CHATHAM, NEW JERSEY: COURT REFUSES TO DISMISS ISLAM INDOCTRINATION LAWSUIT AGAINST N.J. SCHOOL

Libby Hilsenrath and Nancy Gayer went on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" in February, to complain about their kids getting a middle school social studies lesson on Islam. (Screenshot | Fox News)

SEE: https://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/04/islamic_indoctrination_in_chatham_a_fox_news_fanta.html

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CHATHAM, NEW JERSEY: COURT REFUSES TO DISMISS ISLAM INDOCTRINATION LAWSUIT AGAINST N.J. SCHOOL 

BY SARA DOGAN

SEE: https://stopk12indoctrination.org/2018/07/09/court-refuses-to-dismiss-islam-indoctrination-lawsuit-against-nj-school/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

A federal lawsuit brought by the mother of a student at Chatham Middle School in New Jersey was allowed by to proceed after a judge refused to dismiss charges that the school violated the First Amendment by attempting to indoctrinate children to believe in Islam.

That mother, Libby Hilsenrath, alleges that the school “forc[ed] children to endure the promotion of Islam in their public schools, including an explicit and direct call to the children for conversion to the religion of Islam.”

At issue is a five-minute “Intro to Islam” video that students were directed to watch online while in class. Hilsenrath believes that in violation of the First Amendment, the video attempts to promote Islam as factual truth—rather than simply providing information about it in a non-biased manner.

Statements made in the video include:

• “Allah is the one God who created the heavens and the earth, who has no equal and is all powerful.”
• “Muhammad (Peace be upon him) is the last & final Messenger of God. God gave him the Noble Quran.”
• “Lo, We have sent thee (O Muhammad) with the truth, a bringer of glad tidings and a warner.”
• “What is the Noble Quran? Divine Revelation sent to Muhammad (S) last Prophet of Allah. A Perfect guide for Humanity.”
• “The Noble Quran: Guidance, Mercy and Blessing for all Mankind.”
• Islam: “A shining beacon against the darkness of repression, segregation, intolerance and racism.”
• “May God help us all find the true faith, Islam.”

“This nearly five-minute long video seeks to convert viewers to Islam and is filled with the religious teachings of Islam presented, not as beliefs, but as facts,” the lawsuit states.

Hilsenrath first took her concerns to the local school board, attempting to have the video removed from the assigned lesson plan, but she was attacked as “hateful,” “ignorant,” “intolerant,” “racist” and “close-minded.”

So with the assistance of the Thomas More Law Center, a conservative Christian legal group, Hilsenrath filed suit against the school district in federal court. In addition to alleging that the video portrays the Islamic faith as religious fact, the suit filed by the Center also states that the lesson gave a “sugarcoated, false depiction of Islam,” adding that students “were not informed of the kidnappings, beheadings, slave-trading, massacres, and persecution of non-Muslims, nor the repression of women — all done in the name of Islam.”

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NEW JERSEY PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHES "MUHAMMAD (PEACE BE UPON HIM) IS THE LAST & FINAL MESSENGER OF GOD"

https://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2018/01/new-jersey-public-school-teaches.html

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THE VIDEOS FROM THIS ARTICLE:

 5 minutes Introduction to Islam

 The 5 Pillars of Islam; 1st Episode Animated 

IN ENGLISH.

 

Five Pillars of Islam taught in Public School

 

Islam and School Curriculum;

Bible Quote Not Allowed

SEE ROBERT SPENCER'S NEW PAMPHLET:

Readin’, Writin’, and Jihadin’

https://stopk12indoctrination.org/2018/07/09/readin-writin-and-jihadin/

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Robert Spencer’s new pamphlet addresses the Islamization of our public schools.

“The commitment to ‘multiculturalism’ that has now taken over K-12 education in America has been a godsend for Muslims anxious to use schools and textbooks to proselytize for Islam.” So begins the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s new pamphlet, Readin’, Writin’, and Jihadin’: The Islamization of American Public Schools, by the prolific Robert Spencer, Director of the Center’s Jihad Watch website.

This sixty-page work is a quick read but a startling and crucial warning about the degree to which Islamic proselytization has already taken hold in our educational system and is accelerating.

