From The Blaze
Oct. 30, 2014 4:12pm | Jason Howerton

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Kevin Wood, a Marine Corps veteran who fought and lost friends in Iraq, says he complained to school officials at La Plata High School in Maryland after his daughter was given a mandatory homework assignment about the religion of Islam. However, his request for an alternate assignment was denied and he was reportedly banned from his daughter’s school entirely.

The assignment in question reportedly required 11th grade students to write a three-page essay about the “five pillars” of Islam, Mecca and Mohammed.

“I don’t agree with it,” Wood told Fox News in a phone interview. “You can’t study God or Christianity in school. You’ve got atheist suing schools for saying ‘God’ in the pledge and not being able to say prayers before football games, but we can force-feed our kids Islam.”

From NewsMax
Thursday, 04 Sep 2014 04:36 PM   |    By Sean Piccoli



Muslims in the United States who want to impose Islamic law on non-Muslims have succeeded in getting the federal government to back their demands for special rights and accomodations not available to people of other faiths, Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer told Newsmax TV on Thursday.

But saying so gets any critic of attempts to establish Muslim exceptionalism labeled a hater, bigot or racist, Spencer told “MidPoint” host Ed Berliner.

“It needs to be emphasized that this is not a racial issue in the slightest,” said Spencer. “There are Islamic supremacists of all races and there are peaceful Muslims of all races.”

Spencer pointed to cases across the country in which federal agencies sided with Muslims seeking special privileges at the expense of other Americans’ customs, beliefs and employment practices, and he connected those efforts to a larger…