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The apotheosis of the Left’s infatuation with Islamic jihad: a propaganda video
for the Islamic State, courtesy of the British government.
“Pure poison… it’s like a Nazi recruiting film from the 1930s: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The State,” by Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, August 20, 2017:
A really super-cool club. That’s how a young black
British doctor describes Islamic State in tonight’s episode of The
State, her eyes shining as she records a YouTube message urging other
young women to follow her example and defect to Syria.
‘A really super-cool club.’ There’s no irony in her voice. Dr Shakira
Boothe (played by Ony Uhiara) is a single mother from London who claims
to be part of the first generation of Muslims building a religious
paradise on earth.
This, then, is how Channel 4, a publicly owned British broadcaster,
depicts Islamic State five days after a terrorist attack in Barcelona
that killed more than a dozen people – during a year that has seen
British children killed by a suicide bomber at a Manchester pop concert.
A four-part drama screening on consecutive nights, The State is
supposedly based on real events in Syria and Iraq, seen from the
viewpoint of several British recruits who fled their homes to join the
jihad or Holy War. It showcases graphic footage of torture and
dismemberment.
The second episode tonight includes an appallingly callous tableau of
dead babies in an incubator ward, after a bomb strike on a hospital.
It is sickening. But it isn’t the gore and scattered limbs that leave
a tight knot in the stomach: it is the moist-eyed adulation as The
State pleads with us not just to sympathise with the British jihadis but
to love them.
All the women are elegant but strong – independent heroines making a
positive choice to sacrifice their freedom for the sake of their pious
religious convictions. Joans of Arc, every one. All the men are
sensitive and soft-spoken – driven to fight in God’s army for their love
of their families. Everyone is deeply intelligent and multi-lingual,
with extensive knowledge of the Koran.
And they are all ridiculously good-looking of course, with the
occasional Poldark moment for the boys as they strip off their uniforms
to reveal waxed chests with moulded six-packs. The soundtrack is all
swelling orchestras and throbbing drums, with moments of sad Spanish
guitar when a character dies.
No one will be surprised to discover that the writer and director of
the State, Peter Kosminsky, is not a veteran of the civil war in Syria.
He did not carry out research missions to Raqqa and Aleppo.
In fact, middle-class film-maker Kosminsky is 61 years old and
Oxbridge-educated, the epitome of the London media luvvie who is
desperate to demonstrate that he is less racist than anyone else at his
Hampstead dinner party. He’s been the subject of a South Bank Show
profile by Melvyn Bragg. You get the picture.
The dialogue of The State gives him away at every moment. It’s
Dad-speak, a middle-aged man’s failed effort to sound ‘down with the
kids’, which parrots comical slang last used in the 1970s by the Bay
City Rollers – words such as ‘super-cool’.
In tonight’s opening scene, one fighter waves his AK47 and shouts:
‘This is better than flipping burgers!’ It’s meant to be a victory shout
– but instead, the line is fake, patronising and, in its assumption
that well-educated British Asians like him are destined to work at
McDonald’s, dismissively racist.
Kosminsky’s dead ear for dialogue is matched by his inability to
smell out lies. Because all the scenes are based on second-hand
research, they mirror the propaganda videos that cascade on to the
internet, showing life under Sharia law. Much of the series consists of
the director’s attempts to capture the camera angles common in phone
videos of battlefields and marketplaces.
It’s baffling that a man who knows how the television world works –
he won Emmys and Baftas for his adaptation of Wolf Hall, after all –
seems blind to the crass manipulation of Islamic State’s official
videos. Kosminsky believes that the choreographed beheadings and the
carefully curated aftermath of bombings are true and accurate depictions
of ISIS life.
For fear of imposing his own opinions on viewers (good liberals never
do that) he offers no comment on the medieval morality of Islamic
State. Racism is endemic: the leading characters soon learn to sneer
openly at the pathetic white fighters, who are mostly fat, tearful,
closet homosexuals.
All of the characters have left their homes without saying goodbye to
their parents, though Kosminsky is at pains to point out that this
doesn’t mean they are ungrateful or unloving – it’s just that they
didn’t dare risk alerting the forces of government oppression.
