SECOND GRADERS IN THE U.S. TOLD TO SING ABOUT ALLAH
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FOX News Radio
Monday, December 14, 2009
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.
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the man from havana
Jai Maharaj) wrote:
> Second Graders Sing About Allah?
>
> FOX News Radio
> Monday, December 14, 2009
>
> 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.
>
GOOD. NOW F*CK OFF !
lil abner
> Second Graders Sing About Allah?
>
> FOX News Radio
> Monday, December 14, 2009
>
> 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,
America's culture and beliefs, There goals is to divide America. Then to
turn America into an islamic nightmare for Americans. The elimination of
Christmas is a key battle for them. America is Christian despite all the
delarations , by the Multiculturists that it is Muslim, Hindu, or nn
religious. If they want to assert their culture, go back home where your
culture is. Leae America alone. We will not let you destroy
Christianity, and forxce us to express it and celebrate Christmas in the
shadows. Americaans simply will not put up with it. Go home. Our House
is full. We do not want to change Chhristmas into a muslim degradation
of God. Alla's is abased on the pretend Moon God. He is recoded in
History as a pedophile, an assassin, shoe seller, rapist, wife beater,
and murderer. We will never shining such a veals myth airship our God.
Fire teachers and sch00i boards tat indiscriminate iur future citizens.
Alla's is engaged in terrorism, right now. Death to Allah.
Leave America and Christmas alone. Go home.
arah
The Mystery Of The Pagan Origin Of Christmas: Jesus Was Not Born On
December 25th But A Whole Bunch Of Pagan Gods Were
Why is Christmas celebrated on December 25th? Most people assume
that
it has always been a Christian holiday and that it is a celebration
of
the birth of Jesus. But it turns out that Jesus was not born on
December 25th. However, a whole bunch of pagan gods were born on
that
day. In fact, pagans celebrated a festival involving a heroic
supernatural figure that visits an evergreen tree and leaves gifts on
December 25th long before Jesus was ever born. From its early
Babylonian roots, the celebration of the birth or "rebirth" of the
sun
god on December 25th came to be celebrated under various names all
over the ancient world. You see, the winter solstice occurs a few
days before December 25th each year. The winter solstice is the day
of
the year when daylight is the shortest. In ancient times, December
25th was the day each year when the day started to become noticeably
longer. Thus it was fitting for the early pagans to designate
December 25th as the date of the birth or the "rebirth" of the sun.
The truth is that thousands of years before there was a "Santa
Claus",
there was another supernatural figure who would supposedly visit a
tree and leave gifts every December 25th.
His name was Nimrod.
The celebration of December 25th goes all the way back to ancient
Babylon.
According to ancient Babylonian tradition, Semiramis (who eventually
became known as the goddess Astarte/Asherah/Ashtoreth/Isis/Ishtar/
Easter in other pagan religions) claimed that after the untimely
death
of her son/husband Nimrod (yes she was married to her own son), a
full
grown evergreen tree sprang up overnight from a dead tree stump.
Semiramis claimed that Nimrod would visit that evergreen tree and
leave gifts each year on the anniversary of his birth, which just
happened to be on December 25th.
This is the true origin of the Christmas tree.
On Bibletools.org, Mike Ford describes this ancient pagan tradition
about Nimrod this way....
----
After Nimrod's death (c. 2167 BC), Semiramis promoted the belief that
he was a god. She claimed that she saw a full-grown evergreen tree
spring out of the roots of a dead tree stump, symbolizing the
springing forth of new life for Nimrod. On the anniversary of his
birth, she said, Nimrod would visit the evergreen tree and leave
gifts
under it.
----
On that same site, John Plunkett described the ancient pagan myth
regarding December 25th in this manner....
----
From many ancient writings, considerable is learned of this man, who
started the great organized worldly apostasy from God that has
dominated this world until now. Nimrod was so evil, it is said he
married his own mother, whose name was Semiramis. After Nimrod's
untimely death, his so-called mother-wife, Semiramis, propagated the
evil doctrine of the survival of Nimrod as a spirit being. She
claimed
a full-grown evergreen tree sprang overnight from a dead tree stump,
which symbolized the springing forth unto new life of the dead
Nimrod.
On each anniversary of his birth, she claimed, Nimrod would visit the
evergreen tree and leave gifts upon it. December 25th was the
birthday
of Nimrod. This is the real origin of the Christmas tree.
----
From this original fable peddled by Semiramis (the "Queen of Heaven")
came the tradition for pagans to go out to the holy "groves" and
leave
gifts for Nimrod (who later came to be worshipped as "Baal") at an
evergreen tree.
Does that sound like a "Christian" holiday to you?
