[ April 24, 2024 ]
Good job, freedom lovers. You fought back against mandatory Arabic Classes in Public Schools in Texas.
"It shows how we mischaracterized, we willfully misunderstand Islam. Yes, on the face of it, yes, Arabic is a language. In a sense there would be no difference between opening a foreign language school — a Spanish language school or a french language school — but in fact Arabic is more than a language. It is explicated the language of Islam, so in that sense it is part of the Islamic religious imperial project. Radical Islam advances through the Arabic language. And you go all kinds of places that aren't in the Arab world now, like Pakistan, Indonesia, Central Asia, the Balkans, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Canada and the United States, and you will here those Imams preaching in Arabic. Arabic is not just another language like French or Italian, it is the spearhead of an ideological project that is deeply opposed to the United States."
Mansfield backs away from Arabic studies program Star Telegram
Story continues below advertisementThe Mansfield school district has backed off plans to implement an Arabic studies program after almost 200 people showed up with questions at a parents meeting at Cross Timbers Intermediate School on Monday night.
Superintendent Bob Morrison apologized for not communicating with parents and invited them to be part of developing the curriculum.
"Nothing will be taught in the classroom until the curriculum is rolled out," said Richie Escovedo, Mansfield district spokesperson.
The Arabic studies program, funded by a federal five-year $1.3 million Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) grant, was to begin this semester at Cross Timbers, then spread to Davis Elementary and Howard Middle Schools in the fall and to Summit High school by the fall of 2012.
Arabic culture was to be integrated into the curriculum in elementary and intermediate schools, then offered as a language credit in the middle and high schools. Davis, Cross Timbers and Howard are feeder schools to Summit High School.
"Part of the grant language brings in targeted instruction that will be embedded in the classes," Escovedo explained. "Algebra comes from the Arabic world. You talk about things while you’re doing your lessons. Instead of a Valentine's cake, you might make a Moroccan dessert."
Parents attending Monday night's meeting ranged from supportive to upset, said Willie Wimbrey, assistant principal at Cross Timbers.
"We had people who were animatedly fearful of anything to do with Islam," Wimbrey said. "Others want their children exposed to everything. Others who say we teach about Christmas, why not other religions? All cultures and major religions are taught throughout the state."
Cindy Henderson, whose son Kolton is in the fifth grade at Cross Timbers, said she wasn't as upset about the content of the program as she was about the way it was implemented.
"The parents weren't notified," Henderson said. "We should have been told and excited about the grant. The school knew about it, but it wasn't publicized. Unless you were digging on the website, you wouldn't know about it."
Her son is excited about learning about the Middle East, but Henderson doesn't think Arabic studies should be mandatory.
"I don't think we should spend all our time on one culture," she said. "I think we should spread it around and be fair. I don't like it being stuffed down our throats."
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43 Comments
13 years ago
This isn’t over folks. They’ll be back another day, another school district, another form of indoctrination. And we’ll be ready.
13 years ago
Right you are! They do the same with their mosques. Can’t build it in one place, they’ll look for another.
They remind me of groundhogs! You shut one hole, they dig another! They’re pests!
Though nowhere as cute as the groundhogs!
13 years ago
Another Obama Administration FLAP. WTF…..
13 years ago
The is the amazing thing about this story was that their were parents who supported it and that 1.3 million dollars of tax payer money was going to support it!
13 years ago
All Americans must stop this creeping islam in our country because it’s not a religion but a political system that means to elect a person to run the world as muslim. Our grandchildren will be the ones who suffer if we don’t stop it now. I read there are 80 mosques in Houston???? They have a higher birth rate and problems healthwise since many of them marry their first cousins. We cannot allow our country to end up like poor England, overrun and up against sharia law everywhere.
13 years ago
I’m not opposed to teaching of Arabic and Islamic culture in the schools. I am opposed to the incomplete teaching of Arabic/Islamic culture.
