A U.S. Marine veteran has gone to court asking a judge to overturn a school’s decision to banish him from a public school campus in Maryland because he objected to the Islam indoctrination to which his daughter was subjected. The fight has been going on since 2014, but John Kevin Wood said the issue has become urgent because this is his daughter’s last semester and he doesn’t want to be deprived of the opportunity to be at her graduation events and ceremony.
WND (h/t Mike F) The Thomas More Law Center said on Monday it filed a motion for a preliminary injunction that would overturn the school’s ban. (Thomas More Law is the leader in winning these kinds of cases and usually do them pro bono)
The motion for the preliminary injunction that would block the school’s ongoing banishment explains the school deprived Wood of meaningful involvement in the direction of his daughter’s education because the no-trespass order prevented him from speaking at parent meeting in violation of the First Amendment.
The district, the Charles County Public Schools in La Plata, Maryland, also deprived Wood of his constitutional rights “by giving a principal unfettered discretion to ban him – the father of a student – from school grounds without any hearing or opportunity to defend himself because he brought to light the school’s unconstitutional practices.
WND reported only two weeks ago that the Thomas More Law Center had filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the school, Principal Evelyn Arnold and Vice Principal Shannon Morris. District officials told WND Arnold and Morris would not be commenting.
The plaintiffs are Marine Corps veteran John Kevin Wood and his wife, Melissa, who “refuse[d] to allow their teenage daughter to be subjected to Islamic indoctrination and propaganda in her high school world history class.”
The lawsuit charged that the defendants’ “curriculum, practices, policies, actions, procedures, and customs promote the Islamic faith by requiring students to profess the five pillars if Islam.” The students, the complaint says, were required to “write out and confess the shahada, the Islamic profession of faith.”
The lawsuit charges that school officials concealed the curriculum by using two separate history textbooks, one of which contained the Islamic teachings and which students were required to leave at school. The other, which did not contain the teachings, was allowed to be taken home, the complaint explains. The school also excised the Islamic teachings from the course syllabus.
“Defendants have treated plaintiffs’ Christian beliefs and heritage with deliberate indifference, and have been hostile toward C.W. [the student] and her family,” the complaint alleges. It explains that Arnold and Morris violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments as well as state and federal law by “depriving plaintiffs and C.W. of their fundamental right to be free from a public school’s promotion of certain religious beliefs, their fundamental right to be able to speak freely and raise concerns about religion being taught in our public schools without retaliation, and their fundamental right to be free from unjust discrimination against their Christian heritage.”
The legal team notes the shahada states, “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.” “For non-Muslims, reciting the statement is sufficient to convert one to Islam,” the complaint says. “Moreover, the second part of the statement, ‘Muhammad is the messenger of Allah,’ signifies the person has accepted Muhammad as their spiritual leader. The teenager was also required to memorize and recite the Five Pillars of Islam.”
Not only did the district refuse permission for C.W. to opt out of the religious assignments, it imposed grades of zero. Further, the complaint says, the district disparaged Christianity in multiple ways, including the statement, “Most Muslims’ faith is stronger than the average Christian.” The district taught that the West engages in “imperialistic pursuits” and insists “men are the managers of women.”
It also taught: “To Muslims, Allah is the same god that is worshipped in Christianity and Judaism.” The district’s teachings specified that the Quran “is the word of Allah,” while Jews and Christians “believe the Torah and the Gospels were revealed to Moses and the New Testament writers.”
“The sugarcoated version of Islam taught at La Plata High School did not mention that the Quran explicitly instructs Muslims ‘to kill the unbelievers wherever you find them.’ (Sura 9-5),” the complaint says.
Wood objected and the school responded with its banishment order. The Law Center said it asked District Court Judge George J. Hazel to overturn the banishment order against Wood. The law center argues that many time courts considering “the same or comparable issues” have ruled such banishments violate due process as well as the First Amendment.
“It is necessary for this court to restrict defendants’ abuse of power that is contrary to the proper functioning of our country and the proper education of our children,” the team of lawyers argued. “The public’s interest in safeguard free speech favors granting injunctive relief.” The status quo, with the school’s banishment in place, will cause Wood to be “irreparably harmed.”
