Most American schoolchildren learn about Islam in a social studies classroom. But at the Friends School in Baltimore, sixth-graders make their own mini-pilgrimage every year, to the Islamic Center in Washington, D.C.
As their bus rattles along the highway south to Washington, most of the kids are busy making up songs about each other. But 12-year-old Julia Potter is counting off the Five Pillars of Islam on her fingers: charity, prayer, fasting, profession of faith, and the pilgrimage to Mecca.
These kids are well-versed in the basics of Islam and more: In class, they learn about Judaism, Hinduism and Christianity; about prophets, taboos and holy laws. And every year, sixth-graders visit the Islamic Center — though every year, according to teacher Deloris Jones, they get there late. "There's absolutely nothing over the years I have been able to do to keep this thing on time," Jones says.
Inside the mosque, boys sit on the left and girls on the right, the girls' heads covered with colorful scarves. Imam Abassie Jarrkoroma leads a question-and-answer session, and this separation of the sexes is one of the first topics to come up...
I wonder if they tell the children about Sharia law, and the prohibition of women from public life. Maybe they'll tell them about the prohibition of music. Or maybe the stoning and hanging of girls who were raped against their will. Maybe they'll tell them about Islamic honor killings. Maybe they'll tell them about the hundreds of dead schoolchildren in Beslan, courtesy of Islamic jihad warriors or the 13 dead US soldiers cut down by Islam at Fort Hood. Maybe they could tell them about the 3 schoolgirls beheaded by Muslims while walking to a Christian school in Indonesia. Maybe they'll tell them about having women gangraped as punishment for a Muslim man's crimes. Maybe they'll tell them about the Saudi police who prevented the rescue of 15 girls from a burning building because their faces were exposed. Maybe they'll tell them about the thousands of people who have died horrible painful deaths at the hand of Islam, by Islam in New York, London, Madrid, and Bali. This very day, 8 people were beheaded by Muslims in Iraq and 6 were obliterated by a suicide bomb in Pakistan. It's real nice isn't it kids?
You see kids, there are other pillars of Islam. Secret pillars! Like Murder, which we call Jihad, Oppression, Male Supremacy, Polygamy, and even Pedophilia courtesy of the great Prophet! (piss be upon him)
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