Christian Parent Furious After School Instructs Children To Write Out Their Submission To Allah
Joshua Gill
Religion Reporter
A West Virginia school has come under fire for instructing junior high students to write the Islamic profession of faith ostensibly to practice calligraphy.
Rich Penkoski, a Christian parent and founder of online ministry Warriors for Christ, raised alarms over a packet on Islam his daughter’s seventh grade social studies teacher issued to students, according to Christian Post. The packet, edited from the full version of a world religions workbook, instructed students to practice writing the Shahada, or Islamic profession of faith, in Arabic calligraphy — an assignment that, if left undone, would result in detention, according to Penkoski’s daughter. (RELATED: ‘Continue The Momentum’ — San Diego Schools Continue Coordinating With CAIR After Rescinding Controversial Anti-Islamophobia Initiative)
The Shahada states: “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.”
Penkoski called Mountain Ridge Middle School Principal Ron Branch and objected to the packet, saying it disturbed him and had misinformation about the history of calligraphy.“I saw the assignment of writing the Shahada in Arabic. Their excuse was calligraphy,” Penkoski told The Christian Post. “I was like, ‘Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!’ First of all, calligraphy was invented in China 3,000 years prior to Muhammad. The fact that they were trying to get my daughter to write that disturbed me.”
“I said, ‘That is not happening. My daughter is not doing that.’ My daughter told me that if she didn’t do the assignment, then she was going to get a [detention] slip,” Penkoski added.
Branch informed Penkoski that the teacher who gave the assignment, Katherine Hinson, clarified to students that the assignment was optional and would not be graded. Penkoski, however, remained unconvinced given the nature of past assignments on world religions in Hinson’s class.
“When they were given a packet [on Christianity], which didn’t go into that much detail, they did have to write an essay. So you’re telling me they don’t have to do it now that I called you on it? It makes no sense and it is not consistent,” Penkoski told Christian Today.
full story at http://dailycaller.com/2018/05/17/west-virginia-christian-parent-school-submissions-to-allah/