Massachusetts school took a field trip to pray at a controversial Boston mosque
In May of this year a Massachusetts school took its students on a field trip to a mosque in Roxbury. The first question that came to my mind was, what happened to the “separation of church and state” that has been written into the constitution by liberal justices over the years? (The constitution never once mentions the term “separation of church and state,” that term comes from a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptists in 1802.)
We live in an age where all references to God have been removed from public schools; we live in an age where a person is not allowed to pray in school because of the fear that the government will be seen as establishing a religion; and we live in an age where schools are not allowed to say the pledge of allegiance simply because the word God appears in the pledge.
How then is it acceptable for the students of a public school to take a school sponsored field trip to a religious organization? Why is this acceptable when all other religious references and traditions are not allowed to even be discussed in the public schools?
But the story doesn’t end with a simple field trip to just any old mosque. This mosque that the students visited is a controversial mosque to say the least, it isn’t your average everyday mosque–or then again, is it?
When the parents signed the permission slips to allow their children to attend this field trip they were simply told that the students would be learning about the architecture of the mosque, but that wasn’t entirely true.
The mosque has ties to the American Muslim Society, whose leader is currently serving over twenty years in prison after being implicated in a terror plot. One imam who preaches at the mosque once told his followers to “pick up the gun and the sword” and fight back against the infidels.
At one point the children were taught the proper way to pray to Allah, after this lesson was given all the women chaperones and the girls in the class were asked to leave because they are not allowed in the prayer room. The boys were allowed to stay so that the could “observe” the prayers.
It wasn’t long before the students were praying right alongside the Muslims in the mosque–kneeling down, fully bowed on prayer rugs. The students were actually PRAYING AT A SCHOOL SPONSORED EVENT at a mosque that has ties to terrorism!
Can somebody explain to me how this is an acceptable field trip in today’s politically correct world where God is a four letter word–even if this mosque did not have ties to terrorism? The far left has done everything in their power to deny people their right to the free exercise of their religion but yet this school allows its students to go on a filed trip to a religious institution while deceiving the parents about the intent of the field trip?!
What would happen if these students were taken to a Christian church and participated in prayer there? And–better yet–what would happen if Muslim students were taken on a field trip to a Christian church and participated in Christian ceremonies? Or even better yet, what if Muslim students took a field trip to a synagogue in participated in Jewish traditions? These questions are rhetorical because these scenarios would not have ever been allowed.
The left is constantly telling us that we need to be tolerant to Muslims because Islam is a peaceful religion that we fear because we don’t understand it, yet at the same time they have shut down most all public displays of all other religions–they fear these religions because they don’t understand them so they have tried their best to push them into obscurity. The left is not tolerant of religion except when it comes to being politically correct with the Muslim faith, then they are all for religious tolerance.
They can’t have it both ways. Below is a video on this story, please take the ten minutes to watch it. Our children are being indoctrinated before our very eyes and we must put a stop to this politically correct nonsense.
America's Watchtower 
Sorry, but from my perspective, the agents of government – and that includes the teachers in its schools – aren’t restricted simply from promoting one religion over another, they’re prohibited from promoting religion, period. Don’t misunderstand – I have no problem with the Motto on our coinage, or the “adult” members of Congress joining in prayer before their sessions, but I’ve got a big problem with teachers bringing public schoolchildren to a religious destination, be it that mosque or a church.
Honestly speaking, some churches really do have historic significance, and for that I’d bend my rules, but at no point is it acceptable for public schoolchildren, on a school-sponsored field trip, to be instructed in the “proper” way of prayer! Especially after the females were segregated.
Which raises another interesting point – were there any male chaperones? Or were the boys left without official supervision, handed over to someone the parents hadn’t given permission to supervise their children? Just askin’ . . .
As a liberal, I’m proud to advocate tolerance of other religions. That doesn’t mean for an instant that I tolerate the idea of bringing impressionable children, under government supervision, to learn about the ways of different religions. That’s a job best left to parents and their own religious leaders.
Take good care and may God bless us all!
TGY
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“Sorry, but from my perspective, the agents of government – and that includes the teachers in its schools – aren’t restricted simply from promoting one religion over another, they’re prohibited from promoting religion, period.”
That’s my point, they shouldn’t be bringing these children to this mosque because they aren’t allowed to promote any religion. Why was this deemed acceptable to the school?
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LOL – if you’re looking for someone to defend the school’s actions, I’m the wrong fellow for the job. Have you tried following up with the school?
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Today the principal apologized to the parents and admitted that is was a mistake to allow the children to pray in the mosque– they are still defending the field trip.
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I hate to come across as a bean-counter, but Massachusetts really is the heart of American liberty and has hundreds of sites where historic events took place. If the Wellesley students are being taken to Boston to visit historic sites, there are so many related to our Nation’s founding and independence that I can’t imagine how they could find time for this mosque visit, unless they’re sponsoring two field trips a week.
I have had the blessing of being able to live and work in Boston for a short time, and the sense of inspiration one gets while exploring this historic place can be overwhelming. It’s this sense, I believe, that America’s young should be exposed to when they visit this and other great American cities, not the rituals and ceremonies of different religions.
Don’t misunderstand – from my perspective, such trips are all well and good, but the children involved must be supervised by their parents or their own religious leaders, not the teachers of a government school.
The principal’s decision to defend this field trip, I believe, is ill-advised.
May the good Lord bless us all . . .
Dale
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If they convert the children to Islam,Will the children cut off their christian parants heads as they sleep because the parants are infidels ?,wait till a muslum president makes us abide by islamic laws,sarai law has no place in america,and the God of Islam is not The God of Israel & Christian Saints (Believers),The Lord Jesus Christ is my salvation.
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