Perhaps 9-11 does not represent the most damaging attack by Islam on the United States. An even more lethal invasion is described in the Issues and Insights column of Investors Business Daily website. Investors Business Daily is a very credible national business newspaper, similar to the Wall Street Journal. I quote a large section of this fact-filled article.
In our brave new schools, Johnny can’t say the pledge, but he can recite the Quran. Yup, the same court that found the phrase “under God” unconstitutional now endorses Islamic catechism in public school.
In a recent federal decision that got surprisingly little press, even from conservative talk radio, California’s 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled it’s OK to put public-school kids through Muslim role-playing exercises, including:
Reciting aloud Muslim prayers that begin with “In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful . . . .”Memorizing the Muslim profession of faith: “Allah is the only true God and Muhammad is his messenger.”Chanting “Praise be to Allah” in response to teacher prompts.Professing as “true” the Muslim belief that “The Holy Quran is God’s word.” Giving up candy and TV to demonstrate Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting.Designing prayer rugs, taking an Arabic name and essentially “becoming a Muslim” for two full weeks.Parents of seventh-graders, who after 9-11 were taught the pro-Islamic lessons as part of California’s world history curriculum, sued under the First Amendment ban on religious establishment. They argued, reasonably, that the government was promoting Islam.But a federal judge appointed by President Clinton told them in so many words to get over it, that the state was merely teaching kids about another “culture.” So the parents appealed. Unfortunately, the most left-wing court in the land got their case. The 9th Circuit, which previously ruled in favor of an atheist who filed suit against the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, upheld the lower court ruling.This information is significant for several reasons. First, it tells us that we are under attack, and that the attack is succeeding, at least in California. It also demonstrates the inequity of the left-wing judges and the liberal establishment in general. Imagine if such expressions of Christianity were proposed for public school curriculum. The ACLU would be in court before the proposal made it out of the printer. It also poses the question: Why are liberals so in love with Islam? It seems that Islam embodies to the extreme all of the things liberals hate such as authoritarian religion, militancy, and the diminishing and mistreatment of women. It represents the ultimate anti-liberal system. The reason for liberal infatuation with Islam is found in the only factor that the two systems have in common: a hatred for Christians, Jews, and the God of the Bible. It is the old story of Pilate and Herod finding friendship through their common rejection of Jesus. One positive outcome of this liberal infatuation with Islam is that it is driving many Jewish people, who historically have been liberal, away from liberalism, leaving them more inclined to migrate toward a more conservative position. This successful incursion of Islam into the California school system calls for a strong evangelical response. However, the fact that most evangelicals are not even aware of this situation conveys that we are not up to the task. The necessary strength will only come through an evangelical reformation.
Perhaps there is a different take possible in understanding why liberals want to promote Islam. As has been done to Christianity, they want to redefine it to fit with their relativist point of view. Theirs is a tolerent Islam that promotes peace and harmony among the children of the world. Anyone can have a certain view of God so long as it doesn’t interfere with anything in the core values of liberalism: everyone can do his own thing and should refrain from anything that smacks of assertions of truth.
Well, we might think that standing up and saying: “there is no God, but Allah, and Muhammed is His prophet…” is akin to an assertion of truth, but not the way it’s being promoted here. No, this is just a cultural stepping into our neighbor’s shoes and taking part in his rituals for a moment. We can feel an extra measure of tolerance and acceptance having done this. We can realize that when we speak similar assertions as a Christian (or Hindu, Buddist, Animist, or whatever…)that we really don’t mean what we are saying. We’re just promoting that feeling of religion that somehow has to make some kind of assertion, whatever it is…
As far as Islam itself, our liberal friends see the need for young people to realize that all of those masses of poor people rioting in the streets and killing Christians because somebody drew a bad picture of their prophet are just victims of their oppression by oil companies and a few rich people. They are not the true Muslims. The true Muslims are well-dressed educated clerics holding hands with all the other good Christian clergy gathered in D.C., or someplace, praying for world peace. In fact, just so our little ones don’t get confused by all of the chaos and violence and hatred that they see fomenting out of the Middle East every day, we better make sure that they get a “true picture” of Islam as the lovey-dovey “religion of peace” that the president keeps talking about. We’ll show them how fun it can really be to be a Muslim for a couple of weeks.
Yesterday the story broke of an apparently sharp young teenage gal from Michigan who was successfully lured via an internet relationship to Aman Jordan by a young Muslim man who wanted to import her to his home on the West Bank. What was she thinking!!!! (we all said to ourselves). Could it be that she has a little bit warped understanding of life in the Muslim world? One must wonder if her school’s “indoctrination” concerning this culture had any culpabiltiy in her blatant lack of judgement. Some American embassy authorities in Aman were able to intercept her and convince her to turn back from her absolutely irrational purpose. We may wonder what kind of information they may have put on the table to try to “educate” her. Perhaps this should be included in the curriculum of that school in California.