US county closes schools after backlash to Islamic calligraphy homework

muhammadadeel

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
Every single school in a Virginia county in the U.S. was closed on Friday after parents of students reacted angrily after a teacher handed out a homework assignment on Islamic calligraphy.

"While there has been no specific threat of harm to students, schools and school offices will be closed Friday, December 18, 2015," according to the Augusta County Public schools official website.

During a world geography class at Riverheads High School in Staunton, in a class on major world religions, reportedly on Thursday, teacher Cheryl LaPorte asked students to copy a religious Islamic calligraphy.

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After students took it home, the parents saw the assignment as an attempt to convert their children to Islam, according to CNN. They called and emailed the school, some of them demanding the teacher be fired, the media outlet said.

"I will not have my children sit under a woman who indoctrinates them with the Islam religion when I am a Christian," a parent, Kimberly Herndon told the CNN affiliate WHSV.

According to Augusta County Schools official Eric Bond, neither of these lessons, nor any other lessons in the world geography course were "an attempt at indoctrination to Islam or any other religion or a request for students to renounce their own faith or profess any belief".

But still, the school removed the shahada - the Islamic statement of faith - calligraphy from the world religion instruction after the reactions.

On Thursday, a New York Times report revealed that hate crimes against Muslim Americans and mosques across the U.S. had tripled after the deadly attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California.

The study by a California State University research group shows that the hate crimes consist of assaults on hijab-wearing students, arson and vandalism on mosques as well as shootings and death threats towards Islamic-owned businesses, the media outlet said.

"The terrorist attacks, coupled with the ubiquity of these anti-Muslim stereotypes seeping into the mainstream, have emboldened people to act upon this fear and anger," Brian Levin, a criminologist at California State University and head of the research, told the daily.

The study shows that there has been an average of 12.6 suspected hate crimes against Muslims in the U.S. a month in recent years, according to F.B.I. data, which the group analyzed.

However, the rate of attacks has tripled since the attacks in Paris on Nov. 13, carried out by Daesh, where 130 people were killed and dozens left injured.

Since then, 38 attacks across the U.S. were regarded as anti-Islamic in nature, according to the analysis, which was based on news reports and civil rights groups.

Eighteen of the 38 attacks have come since the deadly shooting in San Bernardino on Dec. 2, which was conducted by an allegedly Muslim couple, Syed Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, who killed 14 people and injured dozens others.

"I'm saddened by this but not surprised," Levin said. "Whenever we see intergroup conflicts making headlines, we often see a spike in hate crime accompanying it."

The research comes following several anti-Muslim cases, including a teenage girl in New York being attacked by three boys who tried to take off her hijab, punched her and called her "ISIS" (Daesh).

Reference: https://www.dailysabah.com/americas...fter-backlash-to-islamic-calligraphy-homework
 

LovePK-or-LeavePK

Senator (1k+ posts)
America's downfall has started. Paranoia and fear has taken over this nation.

If everything stays on this similar path, US will collapse from inside.
 

atensari

(50k+ posts) بابائے فورم
شرم کرو، مسلمانوں کا ایمان اتنا مضبوط ہے کے ہولی کھیل کر ہندو نہیں ہوتے، نیو ائیر نائٹ، ویلنٹائن اور ہیلوئین ڈے منا کر عیسائی نہیں بنتے. تم کیلی گرافی سے ڈرتے ہو، لبرل بنو لبرل
 

Xiggs

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
Kia hota agar pakistan mai muslims kids ko sanskrit mai geeta/maha bharat ke jumlay likhnay ko miltay ya latin mai christian ke holy trinity pe essay likhnay ko milta. Mujhay yaqeen hai woh school jala diya jata, teacher ko qatal ker dia jata aur saath saath hindu/eesayee community ki ibadat gahen jala di jaati aur loag mar diye jatay.

Insaan liberal hojaye to phir bhi behtar hai lekin jaddi pushti munafiq kabhi na ho.
 
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muhammadadeel

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
Kia hota agar pakistan mai muslims kids ko sanskrit mai geeta/maha bharat ke jumlay likhnay ko miltay ya latin mai christian ke holy trinity pe essay likhnay ko milta. Mujhay yaqeen hai woh school jala diya jata, teacher ko qatal ker dia jata aur saath saath hindu/eesayee community ki ibadat gahen jala di jaati aur loag mar diye jatay.

Insaan liberal hojaye to phir bhi behtar hai lekin jaddi pushti munafiq kabhi na ho.
امریکی قوم منافق ہے لیکن دیکھاوا ایسا کے دوسرں کو صرف گالیاں نکالتے ہیں۔
 

muhammadadeel

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
شرم کرو، مسلمانوں کا ایمان اتنا مضبوط ہے کے ہولی کھیل کر ہندو نہیں ہوتے، نیو ائیر نائٹ، ویلنٹائن اور ہیلوئین ڈے منا کر عیسائی نہیں بنتے. تم کیلی گرافی سے ڈرتے ہو، لبرل بنو لبرل
لیکن بغرتہ لوگ ہمارا دماغ چاٹ کر ہمیں لبرلیزم کا تعانہ دیتے ہے
 

muhammadadeel

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
America's downfall has started. Paranoia and fear has taken over this nation.

