A SIXTH-GRADE TEACHER IN
FLORIDA GAVE HIS STUDENTS AND ANTI-MUSLIM READING ASSIGNMENT.
THIS TEXT DESCRIBES ISLAM AS MONSTROUS AND THE KORAN AS
RIDICULOUS A MORAL AND CORRUPTING.
THE SCHOOL SAYS THAT THEY HAVE REPRIMANDED TEACHER MARK
SMITH, A RELIGION AND SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHER AT BLESSED
TRINITY CATHOLIC SCHOOL IN A CALLER, WHO GAVE STUDENTS
PRONOUNCE OF A 19TH CENTURY CATHOLIC TEXT THAT REFERS
TO ISLAM AS A MONSTROUS MIXTURE OF FACE.
AND ALSO BECAUSE THE DOCTRINES OF THE PROPHET MOHAMMED
RIDICULOUS, IMMORAL AND CORRUPTING.
THE ASSIGNMENT THAT HE GAVE TO HIS STUDENTS WAS THIS
EXCERPT FROM AN 1853 TEXT ABOUT ISLAM BY PRIEST GIOVANNI BOSCO.
THE TEXT IS SORT OF MAKE US BACK BETWEEN THE FATHER AND SON
AND THE FATHER EXPLAINS HOW JESUS CHRIST IS SUPERIOR TO
THE PROPHET, WHO DEGRADES AND DISHONORS HUMAN NATURE AND
BY PLACING ALL HAPPINESS AND SENSUAL PLEASURES, REDUCES
MAN TO THE LEVEL OF FILTHY ANIMALS.
CAN WE JUST PAUSE THERE FOR A SECOND?
WAY, THE PROBLEM WITH ISLAM IS THAT IT IS TO SEXUAL?
IS THE FIRST I'M HEARING THAT THAT THEY HAD TO GO BACK TO 1853
WHO THOUGHT, THOSE PERVERTS AND ISLAM THOUGHT THEY WERE NONSTOP
SHOWING ALL THEIR WOMEN THOUGHT AND NOW OF COURSE, THE
TALKING POINTS ARE REVERSED.
THOSE TERRIBLE GUYS AND ISLAM, ALL THEY DO IS COVER UP
THEIR WOMEN AND SUBJUGATE THEM, ETC.
GUESS WHAT, GUYS THAT SOMETIMES IT TURNS OUT THESE THINGS
ARE SOCIOPOLITICAL, THEY ARE CULTURAL AND THEY DEPEND ON
WHO IS WINNING, WHO IS LOSING, WHO IS IN CHARGE AND THE
TIME PERIOD.
IF YOU WANTED TO GO TO A MORE CONTEMPORARY CATHOLIC
DOCTRINE YOU ACTUALLY FIND OUT THAT ALL THE RECENT POPES
ACTUALLY PREACH THAT WE SHOULD HAVE TOLERANCE FOR ISLAM,
WE SHOULD GET ALONG AND THERE SHOULD BE MUTUAL
UNDERSTANDING BUT YOU DIDN'T WANT TO QUOTE THE POPES,
YOU WANTED TO SELECTIVELY GO BACK TO 1850 3C COULD FIND
A GUY WHO HATES ISLAM AND MAKES OF THINGS LIKE IT IS TO SENSUAL.
YEAH, LET ME READ A FEW MORE ASK HER SOME THIS ROLE
YOU GET THE GRAVITY OF THIS.
AND THEN I WANT TO COMMENT ON WHAT YOU JUST SAID THAT, AND IS
DESCRIBED AS A CHILD IS IN, THE LIEN, IGNORAMUS, IMPOSTER AND
FALSE PROPHET WHO COULDN'T EVEN RYAN PROPAGATED HIS RELIGION
OUT THERE MIRACLES ARE PERVASIVE WORDS BUT BY MILITARY FORCE.
THIS IS AT THE CARRANZA HOLY BOOK OF ISLAM IS ALSO
CALLED A SERIES OF ERRORS, THE MOST ENORMOUS ONES BEING
AGAINST REALITY AND THE WORSHIP OF A TRUE GOD.
I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT THAT I DO KNOW THAT THE POPES HAVE COME
OUT TO SUPPORT THE RELIGION OF ISLAM AND SO THIS IS WHY THIS IS
SO FRUSTRATING BECAUSE THIS IS A RELIGIOUS TEEPLE TEACHER.
YOU WOULD ASSUME HE WOULD BE UP ON HIS RELIGION AND KNOW THAT
THAT IS WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS DAY AND AGE AND ESPECIALLY
WHEN YOU HAVE SORT OF IMPRESSIONABLE LOVE YOUNG
STUDENTS THAT YOU COULD CLAIM THAT HE IS TEACHING THIS
HISTORICAL TEXT FROM A PRIEST, BUT THAT IS REALLY DANGEROUS
BECAUSE IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE ARE TEACHING YOUTH WHAT OUR
RELIGION BELIEVES OR WHAT RELIGION IS ABOUT IF THAT IS
WHAT HIS GOAL IS THAT THIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL BUT AT THE SAME
TIME, DON'T TEACH, JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE SAID IN HISTORY
DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU NEED TO REPEAT IT.
