Commandments or the Lord’s Prayer,” he objected, adding that the Islam packet contained passages from the Quran. “[There’s] no practicing writing in Hebrew as compared to the Islamic packet.”
After finding the full version of the packets online, Penkoski has reason to believe that sections detailing the Bible and other faith aspects of Christianity had been removed from the packet his daughter received in class.
In 2016, a Maryland couple sued a school district claiming that it was guilty of indoctrinating students when teaching about the five pillars of Islam by “requiring” them write out Islamic statements of faith.
Earlier this year, a parent filed a lawsuit against a school district in New Jersey after students were subjected to videos that she claims featured Islamic propaganda and even encouraged conversion to Islam in their World Cultures and Geography class.
Just where the hell is Betsy DeVos on this?
Cooking dinner for the Keebler elf aka Mr. Magoo the absent AG.
perhaps arresting perpe_traitors and sending them to a military tribunal, prior to execution, will prevent such things from happening again…
I wonder if it falls into the rules of Islam that once a muslim, even if they are made muslim by trickery, if they are also doomed to die if the parents intervene and un-muslim the children?
Perhaps one answer is homeschooling, but think of the enormous investment of time and, probably, expense, that entails for parents who are, I assume, still paying taxes that support public schools. Before that becomes the only option, parents should band together, educate themselves about the dire realities of Islam, and rise up against this indoctrination, not only about Islam but about advocacy of sexual perversion — because that’s what it is — and other forms of cultural Marxist/postmodern/intersectionalist irrationality being force-fed these kids by leftist “social justice warriors” to the detriment of a real education! Stage public protests, confront these lefistis at meetings with school officials and townhalls, get elected to school committees, file lawsuits, educate the public about the realities of Shari’a, dawah, jihad, and the hijra. (They want quotes from Islamic “holy writ”? Give ’em the ones pertaining to the persecution, subjugation, and extermination of “unbelievers”!) If they invite “moderate” Muslims for propaganda sessions, show up and ask the hard questions and don’t let up even if you have to be thrown out by the security people if that’s what it takes.
I wish we could do that in my town, but they’ve been “drinking the kool-aid” too long and most are too well-off, complacent, and Democrat to listen.The churches here fly rainbow, BDS, and BLM flags and hold race-shaming “classes” to make the rich old ladies hate themselves. But maybe your town isn’t that far gone.
The founders kept religious formalities out of public institutions as much as possible for a reason: that NO American citizen should be COMPELLED to do more than tolerate — namely, respect the right of people to hold and express their own beliefs free of compulsion — ideas, religious or otherwise, with which they do not agree. That should apply even more to the totalitarian demands for mindless submission by Islam’s god, prophet, and “holy warriors” than it does to the relatively benign commands of other faiths.
In other words — get out there, RAISE HELL, and GIVE ‘EM THEIR FAIR SHARE!
is it just me unable to post comments on this site, or is it happening to everyone?
LP. you are posting comments. What’s the problem?
The comments disappeared from my end. I usually get a “Your comment is awaiting moderation” notice, but it seemed that my comments were disappearing into thin air as soon as I sent them. I see now that they are indeed reaching the site. Thanks for clarifying. I will continue to rise above the muslime filth 🙂
The site’s software just did an update. Hopefully it’s fixed now.
Seems to be a thing still. Oh, well – this will pass. 🙂
There’s no problem. All three comments I have made today were posited, Right now (or before me posting this one). You write your comment, and in posting it – the post disappears without it coming up as waiting for moderation, and that 4 minutes space allowed for editor time for the comment. So – yes, people could believe comments are disappearing.
Unfortunately, I have no control over the comments/editing function.
I’m doing OK. Curious, but then I tend to be paranoid.
At least we are hearing of parents beginning to stand up against this idiocy on a more frequent basis. The problem has been that they would grumble behind closed doors when seeing what schools were teaching their children. Now it seems that parents are starting to band together and protest the insanity that is liberalism. Lawsuits are a great idea, regardless of the outcome. It shows that parents are extremely serious about what is going on. Enough is enough.
Teaching comparative religious studies is a legitimate subject (usually reserved for higher education), as long as the truth is adhered to. When it comes to Islam, a documentary on 9/11 should be part and parcel of any lessons about the most horrendous religion invented by man.
Not before time. The ordinary people have to REVOLT to rid their societies of the invasive pest called pisslam
I’m sure that, in the end, that is what it is going to take. Shame that matters have gotten this far but better late than never.
Absolutely
Those educators have lost their mind.
One word “Homeschooling”– It is safer for your children.
All those which can -need to relocate to a state which accepts home schooling curriculum from Liberty University, BJU, Baptist Bible Fellowship. All calligraphy should be in Japanese and state the Buddhist 969 message of death to 4th world islam and other totalitarian ideologies.
What is the Islamic word for Chutzpah …. there must be one …. they are the pushiest people on planet
Earth ?
