Virginia School District closes over Islam worksheet

[hershel_layton]

Machina said:

I'm not sure that muslims that want to maintain the NTDWI and 'religion of peace' lines in political discourse from (actually ignorant) western political leaders should be all that ready for children to actually be taught about Islam. Much harder to convince someone it's a religion of peace after they've actually read a translation of the Quran and learnt more of the history of the religion's formation.

Teach kids about the major religions, I say, but don't dress them up; don't cherry pick the 'nice' bits, show it to them warts and all and let them come to their own conclusions as to its validity and place in modern society.

 

History has its ways of teaching. Islam had its good times(remember the golden ages?). However, it slowly went to a horrible decline... Nowadays I don't know what is going on in the Islamic community. I truly don't