Your Opinion: Islam-o-Fascism, not Islamophobia

Dear Editor:

According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Addition there is no word, Islamophobia. There is word we should consider, which is Islam-o-fascism and has the following definition: "The political ideology of militant Islamists views as an agency of oppression or hostility toward democracy."

The article in our April 26 Newspaper, via AP San Diego, should be an irritation to our citizenry. Beautiful San Diego sits at the edge of our country immediately next to Mexico. The school system could and perhaps does have, a class teaching Spanish, and the opposite, a class teaching English. Is it in our children's best interest to have a class that has only one goal, to indoctrinate the children into the Islam Faith of Muslim also?

This is the first step, outlined many years ago, by the Muslim Brotherhood to introduce our children to their beliefs. They are moving slowly and carefully to spread their faith through our country. We, in turn, attempt to spread Christianism in all parts of the world. It could be said that this is fair play to all.

Our country was founded on Christian/Judeo principles, yet we can't teach our own religion in our schools. Why should our children be subjected to Islamic "indoctrination?" Is it because (quote from Mr. Obama) "we are no longer a Christian nation?" We have already allowed the government, in its total ignorance, to push the "separation between church and state" too far!

I believe in the Christian principles taught when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s. We were taught to be considerate, forgiving, understanding, and loyal. We had prayer in school, and we said the Pledge of Allegiance. Are our children going to be subjected to Sharia law instead? Is this what you want for your children, an outdated system of law that borders on cruel and inhuman treatment that was the norm centuries ago?

If we, as a country of Christian/Judeo values, continue to allow this religion to take root here, our future generations will be lost to the very thing our ancestors left their old country forfreedom. It's time to do some research into history. Perhaps then, you will come to understand the danger than you are allowing to creep, at its own pace, into our, once God fearing, society!

God Bless America!

 

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