Teacher tries to teach a lesson on Islam in the Bible Belt. Whoops!

Courtesy of the Washington Post:

A Virginia county closed all of its schools Friday because of intense backlash over a class assignment about Islam, with some parents alleging that their children were being subjected to Muslim indoctrination and educators emphasizing the importance of exposing U.S. students to the world’s fastest-growing religion. 

A high school geography teacher in rural Augusta County asked students to try their hand at writing the shahada, an Islamic declaration of faith, in Arabic calligraphy. The task, community reaction to it, and a sudden influx of outrage from around the country — including angry emails, phone calls and threats to put the teacher’s head on a stake — led the school district to close rather than risk disruption or violence. 

Augusta County Sheriff Randy Fisher said the superintendent and the school board decided to close the 10,000-student school system after district officials and the Riverheads High School teacher who gave the assignment received emails that seemed to increase in volume and vitriol as the week wore on. Most emails and messages assailed the school and the teacher for “indoctrinating” students in Islam, and some referenced violence generally. 

Fisher said he saw messages that called for firing the teacher and putting “her head on a stake.” Photos of beheaded bodies also were sent to the Riverheads principal. In a news release, the superintendent also said people indicated that they were planning protests at school buildings and that “some communications posed a risk of harm to school officials.”

That's right the parents were so afraid that their children were being indoctrinated into a religion associated with terrorism in this country, that they terrorized the superintendent, school officials, and teacher. 

But remember, these are most likely Christians so it doesn't count.

Welcome to Donald Trump's America folks.

Mormon child abuse disguised as religious instruction.

The man terrifying that young man, is Elder David Bednar, who is a member of something called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Apparently that means he is a big fish in the putrid little Mormon pond.

As a parent, and as a human being, watching this man make that clearly frightened child the center of attention, in order to teach some bullshit lesson about how straying from the path will put his very soul into jeopardy, makes me seethe with anger.

The boy asked a simple question, one that could have been answered simply, and without subjecting him to humiliation and fear.

You know I have taught numerous children the importance of studying, being moral and ethical, and about the real dangers and challenges that they may face in life, and not once did I make one of them cry nor feel the need to terrify them.

You can call me immoral til the cows come home, and insist that I cannot understand right from wrong without God or religion, but when I look in the mirror I see a man who children felt safe around, and who they knew would rather cut off his own arm then cause them any pain.

Emotional or otherwise.