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Millions of students in public schools don’t understand fractions or pronouns at even a basic level but students in the oceanfront Boston suburb of Revere, Mass. are taking the time to learn all about Islam — in the most embarrassingly shallow and cheerleading way imaginable. Part of the textbook prints the Muslim Call to Prayer, according to Boston NBC affiliate WHDH. “I bear witness that there is no God but Allah,” it says. The textbook portion also reverently celebrates Muhammad’s life. “Muhammad never expected to change world,” the admiring, rah-rah textbook reads. “Muhammad later tended sheep on the dry hills like many young Arabians,” the text explains. “Later he became a successful merchant and married a wealthy widow. However, he felt as though something was missing in his life, so he went on a retreat.” The founder of Islam was “upset about the cruelty of his people,” the text also optimistically explains. They “killed baby girls.” They “treated their slaves unkindly.” And “Muhammad had a strong sense of right and wrong.” One local parent, Anthony Giannino, is upset about the textbook’s treatment of the Muslim religion.
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The city of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, is taking a step many opponents of same-sex marriage feared would come – forcing those with religious objections to perform same-sex marriages or risk facing prosecution for violating non-discrimination laws. Donald and Evelyn Knapp, ordained ministers who oppose gay marriage, own the Hitching Post wedding chapel in Coeur d’Alene. Early in 2014, a federal judge in Idaho ruled that the same-sex marriage ban was unconstitutional, but the ruling was put on hold while the case was appealed. When the Supreme Court declined to hear the case, the ruling stood and went into effect. The city of Coeur d’Alene has an ordinance that prohibits discrimination, including on the basis of sexual orientation, in public accommodations. It does have a religious exemption, but the Hitching Post is a for-profit company, not technically a religious organization, in spite of the Knapp’s deeply held personal beliefs. A Christian school in Britian is being threatened with closure because of its refusal to invite Muslim religious leaders, or imams, to come and address the students.
The Department of Education says that promoting “acceptance and engagement” and “tolerance and respect of all faiths and cultures” means that schools must go beyond just going on trips to synagogues and mosques, as they have done in the past; and they must instead invite leaders such as Muslim imams to lead lessons at their school. Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/school-threatened-uk-government-lack-imams-classroom/#2A7tmZRYpmQLOUqo.99 Source: Conservative Tribune Over the course of his presidency, Barack Obama has been slowly weaponizing government agencies as a means of stripping away the constitutional rights of American citizens, with aparticular focus on the First Amendment. The president’s latest assault on free speech comes in the form of a new “rule” from the U.S. Forest Service that requires reporters to buy a permit, which costs $1,500, in order to take pictures or capture video in federal wilderness areas. Those who fail to purchase a permit will, of course, be heavily fined for not falling in line with the new regulation. According to TPNN, the rule even prevents reporters from shooting footage on their iPhones, and the vague language in the law enables it to be loosely interpreted, giving the Forest Service the ability to only grant journalists of their choosing a permit, enabling them to control the type of news that’s released to the general public. Associated Press Reporter Caught Clearing Stories with CIA Before Publishing Them. Ken Dilanian Be sure to subscribe to Mark's YouTube channel, and look him up on Facebook, and Twitter.http://www.YouTube.com/MarkDice http://www.Facebook.com/MarkDice http://www.Twitter.com/MarkDicehttp://www.MarkDice.com Source: The NY Times By ABBE SMITH As we commemorate the 50th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright, the landmark Supreme Court decision that gave poor defendants the right to counsel, it would be nice to celebrate. That case, taken together with the 1967 decision In re Gault, which gave juveniles the same rights in court as adults, stands for the principle that process matters in our system of justice; when faced with the awesome power of the state, the accused — rich or poor, old or young — must be properly armed. Two recent books put a damper on the celebration, revealing just how random and impoverished justice can be, and how flimsy the right to counsel. In “Kids for Cash,” the investigative reporter William Ecenbarger tells the story behind a corruption scandal so brazen and cruel it defies imagination. Between 2003 and 2008, two Pennsylvania judges accepted millions of dollars in kickbacks from a private juvenile detention facility in exchange for sending children — girls and boys, some as young as 11 — to jail. High School Student Claims She Was Suspended For Saying ‘Bless You’ After Classmate Sneezed8/28/2014 Source: CBS News: Charlotte DYER COUNTY, Tenn. (CBS Charlotte) – A high school student was allegedly suspended after breaking a class rule of saying “bless you” after a classmate sneezed. Kendra Turner, a senior at Dyer County High School, said bless you to her classmate who sneezed and the teacher told her that the term was for church. “She said that we’re not going to have godly speaking in her class and that’s when I said we have a constitutional right,” Turner told WMC. When she defended her actions, the teacher told Turner to see an administrator. The student said that she had to finish the class period in in-school suspension. Source: NBC News/ Red Flag News (by Lisa Haven) -- A reporter from NewsChannel 13, Mark Mulholland and his camera man Matt Soriano were threatened with arrest by a corrections lieutenant on July 24th, simply for having an “empty” prison in the background of their video footage on Grant’s Cottage—a nearby historical site where President Ulysses S. Grant died. If this so called “empty” prison was truly “empty” then why all the hassle from the lieutenant? Furthermore the prison houses 0 prisoners, yet has 76 working officers?! Source: The Story Nestlé's Chairman of the Board, Peter Brabeck, has explained his philosophy with "The one opinion, which I think is extreme, is represented by the NGOs, who bang on about declaring water a public right. That means as a human being you should have a right to water. That’s an extreme solution." Since that quote has gotten widespread attention, Brabeck has backtracked, but his company has not. Around the world, Nestlé is bullying communities into giving up control of their water. It's time we took a stand for public water sources. |
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