Virginia Closes Entire School District for Teaching Students to Write Arabic

If your child goes to school in Augusta County, you know that kids there got a free day at home because of a teacher’s mistake.

The students were tasked with learning calligraphy. Instead of going Ye Olde English with some Shakespeare, this particular teacher decided a great example of calligraphy was a shahada. 

Oh sorry. Not familiar with a shahada? That fun little scribble is a Muslim profession of faith.

Now while Muslims in this great country are free to profess their faith to the East in the privacy of their home or mosque five times daily, asking the students to practice something that says “La ilaha illa Allah wa-Muhammad rasul Allah” is something different entirely.

Why?