PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:
xerxes xerxes:
The subtitle of the article should be: "Local Idiot Makes Noise, People Forced to Listen".
I learned about the five pillars of Islam in high school too. And the Buddhist Eightfold Path. I converted to neither.
They never forced any of that crap on us in history class. If you wanted to learn about that you took world religion and/or comparative religious studies.
Someone taking a standard high school history class doesn't need to know the five fucking pillars of islam anymore than they need to be taught the ten commandments in history class.
No, an overview is relevant to history class, you just wouldn't study it in depth. You can't learn about the history of civilizations without learning who the people in the civilizations were and what their beliefs and motivations were.
As for the rest of the story, it's clearly just more exaggerated right wing hysteric horseshit.