The men practise dismantling their assault rifles with their eyes
shut, and learn the basics of misogyny: ‘A woman in this life is
defective!’
And when the bomb strikes that baby ward, there is no hint that any
blame lies with the ISIS cowards using the hospital as their shield. If
anything, the fault is with the unseen hand, presumably American, that
fired the missile. The only explanation for the characters’ betrayal of
Britain is summed up in one line: ‘I ain’t never going back to that
kuffar dump, bruv.’ Kuffar, as the constant scroll of Arabic dictionary
definitions tells us, means dirty, foreign and unholy….
Kosminsky cannot be incapable of understanding how most viewers will
regard his perverted vision of ISIS. But he only cares about the
opinions of his peers in a deluded bubble. Any decent human being,
anyone who has felt despair and heartbreak at the terrorist attacks
sponsored by Islamic State, will feel nothing but revulsion for his
characters. They are traitors to their families and friends. Society has
provided so much entertainment and education to enrich their lives, and
they are turning all of it to the most evil uses. The State is no sort of truthful drama, as it claims to be. This is a
recruitment video to rival Nazi propaganda of the Thirties calling
young men to join the Brownshirts….
The State-Channel 4 last night "A
really super-cool club. That’s how a young black British doctor
describes Islamic State in tonight’s episode of The State, her eyes
shining as she records a YouTube message urging other young women to
follow her example and defect to Syria."
The State: National Geographic
Published on Aug 6, 2017
The
State takes a bold, unflinching approach to telling the fact-inspired
stories of young ISIS recruits and offers an authentic and nuanced look
inside one of the most serious global threats we face today. After a
year of extensive research and interviews, Golden Globe and BAFTA
awards-winning writer and director Peter Kosminsky sheds light on an
unknown and unimaginable world. The two night event series premieres
Monday, Sept. 18 and Tuesday, Sept. 19 on National Geographic.
Channel 4 defends isis drama the state after criticism
SHERIFF ARPAIO TELLS INFOWARS HOW IT FEELS FOR TRUMP TO STAND BESIDE HIM
Published on Aug 23, 2017
Former
Sheriff Joe Arpaio joins Alex Jones live via Skype to give exclusive
details on his current court case, and show what it means to him to have
the President of the United States at his back.
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The latest report from the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC)
shows that not only did nearly two million more Americans obtain their
concealed carry permits in 2016 — a new record for the fourth year in a row —
but that brings the total to more than 16.3 million U.S. citizens with
permits. That’s up from 4.5 million just a decade ago, and means that,
on average, one in every 20 American citizens has a concealed carry
permit.
Most of the growth is taking place among women and minorities, partly
because of concerns about personal safety and partly because of the
paradigm shift in favor of the Second Amendment that has been taking
place in the United States. Said John Lott, the founder of CPRC and its
chief researcher, “It’s pretty much the most vulnerable people in our
society who benefit the most from having the option to be able to go and
protect themselves.”
The momentum is being helped along by courts’ rulings in favor of
freedom to carry, such as the recent federal appeals court ruling in
Washington, D.C. that overturned the city’s strict law requiring
residents applying for a permit to prove that they had “good reason” to
obtain one.
It’s also being given a push by John Stossel’s YouTube video
“NYC Government Traumatizes Gun Owners,” in which he describes the
horrific treatment law-abiding gun owners undergo when they unknowingly
violate one of the city’s strict gun laws.
And former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s determination to
slow the momentum favoring concealed carry is also actually helping
boost gun sales. He has promised to dump some $25 million into the 2018
political environment through his anti-gun group Everytown for Gun
Safety. The group is joined by Gabby Giffords’ group Americans for
Responsible Solutions, and will start “scoring” legislators based on how
they vote on gun and Second Amendment issues, much like the NRA has
been doing for years. Unfortunately for Bloomberg, an increasing number
of Americans are waking up to the fact that crime rates are declining as
private gun ownership is increasing, and to the fact the Bloomberg’s
anti-gun ideology and his political agenda threaten that private
ownership.
