Tennessee high school student refuses field trip to mosque and the school’s pro-Islam slant is outed
A controversial field trip to an Islamic mosque has caused a Tennessee high school to revise its field trip policy.
Students in a freshman honors world studies class at Henderson High School on Sept. 4 visited the Islamic Center of Nashville, where they were reportedly given copies of the Quran. They also visited a Hindu temple.
The student who refused to attend the field trip was given an alternative worksheet to complete and the story made headlines.
Fox’s Todd Starnes reported on the school function as part of a three-week course on world religions noting how outraged parents were that the school would tour a mosque but not a Christian church or a Jewish synagogue.
“If you can’t go to all five, why are you going to any?” asked parent Mike Conner. “We sent the principal an email and voiced our concerns. She sent back a reply and told us they could not afford to go to all five.”
Conner’s 14-year-old stepdaughter, Jessica, chose not to go on the field trip and was given a replacement assignment in which she was told to compare and contrast Islam, Christianity and Hinduism.
“There was one page on the sayings of Jesus, two-thirds of a page on the sayings of Gandhi, and five pages on Muhammad,” Conner explained. He said his daughter declined to complete the assignment, which she believed was unfair and unbalanced.
“Because of a surplus in information on Muhammad, and a lack of complete and thorough information on Mahatma Gandhi and Jesus Christ, there is not enough true facts to properly complete a comparison and contrasting paper,” the teen wrote in her paper.
“Our kids are being indoctrinated and this is being shoved in their face,” Conner told Starnes. “It tells me they are pushing other religions and they want Christianity to take a back seat. They want our children to be tolerant of everything except Christianity.”
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