Arabic Pledge of Allegiance recitation at Fort Collins school angers some
Arabic Pledge of Allegiance recitation at Fort Collins school angers some
A Fort Collins high school principal is defending his decision to allow students from a cultural club to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic, and denied that it was in any way, shape or form an attempt to push an Islamic agenda.
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“These students love this country,” he said. “They were not being un-American in trying to do this. They believed they were accentuating the meaning of the words as spoken regularly in English.”
The school recites the Pledge of Allegiance once a week and on Monday a member of the Cultural Arms Club led the student body in the Arabic version of the pledge.
The club seeks to “destroy the barriers, embrace the cultures” that exist within the high school
http://kdvr.com/2013/01/30/arabic-pledge-of-allegiance-recitation-at-fort-collins-school-angers-some/
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Yeah those are major stories of the day
...until it that school prayer uses the word "Allah" (which simply means god) or "under Allah." Then, suddenly, they seem to realize that there might be "harm" in putting god in the public schools. 
Naming "god" in their prayers and pledges at schools isn't any kind of forced conversion of those kids, they insist, but using a foreign word for god from a different religion than theirs is. 
