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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (23488)	12/17/2009 3:12:21 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

Second Graders Sing About Allah? 14 December 2009 Comments (86) Download My Toolbar! A battle over religion is brewing in central Indiana after a public school wanted second graders to sing a song declaring, “Allah is God.” The phrase was removed just before the performance after a national conservative group launched a protest. The principal of Lantern Road Elementary School in Fishers, IN, said they were trying to teach inclusiveness through their holiday production. It included references to Christmas, Hanukkah, Ramadan, Las Posadas and Kwanzaa. However, no other deity, other than Allah, was referenced in the show. “It went off…without a hitch,” Danielle Thompson told the Indianapolis Star. “Several families thought it was a nice program.” But others did not – especially David Hogan. His daughter came home with a copy of the lyrics just days before the production. Hogan, a Christian, told the American Family Association, a conservative advocacy group, that he was deeply concerned to learn that his daughter had been singing, “Allah is God.” Here’s what the children were assigned to sing: “Allah is God, we recall at dawn, Praying ‘til night during Ramadan At this joyful time we pray happiness for you, Allah be with you all your life through.” But when it came time to perform the “Christian” part of Christmas, children were assigned to say: “I didn’t know there was a little boy at the manger. What child is this? I’m not sure if there was a little boy or not. Then why did you paint one on your nativity window? I just thought if there was a little boy, I’d like to know exactly what he (sic) say. Micah Clark, executive director of the Indiana AFA, launched an Internet protest once he heard about the allegations. “What surprised me here is that we’ve had a secular scrubbing of Christmas for so long and the school apparently didn’t see the problem with kids singing to Allah,” he told FOX News Radio. “You won’t even mention Jesus and you’re going to force my child to sing about Allah? In email correspondence the school initially defended the reference as a way to be inclusive of all religions. However, once complaints starting rolling in, school leaders decided to eliminate the Allah reference. That drew the ire of the Muslim Alliance of Indiana. “It’s unfortunate if that was removed from the program just because of Islamophobic feelings,” Shariq Siddiqui told the Indianapolis Star. “Schools are a place where we should learn more about each other rather than exclude each other based on stereotypes and misconceptions.” But Clark said having children bow and pray is problematic for non-Muslim families. “(This show) affirmed Islam and negated Christianity. I wouldn’t have had a problem if it had been equal to all faiths.” At least one Christian family approved of the Allah reference. “I’m a Christian and I was in no way offended by the program at Lantern Road,” said Judy Grasso to The Star. Read more: foxnewsradio.com

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (23488)	12/18/2009 5:54:14 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Or maybe he drew it AT HOME, under his father's instructions, to help in a financial scam, given the father's comments about wanting 'cash'? I doubt it... this sounds more like a projection coming from inside you... maybe you would like to find an opportunity like that for yourself.. the school authorities would probably be legally amiss if they just ignored the possibility that the child was in some kind of risk, and never investigated at all Maybe, but it the kid's drawing itself tells the story, I find the drawing to be a normal drawing well within the bounds of kids that age drawing holiday type sketches... there's no violence in that drawing, no blood dripping, or no swords stabbing, or dead bodies... the kid is also intelligent, there's good detail... when it comes to assessing kids' drawing I know very well what I'm talking about... I've taken numerous graduate courses in projective drawing techniques as part of my doctoral training... Also, you don't ONLY look at a drawing, you would already know by the kid's behavior prior to the drawing whether he's been acting out in class, has he been sleeping in class, has he been getting along with his classmates, has he been absent from school, does he have any injuries or marks on him, is he eating his lunches, are there ANY overall changes in his classroom demeanor and/or behavior prior to the drawing? Here's a true story which also contains a very important lesson... Sigmund Freud was at the podium addressing the Second Psychoanalytic Conference in Vienna, during his address he was puffing on a cigar... while he was speaking, several of the people attending the conference were talking to each other about the cigar and about what it could mean in psychoanalytic terms... their chatter became louder and louder until it finally interrupted Freud's delivery... finally, Freud said, "You don't have to psychoanalyze everything, sometime a cigar is just a cigar." Sometime a drawing is just a drawing... you don't just look at a drawing in an isolated situation and then jump to a major conclusion that there's something wrong with the kid... if you ask a kid to draw a holiday picture, then what do you expect? Clearly, this kid has a religious background and religion and its teachings are taken serious in the home, this is what is reflected in his drawing, and so this is the image he thinks of when asked about Christmas and/or the holidays... jumping to conclusions as the school did is amateur and typical of school psychologists who generally feel inadequate in their positions in the first place, they feel compelled to find clinical psychopathy everywhere they look even when it's not there, and especially liberals who want to do away with religion in particular no matter what... my guess is that the drawing rattled the school psychologist because he/she is a liberal and doesn't think religion belongs in school or anywhere, therefore the kid must be sick... my guess is this over-attention to this kid's drawing is driven by the school's political zeitgeist itself, and nothing more... GZ