Good article !
Im so over rotten lefties and disgusting muzrats peddaling their bs down our throats
its funny,all the liberals promoting this garbage,the homosexuals,transgendered,lesbians and whatever else is out there are the first to be killed by the muslim garbage they are letting infiltrate our country
This tolerance of a regime that wants to wipe out all vestiges of human rights does my head in. Liberals promoting fascism; whaaaat? Wonder how they will react when it hits them. Watch this space
Can you identify the source of this shit:
(a) Encouraging the creation of collaborative networks to build mutual
understanding, promoting dialogue and inspiring constructive action towards shared policy
goals and the pursuit of tangible outcomes, such as servicing projects in the fields of education, health, conflict prevention, employment, integration and media education;
(g) Understanding the need to combat denigration and
negative religious stereotyping of persons, as well as inciteme
nt to religious hatred, by strategizing and harmonizing actions at the local, national, regional and international levels through, inter alia, education and awareness-building;
Recognizing also that working together to enhance implementation of existing legal
regimes that protect individuals against discrimination and hate crimes, increase interfaith and intercultural efforts, and to expand human rights education are important first steps in combating incidents of intolerance, discrimination and violence against individuals on the basis of religion or belief, ???
Hint: the source and the BitchGoddess share a set of initials. She signed onto the “Istanbul Process” as well as the resolution. You are experiencing it’s implementation.
HRC?
Be interested to know (as a non American) how this gets challenged. Why is it this way and why can’t Trump change things? Is he aware of these daily events suffered by schoolkids/parents?
It has to be done at the local level between the parents and the school board. Several parents have successfully gotten rid of the Islam program, or forced the schools to give equal attention to all religions. In San Diego, parents got rid of it, but the school board is so in bed with CAIR-San Diego (even gave the terror group an award) that they are trying to bring it back.
BNI I wish I knew what is happening in Australian Schools. My children finished High School in late 1990’s.
The problem is that parents in Australia are too quiet about what their children are now being taught in schools.
That’s dangerous, Allan. They have to speak out.
Agreed BNI.
Fight back indeed.
The American educational system is pagan. It is the most corrupt institution having immediate access to our children
The Lord informed us in Luke, the student is not above his teacher, it is enough the student become as his teacher.
You send your child to a pagan school, and the results shall be disastrous.
You reap what you sow!
Anyone/everyone who is promoting izslime in any way here in America should be put on a LIST of names of TRAITORS and they should be treated as such when the time comes. The goal of izslime is DEATH to America and DEATH to CHRISTIANS! Muzslime and their proponents MUST be treated as total enemies!
Send Johnny to school with totally blasphemous versions and foul drawings of what Muslims can do with their bullshit and see where that goes? Have you kids take a dump on their holy back in the back of the class and walk out! Lose the manners with these bastards!
Picket and raise Holy Hell like they do with us. If it has to come to a Civil War, the sooner the better! Why should we wait and have patience, they will not!
In the warped mind of a Muslum, it is now halal to kill these students, because they wrote a profession of faith. If they carry on as nonMuslums, they are “apostates”, and should be killed according to Sharia law/Islam.
Shehada must be done vocally, in Arabic and repeated twice before qualified Muslim witnesses to be effective.
Their blood and treasure are not sacred to ‘slimes ‘cuz they are not ‘slimes.
The issue is indoctrination and bias. School boards, courts & legislatures are not on our side. The only real remedy is to immunize your children with the truth about islam.
Az gal, that is my understanding. Once a person has made this statement of faith, they will always be considered a moslem. That once taken, it can not be undone.
This is criminal to trick the children into repeating the shahdah. This is a promise and a commitment to be a mus slum and it is a dirty trick that is very much a part of Islamic trickery and taqiyya.
Disgraceful teaching behaviour focused on brain-wrecking students, with false knowledge beliefs.
Anti-Freedom Socialism & Anti-Freedom Islam are both committed to the process of misguided Totalitarian Belief System education, encouraging students to walk away from freedom values.
All anti-freedom instruction must be banned.
Yes the left have control of the schools and brainwashing begins when the individual is most suggestible and defenseless….. the CHILD.
The left are EVIL bastards.
This behavior of schools here and there around the country occurs too frequently. It’s time someone called the behavior with a lawsuit that wins – with heavy fines. And certainly the teacher who does it sees the unemployment line and a ban from the teaching profession.
Probably, needs federal law to have actual weight of stopping this.
This will keep on happening until parents refuse to allow the school boards to force this on us!
And if Conservative don’t turn out in record numbers to support good, solid, Trump Senators & Represenatives…. we will be worse off than before!
Just like Trump was never elected. The public schools are gone. There was a news story today where I live about a public junior high school that sent a letter home about parental permission on a course they were going to teach about sexual “abstinence”. It turned out they did the typical bait and switch and taught about homosexuality, transvestites and the rest of the LGBTQ agenda.