Reply #40: The link demonstrates that TO Kid's story only faintly resembles reality [View All]

(What a stunner!)

A California school has been flooded with threatening phone calls and hate e-mails after an obscure Christian news agency carried an inaccurate report claiming that the school is teaching an intensive three-week course on Islam.

Assist News Service, affiliated with Garden Grove, California, based Assist Ministries, in a January 8th report claimed that 7th graders in a number of public schools in Byron, California, are being required to attend an intensive three week course on Islam.

The report claimed the students attending the course are mandated to learn the tenets of Islam, study important Islam personalities, wear a robe, and adopt a Muslim name. The report soon spread quickly after being picked up by conservative websites, talk shows and even mainstream newspapers like the Washington Times.

The reports especially targeted Excelsior School in Byron, California, where it claimed "students are to pretend that they are Muslims, wear Muslim clothing to school, stage their own jihad via a dice game and pick out a Muslim name from a list of 30."


Yeah. There is always more to these stories--they invariably turn out to be lying propaganda.