Breitbart “News” Reacts to Arabic Calligraphy Lesson With Horrifying Deluge of Hate Speech
A horrible story from Virginia shows how many noxious bigots have been incited by right wing anti-Muslim propaganda, as schools in central Virginia have been forced to close after a deluge of threats and hatred prompted by a geography lesson in Arabic calligraphy.
Augusta County Public Schools, near Staunton in central Virginia, will be closed after the district received “voluminous phone calls and electronic mail locally and from outside the area” about a high school World Geography class lesson, the district announced Thursday evening.
In a lesson Friday on the Middle East, students were presented with an Islamic statement of faith written in Arabic calligraphy, superintendent Eric Bond told The News Leader.
“The students were presented with the statement to demonstrate the complex artistry of the written language used in the Middle East, and were asked to attempt to copy it in order to give the students an idea of the artistic complexity of the calligraphy,” a statement Bond gave the paper said.
The statement was not translated into English, and students were not asked to “translate it, recite it or otherwise adopt or pronounce it as a personal belief,” Bond said.
A parent organized a forum Tuesday night about the lesson, calling it “indoctrination” in Islam, The News Leader reported.
Apparently these people are scared that if students look at this magic symbol, it will transform them into… radical Islamic terror students!
The Internet Center for Anti-Muslim Bigotry and Incitement (otherwise known as Breitbart “News”) jumped on this story eagerly, promoting it as an example of sekrit Muslim shariah indoctrination: Parents’ Outrage Over ‘Muslim Indoctrination’ Assignment Leads To Schools Closure.
This crummy article provoked thousands of comments from the knuckle-dragging Breitbart audience, a stunning avalanche of overt bigotry and repellent religious fanaticism. This, of course, is the Breitbart “News” business model.
Here’s a small sample of this noxious hatred, hidden by default because it’s so irredeemably nasty. This where the right wing has ended up in 2015 — a disgusting sewer of hate speech.
A day of reckoning is at hand, maybe. As weak as we are as a people this may take some time.
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Resist the devil(allah, islam, mohamed, etc.)
it(satan) will flee…
Anything that attempts to turn you away from Jesus Christ as Lord must be resisted unto death…
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IN 50 years when Obama is dead,,,Obama will be remembered by Muslims as the great one that allowed them then to colonize the USA without WAR
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They’re pushing this cancer here in the US and it’s gonna blow up in their leftist faces!
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I would write in calligraphy “there is only one Chris Kyle…he sent many of Muhammeds demons straight to hell”
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f you choose the dead allah and the dead mohamed to be your false god and reject The Lord and Savior Jesus Christ The True and Living God to be your God then flaming hell is your destiny.
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We need to eliminate this rag head muslim crap out of our country.
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If they want to teach about Islam it should be objective with examples of jihad and violence. Never mind the cutesy calligraphy. Does the history class give them assignment to draw Nazi flags like “Oh look, how symmetric it is”?
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Islam has created turmoil in the world……….ask the Europeans, Africans, ask the
Americans……………YOU ARE BLIND………….you defend an UGLY
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Is it just me or are the left leaning Liberals trying to re-colonize this country to Islam ????
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Muslims must be royally pissed that San Bernardino has brought about such scrutiny on their sharia indoctrination.
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I would have gone to the front of the class, pulled down my pants, wiped my ass with the assignment and handed it to the teacher.
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My child will not be learning the religion of satan. Schools are to teach geography not religion.
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All Muslims must leave America! We are not an Islamic Nation nor do we want to be!
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All liberals are atheists. All atheists are liberals (even if they don’t realize it.)
All liberals are cowards. All cowards are liberals (even if they don’t realize it.)[…]
Dr. Bond, should be taken out and buried up to his waist and be pelted with rotten tomatoes after he is tar and feathered. Why do we keep hiring out and out traitors to positions in education..?? Every parent should picket his home and let his neighbors see what a communist one world traitor looks like. Absolutely instruct your children not to embrace anything to do with Islam, it is a fake religion, Allah does not exist except in the sick demented minds of nut jobs and violent prone people. We do not want those people here, they will cause nothing but violence and crime and they seek to over populate our country and inflict their sick religion on us.
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What better time than with a muslim president.
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What the hell is wrong with these teachers? Has it really come to this? Trying to indoctrinate our kids into islam? These filthy muslims better start understanding that we don’t want their filthy religion taught to our children.
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If you ever hear muslims chant this in unison, it sounds like a satanic chant.
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We the people must start using the power of recall/impeachment and place new Congressmen in office that will redefine Islam as a terrorist organization.
The United States needs to make every effort to lead all non-Islamic nations to deport and ban ALL Muslims.
— Confine all Muslims within the borders of Islamic nations.
— Do not give them any visas/passports.
— Do not give them any form of technology.
— Do not give them any form of foreign aid.
Crush Islam’s fascist goal of world domination.
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DEATH TO ISLAM. No mercy. They have none, nor should we.
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No goat or child is safe around mohammed.
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Parents need to remove their kids from being exposed to this Filth we call “schools” and home-school them. They’d be further ahead and safe from the insane radicalization of their children.
We need TRUMP!
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Obama is behind this Muslim cult.
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This schytt probably came from the White House; Obama controls the Department of Education, and the money that comes with it.
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Writing that statement is the equivalent of being Baptized. Islam now considers those children to be Muslim.
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Time to rise up, folks, and take this country back. If there blood-letting in the process, so be it.
On and on like this, more than 2000 comments so far.
