Byron Union School District

Stop the ACLU:

On Wednesday, October 19, 2005, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, California, will hear oral arguments in Eklund v. Byron Union School District. The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, represents several parents and children who challenged the Byron Union School District’s practice of teaching twelve-year-old students “to become Muslims.”

For three weeks, impressionable twelve-year-old students were, among other things, placed into Islamic city groups, took Islamic names, wore identification tags that displayed their new Islamic name and the Star and Crescent Moon, which is the symbol of Muslims, were handed materials that instructed them to “Remember Allah always so that you may prosper,” completed the Islamic Five Pillars of Faith, including fasting, and memorized and recited the “Bismillah” or “In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate,” which students also wrote on banners that were hung on the classroom walls.

How about teaching Muslims "to become good Americans"? Among other things, the students can be placed with mixed sex groups of Christians and Jews (gasp!), take non-Muslim names, wear small Ts and those two triangles, read and understand the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, be told that taking a 6-years-old cousin as a third wife is a big no-no, and in the end pledge allegiance to the flag.

You dig?