Spencer is the author of many Freedom Center pamphlets as well as eighteen bestselling books, the latest of which is The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS (to be released August 8 from Bombardier Books). In his new pamphlet, he details jaw-dropping examples in recent years of a whitewashed version of Islam being presented in classrooms, textbooks, and special school events. He notes that the presentation of Islam goes far beyond educating the students about it to actively promoting it. No similar favorable attention is given in the classroom to Christianity or any other religion. Indeed, the anti-Christian bias accompanying the teaching of Islam is one of the most egregiously misleading aspects of this not-so-subtle proselytizing. Spencer notes that one textbook council reported, “While seventh-grade textbooks describe Islam in glowing language, they portray Christianity in a harsh light. … Islam is featured as a model of interfaith tolerance; Christians wage wars of aggression and kill Jews. Islam provides models of harmony and civilization. Anti-Semitism, the Inquisition, and wars of religion bespot the Christian record.”

Concepts central to Islamic history and theology, such as jihad, sharia, and dhimmitude, are downplayed in educational materials (when they are covered at all), and Islam is depicted as far more tolerant, inclusive, and peaceful than actual history suggests.

Spencer states that this serves a dangerous political agenda by dissociating Islamic ideology from terrorist acts carried out in its name. Some sources of this misinformation in schools go so far as to suggest that Islamic terrorism is justified, that Western exploitation, oppression, and aggression are to blame for such atrocities as the 9/11 attacks. The result is that young Western minds are indoctrinated into viewing their own values and culture with suspicion, while being dissuaded from understanding how fundamentalist Islam is a threat.

Spencer concludes that the “self-hatred mandated by multiculturalism in American public school students for decades now has created a vacuum, which Muslims have shown themselves to be all too eager to fill.”

Don’t miss this important addition to the Horowitz Freedom Center’s array of must-read pamphlets. Order your copy of Readin’, Writin’, and Jihadin’: The Islamization of American Public Schools here.

CAIR INFILTRATES PUBLIC SCHOOLS WITH ISLAMIC INDOCTRINATION

CAIR INFILTRATES PUBLIC SCHOOLS

BY SEAN FITZGERALD

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271409/video-cair-infiltrates-public-schools-sean-fitzgerald; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Editor's note: Below is Sean Fitzgerald's video exposing how the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is infiltrating our public schools. Fitzgerald asks: Why is a Muslim Brotherhood front-group indoctrinating our children? The video was created in conjunction with the Freedom Center's Stop K-12 Indoctrination campaign. To read our new pamphlet on this issue, "Leftist Indoctrination in Our K-12 Public Schools," click here or order your own copy here.

SEE ROBERT SPENCER'S NEW PAMPHLET:

Readin’, Writin’, and Jihadin’

https://stopk12indoctrination.org/2018/07/09/readin-writin-and-jihadin/

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Robert Spencer’s new pamphlet addresses the Islamization of our public schools.

“The commitment to ‘multiculturalism’ that has now taken over K-12 education in America has been a godsend for Muslims anxious to use schools and textbooks to proselytize for Islam.” So begins the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s new pamphlet, Readin’, Writin’, and Jihadin’: The Islamization of American Public Schools, by the prolific Robert Spencer, Director of the Center’s Jihad Watch website.

This sixty-page work is a quick read but a startling and crucial warning about the degree to which Islamic proselytization has already taken hold in our educational system and is accelerating.

Spencer is the author of many Freedom Center pamphlets as well as eighteen bestselling books, the latest of which is The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS (to be released August 8 from Bombardier Books). In his new pamphlet, he details jaw-dropping examples in recent years of a whitewashed version of Islam being presented in classrooms, textbooks, and special school events. He notes that the presentation of Islam goes far beyond educating the students about it to actively promoting it. No similar favorable attention is given in the classroom to Christianity or any other religion. Indeed, the anti-Christian bias accompanying the teaching of Islam is one of the most egregiously misleading aspects of this not-so-subtle proselytizing. Spencer notes that one textbook council reported, “While seventh-grade textbooks describe Islam in glowing language, they portray Christianity in a harsh light. … Islam is featured as a model of interfaith tolerance; Christians wage wars of aggression and kill Jews. Islam provides models of harmony and civilization. Anti-Semitism, the Inquisition, and wars of religion bespot the Christian record.”

Concepts central to Islamic history and theology, such as jihad, sharia, and dhimmitude, are downplayed in educational materials (when they are covered at all), and Islam is depicted as far more tolerant, inclusive, and peaceful than actual history suggests.