In fact, in his classic work "The Two Babylons", Alexander Hislop
describes the Babylonian origins of Christmas on page 93....
"Long before the fourth century, and long before the Christian era
itself, a festival was celebrated among the heathen, at that precise
time of the year, in honor of the birth of the son of the Babylonian
queen of heaven. It may fairly be presumed that, in order to
conciliate the heathen, and to swell the number of the nominal
adherents of Christianity, the Roman Church, giving it only the name
of Christ adopted the same festival. This tendency on the part of
Christians to meet Paganism halfway was very early developed; and we
find Tertullian, even in his day, about the year 230, bitterly
lamenting the inconsistency of the disciples of Christ in this
respect, and contrasting it with the strict fidelity of the Pagans to
their own superstition."
In fact, the name "Yule" is the Babylonian word for "infant" or
"little child" as Hislop describes on pages 93 and 94 of his book....
"That Christmas was originally a Pagan festival is beyond all doubt.
The time of the year, and the ceremonies, with which it is still
celebrated, prove its origin. In Egypt, the son of Isis, the Egyptian
title for the queen of heaven, was born at this very time, 'about the
time of the winter solstice.' The very name by which Christmas is
popularly known among us -- Yule-day -- proves at once its pagan and
Babylonian origin. 'Yule' is the Chaldee name for an 'infant' or
'little child'; and as the 25th of December was called by our Pagan
Anglo-Saxon ancestors, 'Yule-day,' or the 'Child's-day,' and the
night
that preceded it, 'Mother-night,' long before they came in contact
with Christianity, that sufficiently proves its real character. Far
and wide, in the realms of Paganism, was this birthday observed."
So when you offer "yuletide" greetings, you are actually
acknowledging
Nimrod's birthday.
The truth is that the pagan holiday of "Yule" has been celebrated by
the pagans of northern Europe from late December through early
January
for centuries and centuries. Yule logs were traditionally lit
throughout northern Europe to honor the pagan god Thor. The festival
would continue until the Yule log burned out - which could take up to
twelve days. This is where we get the so-called "12 days of
Christmas".
In fact, Wiccans, neo-pagans and even many witches still celebrate
Yule to this day. Many of them think it is incredibly funny when
Christians use the pagan word Yule. Yule is one of the most important
holidays for them. The following excerpt was taken from a website on
witchcraft:
-----
Birthday of the Twins:
Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. Birthday of the Twins, Heru Sa
Aset and Bast, children of Aset [Isis]. Origin of Yule and Christmas.
On Winter Solstice Asar [Osiris] dies. Aset [Isis] with the magick
help of Nebt Het [Nephthys] creates a Djed Pillar [artificial penis]
for Her husband and impregnates Herself. For three full days
(December
22-24) Asar lies dead and the Twins grow in Aset’s belly. On this day
(December 25th) the Twins are born, the reincarnation or resurrection
of Their Father. The green tree is a symbol of the green-skinned
Asar,
God of fertility and vegetation. The colored lights are symbols of
Aset, Goddess of magick and divine light. Red, green, and white are
the traditional candle colors of Bast (this was Her birthday alone
for
several thousand years of early Kemetic history), later being adapted
to red for Aset (the color of the Mother’s menstrual flow), green for
Asar (the color of vegetation), and white for the Twins (the color of
pure light).
-----
So where did Christmas come from?
Well, the truth is that the word "Christmas" is not actually found
anywhere in the entire Bible.
In fact, the word "Christmas" was not even invented until about a
thousand years after Jesus left this earth.
The Catholic Encyclopedia even admits this....
"The word for Christmas in late Old English is Cristes Maesse, the
Mass of Christ, first found in 1038."
But Jesus was not even born on December 25th.
The reality is that it would have simply been far too cold for
shepherds to be out with their sheep at night in Israel on December
25th.
The vast majority of Christian scholars now acknowledge this.
So when was Jesus actually born?
Based on the information we have in the Scriptures, it appears that
it
is most likely that Jesus was born in the fall. In particular, it
seems most likely that Jesus was actually born during the Feast of
Tabernacles as the video posted below demonstrates....
So how did December 25th come to be celebrated by Christians?
Well, by the time the Roman Empire legalized Christianity in the 4th
century, most of the other religions in the empire were celebrating
the birth of their gods on December 25th.
Leading up to December 25th in ancient Rome, a festival known as
Saturnalia was one of the biggest celebrations of the year.
Saturnalia was a festival during which the Romans commemorated the
dedication of the temple of their god Saturn. This holiday began on
the 17th of December and it would last for an entire week until the
23rd of December.
Saturnalia was typically characterized by gift-giving, feasting,
singing and lots and lots of debauchery. The priests of Saturn would
carry wreaths of evergreen boughs in procession throughout the pagan
Roman temples.