There’s another factor at work as well: national reciprocity. Just
last week that bill in the House received its 209th sponsor, putting the
issue just nine votes away from passage. Each issue supports the other:
as Americans exercise their freedom to defend themselves, they like the
idea that a license in one state may be good in all states. Just two
weeks ago, for example, West Virginia and Wisconsin agreed to recognize
each other’s concealed-carry handgun permits, bringing to 34 the number
of states with reciprocity agreements.
With increasing freedom to carry comes pressure to allow that freedom
in every state. With that freedom, more citizens will likely take
advantage, applying for their own concealed carry permits. One hand
washes the other, and there’s little that Bloomberg and his money can do
to slow the momentum.
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“The three men were held at machete point and ordered to recite the Shahada.
When none of them did, the attackers began to tie them up. When the men
resisted, they were hacked to death. Then the attackers went to the
home of Joseph’s older brother, Charo, who was in his late forties, and
killed him.”
The Qur’an famously says that “there is no compulsion in religion,”
(2:256), but what constitutes “compulsion” is in the eye of the
beholder. The institutionalized subjugation of the dhimma, with its
regular humiliation and harassment, from which one can be freed for the
simple price of converting to Islam, is not considered compulsion.
Remember Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig, the journalists who were kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam
— even though their conversions were obviously coerced, their captors
made them say that they were converting freely, and the captors probably
believed that themselves. After all, the journos could have chosen to
be killed instead.
“Kenyan Christians killed for refusing to recite Islamic Shahada,” World Watch Monitor, August 22, 2017:
Three Kenyan Christians were hacked to death by
Al-Shabaab militants on Friday night (18 August) after they refused to
recite the Islamic prayer of faith. A fourth Christian – the mentally
challenged older brother of one of the three – was also killed.
At around 9pm, Changawa Muthemba, who was in his forties, was dragged
out of his home in Kasala Kairu, Lamu County, by a group of armed men
and taken to the nearby home of his brother-in-law, Joseph Kasena, 42,
where a 17-year-old neighbour, Kadenge Katana, also happened to be at
the time.
The three men were held at machete point and ordered to recite the Shahada.
When none of them did, the attackers began to tie them up. When the men
resisted, they were hacked to death. Then the attackers went to the
home of Joseph’s older brother, Charo, who was in his late forties, and
killed him.
Joseph’s wife, Caroline, who is in her late thirties, watched
everything happen and is “severely traumatised”, according to a local
source. Their 17-year-old daughter, Zawadi, was out of town at the
time….
According to the source, Al-Shabaab militants and their sympathisers
are “deeply embedded” in the local communities of wider Lamu and Tana,
which are in coastal Kenya, near the border with Somalia where
Al-Shabaab originated.
“They move around freely and often are at odds with the Kenyan
farmers, deliberately sending their animals to feed on their crops,” the
source said. “Locals complain that the police are not doing anything
about the situation and even show preferential treatment to the herders.
Earlier that day, some locals met with the Somali herdsmen, who
threatened them. But this was not the reason for the attack; it only
provided the opportunity for it. Al-Shabaab knew these men as
Christians, and Joseph as a church elder.”…
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A PROMINENT Labour MP and key ally of Jeremy Corbyn
shared a social media message telling victims of sickening sex abuse to
shut up for “the good of diversity.”
Labour MP, Naz Shah, retweeted and liked the post from “an account
parodying left-wing writer Owen Jones which said: ‘Those abused girls in
Rotherham and elsewhere just need to shut their mouths. For the good of
diversity.’” After the firestorm began, she later deleted the retweet
and unliked the post. Shah has been a “key figure” in trying to stifle
reporting about the grooming gang sex scandal.
Equality and Human Rights Commission chief executive Rebecca Hilsenrath stated:
We need to keep the victims of these horrific crimes at
the heart of the debate and always remember that diversity is not served
by silence.
One would expect better from Labour MP Naz Shah, who suffered a
traumatic childhood, including being victimized under oppressive sharia
norms. She was forced into an abusive marriage at the tender age of 15. The Guardian
once asked about Shah, given her history: “Who, then, could be better
qualified than Shah to talk about integration?” Yet Shah is the same
woman retweeting that the victims of Muslim rape gangs should shut their
mouths “for the good of diversity.”
