from Jihad Watch

Georgia public school material: "When the prophet Muhammad spoke in favor of polygamy, he intended to raise the position of women"

Regarding the Georgia public school exercise that praises Islam and polygamy, about which we have written here and here, Pamela Geller has a great deal more here -- including pages from the classroom material itself (one of which I have posted above; see more in larger versions at Atlas).
Free citizens must stand up against this. Please contact Ethan Hildreth, the superintendent of the Henry County School District, where this material is being used, and explain to him politely that a curriculum that promotes polygamy and veiling of women is demeaning to women and contradicts American notions of the equality of rights of all people, as well as Judeo-Christian notions of the equality of dignity of all people. Tell him that this flagrant advertising for Islam also effectively amounts to proselytizing, of a kind that would never be tolerated in public school material if the religion were Christianity.
UPDATE: Pamela Geller has much more new information here.

Posted by Robert on September 25, 2011 5:42 AM

from Atlas Shrugs

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Georgia Public School Lesson: "Women in the West do not Have the Protection of the Sharia" "I feel very fortunate that we have the Sharia"

Laura Armstrong is a keen observer of the American street. She writes an important weekly column in The Marietta Daily Journal. Armstrong is an unsung hero in the war in the information battle space. There are a good many Armstrongs out there fighting the great fight in small town newspapers in small cities and suburban towns. They will fight for our freedom. They will save the Republic. These unique individuals are doing the heavy lifting, not quislings who must walk in lock-step and tow the uber left/Islamic line in order to be in the big media club.
And big media is a big problem. This we have long known. They are a massive uber left/Islamic machine grinding out propaganda designed to cow the herd into submission, blindly and quietly. But it's the local columnists and reporters (along with bloggers) who can alert and educate the American people in their small towns and villages. This army of patriots and truth tellers wil pay a pivotal role in the long fight.
The nation's eyes have turned to Marietta, Georgia, where the public school is teaching (more like preaching) to seventh graders lessons advancing the dehumanization and diminishment of women under the sharia living in Saudi Arabia. The lesson includes a fictitious letter, "My name is Ahlima," that promotes that cloth prison (the burqa) as a "uniform" and a wonderful alternative to "the horribly immodestly" dressed women in the West. Forced marriage, multiple wives, subjugation is a "relief." Ahlima is "happy to obey because she knows she'll be cared for." Dawah in the public schools? You bet. "When the prophet Muhammad spoke in favor of polygamy, he intended to raise the position of women."
Indeed. Atlas reader Mickigal writes:

I will never understand the degree of intellectual duplicity that liberals must employ in order to insist that the West tolerate the most intolerant religion in the world.  Do the textbooks also put forth the practice of stoning a woman to death for adultery, the fact that most women are not permitted to drive nor even appear in public without the permission or escort of a male relative, etc?  In the likely-to-exist chapters of said textbooks extolling the equality of gay relationships and marriage, do the textbooks have a footnote alerting the young readers to the fact that Ahlima's gay brother would be executed if found out?

I wrote about it here and posted the actual lesson here. Here's the link to the e-mail addresses for their board. Atlas readers, your job for today is to explain to the school board politely what is wrong with using this material: http://www.cobbk12.org/board/
Also, write to Ms. Dingle, politely please, at 514 Glover Street, Marietta, GA 30060. If you have time, let Georgia senators Chambliss and Isakson, congressmen here, Governor Deal, etc. know what is happening. Atlas readers, it is up to you to root out this insidious subversion. You must shine the light on this inculcation and raise a ruckus. You are the freedom cop on the beat in your neighborhood. Where you see freedom threatened, fight back.

Laura Armstrong: Parents must band together and say no to the ‘Islamizing’ of public schools Marietta Daily Journal
 When I wrote last week about sheltering my young children from the twisted ideology behind the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, I never imagined less than a week later our own relatively conservative school system would be the focus of a major controversy centering on “Islamizing” America’s public school curriculum.

The controversy began last week, when the MDJ broke the story of a Campbell Middle School parent going public, questioning a lesson linking Middle Eastern culture with the school’s dress code. The seventh grade teacher involved used a portion of a lesson that seemed to promote Islam.

School officials responding to the parent’s complaint told education writer Lindsay Field that they had looked at the lesson and re-evaluated its appropriateness and context.

“The dad was correct,” Area Superintendent Dale Gaddis explained. “Since then, we’ve decided to select better materials. The issues that we had, we actually took care of. We worked with the teacher … and with our curriculum folks to verify the material and how it should be used.”

But instead of putting the issue to rest, the red flags did not stop unfurling around the blogosphere among people concerned about creeping shariah, stealth jihad and encroachment of Islamic tenets into America’s public schools.

The supplemental materials in question, created by Roswell-based InspirEd Educators, Inc., were copyrighted, and the MDJ reprinted some short excerpts with permission. But it was the intrepid freedom fighter Pamela Geller who found more on the Henry County school district’s website and re-posted for her national audience. Geller’s Atlas Shrugs (www.atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com) is a popular source of information for patriots and truth seekers since 9/11, and Geller’s new book is titled “Stop the Islamization of America: A practical guide to the resistance.” Geller’s a bulldog when it comes to shining the light on radical Islam’s tactics here at home, and she’s led in the fight against the NYC ground zero mega-mosque

Meanwhile, “My name is Ahlima” was the lesson our kids were assigned. Written in a narrative style reminiscent of the popular American Girl doll stories, Ahlima is a fictional, 20-year-old woman who loves life under the abuyah (black veil) and promotes a rosy and incomplete picture of life as an Islamic woman to our impressionable seventh-graders. Her words go far beyond fashion advice or culture. Ahlima feels safe under Shariah law and lectures well on its virtues — but forgets its evils.

To be sure, Ahlima’s disrespect for Western women is apparent to adults. The character brags about her upcoming marriage (she’ll be the second wife, as though seventh-graders really get that) and promotes Islamic polygamy “because the prophet was trying to raise women up. He was very loving to women when many other men in his day were not.”

There’s a lot more, and CCSD spokesman Jay Dillon did confirm that the lesson in question is being used in other districts around Georgia.

He also reminded me that Cobb parents had the opportunity to review the supplemental materials, the same way we can review textbooks. Which leads me back to our lone parent whistle blower.

What a service he’s done for us all.

Now that he’s put himself out there, it’s time for us to back him up if we agree with his concerns.

Dillon told me any curriculum materials identified as possibly inappropriate should be brought to the attention of the superintendent or his designee, in this case Pamela Dingle, director of K-12 Curriculum. The administrative rule says any material in question will be returned to the selection committee for re-consideration. He did not specify when that would happen. I hope that will be a question for you to ask.

To go on record against introducing Ahlima to students, you should write to Ms. Dingle, politely please, at 514 Glover Street, Marietta, GA 30060. Of course, I’m sure your elected officials wouldn’t mind hearing from you either.

If you do write, remember that our district’s not alone in dealing with such issues.

Just last week in Puyallup, Wash., a Muslim organization attempted to get special consideration and to gain access to students, to “ease fears” and teach about their religion.

Puyallup parents stood together and just said no, taking responsibility for their schools. I hope our community will stand up and do the same. And I hope those responsible for introducing Ahlima to our kids will go read Pamela Geller. Because they are absolutely clueless.

Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal - Laura Armstrong Parents must band together and say no to the ‘Islamizing’ of public schools

Previously: Islamizing the Curriculum: Selling Misogyny to Children
Islamizing the Public Schools: School’s curriculum on Islam adjusted after parent protests
The Constitution or Sharia: Preserving Freedom Conference