October 28, 201412 yr It seems everything they do is never challenged and allowed for fear of being considered racist or prejudice. And yet another prime example. School's Nation of Islam handout paints Founding Fathers as racists | Fox News
October 28, 201412 yr Sorry. I couldn't get past "becoming.":clap: Hahahaha. Nearly a quarter of the world practices Islamic faith, and you know damn well the Nation of Islam represents every single one of them (well, at least the ones who aren't in ISIS, but they're even worse). Just like every nut job in the Westboro Baptist Church represents the Christian religion, those Nation of Islam folks and their huge following are sending our country to hell in a hand basket. Don't tell anyone, because their heads may explode, but many groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center actually consider the Nation of Islam (all 20,000 people who even say they identify)... as a hate group.
October 28, 201412 yr To be clear, I'm with mountainref to the extent that a teacher shouldn't be handing out students material from the Nation of Islam unless they give them the background on the group and talk about them with facts about who they really are and what they're really about. If this were a lesson where the Nation of Islam were talked about in the same way as the teacher would talk about things as couched in terms of similar movements and it was age-appropriate for the audience and maturity, then that's one thing. Handing out kids propaganda from the Nation of Islam is an entirely different matter.
October 28, 201411 yr The difference between Islam and other major religions of the world is that although the majority of Muslims are peaceful, if often intolerant people, an alarmingly high percentage of Muslims condone or support terrorism or lack the courage to publicly confront it. It is the sheer size of the minority who are not "mainstream" that makes it reasonable to be wary of the random Muslim on the street. Nobody should feel compelled to be tolerant of homicidal maniacs and at least hundreds of thousands of Muslims (out of 1.6 billion) worldwide fit that profile. The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society
October 28, 201411 yr To be clear, I'm with mountainref to the extent that a teacher shouldn't be handing out students material from the Nation of Islam unless they give them the background on the group and talk about them with facts about who they really are and what they're really about. If this were a lesson where the Nation of Islam were talked about in the same way as the teacher would talk about things as couched in terms of similar movements and it was age-appropriate for the audience and maturity, then that's one thing. Handing out kids propaganda from the Nation of Islam is an entirely different matter.Islamic extremists have been handing out propaganda in American prisons for decades. It has been a fertile recruiting ground for them. Violent criminals + a violent strain of religion. What could go jwrong?
October 28, 201411 yr Author Sorry. I couldn't get past "becoming.":clap: I was actually trying, but give up. I will send you a prayer rug Clyde for Christmas.
October 28, 201411 yr I was actually trying, but give up. I will send you a prayer rug Clyde for Christmas. I can't speak for Clyde but there isn't one person in this forum that thinks you are "becoming" intolerant. You have been intolerant for quite some time. Now take off your tinfoil hat and relax a little.
October 28, 201411 yr It seems everything they do is never challenged and allowed for fear of being considered racist or prejudice. And yet another prime example. School's Nation of Islam handout paints Founding Fathers as racists | Fox News Seems to me the article you linked is challenging them.
October 28, 201411 yr I was actually trying, but give up. I will send you a prayer rug Clyde for Christmas. I can't speak for Clyde but there isn't one person in this forum that thinks you are "becoming" intolerant. You have been intolerant for quite some time. Now take off your tinfoil hat and relax a little. Crash is correct. My post was entirely meant to poke some fun at you. The "becoming" just made me laugh. Your point in 100% valid though. We agree that in this particular case there are a whole list of concerns that the school has to address.
October 28, 201411 yr Not trying to be critical but back during the era of the men on Mount Rushmore, wasn't just about everyone racist? It was a mentality that had been going on for centuries. Even Lincoln who freed the slaves still by no means believed the races were equal, he just didn't believe the race that he perceived as lower than whites should live in bondage. And with Roosevelt, his views on the Natives were basically similar to the vast majority of Americans at that time. It wasn't till we got to the 21st Century that started questioning our views on race. I am not trying to brand the men on Mount Rushmore as bad people, just people of their times.
October 28, 201411 yr I think ref is spot on. And consistent and doesn't give a rip if anyone likes it or not. Bravo, I say.
October 28, 201411 yr I think ref is spot on. And consistent and doesn't give a rip if anyone likes it or not. Bravo, I say. Agreed , thus, the oddity of "becoming."
October 28, 201411 yr As long as a group like CAIR exists and lambastes anyone and anything that is in their view anti-Muslim I tend to agree with the premise.
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