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Submitted by tianxiang (United States), Jun 22, 2006 at 11:07

Now that it is okay to include in lessons a fight against the Crusaders, we should introduce a pro-Crusader lesson whereby the students can learn about how the Muslims invaded and conquered the "Holy Land", how the caliph Hakim killed non-Muslims and desecrated Christian holy sites such as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and how the Muslims were continually raiding, attacking, looting and raping along the border territories with the Byzantines which lead the Byzantine emperor to enlist help from the pope and Christians in Europe to come to their defense.

Then the students should perform mock battles against the Saracens and cheer that they conquered the infidels and praise the Christian God for delivering them the Holy Land from the Muslim invaders and occupiers. It would be extremely interesting if the same history, this time told from the Christian perspective, were outlined as a lesson and provided to the school to balance the Muslim lesson about the Crusades. Also, perhaps an outline of the contributions to education, medicine, economics, the arts and human rights should be presented in a history of Christianity and its impact on civilization. Of course, to actually outline Christianity's contributions to civilization would take far more than 3 weeks but it would be interesting to present a course and lesson plan just to see how the school would react.

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Title Commenter Date Thread
Personal Struggle [37 words]infidelphobia.orgApr 3, 2013 10:31204927
Definition of Religion required [92 words]Thomas WheelerApr 6, 2011 15:37183969
What Did Jesus Say? [121 words]CherylApr 22, 2007 20:0890244
Giving in to Islam [102 words]MelJul 25, 2007 03:5990244
Not in our schools, no way!!! [111 words]janOct 20, 2006 16:1762778
HELP ITS GOING ON IN MY SCHOOL TOO [45 words]Kendalee GarnerOct 14, 2006 14:2860355
Islamization of US [38 words]melJul 25, 2007 04:0560355
judges [67 words]stanOct 6, 2006 22:5659178
Berkas [100 words]dfwhiteOct 4, 2006 15:2458924
Let's test the waters [225 words]tianxiangJun 22, 2006 11:0748046
What is good for the goose..... [70 words]JaladhiJun 22, 2006 16:3648046
We should also teach children about Arab/Islamic imperialism [259 words]dhimmi no moreJun 23, 2006 07:0448046
The PEOPLE need to take action [48 words]B.J.Sep 27, 2006 23:4048046
Islam, a religion? [215 words]donvanJun 19, 2006 12:2847898
They'll just sugar coat it. [69 words]TimothyOct 6, 2006 11:5347898
how could that be [71 words]renaldiDec 1, 2008 06:5747898
persecution of non Muslams [98 words]donvanDec 2, 2008 07:3447898

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