Fuck Muhammad!!!

[HairOfTheDog]

I think a lot of the outrage is due to the fact that in this country over the last several years there has been a mad dog frothing at the mouth attack on anything Christian in our schools, in courthouses, libraries and public spaces. The PC idiots have been on the anti religion campaign for some time. Now some teacher decides to assign an islamic message as part of their school work. Well it should be no surprise that people are pissed off.

I'm not surprised that people are pissed off about this, sadly.

But, the fact is, people are free to pray, worship or otherwise individually respect their religions, Christian or Islam or any other, in all of the public places you mentioned.

It's simply not permissible for state/government run public spaces to advocate any religion -- in accordance with the Constitution.

The Supreme Court has already confirmed that students may be taught about religion, but public schools may not push or represent any one religion. As the U.S. Supreme Court indicated, "[i]t might well be said that one's education is not complete without a study of comparative religion, or the history of religion and its relationship to the advancement of civilization." It would be difficult to teach art, music, literature and most social studies without considering religious influences and vice versa.

Public schools can and do, for example, teach that some Christians believe in Creationism. But, they cannot teach that Creationism is responsible for mankind's presence. There's a big difference.

I think it's silly that heads exploded over this assignment. I'd think it equally silly if heads exploded when teachers explained that Christians believe that Jesus is the son of God and was born of immaculate conception, or that Christians live by the ten commandments, during a World Religions assignment. But, that's just me.