Many of those working in the diversity industry in the UK — and also
at large in the West — have become accomplices in the Islamic
supremacist victimization of innocent people. Islamic supremacism
proclaims Muslim superiority over infidels and male superiority over
women, and the term “Islamophobia” is wielded as a weapon to shut down
justifiable scrutiny.
The ignoring of the crimes of Islamic supremacists has become
commonplace as a matter of “tolerance.” That includes bigotry against
Jews and the State of Israel:
Last year the Bradford West MP was suspended by Labour for anti-semitic online posts.
In one, she shared rants on Facebook calling for Israel to be
uprooted and dumped in America. In another she likened Israeli policies
to those of Hitler and also wrote: “The Jews are rallying.”
Western ill-informed (or weak) leaders are enabling these gross
violations of Western principles. Until Western nations wake up and
begin to holds their leaders accountable, they will continue at risk of
their societies being engulfed in barbarity and chaos.
“Corbyn ally shares message telling Rotherham sex abuse victims to be quiet ‘for the good of diversity’”, by Ben Lazarus, UK Sun, August 22, 2017:
A PROMINENT Labour MP and key ally of Jeremy Corbyn
shared a social media message telling victims of sickening sex abuse to
shut up for “the good of diversity.”
Naz Shah retweeted and liked a post on Twitter by an account
parodying left-wing writer Owen Jones which said: “Those abused girls in
Rotherham and elsewhere just need to shut their mouths. For the good of
diversity.”
Her actions have reignited the furious row over Pakistani sex gangs which last week saw Labour MP Sarah Champion hounded out of Labour’s front benches for writing an article in The Sun addressing the issue.
Ms Shah, who later deleted the retweet and unliked the post, was a
key figure in leading the furore against a column written by The Sun’s
Trevor Kavanagh about the grooming sex scandal last week.
Equality and Human Rights Commission chief executive Rebecca Hilsenrath immediately condemned the Labour MP last night.
She said: “Ms Shah should know better.
“We need to keep the victims of these horrific crimes at the heart of
the debate and always remember that diversity is not served by
silence.”
The British-born Muslim MP, 43, who was once a key aide to Shadow
Chancellor John McDonnell, accused Mr Kavanagh of using “Nazi-like
terminology”.
She organised an open letter to The Sun signed by 107 MPs demanding action.
Ms Shah, who served on the influential House of Commons Home Affairs
Committee, wrote The Sun’s piece was “irresponsible” and that it set “a
dangerous precedent.”
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn praised her for the letter on his Facebook page.
Last year the Bradford West MP was suspended by Labour for anti-semitic online posts.
In one, she shared rants on Facebook calling for Israel to be
uprooted and dumped in America. In another she likened Israeli policies
to those of Hitler and also wrote: “The Jews are rallying.”
She later blamed her anti-semitism on “ignorance”.
A total of 20 girls gave evidence during the trials at Newcastle
crown court, which saw 17 men and one woman jailed for grooming…..
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ROCKLIN, Calif. — A number of parents in Rocklin,
California say that they feel betrayed after a kindergarten teacher
recently read two transgender-themed books to students without their
prior knowledge.
“My daughter came home crying and shaking, so afraid she could turn
into a boy,” one parent stated during a packed board meeting for Rocklin
Academy on Monday.
According to reports, the teacher, who has not been publicly
identified, read the books “I Am Jazz” and “The Red Crayon” on the
second-to-last day of school before summer break. The first book is
about teen reality show star Jazz Jennings—a teenage boy who identifies
as a girl, and the second tells the story of a blue crayon who was
mislabeled red.
No advance notice or opt-out information was provided to parents.
Therefore, when students came home and advised that they had learned
about gender identity, with some confused about whether they could
transition to the opposite gender, a number of parents contacted the
school to express concern.
Principal Jillayne Antoon issued a letter
a week later to advise what had transpired in the classroom. She
outlined that a student had asked the teacher to read “I Am Jazz” to the
class. According to reports, a student who was born a boy but
identifies as a girl gifted the books to the teacher. It is not clear if
the student who donated the books was the same kindergartener that
requested that the Jazz book be read aloud.
