Susan Jones, CNSNews.com
Monday, Nov. 24, 2003
A group called American Middle-East Christian Association (AMECA) plans to demonstrate Monday against what it calls the Islamic indoctrination of America's public schools.
The group said it has learned that an intermediate school in Covina, Calif., is teaching Islam to "impressionable" schoolchildren by urging them to fast during Ramadan.
According to the Christian group, a teacher at Royal Oak Intermediate School sent a note home to parents telling them that Muslims fast from sunup to sundown during the month of Ramadan. The teacher then told parents their children could earn extra credit by choosing to "fast for one, two or three days."
"America's Christian children had better not even utter the name Jesus Christ in public schools without persecution and prosecution by the 'separation of church and state' zealots," AMECA wrote in a press release.
The group said it would "conduct a peaceful educational seminar," a sidewalk protest, on Monday afternoon.
"We will have a number of experts in Islam to share quotes from the Koran in both Arabic and English," the group said.
It noted that the protest, an exercise of the First Amendment, would demonstrate a right lacking in Islamic-controlled nations.