Later on, the Romans also started holding a festival on December 25th
called Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, which means "the birthday of the
unconquered sun." Basically it was a way for the empire to
consolidate all of the December 25th "sun god" birthdays throughout
the empire into one holiday.
In the year 350 A.D., Pope Julius I declared that the birth of Jesus
would be celebrated on December 25th from then on. There appears to
be
little doubt that Pope Julius was trying to make it as painless as
possible for pagan Romans to convert to Catholicism.
However, the new holiday did not really take off with Christians at
first. The widespread celebration of December 25th by Christians did
not really get going until 378. It was apparently then dropped in
381
and then resurrected in 400.
But the truth is that December 25th was celebrated as the birthday of
scores of pagan gods long before it was ever associated with Jesus.
As we discussed earlier, the celebration of December 25th goes all
the
way back to Nimrod (who eventually came to be worshipped as Baal).
Baal worship spread throughout the known world and provided the basis
for all other pagan religions. The following are just some of the
pagan gods that had "birthdays" on December 25th....
Mithras
Horus
Attis
Dionysus the son of Zeus
Tammuz
Hercules
Perseus
Helios
Bacchus
Apollo
Jupiter
Sol Invictus - (The "Unconquered Sun")
When the Roman Catholics decided to make December 25th a "Christian
holiday" in the fourth century, they simply adopted a long standing
pagan holiday and kept most of the same pagan traditions.
For example, the ancient Babylonian "Christmas tree" became known as
a
symbol of fertility throughout the ancient world. The pole, balls,
and tinsel (phallus, testes, semen) represented various aspects of
male fertility, while wreaths were always fashioned in a circle to
represent female fertility.
In "The Two Babylons", Hislop describes some of the ancient
traditions
surrounding the Christmas tree on page 97....
"The Christmas tree, now so common among us, was equally common in
Pagan Rome and Pagan Egypt. In Egypt that tree was the palm-tree; in
Rome it was the fir; the palm tree denoting the Pagan messiah, as
Baal-
Tamar, the fir referring to him as Baal-Berith. The mother of Adonis,
the sun-god and great mediatorial divinity, was mystically said to
have been changed into a tree, and when in that state to have brought
forth her divine son. If the mother was a tree, the son must have
been
recognized as the 'Man the branch.' And this entirely accounts for
the
putting of the Yule Log into the fire on Christmas Eve, and the
appearance of the Christmas tree the next morning."
That sure puts a different spin on Christmas traditions, now doesn't
it?
Most Christians don't even realize that God warned us about such
things in the Bible.
In Jeremiah 10:1-4, God warns us against putting up these decorated
trees like the pagans were doing....
Hear what the LORD says to you, O house of Israel. This is what the
LORD says: "Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by
signs in the sky, though the nations are terrified by them. For the
customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut a tree out of the
forest, and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel. They adorn it with
silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so it will not
totter."
The Puritans understood this. It comes as a surprise to most
Americans to learn that the Puritans once banned Christmas trees in
many areas of the United States because they were considered so
pagan.
According to ancient Babylonian tradition, the springtime fertility
festival of Ishtar (Easter) was a time when the "Queen of Heaven" was
believed to become impregnated. Nine months later the sun god would
be "born" or "reborn".
To the ancient Babylonians, these holiday trees came to be worshipped
as the "Queen of Heaven", and gifts were brought to the "groves" of
trees that had been grown in her honor and placed beneath them as
offerings.
The Babylonians also used wreaths to represent the nativity of the
sun, since they were objects that depicted the "womb" of the Earth
mother.
Early Christians completely rejected these traditions. In the 3rd
century, Tertullian wrote the following about these pagan
celebrations....
"On your day of gladness, we [Christians] neither cover our doorposts
with wreaths, nor intrude upon the day with lamps. At the call of
public festivity, you consider it a proper thing to decorate your
house like some new brothel. We are accused of a lower sacrilege
because
we do not celebrate along with you the holidays ..."
The truth is that the celebration of December 25th and most of the
accompanying traditions have always been pagan.
But many Christians will protest and say that it is okay for them to
celebrate December 25th because to them it is all about Jesus.
That was the same excuse that Aaron used when he and most of the rest
of the people of Israel worshipped the golden calf while Moses was up
on the mountain getting the Law of God. Aaron actually said that the
worship of the golden calf was being done to the Lord as we read in
Exodus 32:5....
When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and
announced, "Tomorrow there will be a festival to the LORD."
But we know how that turned out.
God was not pleased.
At all.
In fact, He was furious.
In the same way, God is not pleased when we celebrate pagan holidays
and keep traditions that have been pagan for thousands of years.
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