On June 26, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, i.e., violated the separation of church and state.
A day later, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that the Cleveland voucher program that sends tax dollars to religious schools didn't violate the separation of church and state.
Taken together, that means a kid in a public school can't say "under God" but it's OK for a voucher student, let's say at the tax-supported Mohammed Academy, to say five obligatory prayers a day, along with learning what's wrong with Jews and America, courtesy of American taxpayers.
HATE SCHOOLS
Here, for example, is how Washington Post reporters Valerie Strauss and Emily Wax describe the school day at the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria, Va.:
"Eleventh-graders at the elite Islamic Saudi Academy study energy and matter in physics, and read stories about slavery and the Puritans. Then they file into their Islamic studies class, where textbooks tell them the Day of Judgment can't come until Jesus Christ returns to Earth, breaks the cross and converts everyone to Islam, and until Muslims start attacking Jews."
The 11th-grade text explains that Jews will try to "conceal themselves behind trees" on Judgment Day. The trees, in turn, praise be to Allah, will become anti-Semitic snitches, saying: "Oh, Muslim, oh servant of God, here is a Jew hiding behind me. Come here and kill him."
Crazy as he was, even Hitler didn't teach that trees hate Jews.
Students told Strauss and Wax that they're taught in Islamic studies "that it is better to shun and even to dislike Christians, Jews and Shiite Muslims." Some teachers "focus more on hatred," said one teenager. "They teach students that whatever is kuffar, that is, non-Muslim, it is OK for you to hurt or steal from that person."
The geography lesson⢠"Maps of the Middle East, minus Israel, hang on classroom walls," write the Post reporters, describing a seventh-grade classroom at the Al-Qalam All-Girls School in Springfield, Va.
"Textbooks, often from overseas, are rife with anti-American rhetoric," report Strauss and Wax - and rife, of course, with an anti-Israel and anti-Jewish mind-set. Along with studying foreign textbooks, students at the Saudi Islamic Academy, "an educational institution," according to its catalog, "subject to the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia," might well be expected keep up with current events by way of the Saudi government's official daily newspaper, Al Riyadh.
A recent article in Al Riyadh by King Faisal University Professor Umayma Ahmad Al-Jalahma, for example, fits nicely into a class on religion, or perhaps cooking, explaining how "Jewish vampires" celebrate the Jewish Purim festival: "For this holiday, the Jewish people must obtain human blood so that their clerics can prepare the holiday pastries. In other words, the practice cannot be carried out as required if human blood is not spilled."
FOURTH COLUMN
All told, not counting the operations of Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, there are about 1,300 Muslim mosques in the United States. About one-fifth operate full-time day schools, enrolling more than 30,000 students. Thousands more attend Islamic weekend schools. Legions more, of course, can be expected to sign up now that the Supreme Court has flashed a green light to the highly motivated Islamists that tax dollars are heading their way.
Muslim historian Khalid Duran, author of "Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam for Jews," points to the internal dangers to America from Islamists, i.e., fundamentalist Muslim extremists, asserting that America has been too lax about terrorists living within its borders.
"The strongest base of Islamism is neither Afghanistan nor Pakistan - it is the United States," writes Duran. "Islamists are firmly entrenched here - in the political system, in the economy, in academe, even in the military - and they count on support from a huge network of Muslim institutions and organizations in America."
Kenneth Adelman, U.N. ambassador and arms control director in the Reagan administration and former assistant to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, reaches the same conclusion: "Islamic hatred is being spread here at home, molding young American minds in what is shaping up as a real fourth column."
In the traditional Islamic view, explains historian Bernard Lewis, a jihad generally refers to an armed struggle against infidels: "The logic of Islamic law does not recognize the permanent existence of any other polity outside Islam. In time, in the Muslim view, all mankind will accept Islam or submit to Islamic rule. A treaty of peace between the Muslim state and a non-Muslim state was thus in theory impossible."
THE ANSWER
Duran's solution⢠"Islamist schools must be closed - a huge task, but absolutely crucial for humanity at large because these schools impart little useful knowledge and indoctrinate students with hatred of others." Instead, given the Supreme Court's decision in the Cleveland voucher case, we'll be bankrolling this hatred with American tax dollars.
For the most part, conservatives have hailed the voucher decision, but if they think teachers unions are bad, wait till they get a load of what the mullahs have up their sleeves.
