Islamic Homework Assignment

[Jaxb]

An entire school district in Virginia was closed after a teacher gave an Arabic calligraphy assignment to her students. The students were supposed to write, "There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah" in Arabic calligraphy. I think the teacher should have asked them to write something else like "My name is ..."

Here is a video about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_uiPV0-O4k

[One Bad Pig]

...thus making them all Muslim. Nice.

[Cow Poke]

The teacher should be forced to calligraphize* "I am a blundering idiot and a disgrace to public education....."




*yes, that is now a word, henceforth and hitherto!

[JonathanL]

The teacher should be forced to calligraphize* "I am a blundering idiot and a disgrace to public education....."




*yes, that is now a word, henceforth and hitherto!

You dolt, it's obviously spelled calligraphizise, or somesuch thing like that.

[Cerebrum123]

You dolt, it's obviously spelled calligraphizise, or somesuch thing like that.

I see what you did there.

[Cow Poke]

You dolt, it's obviously spelled calligraphizise, or somesuch thing like that.

Is somesuch even a word?

(if not, it should be)

(And I think I'm having a deja vu)

[JonathanL]

Is somesuch even a word?

(if not, it should be)

(And I think I'm having a deja vu)

my bad.

Dictionary app says it isn't ... it ought to be, right?

[Cow Poke]

my bad.

Dictionary app says it isn't ... it ought to be, right?

Just scribble it in the margin, then edit wikipedia to reflect the 'correction'.

[JonathanL]

Just scribble it in the margin, then edit wikipedia to reflect the 'correction'.

Ahem.

[Cow Poke]

Ahem.

You're pushin it, buster, and you're about to get kicked squarely in your somesuch!

[JonathanL]

You're pushin it, buster, and you're about to get kicked squarely in your somesuch!

Yeah, buster! You better watch it!































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[DesertBerean]

...thus making them all Muslim. Nice.

But isn't it supposed to be spoken in order to be official?


And I'm disappointed from what I can understand about the reaction. Over the top.

[Jaxb]

...thus making them all Muslim. Nice.

The teacher should not have required the students to write that. It is not right to require someone to affirm something in writing that he or she does not believe in.

Could you imagine the uproar if the students were required to write John 14:6 on a sheet of paper?

[Jedidiah]

And I'm disappointed from what I can understand about the reaction. Over the top.

I do not think so. What would the reaction have been if they were required to write out John 3:16? The reaction to this Islamic item should be at least as strong.

[stfoskey15]

I think the teacher should have asked them to write something else like "My name is ..."

Agreed.