Post by Guadalupe on Nov 22, 2014 9:03:56 GMT -5
More craziness in the public schools
www.onenewsnow.com/legal-courts/2014/11/21/marine-dad-stands-ground-against-daughters-islamic-indoctrination#.VHCXnlfF_s4
Marine dad stands ground against daughter's Islamic indoctrination
Chad Groening (OneNewsNow.com) Friday, November 21, 2014
A Christian law firm is representing a couple whose daughter received a failing grade at a Maryland high school last month because she refused to submit to Islamic indoctrination.
The Thomas More Law Center is representing John Kevin Wood and his wife, Melissa, in their battle with La Plata High School near Washington, DC, over what the firm describes as the "Islamic indoctrination" of the Woods' 11th-grade daughter in her world history class. For that class, their daughter was required to complete assignments where she had to affirm that "There is no god but Allah" and the other Five Pillars of Islam.
Erin Mersino, trial counsel at TMLC, contends the school would never allow Christianity to be promoted in similar fashion.
Mersino, Erin (TMLC)"Christianity has been stripped from our public schools in every place that it could be ... yet they teach the religion of Islam and promote it and indoctrinate students," she tells OneNewsNow. "They're teaching things like Islam is a religion of peace. They're saying that the definition of jihad is a peaceful struggle instead of a holy war."
The attorney says Mr. Wood knows differently. "Our client served our country as a Marine and was in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm," she says. "On 9/11 he was a first responder to the Pentagon. So he has seen first-hand what people have done in the name of Allah."
But Mersino says the school banned Mr. Wood from entering school property after he objected to what was being taught in his daughter's history class and demanded that she be given an alternative assignment. The school refused and his daughter has received a failing grade in her world history class. But Mersino says the story is not yet over.
Chad Groening (OneNewsNow.com) Friday, November 21, 2014
A Christian law firm is representing a couple whose daughter received a failing grade at a Maryland high school last month because she refused to submit to Islamic indoctrination.
The Thomas More Law Center is representing John Kevin Wood and his wife, Melissa, in their battle with La Plata High School near Washington, DC, over what the firm describes as the "Islamic indoctrination" of the Woods' 11th-grade daughter in her world history class. For that class, their daughter was required to complete assignments where she had to affirm that "There is no god but Allah" and the other Five Pillars of Islam.
Erin Mersino, trial counsel at TMLC, contends the school would never allow Christianity to be promoted in similar fashion.
Mersino, Erin (TMLC)"Christianity has been stripped from our public schools in every place that it could be ... yet they teach the religion of Islam and promote it and indoctrinate students," she tells OneNewsNow. "They're teaching things like Islam is a religion of peace. They're saying that the definition of jihad is a peaceful struggle instead of a holy war."
The attorney says Mr. Wood knows differently. "Our client served our country as a Marine and was in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm," she says. "On 9/11 he was a first responder to the Pentagon. So he has seen first-hand what people have done in the name of Allah."
But Mersino says the school banned Mr. Wood from entering school property after he objected to what was being taught in his daughter's history class and demanded that she be given an alternative assignment. The school refused and his daughter has received a failing grade in her world history class. But Mersino says the story is not yet over.