“Please be assured that these books are age appropriate children’s
books, geared for ages 4-8,” Antoon wrote to parents. “There were no
additional discussions with the class about any topic in relation to
these books.”
However, according to CBS News, parents say that the male student
changed his clothes at some point during the class and presented himself
as a girl.
“I want [my daughter] to hear from me, as a parent, what her gender
identity means to her and our family—not from a book that may be
controversial,” one parent said on Monday during the board meeting in
expressing objection.
However, the teacher defended her decision to read the books to the class.
“I’m so proud of my students,” she said. “It was never my intent to
harm any students but to help them through a difficult situation.”
The district also took the position that if the books were not read,
it could have placed officials at risk of a discrimination lawsuit.
Fox40 News further notes that Superintendent Robin Stout said that
the teacher was not required to provide advance notice to parents
because the books are not considered sexual education material.
However, due to the concerns of parents, and the fact that the
teacher did not seek prior approval from administrators before reading
the book to the class, the district has changed its policy to require
teachers to ask for permission first.
“If a book is not part of our curriculum, such as these books, [we
ask] that they’d consult with administration,” Stout outlined.
As previously reported, in 1828, just 52 years after the nation’s
founding, Noah Webster, known as the Father of American Scholarship and
Education, wrote, “In my view, the Christian religion is the most
important and one of the first things in which all children, under a
free government, ought to be instructed. … No truth is more evident to
my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any
government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free
people.”
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Transgender Reveals Self In Kindergarten Class
Published on Aug 23, 2017
Rob
Dew and Owen Shroyer cover the story on NewsWars.com about a
transgender student revealed her true gender during a controversial sex
ed session in a kindergarten class. https://newswars.com/transgender-reve...
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A transgender student revealed her true gender during a controversial sex ed session in a kindergarten class.
Parents outraged
over the incident, which included a teacher reading transgender books
to the class, flooded a school board meeting in Rocklin, California,
which is just outside Sacramento.
"My daughter came home crying and shaking so afraid she could turn into a boy," one parent said.
The
parents were particularly outraged that transgender training was left
off the curriculum, but interestingly enough the school board claimed
topics concerning transgenders don’t require prior parent approval.
"It's
really about the parents being informed and involved and giving us the
choice and rights of what's being introduced to our kids, and at what
age," said another parent.
The books read to the class included “I am Jazz,” described
as “the story of a transgender child based on the real-life experience
of Jazz Jennings, who has become a spokesperson for transkids
everywhere.”
The incident shouldn’t be shocking to long-term readers of infowars.com.
As we reported in 2009, a UN report on ‘International Guidelines on Sexuality Education’ proposes desensitizing children as young as five to the concepts of masturbation and having an abortion.
And we also reported on a preschool teaching kids the terms “innersex” and “genderqueer.”
But none of this is accidential. In fact, the 1932 novel Brave New World revealed how the elites envisioned sexualizing young children over the coming decades.
“The society described in Brave New World
is a world-state, in which war has been eliminated and where the first
aim of the rulers is at all costs to keep their subjects from making
trouble,” Huxley wrote in his later essay Brave New World Revisited.
“This they achieve by (among other methods) legalizing a degree of
sexual freedom (made possible by the abolition of the family) that
practically guarantees the Brave New Worlders against any form of
destructive (or creative) emotional tension.”
“In 1984 the lust for power is satisfied by inflicting pain; in Brave New World, by inflicting a hardly less humiliating pleasure.”
In other words, it’s a “soft dictatorship” in which the population is conditioned to accept authority without ever realizing it.
Transgenderism Pushed in Kindergarten
Published on Aug 25, 2017
After
years on the road warning moms and dads, it's official: Dr. Duke
confirms public schools couldn't care less about your objections to how
they teach your kids.
