Town of Braintree

Thank You America,

that was exactly the reason for my post. Unable to win elections, the PC agenda is being pushed in our schools to shall we say, educate our children. It's time for parents to become informed on what's going on in their schools.

By TMM

now all that's left to do

is to be a parent. if you're successful none of this baloney should threaten your ability to educate your children.good luck.by the way a sense
of humor has been known to go along
way too.

By THO

Bureaucrats Rewriting History

Bureaucrats Rewriting History: The State Department's Fantasy
Rewrite the history books, indoctrinate the children, and you can own the future. The bit about the Arab navigator is not just being put out by State, but will also be taught in Massachusetts public schools this year. Some lucky Massachusetts teachers were treated all of last week to a workshop called ''The Genesis and Genius of Islam.'' It featured professors from Boston College, College of the Holy Cross, Harvard, and Bridgewater State College, including Ibrahim Kalin, assistant professor of religious studies at Holy Cross. According to a local Massachusetts paper, Kalin said that ''Islamic sailors were the best seamen of the day,'' and ''noted that even Christopher Columbus had several Muslim sailors on his voyage that wound up in the New World.''

It's funny: just a few years ago, on a Manhattan street on Columbus Day, I saw a small band of furious protestors stalk by chanting ''Columbus! Did Not! Discover! America!'' But now the old sea dog is useful again, despite the fact that an unlikelier candidate to be poster child for multiculturalism could hardly be found. Columbus was only sailing in the first place to find a way that European traders (who were Christians in those days) could avoid land routes to the Far East. Those land routes were controlled by Muslims, whom Europeans didn't find to be paragons of peace and tolerance. Columbus was commissioned by Ferdinand and Isabella, who had just defeated the last Muslims in Spain and driven them out of the country.

Did Columbus tag after the retreating Muslims and hire a navigator and a few sailors? Well, in fact his navigator's name was Martin Pinzon, who served as captain of the Pinta. Of the known names of his crew members, there is an abundance of Juans and Pedros, but nary a Mahmoud or Ahmad. In those days, Christian names almost always meant the bearer was a Christian. As Muhammad Ali and Yusuf Islam can tell you, it is unlikely that a Muslim would have borne a Christian name. It is even more unlikely that Muslim crewmen would have willingly served under Christians. Muslim Spain was not the multicultural paradise of modern myth, but was rather a Sharia state in which non-Muslims were forbidden to hold authority over Muslims. This law was sometimes ignored, but always at the expense of arousing the resentment of the Muslim populace; would Muslim sailors who had so recently been citizens of this state have willingly signed on to take orders from Christians -- and men against whom they had so recently been at war? Also, Muslim sailors would not have found Columbus's ships a congenial atmosphere: Columbus firmly believed that the Christian God had called him to this mission. The crew prayed -- Christian prayers, not multicultural paeans to the Supreme Blob, and certainly not the maghrib and isha prayers -- often on the ship. They even broke out in Te Deum, laudamus when they sighted land.

Indeed. But it really isn't the history of Iraq, or of Columbus' voyages, that State and the Massachusetts educrats are interested in. What they're really on about is the history -- and future -- of the United States. Their multiculturalist fantasy history is designed, of course, to make Americans more accepting of an influential Islamic presence in the country. But unfortunately, since no one seems concerned about how to screen terrorists out of this Islamic presence, they're likely to find that the Muslims to whom they have surrendered their history -- and who they have invited into their future -- are no less multicultural than their forefathers of 1492.


By Rewrite the history books, indoc

girl may return to school Friday

A fourth-grade girl may return to school Friday, having completed a nine-day suspension for bringing to school what appeared to be about 30 ''Jell-O shots,'' school officials said.
Neither a sheriff's spokesman nor school officials would divulge if the gelatin cups contained alcohol. School officials said testing results are private because they're in the child's disciplinary record.
The little girl, her mother and school officials met Thursday and agreed the child will also have a hair test to determine if there are any signs of drug use; she and her mother will also undergo a three-hour counseling session with school officials.
The girl's mother, Adrienne Noble, could not be reached Thursday at the French Quarter bar where she works. Earlier, she insisted the Jell-O cups were nonalcoholic treats for her daughter's classmates.
The incident occurred Nov. 29, as the girl stood outside the Geraldine Boudreaux Elementary School in Terrytown, a New Orleans suburb. A teacher spotted liquid dripping out of the student's bookbag, looked inside and found what looked like the cups of alcohol-laced gelatin sold in bars.
A school system spokesman said the girl told Principal Dorothy Bailey her mother makes alcoholic shots at home and sells them at work. She said her mom told her to take the shots to school and sell them, three for $1, ''to make some money for Christmas,''' schools spokesman Jeff Nowakowski said.
According to school policy, the fact that the Jell-O looked like an alcoholic product was enough to punish the girl ?— whether it was alcoholic or not