San Francisco, Calif., Oct 17, 2005 / 22:00 pm
The Ann Arbor, Michigan based, Thomas More Law Center is challenging a California public school district which they say indoctrinated impressionable middle-schoolers in the Muslim faith.
The group said that during a three-week project, the 12-year old students were “placed into Islamic city groups, took Islamic names, [and] wore identification tags that displayed their new Islamic name” along side of the Star and Crescent Moon--the symbol of Muslims.
In addition, they were given materials which instructed them to “Remember Allah always so that you may prosper.”
The students also completed “the Islamic Five Pillars of Faith, including fasting, and memorized and recited the ‘Bismillah’ or ‘In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate,’ which students also wrote on banners that were hung on the classroom walls.”