Parents Grill School Board Over Transgender Discussions In Kindergarten
Published on Aug 22, 2017
The
Rocklin Academy school board is facing tough questions from parents
concerned over a controversial incident involving transgender
discussions inside a kindergarten. A teacher gave a lesson on
transgender people as she has a trans student in her class. Part of
the lesson involved reading two books about transgender people for her
students. However, some parents have hit out at the teacher’s
decision to talk about gender identity to their children sparking a
meeting of the school board. It comes after parents claim that their
children came home confused and upset by the books that the teacher
read. Parents say besides the books, the transgender student at some
point during class also changed clothes and was revealed as her true
gender. And many parents say they feel betrayed and blindsided.
One
parent said "“My daughter went home crying, shaking, afraid she could
turn into a boy.” The controversy has compelled the school board to
put the item on the next month's agenda.
DISGUSTING: SCHOOL HOLDS “TRANSITION CEREMONY’ FOR TRANSGENDER FIVE-YEAR-OLD KINDERGARTNER..
Published on Aug 23, 2017
DISGUSTING: SCHOOL HOLDS “TRANSITION CEREMONY’ FOR TRANSGENDER FIVE-YEAR-OLD KINDERGARTNER WITHOUT TELLING PARENTS
A
kindergarten teacher in Sacramento, California staged a “transition
ceremony” for a five-year-old boy who was curious about being a girl.
The ceremony to make the child transgender was kept from parents of
children in the class, who were left confused and scared that they would
change genders as well.
The incident occurred at Rocklin Academy
in Sacramento just before the summer break. An unidentified teacher
staged the ceremony after learning a five-year-old boy in her class
wanted to “identify” as a girl. After giving the children a lesson on
transgenderism, the teacher allowed the boy to leave class and re-enter
dressed as a girl. The teacher reintroduced the student as a girl with a
new name, and instructed classmates to refer to him by his new name and
gender.
The principal and superintendent insist the school did
not have to inform parents of what happened, and claimed that according
to California law, they could be sued if they did not acknowledge and
accommodate the child’s transgender status.
Now, the ones looking
to legal action are the parents who were not informed of what their
children would be subjected to. Several of the young girls told their
parents that they were afraid they were going to turn into boys.
LifeSiteNews reported on the incident, which included reading books about children transitioning.
Parents
only found out what happened from their kids, says Jonathan Keller of
the California Family Council, a Focus on the Family-founded group
that’s advising parents.
During the lesson on the second-to-last day
before summer break, the teacher read two books, “I am Jazz” and “The
Red Crayon,” that purport to explain “transgenderism” to children aged
four to eight, Fox40News reported.
“I am Jazz” is particularly
explicit, beginning “From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that
she had a girl’s brain in a boy’s body.”
That left a number of kids “really deeply emotionally bothered and traumatized,” Keller said.
“There
were several of the little girls that went to their parents and were
crying and saying, ‘mommy or daddy, am I going to turn into a
boy?’”California state law not only protects gender identity expression,
parents do not have to be told if their child is subjected to it.
According to Life Site News:
District Superintendent Robin Stout
told Fox40News that parents were not notified because kids can’t opt out
of gender identity and expression lessons.
The school board also
held a special session on the matter on July 31, which included a
presentation on California law by Young, Minney & Corr law firm that
echoed Stout’s assertions. According to that presentation, since January 2016, state law allows parents to only opt their children out of sex education. “Diversity and tolerance curricula are not ‘sex education,’” it emphasized. “California
law explicitly provides that ‘instruction or materials that discuss
gender, sexual orientation, or family life and do not discuss human
reproductive organs and their functions’ are not subject to the parental
notice and opt-out laws.’”
Moreover, a student has the “right to
self-identify” and “a right to the use of his or her preferred pronoun
at school and in class.”
To not comply intentionally with this is
“considered gender identity harassment,” the law firm asserted.It is not
clear if the “girl” is returning for the new school year and still
identifies as a girl.
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Parents of kindergartners at the Rocklin Academy School in Rocklin,
California were infuriated to learn that their children’s teacher
introduced the impressionable young minds to the subject of
transgenderism. Parents have reported that their children were
traumatized by a lesson on transgenderism that culminated with a
transgender child changing his clothes to match those of his so-called
true gender.
Though the incident took place during the last few days of the
academic school year just before the start of summer, parents did not
have an opportunity to express their dismay over the lesson until an
August 21 school board meeting, wherein parents spoke out against the
teacher’s actions, MSN reports.