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
AND YOU NEED FOR CONTEXT.
IF YOU SAID THIS GUY SAYS THAT IN 1853 BY THE LOOK AT THE EDICT
IN 1965 BY POPE PAUL THE SIXTH SAYS THAT WE SHOULD TREAT ISLAM
WITH ESTEEM AND YOU GET BOTH SIDES OF IT THAT IN FACT, I'LL
BE HONEST WITH YOU.
MY PROFESSOR IN COLLEGE UTAH INTRODUCTION TO ISLAM WAS A
WONDERFUL IRIS GUY BUT I DON'T THINK HE GAVE PROPER
CONTEXT BECAUSE HE ONLY SHOWED IN A POSITIVE LIGHT AND I
THOUGHT HE SHOULD'VE ALSO FOCUSED ON THE NEGATIVE
PARTS OF ISLAM AND THE PARTS THAT AREN'T TRUE.
LOOK, TO ME, GIVE FULL CONTEXT.
BUT IF YOU DO THIS HATCHET JOB, YOU ARE DOING IT FOR A
POLITICAL PURPOSE.
ABSOLUTELY, AND I THINK HE IS FULL OF WHERE.
A SEEMS THERE IS AN AGENDA THAT UNDERGIRDS THIS LESSON PLANS I
WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE REPRIMANDING WAS THAT WHY HE
WASN'T REMOVED I FEEL LIKE THIS SET THE TONE FOR THE CLASSROOM
AND OBVIOUSLY IT HAS MADE STUDENTS UNCOMFORTABLE IN THE
COMMUNITY UNCOMFORTABLE SO I JUST WONDER WHAT THE RECOURSE
IS FOR THESE ACTIONS AND HOW HE HAS BEEN PUNISHED OR WHATEVER.
THAT'S A STATEMENT THAT HE SAYS HE IS IN REPRIMANDED
THAT THE DOESN'T REALLY DO MUCH ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU HAVE
ARTIE EXPOSED THESE KIDS TO THIS IN THE WHOLE PROCESS OF
GOING THROUGH RELIGION CLASS IS TO LEARN ABOUT OTHER RELIGIONS
AND JUST GAIN AN UNDERSTANDING AND THIS IS A REALLY GATE
GIVING THEM AN UNDERSTANDING, IT IS SHOWING THEM SOME REAL
DISGUSTING HATRED AND PROPAGANDA AGAINST A RELIGION.
YEAH, SO CATHOLIC SCHOOL GETS TO DECIDE, IT'S A PRIVATE
SCHOOL, WHAT THEY WANT TO DO.
BUT THOSE MISUNDERSTAND SITUATIONS OUT LOCAL RELIGIOUS
LEADERS FROM RABBIS TO A MONSTER THE PRIEST HAVE COME OUT AGAINST
THE TEACHING IT THIS WAY AND THE STATUS WRONG THOUGHT IT IS
ACTUALLY AGAINST CATHOLIC DOCTRINE THOUGHT HE IS EVEN
TEACHING CATHOLIC DOCTRINE WRONG AND FINALLY, JUST WHEN YOU
THOUGHT IT WAS HORRIBLE AS IT IS, THERE IS EXTRA PERSON
THERE THAT IS NOT.
I READ THE ACTUAL TEXT COMMENTS FROM 1853 OF COURSE CAN
HAVE TERRIBLE PARTS LITTLE IN ALL THINGS THIS IS ABOUT ISLAM.
REFERRING TO MOHAMMED, HE COULDN'T EVEN WRITE IT AND
IN COMPOSING IT, HE WAS ASSISTED BY A JEW.
WELL, JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS BAD.
HE SAYS IT'S RIDDLED WITH ERRORS.
I WOULD AGREE WITH THAT.
YOU WANT TO LOOK AT THE BIBLE?
HUMAN LOOK AT THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW TESTAMENT?
WE COULD HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT ERRORS.
I THINK YOU WANT TO OPEN UP THAT CAN OF WORMS.
AND TO THAT POINT, HE SAYS YOU QUOTED MONSTROUS, THE REST OF
THE QUOTE IS COMMENTS RELIGIOUS CONSISTS OF A MONSTROUS
MIXER OF JUDAISM, PAGANISM, AND CHRISTIANITY.
YOU KNOW WHO'S RELIGION ALSO INCORPORATES JUDAISM?
AND PAGANISM BY THE WAY THAT WE JUST HAD EASTER.
CAN YOU SHOW ME WHERE THE EASTER BUNNY IS IN THE BIBLE?
W KNOW THIS, THE EGGS AND THE CHOCOLATE ALL COME FROM PAGANISM
SO I MIX OF JUDAISM PAGANISM AND CHRISTIANITY IS THE BIBLE.