SuperJail Warden
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After a teacher at a Virginia school handed out a standard homework assignment on Islam, such an angry backlash flooded in that it prompted officials to close every single school in the county as a safety precaution.

"While there has been no specific threat of harm to students, schools and school offices will be closed Friday, December 18, 2015," Augusta County Schools said. Extracurricular activities were shut down Thursday afternoon.
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When the world geography class at Riverheads High School in Staunton rolled around to the subject of major world religions, homework on Islam asked students to copy religious calligraphy.

The homework assignment aimed to give students "an idea of the artistic complexity of calligraphy."

"Here is the shahada, the Islamic statement of faith, written in Arabic. In the space below, try copying it by hand. This should give you an idea of the artistic complexity of calligraphy."

The illustrative classical Arabic phrase was the basic statement in Islam. It translated to: "There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is the messenger of Allah."

When students took it home, it was like a spark hitting a powder keg. Some of their parents saw the homework as an attempt to convert their children to Islam.


Calls and emails flooded the school. Some of them demanded the teacher be fired for assigning it.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/18/us/virgin … index.html

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Is this just standard religious panic and bigotry or do you think this is a sign of our times and paranoia flamed by the right wing?
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pirana6
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Same shit, new day.

The teacher just wanted them to copy it to understand the complexity of their written language. The teacher could have kept his/her job by making it say "Rub a dub dub 3 men in a tub" but instead chose a wildly controversial quote. Chances are good that was the only quote he/she could find online that was written clean enough.

Retards think that you can be converted to a religion because you signed a document. You can't. Next!
SuperJail Warden
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It was from a work book. The teacher had an American name.
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pirana6
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I definitely don't think this teacher had any mal-intent. I think they were just trying to get the kids to learn what an intricate writing system islam has.

I've watched people write in arabic in front of me and it was REALLY interesting to watch the hand movements, right-to-left, etc. Much more 'swirly' (where the fuck is my thesaurus) than our hard-angled english.
Dilbert_X
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pirana6 wrote:

The teacher could have kept his/her job by making it say "Rub a dub dub 3 men in a tub" but instead chose a wildly controversial quote.
And there you have it.
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pirana6
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Dilbert_X wrote:

pirana6 wrote:

The teacher could have kept his/her job by making it say "Rub a dub dub 3 men in a tub" but instead chose a wildly controversial quote.
And there you have it.

pirana6 wrote:

Chances are good that was the only quote he/she could find online that was written clean enough.
jsnipy
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pretty sad and embarrassing for VA. All these same 'they tuk r jobz' types who also rebel against sex-ed

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