"These parents feel betrayed by the school district that they were
not notified," said Karen England with the Capitol Resource Institute.
"The kindergartners came home very confused, about whether or not you
can pick your gender, whether or not they really were a boy or a girl,"
said England.
The controversial school lesson included two books about transgenderism entitled I am Jazz and The Red Crayon.
At the end of the lesson, a student in the class who identifies as
transgender changed his clothing to ones that matched the gender with
which he identifies. The teacher then told the students that the
five-year-old student is now a “girl” who has a girl’s name by which the
student should be addressed.
One parent angrily denounced the scene as a sort of “transition ceremony” for the child.
“There were several of the little girls that went to their parents
and were crying and saying, ‘mommy or daddy, am I going to turn into a
boy?’” explains Jonathan Keller of the California Family Council. Keller indicates that he learned from one parent that her son, who
had never given “gender” a thought before the lesson, is now asking if
he can come to school dressed as a girl.
Other parents say their children were traumatized by what they witnessed. “My daughter came home crying and shaking so afraid she could turn into a boy,” said one parent.
According to the parents at Monday’s board meeting, the biggest issue
of all was the school’s failure to communicate to the parents that this
particular lesson plan was going to take place.
“It's really about the parents being informed and involved and giving
us the choice and rights of what's being introduced to our kids, and at
what age,” said parent Chelsea McQuistan.
“I want her to hear from me as a parent what her gender identity
means to her and our family, not from a book that may be controversial,”
another parent said.
But the district’s response to the parents ire has been
unsatisfactory at best, defending the books used in the classroom as
“age-appropriate” and noting that they “fell within their literature
selection policy.” Furthermore, the topic of gender identity does not
fall under the umbrella of sex education, according to the district, and
therefore does not require prior parental notice. Since January 2016, California state law allows parents to only opt
their children out of sex education, not lessons involving gender
identity and expression. During a special session on the subject that
took place on July 31, Young, Minney & Corr law firm held a
presentation in which it outlined the law, LifeSite News reports. “Diversity and tolerance curricula are not ‘sex education,’” the presentation indicated.
It seems that California has forgotten that these are kindergartners
who have no business learning either sex education or gender confusion,
or anything other than how to tie their shoelaces, read, and write their
own names. Their curriculum is packed enough without rogue teachers
choosing to ram in their own political agenda items.
LifeSite News reports that the California Family Council is now
considering pushing for state legislation that protects parental rights.
But while the kindergarten teacher’s lesson plan may have not have
violated California state law, it certainly poses a risk to the mental
health of the students on which it was imposed. According to Michelle Cretella, president of the American College of
Pediatricians, “institutions that promote transition affirmation” are
guilty of “nothing less than institutionalized child abuse” with the
potential for causing “untold psychological damage.”
“All children should be told the truth that sex does not ever change
and cannot be changed,” Cretella told LifeSiteNews in an e-mail.
“All children should be nurtured to embrace their bodies and the
reality of their biological sex. All children should be affirmed as the
unique boys or girls their bodies proclaim them to be.”
Sadly, California and the Left as a whole seem to be more interested
in advancing a social justice agenda that includes normalizing
transgenderism.
The parents at Monday’s meeting did get a small concession, however,
as the district superintendent did say that school staff will engage in
discussion with parents in the future if materials that fall outside of
the school curriculum are to be brought into the classroom.
But Keller says that some parents have decided to pull their children from the school.
What happened at
Rocklin Academy, he said, is another instance of the “growing effort in
Western democracies to try to fracture the relationship between parents
and their children, and to make children wards of the state.”
What happened at
Rocklin Academy, he said, is another instance of the “growing effort in
Western democracies to try to fracture the relationship between parents
and their children, and to make children wards of the state.”
What happened at
Rocklin Academy, he said, is another instance of the “growing effort in
Western democracies to try to fracture the relationship between parents
and their children, and to make children wards of the state.”
What happened at
Rocklin Academy, he said, is another instance of the “growing effort in
Western democracies to try to fracture the relationship between parents
and their children, and to make children wards of the state.”