Spencer states that this serves a dangerous political agenda by dissociating Islamic ideology from terrorist acts carried out in its name. Some sources of this misinformation in schools go so far as to suggest that Islamic terrorism is justified, that Western exploitation, oppression, and aggression are to blame for such atrocities as the 9/11 attacks. The result is that young Western minds are indoctrinated into viewing their own values and culture with suspicion, while being dissuaded from understanding how fundamentalist Islam is a threat.

Spencer concludes that the “self-hatred mandated by multiculturalism in American public school students for decades now has created a vacuum, which Muslims have shown themselves to be all too eager to fill.”

Don’t miss this important addition to the Horowitz Freedom Center’s array of must-read pamphlets. Order your copy of Readin’, Writin’, and Jihadin’: The Islamization of American Public Schools here.

NASHVILLE PASTOR SAYS HE HOPES "BERT & ERNIE" ARE GAY

"In the meantime, we’re now discussing the potential gayness of puppets, and this news cycle has reached new, ridiculous lows."

PUPPETS ARE ASEXUAL, 

WITHOUT A GENDER IDENTITY

NASHVILLE PASTOR SAYS HE HOPES 

"BERT & ERNIE" ARE GAY

SEE: https://pulpitandpen.org/2018/09/20/nashville-pastor-says-he-hopes-bert-and-ernie-are-gay/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Mark Saltzman, who wrote scripts and songs for Sesame Street in the 1980s and 1990s, claims that he modeled the popular character, Bert and Ernie, after his own gay lifestyle. Saltzman told Queerty Magazine that he molded Bert after himself and Bert after his gay lover, Arnold Glassman, and Ernie after himself.

Saltzman said, “That’s what I had in my life, a Bert & Ernie relationship. How could it not permeate? So I don’t think I’d know how else to write them, but as a loving couple.”

However, the actual creator of the ‘Bert and Ernie’ characters disagreed immediately with the assertion.

Sesame Street Workshop and Muppet creator, Frank Oz, said Saltzman fabricated the story. Oz said via Twitter, “I created Bert. I know what and who he is.” Oz was the pulpiteer who played Bert, and is co-creator of the muppets with Jim Henson, who played Ernie.

Oz responded to the claims by Saltzman that the Bert-Ernie storylines had gay undertones with the Twitter version of an eye roll, saying, “Oh come on….”

While the sexual orientation of muppets who don’t exist from the waist down is probably a dumb discussion to be had altogether, there are people who really care about whether or not the felt-covered puppets were intended to represent sodomites. One such person who greatly cares about what happens in the fictional world of Bert and Ernie’s make-believe home is Pastor Stan Mitchell of GracePointe Church in Nashville, TN. GracePointe made national news recently for coming out in support of sodomy and promised to place sodomites at the highest level of service and leadership in their church.

Time Magazine reported at the time:

Our position that these siblings of ours, other than heterosexual, our position that these our siblings cannot have the full privileges of membership, but only partial membership, has changed,” he said, as many in the congregation stood to their feet in applause, and other sat in silence. “Full privileges are extended now to you with the same expectations of faithfulness, sobriety, holiness, wholeness, fidelity, godliness, skill, and willingness. That is expected of all. Full membership means being able to serve in leadership and give all of your gifts and to receive all the sacraments; not only communion and baptism, but child dedication and marriage.

Moving on to more important doctrinal issues, like the sexual orientation of muppets, Pastor Mitchell said the following on Facebook:

The Gospel, of course, is not that it’s “okay to be gay.” The Gospel is that Jesus died according to the Scripture, that he was buried, and according to the Scriptures he rose again from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:3-4). The Gospel’s command is to be baptized and repent on account of the forgiveness of our sins (Acts 2:42). And one of the things we should repent for, for those to whom it applies, is homosexuality (1 Corinthians 6:11).

The truth is, if Bert and Ernie were homosexuals, Stan Mitchell would probably not let them be alone with his children. In the meantime, we’re now discussing the potential gayness of puppets, and this news cycle has reached new, ridiculous lows.

COPS RAID CHURCH IN MARIJUANA BUST

COPS RAID CHURCH IN MARIJUANA BUST 

SEE: https://pulpitandpen.org/2018/09/20/cops-raid-church-in-marijuana-bust/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Is “church” the right thing to call it when marijuana is their main sacrament? Apparently, it still applies, because the name of the congregation is the Vault Church of Open Faith. It is located in Jurupa Valley near Riverside, California. And Vault Church was just busted by local law enforcement for operating an illegal marijuana dispensary.

