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Watch: Pastor Hears Islam Is Being Taught In Schools And Unloads EPIC Challenge To Students
A pastor from Tennessee is courting controversy over his ideas on how students should respond to what he says is the “indoctrination” of Islam in the classrooms of the area’s schools.
After Pastor Greg Locke of Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet, Tennessee heard that local schools were teaching about Islam to the exclusion of Judaism and Christianity, he responded with a YouTube video with his take on curriculum. What he had to say ruffled some feathers, indeed.
In his video, Pastor Locke began by criticizing the emphasis on Islam in Wilson County schools.
“Let me tell you something,” Locke says. “when they are in sixth grade, they get half a page of watered down Christianity that has about as much Bible as a thimble, if you will.”
“And now there’s 28 pages that they have to learn about Islam and Mohammed and how it all came about and about the Holy Koran and the Five Pillars of Islam and how they pray and when they pray and where they pray and why they pray and about pilgrimages and all of this!”
He added: “And then they say that Allah is the only god…and both Christianity and Islam and Jews all serve the same god. We do not serve the same God!”
Pastor Locke went on to insist that this emphasis on Islam isn’t an accident.
“Do not think, ladies and gentlemen, that is any coincidence whatsoever, that on Sept. 11th, that they will be taking tests on it,” Locke said.
Locke sparked even more controversy over how he says students and parents should react to the curriculum (a copy of the course outline can be seen here).
“You need to tell your kids, ‘Take an F for the class.’ Because I’d rather fail in man’s class and get an A+ in God’s class. And we need some kids that have some character, that stand up. Because we do not serve the god of the nation [of] Islam. We do not serve Allah,” he advised.
Now, according to The Tennessean, the schools are strenuously disputing Locke’s characterization of the course.
“No one in any Wilson County School is teaching any indoctrination of Islam or of any world religion for that matter,” Wright said. “To imply or state otherwise shows a lack of knowledge about the standards used in our schools,” said Wilson County Schools Director, Donna Wright.
Wilson County Schools Deputy Director of Academics Monty Wilson also addressed the matter. “Although these religions will be taught at some point in these three courses, the focus on each religion will depend on the context and influence of the time period,” Wilson said. “World History is taught at three different times in a student’s K-12 education. First in grades six and seven and again in high school. The courses cover World History from the beginning of time to the present,” he said.
It wasn’t long before Pastor Locke removed the video he made from Facebook claiming that hackers had attacked his page and began posting pornography. Despite this, his response to the course had the entire school district talking.
(H/T IJReview.com)
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/pastor-hears-islam-is-being-taught-in-schools-and-unloads-epic-challenge-to-students-video/
