One Nation Under Allah: Fury After School Recites Pledge in Arabic
Todd Starnes, author of God Less America, writes:
Students at Pine Bush High School in Pine Bush, New York, knew right away there was something not quite right about the Pledge of Allegiance. That’s because the pledge was being recited in Arabic.
"One nation under Allah," the student body president announced over the intercom system on Wednesday.
Reaction in the upstate New York high school was swift, and so was the backlash, The Times Herald-Record reports.
Furious students tried to shout down the recitation in their classrooms. Other students sat down in protest.
"School Superintendent Joan Carbone told the newspaper that the Arabic pledge 'divided the school in half,' noting that many complaints came from Jewish parents and those who had lost family members fighting the war on terror," Starnes writes.
The school has apologized. "We sincerely apologize for having the Pledge of Allegiance recited this morning in the high school in a language other than English," said the apology, according to Starnes. "In our school district the Pledge of Allegiance will only be recited in English as recommended by the Commissioner of Education."
Read the entire article by Todd Starnes here.
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