Virginia School District closes over Islam worksheet

[docholliday]

hershel_layton said:

docholliday said:
I'm failing to see how this assignment even fits the class. I get learning about different believe systems and cultures around the world. But I don't understand having your students copy religious texts, it just seems pointless. What exactly is the student learning by doing that?

And for OP to try to simplify Islam as being just two basic laws is pretty much nonsense. If only religion were that simple.

 

It's actually not religious texts(which makes this more ridiculous).  The group of words aren't even found in the Qur'an. 

 

Also, how is it nonsense? If you don't know, that's repeated hundreds of times in the Qur'an. yes, Islam is way more complex, but the most basic idea it spreads is that Allah is the one and only god, and Muhammad is his final messager.

"Here is the shahada, the Islamic statement of faith" Obviuosly a religious text regardless if place of origin within said religion.

 

It removed the shahada from world religion instruction. "A different, non-religious sample of Arabic calligraphy will be used in the future," it said.

Problem solved. Students still learn and the religious text is left out.