When they include videos of Daniel Pearl having his head sawn off with a dull, rusty knife,or maybe a 14-year old girl whipped to death for “adultery” after she was raped. Perhaps they could include pictures of the two young ladies killed for the crime of reading a Bible, and all those “honor-killed” by family members.
That would make Arabic studies a valuable asset to our schools.
13 years ago
here here
13 years ago
Soooo, this from the NYS Regents Grading Guide for 2010 August Global Regents – see how kids learn data? they are whipped with bad grades if they pick on Islam – NY Post ran this and Whammy Pammy and CreepingSharia!!!
just a small piece of what New York educators are up to – brainwashing and softening up our kids psyche – preconditioning – so when I get ’em in college I have to have them unlearn this shit – unreal, eh? :
Global History and Geography
Part A Specific Rubric
Document-Based Question—August 2010
[Merchants were carriers of Islam rather than agents of Islamization. They opened routes and
exposed isolated societies to external influences, but they were not themselves engaged in the
propagation [spread] of Islam, which was the work of religious leaders. The leaders became
integrated into African societies by playing religious, social, and political roles similar to those of
traditional priests. Like traditional priests, Muslim men of religion were peacemakers, who
pleaded for those who broke the king’s laws. Mosques, like traditional shrines, were considered
sanctuaries. Immunity of life and property was extended to men of religion only as long as they
kept out of politics and posed no threat to the existing sociopolitical order]
Source: John L. Esposito, ed., The Oxford History of Islam, Oxford University Press
1 According to The Oxford History of Islam, what is one way Islam was spread to African
societies?
Score of 1:
13 years ago
Students don’t know AMERICAN culture,and too many are barely literate in their own language. Western heritage has been downplayed to the point of extinction. American folk songs are virtually lost now. Why in the world would little children have to learn Arabic unless Sharia is right around the corner? CAIR is sending out PR packets to the radio show where I work with little girls in head scarves by an American flag. They are on a campaign to dominate here just like they are in Europe. This. must. be. stopped!
13 years ago
Neither of the news articles said that Arabic would be mandatory. The only thing the Star Telegram article said was that learning about Arab culture would be integrated into the elementary school curriculum, but that a language credit would be offered in middle and high schools. Nothing about mandatory Arabic classes (especially in the CBS article, which also suggested that it was completely optional). Or am I missing something?
13 years ago
PS: Can we please stop being so “pc” and say it out loud: it ain’t the people (they can learn), it’s Islam and the koran, stupid. period.
13 years ago
“Read the rest” isn’t linked up.
In Texas of all places. In one aspect we NEED Americans that know how to speak arabic to fight jihad, but not like this.
I followed the grants.gov website for a very long time, there is a lot of federal money going to islamic crap, social justice crap, as well as the usual WTF crap…like why teenagers should wear seat belts. Sign up for the auto-generated email to see where your tax dollars are going. You will have a hard time picking your jaw up off the floor.
13 years ago
In total agreement. The source article states:
“Escovedo pointed out that the sixth-grade Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) test also teaches about the Middle East, and that instruction will continue, he said.”
In 2008, Michelle Malkin linked TEKS to the pro-Islam bias in Texas junior high school lessons here.
The fact that this grant was not announced (or intentionally concealed) early on – involving (or alerting) the entire community, makes it appear the board attempted to undermine an earlier decision from September 2010 when “Texas ed board adopted resolution limiting Islam” effectively opening a back door to indoctrinate even younger impressionable students.
FOUL.
13 years ago
I live in Texas, and did not hear about this anywhere else but talk radio, and I consider myself someone who tries to stay informed. Our local media did not cover this in any way, and I am in Waco, not too far from this school district. I am so completely disgusted at the way they tried to implement this. The Texas board of education has been battling the public school religion issue for a while. Most of us are disgusted that Middle Eastern religious instruction is actually in the process of getting more face time, or book inclusion, than Christianity. I know that the Christian God is not “en vogue” anymore, but the pc hypocrites cannot really expect us to give more education time to “Allah”, than any other God? A lot of people in Texas will not stand for this, hence the 200 parents who showed up for the meeting. Enough!
