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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

New Clash over Religion in Schools: Communities Face Backlash for Lessons on Islam

...Many opponents did not seem to care what Shibly actually said to students, and instead they argued that Islam should not be taught in school at all. At a January 2012 school board meeting, a woman said she wouldn’t put her child in the Hillsborough County school board system because she feared that it was teaching propaganda promoting Islam. “It’s a threat against our children, ultimately our nation, and our freedom,” a Tampa-area businessman told the board at the same meeting. “CAIR promotes Sharia law. They want to establish a global fundamentalist Islam state.”...
http://religionandpolitics.org/2015/08/25/new-clash-over-religion-in-schools-communities-face-backlash-for-lessons-on-islam/#sthash.F2mFq9F9.dpuf

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