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<p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;" align="left">An expert on Islam explains that schools across the United States have implemented radical Islamic curriculum in public schools.</p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;" align="left"><img src="http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/Mugs/BrigitteGabriel.jpg" border="0" alt="Brigitte Gabriel" title="Brigitte Gabriel" hspace="3" vspace="3" align="left" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;" />Brigitte Gabriel, founder of <a href="http://www.actforamerica.org/" target="_blank" title="ACT! for America" style="color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;">ACT! for America</a>, explains that students are required to become a Muslim for three weeks, adopt Muslim names, memorize verses from the Quran, and visit a mosque for a field trip. If students try their best on assignments, she says, they will be guaranteed a good grade.<br /> <br />Students in these programs, laments the conservative activist, must also recite the Islamic prayer for salvation, which describes Islam as a straight path to God -- and Christianity in error.<br /> <br />"Here's what they're teaching in the public schools; [here's] what they're telling the students they have to memorize and recite," she says -- "'Praise be to Allah, Lord of Creation, the compassionate, the merciful, king of judgment day. You alone we worship, and to you alone we pray for help.'"<br /> <br /><img src="http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/ChristianMuslim.jpg" border="0" alt="Christian and Muslim symbols" title="Christian and Muslim symbols" hspace="3" vspace="3" width="200" height="93" align="right" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;" />Gabriel sees more than a little inconsistency in how the material is being presented. "Remember, this is public school where we can't even say we have a Christmas break -- we have a 'winter break,'" she exclaims. "Where we can't even say we have Easter break -- it's now called 'spring break.'"<br /> <br />The ACT! for America president explains that Islamic ideologies are prevalent in textbooks, such as the way the term "jihad" is explained. She says instead of portraying the idea as one of violence and bloodshed, the texts describe it as a struggle against oppression -- the same description that al-Qaeda presents.<br /> <br />She argues that "what they're doing is literally brainwashing our students to prepare them to turn against our own soldiers and our own military and government by basically feeding them the talking points of al-Qaeda."<br /> <br />Gabriel contends that if students were to recite Bible verses, adopt Christian names, and learn a Christian prayer for salvation, many Americans would be infuriated, arguing it violates the alleged separation of church and state. But because of political correctness, she says, Islamic indoctrination is allowed in public schools.</p>
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