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Facebook Photo of Female Students Dressed in Burqas for Lesson on Islam Prompts State Investigation

Feb. 25, 2013 7:34pm Jason Howerton

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Parents are demanding answers after a Texas teacher reportedly invited female students to dress up in Islamic garb and told the class to refer to Muslim terrorists as freedom fighters.

Texas state Sen. Dan Patrick, chairman of the Senate Education Committee, has launched an investigation into the incident. He told Fox News he was disturbed after seeing a photograph of female students wearing burqas and learning that students were reportedly taught that the cause for Egypt’s turmoil is democracy, not the Muslim Brotherhood, based on an article by the Washington Post.

The lesson on Islam was apparently taught in a world geography class at Lumberton High School in Lumberton, Texas, Fox News Radio’s Todd Starnes reports.

One parent told Fox News she was “outraged” after she discovered a photograph of her 14-year-old daughter wearing a burqa on Facebook. “I felt my blood press go through my head,” she added.

“As parents we should have been made aware of this and I felt like the line had been crossed,” the parent said. “Christian kids who want to pray have to do it outside of school hours – yet Islam is being taught to our kids during school hours.”

The girl’s dad wants to know why his daughter was learning about Islam in a geography course.

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ColoradoMaverick
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 5:59am
You want to give the students a lesson in Islam?

Make them all wear this stuff and go sit on a hot, sunny beach and see how they enjoy it.

We went on a cruise last year and there was a young Muslim family. She was covered from head to toe in a heavy black burqas while he sat there dressed like everyone else and enjoying the sun.
She had to be absolutely miserable in that outfit. What a bassakwards religion!

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NoSleeper
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 5:33am
I have lived in several states, including Texas, and my children attended schools in all of them. I find it difficult to believe this sort of indoctrination is going on, especially since I found the Texas schools to be better than the other states. Of course, we always chose to live in small towns and volunteered at the schools, so were well aware of what was being taught.

Not really related, but I recall a PTA focus group we were invited to attend. At the end of the meeting, the leader announced the next group would be discussing gun control (for kindergarten through 3rd grade) and my wife and I asked to attend. The leader asked what our thoughts were and we stated that the school should invite the NRA in to teach gun safety since that is the biggest concern for children of that age…we were never invited back to any meetings after that.

For years I was an advocate of fixing the public schools, but no longer. Public schools have been ruined and have become tools of Big Government and political extremists, providing indoctrination rather than education, and at great expense. Privatize education, dissolve the teachers’ unions and close the public schools… return control to parents while providing a better education at less expense. Good schools will thrive, bad ones will fail.

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Kalshion
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 3:36am
“Freedom Fighters” Oh for the love of… these killers are hardly ‘freedom fighters’, considering how they KILL THEIR OWN PEOPLE. This is just another example of why we need to throw the Unions out of our schools and return schools back to state control, but also another reason why groups like CAIR (and other religious groups for that matter) need to put on notice that if they want to teach their religious stuff, do it at home or at their own religious schools (mind you, I’m religious, but I don’t agree with teaching religion in schools becuase not everyone will agree with it)

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heidihoneighbor
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 2:49am
911 terrorists werent the only ones infiltrating our country. What better way to destroy this great nation than from the inside oit.

Our tax dollars are even payinv for it in this case.

Americans better grow a pair and start handling this by putting the fear of our God into these people.

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Blkcatwm
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 1:41am
When is Glenn going to have GOV PERRY on to explain all the Communist and Pro-Islam rheteric that is being taught in the Texas school system! How about all the other anti-American curiculum being taught in their schools? Why in the world would anyone want to move to TEXAS if it is the breeding ground for the COMMUNIST/ISLAMIC/AGENDA to indoctrinate the children!!? Why doesn;t the GOV put a stop to this!? GLENN! FIND OUT WHY!?!

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sgramza
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 12:28am
Wow, i thought Texas was the answer. Apparently not. Time to look at other states.

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Washington
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:55pm
Texas, I just read up on this CSCOPE. You have a serious problem!! You had all better contact your governor and state representatives and do some house cleaning in your state education department.

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kenboo1
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:51pm
Burqas make all women equal…

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TheGrtDcptn
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:30pm
‘In the meantime, teachers are legally required under CSCOPE contracts to teach only CSCOPE lessons and ***are not permitted to discuss content with parents and others in the community***…’

Excuse me…!! parents/community are NOT permitted to know what is being taught to THEIR children…?!?! EVERY child should be pulled OUT of any government run school…

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RaydocX
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:28pm
Trying to compare women in burqas to priests demonstrates those trying to justify the investigation’s utter ignorance… to compare to a priest, the students would have had to be pretending to be mullahs.

We are so worried at an administrative bureaucratic level about insulting people who casually, intentionally insult us and wish us harm… the PC movement laid bare for its idiocy… an attitude this Administation employs in snubbing Britain and Israel, while being chummy with Venezuela and radical Egyptian revolutionaries.

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TheGrtDcptn
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:19pm
NO religion in schools, eh…?!?!…or perhaps it’s validation that islam is NOT a religion afterall…

…tolerance my A$$…

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spirited
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:00pm
Common Core is Obama’s national standards initiative; ~> a path to CSCOPE.

