Minnesota School is Teaching Islam

 A tax payer funded school in Minnesota is teaching Islam to it’s students. A substitute teacher has reported that the Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy has blurred the lines between the separation of church and state.

 The separation of church and state has become the rallying cry of atheists everywhere who are afraid that their child may even hear the word “God.” The truth is that the phrase “separation of church and state” does not appear in the constitution and the constitution never meant to eliminate all references to God. In fact it meant just the opposite when the constitution reads ” or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” when addressing religion. A part of the amendment almost totally forgotten in today’s America. 

 The term “separation of church and state” comes from a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptists in 1802. Liberal judges in 1947 turned to this letter to interpret the constitution. Instead of using the words the founding fathers agreed to in the constitution these judges went to an outside source to interpret the constitution. This judge imposed his personal preference on the American people instead of interpreting the words of the constitution. He failed his sworn duty to the constitution. He overstepped his bounds.

 Now for the sake of this argument we are going to presume that this wall of separation exists because for all intents and purposes it does now exist. It has become a common law I guess.

 Here we read about a school in Minnesota that is teaching an Islamic agenda. I wouldn’t have a problem with that if this was a private school, but it is taxpayer funded. Here is what a substitute teacher saw while at the school:

“I’ve been in a lot of schools and I’ve never been in a school where they had washing rituals, or they had prayer, or where they had a room where you had to take your shoes off,” Getz said.

 How can this be allowed under the “separation of church and state?” Why is one religion acceptable while others aren’t?

 The school also requires students to learn Arabic as a second language. Like I wrote above I don’t care if this school teaches this religion any more that I care about Catholic schools teaching Catholicism, but taxpayers shouldn’t be funding this school. Not if there is a “separation of church and state.” This school also receives funding from sponsored by Islamic Relief USA, so any claims the school makes that it doesn’t endorse a religion are bogus.

 The school is also breaking a state law. The school does not fly the American flag. The school director says it is because he doesn’t know how to use it. WOW! He is in charge of teaching children? Nobody else in the school knows how to use a flagpole?