“Defendants’ no-trespass order deprives Mr. Wood of his fundamental right to free speech guaranteed and protected by the Constitution,” a brief filed in support of the request said.
The TMLC explained, “In a phone call on the morning of October 24, 2014, John Kevin Wood advised the vice principal that the Constitution forbids the school from instructing his daughter in Islam or forcing her to disparage and denigrate her Christian faith; he reiterated his previous day’s request that she be given an alternative assignment, which was again refused.
“He then threatened to contact the media and lawyers if the school insisted on violating the Constitution. However, the school was adamant and, as a result, his daughter suffered failing grades for not completing the pro-Islam assignments. Later that day, John Kevin Wood was notified by a police officer of the no-trespass order.”
Arnold claimed in the order that he “made verbal threats against the school” and those “actions” were a “safety threat.”
There was no provision for any appeal, hearing or explanation from the school on what officials thought to be threats since the only threat was to notify the media and contact lawyers, the brief explains. The school, the lawyers wrote, denied Wood “any opportunity to be heard at all because he espoused a Christian message and disagreed with defendants’ Islamic indoctrination of his daughter.”
“Here, defendants Arnold and Morris banned Mr. Woods from the grounds of his daughter’s school because they disagreed with his viewpoint that his daughter should receive alternative assignments to defendants’ unconstitutional promotion of Islam. … Their disagreement with Mr. Wood’s message is the sold reason for the no-trespass order.”
Wood was deployed in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm “and lost friends to Islamic extremists,” the complaint notes. Later, he “responded as a firefighter to the 9/11 Islamic terror attack on the Pentagon.” “Wood witnessed firsthand the destruction created in the name of Allah and knows that Islam is not ‘a religion of peace.’
The school prevented John Kevin Wood from defending his daughter’s Christian beliefs against Islamic indoctrination, even though as a Marine, he stood in harm’s way to defend our nation, and the Charles County Public Schools,” the lawsuit says.
VIDEO below is from Nov. 2014 when the story first hit the media:
Unbelievable. I find it mind numbing that this is still an ongoing issue much less that every non muslim parent and non muslim student are not boycotting the school. WTF.
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Unfortunately there’s little he can do…
Why??? Because of a couple of generations of cowards that’s why…Otherwise Obama would have never been elected. He’s NOT by definition a “natural born citizen” but people were scared…afraid of being labeled when the issue is not racial…but they scream that word and we all cringe and instead of having the right words to #STAND on, we allow our enemy to defeat us with our own fear…cowards every one of us
#STAND I say…and defeat them at their own game…
I NEVER DISCUSS RACE…IT IMPLIES THAT THERE’S MORE THAN ONE
THAT my brothers and sisters will disarm them…leaving them all open to the #TRUTH…it’s not about race
#STAND
I’m voting Trump
me too!
recently i saw a video from a woman who said Islam should be taught in schools but only if it’s taught honestly with all it’s warts. World history class doesn’t need students to confess the shahada
This hero is a hero yet again, and so is his daughter. She may not be banned from school but she’s guaranteed to be getting a ton of crap from the scumbag leftists.
HOLY HYPOCRISY….If a school teacher took public school kids to a church and taught them about Christianity the ACLU would be all over that teacher and administration and make their life hell in court. No so with field trips to Islamic mosques a place of the worlds most…a “peaceful and tolerant” creed.
The terrorists and/or their apologists have found an ally indeed with so called public school educators like the buzzards at La Plata H.S. They should all be canned .. but of course they won’t be.
Sickening in every way
“All that Evil needs to succeed is for good men to do nothing.”-Edmund Burke
Time to kick the school board out. FAST.
Trump is the Answer.
After they’ve won their case, sue the school for emotional distress and more.
This case could create a legal precedent. It’s important to be very aggressive.
Absolute no mercy.
Be ruthless and take the lunatics at this school for all they have.
But also teach the children the truth. that Muhammad was a brutal rapist, murderer and paedophile.
Mecca is a place of worship of 360 idols and many texts in the Quran are lies and false.
