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Students made to wear burqas … in Texas
Posted on February 26, 2013
by creepingsharia
By John Griffing via Students made to wear burqas – in Texas.
There’s a new controversy in Texas
involving the online public school curriculum called CSCOPE, which
already has been the subject of heated debate and state legislative
hearings.
There are reports now that students were made to wear Muslim burqas as part of their public school lessons.
CSCOPE has been facing criticism over its
alleged Islamic and anti-American bias. It is a “curriculum management
system” now used in 80 percent of Texas classrooms. It recently was the
subject of a heated inquiry that culminated in hearings conducted by the
Texas Senate Education Committee chaired by state Sen. Dan Patrick,
R-Houston.
According to a joint press release by
Patrick, State Board of Education Chairwoman Barbara Cargill and CSCOPE
representatives, CSCOPE ultimately agreed to “significant changes.” But
it is unclear when the changes will take place and whether or not the
pledged cooperation is legally binding or simply to mollify critics.
WND contacted Patrick’s office but has
been unable to obtain documentation confirming whether CSCOPE compliance
is required or optional.
He did release a statement: “Be assured we
are working on this issue as is the SBOE almost every day. The hearing
was step one, the letter step two. The only thing that is binding from a
legislative standpoint is legislation. We are working on those issues
based on what we are discovering now. We are doing our job, one that
must be thorough and will take time.”
CSCOPE has come under fire for
controversial curriculum content, including accusations of multiple
lessons showing a pro-Islamic agenda. CSCOPE representatives had claimed
that such content had been “taken out of context” or that they were
“old lessons that have since been taken down.”
CSCOPE proponents have denied the
existence of such lessons, or, when faced with documentation, have
dismissed critics’ claims as exaggerations.
However, in Lumberton, Texas, this week, high school girls were made to wear burqas as part of a CSCOPE study of Islam.
One student quoted the teacher as saying, “We are going to work to change your perception of Islam.”
The teacher in the burqa lesson, according
to a student, also said, “I do not necessarily agree with this, but I
am supposed to teach you that we are not to call these people terrorists anymore, but freedom fighters.”
Critics argue that this should not be a teacher’s role, and are concerned that CSCOPE curriculum appears agenda-driven.
According to a student in the class, the
lesson was to teach about the life of women in Islam. The burqa exercise
focused on fashion and did not include the fact that in many Muslim
communities, women who appear in public without a burqa face being beaten, imprisoned or murdered by family members, vigilante groups or even the state.
At the end of class, the students were assigned to write a paper about Egypt. According
to one student, they were instructed to discuss “how Egypt was a good
country until democracy took over, and that things were finally
corrected when the Muslim Brotherhood came into power.”
Muslim women are portrayed as liberated in
CSCOPE literature. In a lesson titled “Thinking About Sexuality” that
utilizes a series of film clips, students are asked, “What do the women
portrayed in these film clips think Islam teaches about sexuality? How
are their thoughts similar or dissimilar to your own ideas about
sexuality?”
Under the subheading “For further discussion,” select quotes from Muslim women are included for student reflection.
A women named Harlina Halizah says: “I
don’t think it is fair to say that Islam restricts your sexual desire.
It is more directing it toward a more purposeful kind of life.”
Halizah goes on to say, “I don’t need to be liberated. I was born a free person.”
Students are then asked: “Do you agree? What would you define as the criteria for being ‘liberated’?”
Another Muslim female prototype, Zainah Anwar, is quoted under the subheading “Thinking about Gender Relations.”
“We found that it is not Islam that
discriminates against women, it is not the verses in the Quran, it is
the way that these verses have been interpreted by men, living in
patriarchal societies who wish to maintain their dominance, and their
superiority and control over women.”
To get a better understanding, WND reached
out to Mary Bowen. Bowen is a teacher of more than 30 years with a
masters degree in curriculum who recently testified before the Senate
Education Committee about CSCOPE’s academic deficiencies and its
politically driven nature.
Commenting on a picture in the curriculum
of smiling Muslim children, Bowen said, “I wonder if they have been
taught that the women they are representing cannot drive, cannot be
schooled, that they do not have legal birth records and if they are
accused of rape/sexual impropriety their father can legally take them
out on the patio and kill them like a dog without legal penalty.
“I just wonder if they are being taught the real story behind the burqa.”
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