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US public school kids indoctrinated in Islam

This may seem off topic, but once you see the connection to anti-Semitism and 'Palestinian' terror groups, it's really not.

In late May of 2010, Wellesley, Massachusetts public middle school students took a field trip to the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center - a controversial Saudi-funded mega-mosque run by the Muslim American Society of Bostn. There, the students were separated by gender and the boys were asked to join the Muslim adults in their prayer. Several of the public school boys took part.

Let's go to the videotape.



There's much more about this story here and here.

By the way, the mosque is in Roxbury, Mass., which was once the center of Jewish life in the Boston area.

UPDATE SUNDAY 11:30 AM

Wellesley's superintendent of schools has apologized for the incident (Hat Tip: Ace of Spades via Twitter).

One of the questions that bothers me is why it took four months for anyone to think that this was wrong. Here's their explanation:

Wong said prior to the video being released her department hadn’t received complaints regarding the field trip though one family declined to allow their child on the trip.

“Apparently someone wasn’t happy and it just took some time for it to come back to us," she said.

That sounds awfully suspicious to me. And apparently they did know about the 'prayer session' beforehand, but claimed not to have received complaints about it.

Following the incident, Wong said she teachers were told students shouldn’t have been allowed to pray.

“We’re giving better guidance to our teachers. I don’t know if they’ll do [the field trip] differently but it won’t necessarily be because of this,” she said. “I support the field trip, I support them being able to go to observe; I do think allowing kids to participate in the prayer crossed the line.”

Hmmm.

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:30 AM