Hmmm….now what can we do to expose and embarrass this school into changing its mind? This guy is being PUNISHED for telling the truth. Who is this school system to tell him he can’t go to his daughter’s graduation.
Let’s start a ruckus.
I just read about a school in Bakersfield,CA. indoctrinating it’s students in this BS!!!! Apparently, it’s going on across the country!!!! WE, AMERICANS HAVE to STOP this!!!! If my children or grandchildren were in one of these schools, I would be in JAIL!!!!
Robin, it’s all because of Common Core, funded by overseas muslims.
Teaching children lies about and evil cult must be banned and challenged.
Surely there a one or 2 lawyers in the US that will take this on?
Just go to the graduation, banned or not. Screw em and their petty vengeance.
I think he should be escorted by an honor guard of armed Marines at the graduation. Let’s see what the school does then.
THIS IS SIMPLY OUTRAGEOUS AND TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE. I don’t know what I would do if my grandchildren is subjected to such evilness. One thing for sure I’ll do every thing in my power to save them.
This sort of Shiite has to be coming down directly from the Mobama administration. I wonder if a “school ban” even has the force of law? My bet is that it doesn’t, but I don’t know. Hopefully, this school district will be ripped to shreds in court. But, as things typically go, the people least responsible will get all the blame while the @$$holes who actually made the decision to indoctrinate the kids with Islam and ban the father will go on sodomizing each other on the golf course and drinking beer, nary a worry to be had.
if it was a school near me I would organize a rally.
This needs to be heard. LOUDLY.
https://www.thomasmore.org/news/thomas-more-law-center-files-federal-lawsuit-on-behalf-of-marine-dad-banned-from-school-property-after-he-objected-to-islamic-indoctrination-of-daughter/
All the veterans that live in that area(and some that don’t) should stage a protest, in their uniforms, at the school. Signs, showing their displeasure about the ordered curriculum should be prominently displayed and the ACLU should be questioned about why they are not leading this fight.
Many Blacks(like this principal) and Muslims share the same hatred of this country and want to see it fail. The schools are the best way to destroy young minds.
It really pains me to watch the image of those American children that are forced to submit to the pagan moon-‘god’, allahu! It is so grotesque that I am in lack of words! Did you know that ‘alahu’ means ‘condemnation’?
In Luke 17,2 Jesus says: “It were better for him that a mill stone was hanged around his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of those little ones”.
Sue that school and the school board for allowing such crap!
And where are the parents of other students???!!! I’d be storming that school!
Even the sanitized version of the Qatar “Common Core” textbook appears to depict islamist costumes as holy and noble – which they are not. All things islamist are unholy and ignoble because islam is a totalitarian ideology.
I shared this on facebook with the following comment:
This Marine should be saluted for what he did but the sKool is keeping him from attending his daughter’s graduation. It would be great to see all the parents who agree with the Marine PULL their kids from the ceremony in a public display of support. I am not delusional enough to believe that would ever happen, but what if . . .?
Islam is child abuse …. amongst other things ?
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/exclude-us-advocates-sharia-caliphate-sex-slavery-killing-apostates
I apologize if you have already posted this boni. Its a religiously non specific White House petition against everything islamic. 90 signatures as of this morning, it needs 100,000 im #70. Also, i had to cancel my subcription to your page. All of the alerts were overwhelming my email. Is their a way to get alerts by the entire page instead of by the article?
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/exclude-us-advocates-sharia-caliphate-sex-slavery-killing-apostatesadulteresses-honor-killing-or-fgm
Petitions like that will do nothing, even if you get 100,000 signatures. This system doesn’t send out email alerts that group the new headlines in one page. Why not follow me on Twitter where I post the new headlines/links only about once or twice a day. @barenakedislam
Gotcha, ill do that
I wish EVERY parent would pull their kids out of that school altogether as a protest and not let them return until those principal and whoever else responsible get fired and told never to work in any school again. I know that would never happen but that principal and that teacher make me so mad I personally want to surgically remove their mouths and replace it with a pig’s asshole!