13 years ago
Except for the fact that none of the articles mention the September 2010 decision when “Texas ed board adopted resolution limiting Islam”
This attempt was effectively opening a back door to indoctrinate even younger impressionable students.
FOUL.
13 years ago
Note That CBS Sanitized the “Mandatory” nature of the program
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/02/07/mandatory-arabic-classes-coming-to-mansfield/
The article was updated (aka sanitized) today and eliminated all reference to the compulsory nature of the program…except they forgot to sanitize the URL….
silly leftists.
13 years ago
if you can make it there – you can make it anywhere…it’s up to YOU!
13 years ago
sanitized already – the original version said mandatory, like Pam’s quote.Part of accepting the grant – mandated language/ no pick from variety apparently.
13 years ago
This was a bold faced attempt to bring up our very youngest impressionable children in the way of islam. What do you suppose they would be reading in arabic?
The obama adminisitration is doing everything it can to recreate in the US the islamic world he grew up in.
Better to have the kids grow up to learn to be Americans. They will have time to take classes in college about the middle east and in arabic when they are more fully formed. As someone else said, it is a certainty that they wouldn’t learn the reality of it in what we read about here every day.
Push Back.
13 years ago
Precisely! You might have won a battle but not the war. The arselifters will try to push it again and again at some later date.
13 years ago
What bollocks! It’s white washing of pislam, nothing else!
13 years ago
I would go a step further and make sure the teachers who teach Arabic are Christian Arabs, Copts or Shepardic Jews. All of them are well versant in Arabic and lots of them are fleeing for their lives from the Middle East. These people are fleeing their countries for the simple reason they are Christians and the Muslims want to make the Middle East a Christian free area lest they pollute the land.
13 years ago
Creeping Sharia Law via the educational system, oh they aren’t finished Arab upen your society yet the leftwingers just love the Arab Culture to bad they can’t equate Arab Culture with the genocide in Darfur and the deaths of nearly two million people in the south of the Sudan.
13 years ago
People have to understand that (Arabic DOES not = Islam) and that there is more of an ARAB Christian population than a JEWISH population.
They are teaching the language but NOT the religion.
I don’t see the problem of learning “Arabic” vs “French”. Sure I was tortured for 3 years in HS for having to take French but I wasn’t being taught the religion of France or French values.
13 years ago
I know that there will be parents who are undecided about this Arabic classes to be incorporated in their child’s curriculum. I think the purpose of the program is to educate students about Muslim culture so that they will not be judgmental in their opinion of them. The school should work on convincing and making the parents understand the very purpose of this program before they will start it.
13 years ago
This is not a true statement you need to undrestand the mandate from the grant to understand that they are mandating that the students learn Arabic..and understand Islam! Please read the grant language first before you comment.
13 years ago
Why? This is the United States. Arabic is not a modern language nor is it a modern culture. To characterize it as such is nonsense. Teach the intolerant Muslims to not be judgemental of us instead. Teach English first and only when proven proficient in English should a foreign language be considered, especially the language of Islam. No other language training is mandated with cultural emersion. This is nothing short of coerced indoctrination. Enough already.
13 years ago
Now that is a new and novel concept…teach islam to be tolerant.
13 years ago
Huh?
13 years ago
Requiring students to learn a foreign language is one thing. Requiring them to learn a specific language is something quite different. Although a good number of good people speak Arabic, Brigitte Gabriel comes to mind, the purpose of this is nothing less than creeping sharia.
13 years ago
“Texas School District Backs Off Mandatory Arabic Classes”
for now…
Good on all of those fighting the good fight!
13 years ago
Sounds like there was a flap about the FLAP (Foreign Language Assistance Program)!
13 years ago
Here’s a couple things that SHOULD be mandatory: (1) ENGLISH-speaking only (2) if you don’t want to do that, go live in an Islamic country.
