A former Marine is asking a judge to lift a no-trespass order ahead of his daughter’s graduation after her high school reportedly banned him from campus for objecting to classroom lessons about Islam.
“She’s in the final semester of her senior year, and as it stands right now, she’s going to have to go through that life experience without her dad there,” said Kate Oliveri, a lawyer from the Michigan-based Thomas More Law Center who is representing John Kevin Wood and his family, The Washington Post reported.
The dispute stems from an October 2014 classroom assignment at La Plata High School in Charles County, Maryland. Mr. Wood’s daughter, a then-junior, was reportedly asked in her World History class to memorize the Five Pillars of Islam and recite the shahada: the Muslim statement of faith that declares, “There is no God but Allah.”
She had been taught, according to school papers submitted to federal court, that most Muslims’ faith is “stronger than the average Christian,” The Post reported.
Mr. Wood called the assignment an assault on his family’s Christian faith. He said that when he called the school to complain and ask for his daughter to be given a different assignment, school officials issued a no-trespass order against him and he has not been allowed on campus since.
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6 comments:
What's wring with you people. This mans over in middle east fighting against the very thing he's being subjected to and your going to ban him from his daughters graduation?? This country has gotten to be nothing but moral decay
He should have thought of that before acting ignorant. He's lost the privilege.
And this is acceptable? You wonder why these veterans have garf time dealing with society when they get back when their subjected to this ridiculousness. You better get ready for change because nobody is going to keep defending these kinds of policies
Why is that ?? I wouldn't let my daughter study anything to do with Muslim curriculum either
A "privilege"?
Seig heil, Heinrich.
And our judicial system just goes right along with the other lemmings.
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