On one hand, soldiers under orders can march into any buildings and take it over. On the other hand this soldier/father can’t even set foot on the school property. Couldn’t a top brass ORDER the soldier or the school to allow him to walk into the building whenever he wants? This IS war! Aren’t the soldiers we have fighting ISIS who are muslims in foreign countries????? Why then is this teacher and principal teaching American kids to become the enemy on American soil????
Funny, that during World War II schools weren’t teaching kids how to be Japanese!!!! Or Germans!!!! No! The schools nowadays are teaching kids how NOT to think, just OBEY!
I don’t have kids so I am uninformed how schools operate but what about forms or contracts signed by parents about how much the parents are involved in the child’s education? Why can’t this soldier parent just pull his daughter out of school altogether? Don’t schools have PTAs anymore??? Wasn’t that where the parents and teachers talked about what was being taught?
Frey, great idea, but most parents don’t want to get involved, which is why Islam is spreading so fast in the schools. For every story we see like this, there are thousands of similar ones where there are no protests by parents.
APATHY = SELF DESTRUCTION
Sad to say except perhaps when it involves taxe$, most American parents appear “brain dead” when it comes to school curriculum etc,. and what their children are taught.be it Islamic propaganda or other politically correct crap. Parents do not attend School Board meetings and most school boards as a result are self perpetuating cronyism with the elections involving very very few voters.. Non involvement allows these anti American /and/or guilt ridden PC clods to get their garbage into the schools.
I know.
It’s beyond any shame, what they are trying to do to American kids. Imagine if this was the other way around and you tried to teach Muslim kids that most of Christians faith is stronger than Muslims or teach them 10 Amendments or any other thing from the Bible – there would be blood at school pouring from beheaded heads. And by the way, if Islam says that Allah is the same god that Christians and Jews believe in – so why the hell do they call them non-believers and what is their problem? It’s great that there are still brave American parents who won’t let anyone indoctrinate their children into evil lies. They should just oppose all that crap the same way Muslims do – keep whining, complaining and protesting and establish Americans Against Indoctrination – organisation that would be stronger than bunch of liars from CAIR. Please don’t allow them to brainwash your children – they know that kids are the future of the country. Kids have to learn the truth about Islam, so our world becomes a better place one day !
Vote Trump, and this islamifascist will be just send back to their paradises!!!
http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/09/03/they-came-they-saw-they-plagiarized-1001-so-called-muslim-inventions-virtually-none-of-which-were-actually-invented-by-muslims/
https://wikiislam.net/wiki/How_Islamic_Inventors_Did_Not_Change_The_World
They say there are many ways to skin a cat.
How many have they challenged the Muslim religion of peace, with the 126 verses of hate. Challenge those said inventions the Muslims say they invented. There are pages to disapprove the inventions of Muslims on the net.
I use them time to time, especially to try and educate those in Australia.
Now back to skin the cats, pierced tyres, scraches on cars, pig heads, and so much more. Drive them out of our schools.
One must see what Muslim contacts they have.
It’s great to know these scum-buckets are keeping 2 sets of books. I’ve been trying to warn parents to check their children’s school books and materials and inquire about their school lessons. I hope everyone will do the same.
Parents trust the schools same as Americans trust the government. This ain’t before. It’s now.
Isn’t that some kind of conspiracy/treason, if totally true?
Every student in that class had one ‘holy’ social studies/history book which mentioned the desert bandit/terrorist/fornicator and his sock-puppet allah,
and another ‘sanitized’ version, to take home?
Wouldn’t that be easy to prove from the schools supplies shipping notes?
How high did that go, the whole district, the whole state?
What are the connections to the principal/board of governors/district and state controllers? How high does that go: to the publishers, to the black house?
If the school suddenly caves because someone fears exposure, TMLC should push harder for written and TV, radio, newspaper ad broadcast apologies, ALL THE WAY UP THE LINE, as far as the blame goes.
contact the other parents and organise a seperate graduation function outside the school .Our family took 2 grandchildren away from a government school here in Australia because of its pro islam anti Christian bias on Christmas and Easter and uniform dress codes.Vote with your feet.