If everything stays on this similar path, US will collapse from inside.


لیکن ہمیں اپنی فکر کرنی چاہیے، جو لوگ پاکستان میں بیٹھ کر پاکستان کو گالی نکالتے ہیں اُن کا دماغ درست کرنا سب سے ضروری ہے۔
 

Xiggs

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
امریکی قوم منافق ہے لیکن دیکھاوا ایسا کے دوسرں کو صرف گالیاں نکالتے ہیں۔
Koi shak nahi ke americans munafiq hain lekin galiyon pe iktifa ker lete hain. Lekin ese muslims ka kia kehna jo kalma pak din mai 10 bar perhtay hain lekin choron (nawaz, zardari, fazlu, siraj tirchhi topi walay etc) aur zaniyon (IK etc) ko apna hero mantay hain. Kalma 10 martba peehtay hain lekin ikhlaq ki badbtareen pasti mai giray huay hain....milawat/shortcuts/rishwat ese aam hai ke jese unka bunyadi haq ho. Baat baat pe qatlo gharat ka bazar garam kerna unke liye fakhr ki baat hai....aur kitni burayiyaan hain jo din mai 10 martaba kalma parh ke kerte hain lekin khush hai ke Rasool Allah saww unki shifa'at karengay roz e qiyamat.

Kaash ke kalma is terha parhtay jese Rasool e Akram saww ko pasand hai.... Ese nahi jese fatah e makkah ke baad mushkrion ne jaan bacahanay aur faida uthanay ke liye perha.

Kia hota agar Pakistan ke kisi muslim school mai raam ko bhagwan ya Hazarat Essa a.s. ko khuda ka baita parhaya jata? Kia sirf protest kerke school band kerdete ek din ke liye? Be realistic my friend.....pakistan ka buhat bada tabqa aaj bhi ahmaqon ki jannat mai rehta hai aur tabhi aaj pakistan ka yeh haal hi.
 

muhammadadeel

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
اتنی مصومیت نہیں۔ نواز کو لانے والی فوج تھی جس نے اُسے پیسہ اور اقدار دیا اس کو ہر پاکستانی کہ منہ سے جوڑنا گالی ہے۔

یہ زبردستی کا رشتہ ای.ایس.آئی نے جوڑا
ان آڑ اُؤ زرداری کو فوج نے دیا پاکستان عوام نے نہیں

عوام کو مفت کی گالی دینا کا کوئی جواز نہیں۔ جس کے پاس طاقت نہیں ہوتی اُس کو ہر کوئی الزام کی زد میں رکھتا ہے۔
 

Xiggs

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
Americans extremists are worst than talibans

Whoever this Cheryl Laport is, she is an ignorant douchebag. Just because of her, muslims of Virginia suffered a lot. Thank god it happened 3 yrs ago otherwise it would have been even more terrible.
Racist Americans are as bad as any other racists in the worlds.
 

FANNE

MPA (400+ posts)
شرم کرو، مسلمانوں کا ایمان اتنا مضبوط ہے کے ہولی کھیل کر ہندو نہیں ہوتے، نیو ائیر نائٹ، ویلنٹائن اور ہیلوئین ڈے منا کر عیسائی نہیں بنتے. تم کیلی گرافی سے ڈرتے ہو، لبرل بنو لبرل

are chacha kisi madarse me jai sri ram calligraphy likhwa kar dikhwa do , noble prize of the peace dilwa dunga khadim hussain rizvi se .:p:p:p
 

atensari

(50k+ posts) بابائے فورم
are chacha kisi madarse me jai sri ram calligraphy likhwa kar dikhwa do , noble prize of the peace dilwa dunga khadim hussain rizvi se .:p:p:p
بچے سیکولر لبرل امریکا کے سکول مذہبی مدرسے میں کچھ تو فرق ہو گا
 

hazzam

Politcal Worker (100+ posts)
بچے سیکولر لبرل امریکا کے سکول مذہبی مدرسے میں کچھ تو فرق ہو گا

secular hone ka matlab hai ki qalma likhna parhna shuru kar de, kal ko kahoge namaz bhi parho secular school hai ? ...................:p:p:p
madarsa ko bhi secular banao , nahi to amrika chhor kar madarsa me parho .dono haath me laddoo loge ?
 
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hazzam

Politcal Worker (100+ posts)
Kia hota agar pakistan mai muslims kids ko sanskrit mai geeta/maha bharat ke jumlay likhnay ko miltay ya latin mai christian ke holy trinity pe essay likhnay ko milta. Mujhay yaqeen hai woh school jala diya jata, teacher ko qatal ker dia jata aur saath saath hindu/eesayee community ki ibadat gahen jala di jaati aur loag mar diye jatay.

Insaan liberal hojaye to phir bhi behtar hai lekin jaddi pushti munafiq kabhi na ho.

nest o nabood kar dete .:D