Virginia School District closes over Islam worksheet

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mountaindewslave said:

Esiar said:
I think it's pretty dumb that the school got shut down. It's extremely ignorant to believe that informing people about Islam is an attempt to convert people to Islam. The kind of people that complain, whether they're Atheist, Christian, etc., probably wouldn't mind if their own ideology was taught in schools.

 

its random that the school got shut down butttt that is a crazy homework assignment. the HISTORY and basic beliefs of religions should be taught to students, yes, but weird homework assignments that have them repeatedly write down and memorize beliefs is not acceptable

 

the students writing down "Allah is the only God!!" over and over or whatever would be equally as bad as having students (for a HW assignment) write down repeated notes like "Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Savior"

 

Just want to say that I'm fairly sure there was only one question like that in the assignment.  I haven't seen anything stating that students were made to repeatedly write down and memorize beliefs, just that a religious phrase was used ass an example of arabic caligraphy.  Noone was told to write down "Allah is the only God" over and over, just one time.