The outrage from many parents dealt with the secretive, deceptive methods used by the teacher to have students write the shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith. Per an update from Dr. Susan Berry at Breitbart (emphasis added):
Kimberly Herndon said she was “shocked that this was sent home, shocked that this was in the schools [and] shocked that this was right here in our small town,” reports WHSV.com. Herndon added she felt her rights as a parent had been violated...
“I will not have my children sit under a woman who indoctrinates them with the Islam religion when I am a Christian, and I’m going to stand behind Christ,” Herndon said.
“That’s why we need to join together,” Herndon said. “If my truth can not be spoken in schools, I don’t want false doctrine spoken in schools. That’s what keeps it even across the board.”
One county resident who worked as a teacher told the News Leader that if she had assigned her English students to copy down Bible passages in an assignment, she would have been fired.
Update on this story.
Virginia School District Closes After Controversial Assignment Forces Students to Write Muslim Oath
by John Hayward, Breitbart News, December 18, 2015:
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| Virginia School deceives Christian students into writing the Muslim declaration of faith. |
An entire school district in Virginia is closed Friday, after the backlash against an assignment which forced students to write the shahada, the Muslim oath that declares “There is no God but Allah. Mohammed is the messenger of Allah.”
