Author: Chuck Baldwin
Publication: CNN News
Date: December 05, 2000
The cat is finally out
of the bag. Children may pray and worship in public school - but
only if they are Muslims.
A December 1 New York
Post article states: "Who says students can't pray in public school? The
Board of Education allows Muslim students to worship in school buildings
during the holy month of Ramadan, The Post has learned.
"One Brooklyn high school
gives Islamic students special privileges to be 15minutes late for class
and to turn the auditorium into a makeshift mosque for their daily prayer
vigil."
The Post report continued,
"At Lafayette HS, also in Bensonhurst, students get a special pass to be
late to seventh period so they can pray in the school auditorium.
Muslim students said the prayers usually take 15 minutes. They said
they appreciated Lafayette's religious tolerance.
"'The school lets us
do our own prayer. It's beautiful,' said Umit Kulug, a 17-year-old
senior from Turkey. 'They let 100 of us boys and girls pray together
in a big auditorium. Some of the non-Islamic students get a pass
to watch us pray.' Kulag said teachers even help students catch up on what
they missed in class.
"Prayer rooms are provided
at other high schools, including Brooklyn Tech and International HS in
Long Island City, Queens."
The same article also
notes, "The accommodation of Muslim students comes only weeks after Brooklyn
Shallow Intermediate School in the Bensonhurst section painted over a playground
mural dedicated to neighborhood youths who died because it featured Jesus
Christ."
Let me get this straight.
Public schools do not allow their students to sing Christmas songs that
mention Christ. Manger scenes are not allowed. And Christian
children may not read their Bibles or pray, because they are told it violates
the "separation of church and state." Under this rubric, even murals that
mention Jesus Christ are painted over.
Yet, Muslim children
are allowed to conduct mass prayer meetings during school time, in school
buildings, and teachers will even help them make up any missed work.
And all this is done without anyone raising an objection.
Any honest observer should
realize that this call for the "separation of church and state" is in reality
nothing more than a thinly veiled attack against America's historic, Christian
foundation.
In a world ruled by liberals,
Christians are told that their sacred symbols and their personal expressions
of faith have no place in public life. At the same time, however,
Muslims are assured that there is no separation of mosque and state
(The author is host of
the Chuck Baldwin Live radio show.)
