Thread: Father upset over homework promoting polygamy, Islam

Father upset over homework promoting polygamy, Islam

Parent says homework promotes IslamTom Regan Reports

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Posted: 6:53 pm EDT September 23, 2011
Updated: 7:20 pm EDT September 23, 2011

COBB COUNTY, Ga. -- A father's complaint that his daughter's homework promotes the Muslim faith could lead to a lesson change in Cobb County.

Channel 2's Tom Regan talked to the father who showed him where his daughter’s homework which said there's nothing wrong with having multiple wives.

The assignment went home with seventh-graders at Campbell Middle School.

The school told Regan the assignment was used to compare the pros and cons of the school's dress policy.

But one parent said he thinks the material shows bias toward Islam and is completely inappropriate for the kids.

"Trying to relate this to school uniforms, the context they put it into, doesn't make much sense to me," parent Hal Medlin said.

Medlin showed Regan the assignment brought home by his 13-year-old daughter. The assignment consisted of a letter from Ahlima, a 20-year-old Muslim woman, and touts the advantage of a wearing a Burqa and finds the way western women dress to be "horribly immodest," according to the assignment.

The assignment shows Ahlima saying she doesn't mind if her future husband takes more wives. "I understand that some Westerners condemn our practice of polygamy, but I also know they are wrong," the assignment said.

"It's promoting or positively depicting their belief that polygamy is fine, if that’s what they believe. But I don't know how you could possibly state that and not have any kind of disclaimer that this is what these people think, but not necessarily what all of us believe," Medlin said.

Another page of the assignment lists the seven conditions for women's dress in Islam, including:

-It cannot resemble the clothing of nonbelieving women -It must protect women from the lustful gaze of men

It also states, "Islam liberated woman over 1,400 years ago. Is it better to dress according to man or God?â€

Holy crap! I would have been LIVID to see this come home with a school age child! This is AMERICA, we are CHRISTIAN, if you want those beliefs to rule your life YOU ARE IN THE WRONG COUNTRY. One of the great things is YOU CAN LEAVE and take this crap with you!

Even if we're not all Chrstian, we're still legally monogamous and legally in favor of women being free to show their faces and let their hair blow in the wind. Here we hold men responsible for controlling their own behavior - which is actually a compliment, because it shows that we believe they have the intelligence and strength to exercise self control. We don't think that men are childish animals who can't behave, as many of these other cultures seem to believe.