Islam Lesson Closes School: Virginia Parents Fume

Posted at Culture News:

The mostly rural Augusta County School District of the Shenandoah Valley has been shut down due to citizen outrage over Cheryl LaPorte, a geography teacher at Riverheads High School near Staunton, Virginia, assigning ninth-graders to copy an Arabic script as an exercise in calligraphy. After students aired concerns, the teacher admitted the translated text is the Shahada — the Islamic profession of faith. In addition, the teacher insisted that girls in the class don a Muslim hijab (head scarf).
"There is no god but Allah; Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah."
-- The Shahada (the most sacred pillar of Islam)
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