How would you feel about a school forcing your child to pretend to be a Muslim for a day? That’s what some parents in Massachusetts faced recently.
Massachusetts high school students pretended to be Muslims in the “Islamic” city of Jerusalem as part of a class assignment used in Newton Public Schools to teach about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
One father was particularly upset when he discovered his daughter had been assigned what he described as an inflammatory pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel article. The man was allegedly told by the school’s principal that lessons the next year would be even more upsetting to him.
Judicial Watch Senior Investigator Bill Marshall told Fox News, “Citizens of Newton have been waging a minor war with school officials for years now, trying to get them to use balanced curriculum in their teaching materials on the subject of Islam and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
Marshall detailed his investigation, alongside chairman of Citizens for National Security Dr. Bill Saxton.
Newton parents contacted Saxton, who’s group examines textbooks for factual accuracy and attempts to correct or remove errors. He spearheaded the two-year effort with Marshall to get the release of nearly 600 pages of teaching material from the Newton Public Schools.
Saxton called it an example of a “purposeful attempt to indoctrinate our impressionable high-schoolers with the ‘virtues’ of Islam at the expense of Christianity, Judaism, and other religions.”