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There is no need to teach this ideology(islam) to our children. Calligraphy has nothing to do with Geography... If my son brought that home, I would throw the homework in the fireplace and remove him from the class.
In all fairness, Americans hardly "find joy and honor in learning about one another". Most Americans know virtually nothing about Islam, and could not point to and identify many (if any) Muslim nations on an un-labeled world map.
Or know that the largest muslim nation in the world isn't in the Middle East.
I can't say for certain what this particular teacher's goal was, but my middle schooler's assignment this week is to design his own tomb and describe a bit about himself using hieroglyphs for their unit on ancient Egypt. I believe they also had a similar writing style when they covered the Sumerians and Assyrians during their unit on Mesopotamia. It seems to me the assignments are meant to teach them a bit about the development of different writing systems in human history and to make the material fun and engaging.
The lesson plan, and the basis for the question was to show an appreciation as to how difficult and ornate the stylized Arabic is, especially in a culture that allows no artistic interpretation of living things.
While we're banning basic understanding, don't tell the raving hordes that our numbers are...shhh...Arabic. Or that before the Arabs there was no concept of zero in math. The Greeks and Romans had no expressions for zero.
This is a ridiculous overreaction by the parents. There is a picture of the actual assignment in the news now. The statement wasn't even translated for the students - it was just described as a "statement of faith".
This was so clearly an enrichment activity and not indoctrination that I am simply stunned by the ignorance of the response. I suppose myself and the other parents should have shut down our school district last week when the school choir sang 'Silent Night' and 'Chanukah, O Chanukah' at a school concert, instead of seeing them as an expression of culturally important art?
The lesson plan, and the basis for the question was to show an appreciation as to how difficult and ornate the stylized Arabic is, especially in a culture that allows no artistic interpretation of living things.
While we're banning basic understanding, don't tell the raving hordes that our numbers are...shhh...Arabic. Or that before the Arabs there was no concept of zero in math. The Greeks and Romans had no expressions for zero.
Exactly. Which isn't even to mention the fact that modern western medicine and astronomy owe a great debt to advances made by Islamic scholars. A little more respect for the positives each other's cultures never hurts.
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