http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/16/us/chattanooga-shooting-terrorist-inspiration/index.html
I don't wish ill will on anyone, but Karma can be a you know what. It's amazing what good money can get you out of. The DWI system is a joke. I know of people personally that have had 4+, and the only reason they aren't in jail is because they've spent God knows how much on lawyers. People less fortunate financially would be in prison.
He believes himself to be morally justified; in playing a role in family planning, he believes that his victims have given up what makes them human, and that killing them is neither sin nor crime. He doesn't consider it to be murder any more than you would consider squashing an insect to be murder.
Was the lesson on Islamic culture or calligraphy? I had a lesson on calligraphy too, but we used family emblems and tried to create one from our family's history. If this is a calligraphy lesson I could predict this kind of reaction in Virginia. If it is an Islamic culture lesson I don't know how this could be considered inappropriate by parents, but I still would have worried about parental reaction in the current political climate.
I'm unaware of this "Christian Pledge of Allegiance" you speak of. I don't know of any that mention Jesus Christ.
Maybe I am asking the wrong question here, but why is Virginia teaching calligraphy?
Looks like it was part of a history/social studies lesson covering the Middle East.
It's interesting. I have suspicions that the kind of person that idiotically construed the use of the word blackboard as too sensitive, would also be the person that would argue that people should not take offense to the use of a text directly related to Islam - an organisation that people have recently killed Americans in the name of.
I learned it as part of art class. This seemed like some weird cultural lesson.
You're off target here. The point wasn't to teach that Islam =/= terrorism, but rather that one religion is superior than another, which flies in the face of our First Amendment. What would you think would happen if a cursive writing class had an assignment to write Genesis 1:1? Can you imagine the blow back that the school would suffer from the Left if that happened?
I suppose you're right. I mean, it's not like art has ever been used to express religious beliefs and values.
Show me the lesson plan, scope and sequence and the programming to back that up. Otherwise, this claim amounts to complete and utter BS.
That's a catch-22. You're arguing that Muslims cannot express that phrase because it denies other people the right to practice their own religion and/or freedom of speech. However, in saying "Muslims canjot express that phrase", you are denying Muslims the right to practice their own religion and freedom of speech. So which is it going to be?
When I learned it I did learn that, but it wasn't 100% focused on one specific group. Calligraphy is not unique to Islam. In fact, a quick image search of calligraphy takes quite a lot of scrolling to find Islamic Calligraphy, and that was an image of this assignment.
I was referring to the reaction, not the lesson. The lesson was calligraphy, ideally the meaning of the text should be a mere technicality, with a solely visual emphasis remaining. That doesn't mean that certain ideally only technical images, words, whatever, are not sometimes in poor taste mind you.
If that were the case, then any particular statement from Confucius would have done nicely in its place.