~> Implementation of Common Core
is known to have been
a ~>condition of school systems’ receipt of federal dollars

~~~~>under Obama’s “Race To The Top” program.

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Lucius Severus Pertinax
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:52pm
I think someone needs to draw that teacher (and, possibly, the principal) aside and explain to them…quietly…the long-term health benefits of not engaging in these kind of activities.

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pigsarei
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:11pm
Pamela Geller is all over this as she should be.
Texas Public School Students Made to Wear Burqas

As a passionate and fierce woman, I find the burqa to offensive and insulting to women. The extreme cover up of all things feminine and beautiful is pure, ugly misogyny.

Also: I told ya so. It turns out once again that after getting so much heat for exposing Rick Perry’s compromised, whitewashed Islam curriculum, we were right all along.
….

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/

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spirited
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 9:57pm
CSCOPE (of UN Agenda 21) is also designed to help districts TRANSITION from the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills accountability tests TO the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness accountability program, which started in 2012.

Linda Darling-Hammon (whoever she is -?) writes CSCOPE lessons (she’s not just a spokesperson).
Priscilla White is CSCOPE coordinator for the Region XI Education Service Center in Texas; which serves 76 school districts.

Crowley (one of the 76 school districts) began implementing CSCOPE last summer. By the first day of school in August, the district was ready to roll out the curriculum.
Theresa Kohler, Crowley’s chief instruction officer, said A COUPLE OF DEVELOPMENTS led the district to adopt CSCOPE. “Last fall it became evident that we were going to be looking at serious reductions in staff,” she said. The district shopped for curriculum options that required smaller staffs and fewer central administrators.

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/01/02/2739194/school-districts-adopting-cscope.html#storylink=cpy
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NOTE:
Common Core is Obama’s national standards initiative; ~> a path to CSCOPE.
~> Implementation of Common Core
is known to have been a ~>condition of school systems’ receipt of federal dollars
~>under Obama’s “Race To The Top” program.

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RestoreCapitalism
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 9:22pm
This is another good reason why the federal government should not be involved in education. They are trying to warp the minds of the kids.

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LibertyUSA1
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 9:16pm
This class participation project is eerily similar to one my daughter experienced. In her Twentieth Century Lit class the students were assigned to attend a field trip to the Islamic Center in Dearborn Michigan. We absolutely refused to allow it…..took it to the administration and got the Thomas Moore Law Center involved. Because she and 9 others did not attend..they were punished by needing to do a research paper on Arab Culture and their contributions to our society . Bunch of BS. We as parents did the ultimate project for her. LOL. She received an A. Now a student at Hillsdale College. She knows the Constitution inside and out and the Ideals in the Founding Fathers of America. Parents…..get your children out of the indoctrination centers known as the public schools. Homeschool if you can, or place in a private Christian school. The very least keep them out of school on count day. That denies the school the per pupil money from the State and Feds.

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zoro51
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 9:08pm
WHT THE FU*( would you EVEN think of dressing up as a MURDERING MUSLUM fire this teacher sue the school ISLAM IS A MAN MADE CULT OF HATE N DEATH PERIOD why BOTHER TO TEACH about such KILLERS??? much less dress liek a MURDERING MUSLUM ,…NO LOGIC WHAT SO EVER

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wilbstal
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 9:05pm
you all voted for Obama now pay for it

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wilbstal
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 9:04pm
Im 70 shortly and be dead in a while this is bad you younger guys have to cope with this BS. I would take it for a minute if I was 10 years younger. Hope i go before these bastards get a foot hold because Americans sit on their asses and watch as America goes down

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- spirited
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:10pm
  Wishing you long (er) and heathy life….
  
  >and the joys of experiencing the return of our beloved America.
  
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tothepoint
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 8:54pm
For a school to push the misogynist Islam religion on students is indefensible.
This is teaching our young girls that it’s ok to have men bully you, keep you in bondage, beat you, even murder you if they want to do so.
Instead of this nonsense, if they want to teach the truth about Islam, they should show how they treat their women, little girls and babies. They should show them how Muslims throw acid in the faces of their women, make them get their genitalia mutilated, and the murders they do of Christians, and any other religion that isn’t Muslim.

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- spirited
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:26pm
  Yes.
  
  Of course those horros are touted as isolated actions of ‘fundamentalists’ and comparable to the US ‘crazies’ of Sandyhook, the Charles Mansons or the John Gacys….. or abortion-doctor killers.
  
  >Those girls have no idea that wearing the “veil” is not just a cultural costume; based on a region or religious humility & respectful modesty, but rather, to maintain oppression and subserviency
  that was mandated by –and because of a paranoid, jealous, fearful, controlling, sick, insane, dirty-minded,…………@$#%^%^^ (nameless one). -gasp!
  
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mrwolfy
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 8:44pm
getting raped, stoned, and executed on middle eastern soccer fields is also a liberating experience as well. this country sucks

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jessieH
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 8:34pm
Looks like the teacher’s union is condoning this action. Treason.

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PeriMedic
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 8:30pm
Confession–I hate Islam and consider it an ignorant, violent, repressive, anti-female religion. That said, I want to point a couple facts out:
I was a 7th/8th grade algebra teacher from 94-05 in CA and VA. During this time, prior to 9/11, Islam was a part of the 7th-grade social studies curriculum, World Geography. California curriculum follows Texas’. I’m not aware if it is in Virginia’s as I only taught 8th grade there. So it’s been around awhile–it is not, in itself, something new. How it is taught is going to depend on the teacher (When I taught US History, I presented George Washington as a brave, heroic freedom fighter. Another Virginia US History teacher stated you could consider him a terrorist).
As far as the parents stating Christianity was not discussed, I see on the whiteboard, in the picture: Islam, Sunni/Shiite; Judaism, Reform/Conservative/Orthodox; Christianity, Catholic/Orthodox (something)/Protestant (rest is covered by kids heads). So I call BS on that.
I don’t know what went on in this class as I wasn’t there. I know what it is like to have kids who don’t tell the whole story, and parents who jump to conclusions, mandates from the state in order to keep your job. Personally, I think the burqa idea is a good one–what 21st century American teenage girl would want to dress like that? Putting it on, seeing how repressive it is, how she can’t see out of it, how no one can see her new hairdo, would be the best way of learning how repre

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MK2
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 8:26pm
I want the school to teach about the freedom fighting CLAN and let my kids wear white sheets and hoods if we would have kept up on that we would not be In the situation we are in today

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