Sheriff Arpaio Tells Infowars How It Feels For Trump To Stand Beside Him
Published on Aug 23, 2017
Former
Sheriff Joe Arpaio joins Alex Jones live via Skype to give exclusive
details on his current court case, and show what it means to him to have
the President of the United States at his back.
Dr.
Duke Pesta and Alex Newman discuss the explosion in psychological
profiling tests being administered on K-12 students in public schools
across the country. | Full Article: http://bit.ly/2v2musD
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
From FreedomProject Media:
With the proliferation of federal meddling and control over
government schools, there has been an explosion in “psychological
profiling” and manipulation of children. In fact, there is now so much
of this going on that even experts who track the trends say they are
having trouble keeping up with it all. Of course, all of the data is
being vacuumed up in federally funded databases for future exploitation.
Among other concerns are the unconstitutional federal mandates
purporting to require states to administer tests that track everything
from attitudes and beliefs to mental health and social-emotional learning (SEL). As part of the federal government's National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the “nation's report card,” government is even unleashing “mindset surveys.”
Under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which FreedomProject Media has
spent a great deal of space exposing, there is an ongoing deluge of
psychological quackery being imposed on innocent American children. From
SEL schemes embedded across Common Core programs, to ESSA-mandated
state tests that contain “social” and “emotional” assessments and
surveys, the threat is now ubiquitous.
Much of the quackery, psychological manipulation, and intrusive
data-gathering is concealed behind innocuous sounding terms such as
“21st Century Skills.” While parental consent is almost never sought,
the schemes to track and manipulate children's values and attitudes are
often disguised behind phrases such as “promoting grit,” ensuring a
“welcoming school climate,” pushing “positive youth development,”
fighting “bullying,” checking “wellbeing,” and much more.
The technological tools being weaponized for these programs are
becoming more sophisticated than virtually any parent realizes or could
even imagine, with even the measuring of “brain waves” and emotions now
being explored. One tool highlighted recently in education circles
includes “psychographic questions” that are “meant to reveal the
influence of students’ personalities and attitudes.” And that is just
what we know about. To read the rest of the article, click here.
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
The Pope has said:
“We can speak today of an Arab invasion” of Europe. But here he is
actively encouraging and abetting this invasion. Does he think the
Muslim migrants will include none who wish to destroy the existing
society by means of jihad and impose Sharia? Well, he has said that
“authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to
every form of violence,” and so he may indeed think that the Muslim
migrants to Europe are just coming in order to enfold the natives in a
loving embrace. “Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
“Pope: Rights of migrants trump national security concerns,” by Nicole Winfield, Associated Press, August 21, 2017 (thanks to Ken):
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Monday urged
countries to greatly improve their welcome to migrants and stop
collective expulsions, saying migrants’ dignity and right to protection
trumps national security concerns.
Francis’ politically pointed message was made in view of the Catholic
Church’s 2018 world refugee day, celebrated Jan. 14. It comes amid
mounting anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe and beyond following waves
of migrant arrivals and Islamic extremist attacks.
In the message, Francis demanded governments welcome, protect,
promote and integrate migrants, saying Jesus’ message of love is rooted
in welcoming the “rejected strangers of every age.”
He demanded a simplified process of granting humanitarian and
temporary visas and rejected arbitrary and collective expulsions as
“unsuitable.” He said the principle of ensuring each person’s dignity
“obliges us to always prioritize personal safety over national
security.”…
Ignoring critics who say his calls are unrealistic and naive, Francis
insisted in the new message that border guards must be trained to
protect migrants and that each new arrival, regardless of legal status,
must be guaranteed access to basic services beyond health care.
That extends to guaranteeing access to consulates, the justice system
and the ability to open a bank account and survive financially, he
said….
His call was immediately rejected by the leader of Italy’s
anti-immigrant Northern League party, which has opposed government
proposals to change Italy’s law to accelerate citizenship for children
born in Italy to non-Italians.
“If you want to do it in the Vatican, go ahead,” Matteo Salvini wrote
on Facebook. “But as a Catholic, I don’t think Italy can welcome and
support the whole world.”