13 years ago
OT “Cordoba, a paradigm of identity and diversity’ was the theme that Arabists, Hebraists, philosophers, journalists and writers discussed in the city of three religions as part of the Averroé Meetings. Organised by the Casa Arabe, the UNESCO Chair on Conflict Resolution in Cordoba and the Cordoba Ciudad Cultural Foundation, the event is part of a programme the involves film screenings, music, and bookstore area to debate the current issues in the Arab-Islamic and Western world as part of the initiatives for the candidacy of Cordoba as the European Capital of Culture in 2016.”
This is unbelievable. Haven’t any of the participants read the history of Muslim occupied Spain and the suffering of the Christian and Jewish people for nearly 800 years. Read more at this link:
http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME.XEF40404.html
13 years ago
These courses were never mandatory. Stop claiming victory over a program that didn’t exist.
Read the actual press release by the district:
http://www.mansfieldisd.org/departments/communications/news/10-11/february/arabicgrant.htm
13 years ago
Of course knowing how to speaak Arabic could come in handy when you flag a cab or got to the convienience store
13 years ago
1. Traditionally, French and Spanish have been offered in US schools, and sometimes other language choices have been available. (My sons study Latin, but they attend a Catholic school.) French and Spanish make sense because Canada and Mexico are our neighbors–if you talk to Europeans, they’ve often been taught the languages of neighboring countries. I don’t see why Arabic would even be offered, other than for religiopolitcal reasons.
2. The acknowledged “father of algebra” is al-Khwarizmi, who was Persian, not Arabian. Why then is Farsi not offered?
3. Islamicization in public schools is going on every day, and continues to go on, and parents need to be aware of this agenda. In 2004, my kids–who attended a Chicago public grammar school–were expected to recite the shahada (“There is no god but allah…”) in Arabic at a school assembly. My 6th grader was smart enough to tell me, and I had to convince the administration that this was inappropriate. They only backed down when they realized that reporters and news stations had been alerted. MOST of the parents thought we were horrible bigots for questioning this “inclusive” segment of the assembly program, and the school was 99% non-muslim! The mom of the only Muslim kid in my daughter’s class was the person who tried to achieve this little victory, and I’m sure she and her ilk have continues with their educational jihad. To that I say, “Yeah, baby–bring it on!!!”
13 years ago
well said. and to take it another step forward, how about the teaching of islamic conquest history from a non islamic perspective–if we’re going to educate our kids, let’s really give them a proper education–not like the one that obama got and was paid for surreptitiously.
13 years ago
interesting that they refer to Arabic as “the language of the future.” do you think they’re trying to tell us something?
13 years ago
When did you graduate high school? You learn all about culture in all language classes. I learned about special holidays celebrated in Mexico, I learned about spanish cuisine, all kinds of things, pinatas, maracas, mariachi bands, traditional clothing. So what you are saying is completely untrue when you say that culture is not taught in any other language training in school.
I think the point of the attempt at teaching this curriculum is that our young children are growing up in a world where anyone who is an “arab” or practices islam is stereotyped as a terrorist and it isn’t right. They’re just trying to teach kids early about this culture so they won’t pick on other arab kids and be evil towards them. Understanding is the greatest tool to achieve peace.
Plus, if you learn Arabic you could be paid more money as a translator in the military or something. There are more benefits to this than cons. Why is everyone so fearful! “The only thing we have to fear is fear it’self – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” Fear makes you weak. Knowledge makes you powerful. Embrace knowledge, not fear!!
13 years ago
Speak arabic? go here:
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-man-arabic.html
Don’t speak arabic? go here:
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-man-of-islam.html
13 years ago
Hi, I just want to say congratulations. That was awesome! Keep up the good
work momma…Looks like your sixth grader was taught some very important
lessons at home…thanks for being such a good mother to one of America’s
future tax payers, you child. Parents have to talk to their children,
share the family values and family pride and patriotism for their great
nation. Children need to see how their bloodline was involved in the
making of this great nation and searching your family tree is fun but
very important to the developement of their patriotism too.
13 years ago
Do you ever hear anything besides the sound of your own voice? You should get your own nightly spot at MSNBC.