The Cannabis Regulation Task Force confiscated marijuana from the church’s property and also took a large sum of cash from the church sanctuary, which had been converted into an inside grow operation.

The church is a member of the Association of Sacramental Ministries, a growing denomination of “cannabis churches.” The website says:

The Association of Sacramental Ministries (ASM) is the all-encompassing and governing body of only sincere and legitimate cannabis churches that exist across the United States. Based in Southern California, ASM and its member churches hold cannabis as an entheogenic and sacred healing sacrament that is central to their beliefs and has the ability to directly link oneself’ to the Holy Spirit – or other Divine power they seek – through religious and spiritual rituals.

ASM and its members also believe that Cannabis – being used as a sacrament amongst all major religions for over 7,000 years –  holds key to creating everlasting peace and end thousands of years of war and suffering between religions worldwide.

The sacred scriptures of the ASM include the 9 Ephiphanes and the 12 Determinations.

Church members protested outside during the police raid, claiming that law enforcement was violating their First Amendment rights. Being in possession of small amounts of marijuana is legal in California if purchased in a heavily regulated industry, but marijuana dispensaries are not allowed in Jurupa Valley or Riverside.

VATICAN PLACES CHINESE CHURCH UNDER COMMUNIST CONTROL BY AGREEMENT TO INSTALL SEVEN BISHOPS NOT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED BY THE VATICAN

"The Vatican just signed a provisional agreement with the Red Chinese government, allowing them to install seven bishops over the Roman Catholic church in China that were not previously approved or wanted by the Vatican."

VATICAN PLACES CHINESE CHURCH 

UNDER COMMUNIST CONTROL

SEE: https://pulpitandpen.org/2018/09/22/vatican-places-chinese-church-under-communist-control/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Rome: In China, Christianity is often suppressed by the communist-led government which maintains control over churches officially recognized by the state. These churches must have leadership that is approved and often appointed, by the government itself. Churches not “underground” are often controlled by the Chinese government in this way, installing government “cut-outs” that ensure the church doesn’t teach theology that is subversive to the communist regime. The Vatican just signed a provisional agreement with the Red Chinese government, allowing them to install seven bishops over the Roman Catholic church in China that were not previously approved or wanted by the Vatican.

The talks between China and Beijing have been ongoing for decades. With more than 12 million Roman Catholics in China, Beijing and the Vatican split relations in 1951 after the Communists won the Chinese civil war. At the time, Beijing demanded it have oversight and approval over bishops approved in the Chinese church, and the Vatican resisted their demands. Today’s agreement with the Chinese marks the first time that a Bishop of Rome has surrendered control of the bishop selection process to the Chinese government. After a nearly 70-year stand-off, the Red Chinese got everything they asked for and the Vatican capitulated wholesale.

In a statement, the Vatican said, “Pope Francis hopes that, with these decisions, a new process may begin that will allow the wounds of the past to be overcome, leading to the full communion of all Chinese Catholics.”

Part of the reason that no previous Pope has made such an agreement with the Chinese government has been for the protection of bishops already installed in the so-called “underground church.” Experts believe that these bishops may face punitive consequences or prosecution now that state-appointed bishops have been approved. For many Romanists who have remained faithful to the Vatican during the last 70 years of persecution, they consider the agreement a stab in the back.

Cardinal Joseph Zen, a Chinese Catholic in Hong Kong, wrote on his blog that this move amounts to selling out the Chinese Catholics who refused to join the state church and suffered persecution, writing, “What is the message this communique conveys to the faithful in China? ‘Trust us! Accept the agreement! Obey us! We are in agreement with your pope!’”

It is no secret that Communism has remained a steady opponent of theism, wherever present. The Roman Church has traditionally recognized this, and Pope John Paul II was a strong opponent of communism. Pope Francis, on the other hand – of the Jesuit priestly order – has a thoroughly Marxist worldview as influenced by Jesuit Liberation Theology in his native South America. The Roman Catholic Church has always wed political and religious power, and in the move to allow the Chinese government oversight over the appointment of bishops, the Romanists have further broadened their appeal for political power worldwide.