Thanks, Donald.
(CNN)After a teacher at a Virginia school handed out a standard homework assignment on Islam, such an angry backlash flooded in that it prompted officials to close every single school in the county as a safety precaution.
"While there has been no specific threat of harm to students, schools and school offices will be closed Friday, December 18, 2015," Augusta County Schools said. Extracurricular activities were shut down Thursday afternoon.
Too many people in this country have simply gone over the cliff with “Islamophobia”.
It is ironic to see this posted at CNN, one of the main ‘news” outlets that when not breathlessly reporting this story, is breathlessly exacerbating racism and hatred and distrust of Islam and Muslims.
So because a teacher was simply teaching about Islam this one particularly STUPID county goes freakin BERSERK over even the fact-based, non-hysterical discussion of one tiny part of the real world.
Well, they were to draw something that was in Arabic:
"Here is the shahada, the Islamic statement of faith, written in Arabic. In the space below, try copying it by hand. This should give you an idea of the artistic complexity of calligraphy."
The illustrative classical Arabic phrase was the basic statement in Islam. It translated to: "There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is the messenger of Allah."
And all the idiots of the village erupted into bitter displays of Islamophobic stupidity and the schools were closed down and fights broke out on facebook and twitter.
Yes, some people were more than stupid enough to see this as some attempt to convert them to Islam right in their own homes.
The Sheriff’s department felt a need to secure the schools because of the uproar.
I am stunned no shots were fired.
This country has become so stupid and it is exactly this sentiment and sub-demographic the GOP are massaging and encouraging in particular.
This IS their base and their base listens to them and they GOP presidential contenders encourage this.
Islamophobia is patently unAmerican.
To not end on a depressing note — not every American is like this though: