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Okay, I am not a weatherman… But today’s forecast is “Ice Storm overtakes Hell…” Want to know why? Read the following story:

Cheshire County, England – Two boys were punished this week for refusing to kneel on prayer mats and worship Allah during a class demonstration on Islam, the Daily Mail reported. Irate parents said a religious education teacher at the Alsager High School in England told students to wear Muslim headgear during a lesson on Tuesday. "But if Muslims were asked to go to church on Sunday and take Holy Communion, there would be war," the grandfather of one of the students said. The two boys belong to a class that includes 11- to 12-year-olds, and after their refusal to participate they were given detention, the story says. Another parent, Karen Williams, told the Mail: "Not only was it forced upon them, my daughter was told off for not doing it right. They'd never done it before and they were supposed to do it in another language." Deputy Headmaster Keith Plant said the teacher has given her version of the incident but he declined to elaborate. According to a statement from the Cheshire County Council on behalf of the school: "Educating children in the beliefs of different faith is part of the diversity curriculum on the basis that knowledge is essential to understanding. We accept that such teaching is to be conducted with some sense of sensitivity."

Am I the only one who is upset about this? What in the world are we doing? I realize that there are others who find this equally as troubling but where are they? Why don’t we have anyone in power that is standing up and saying anything? My prayer has always been that those in power would have common sense and those with common sense would have power. We are literally at a cross roads in our society, now is the time to stop the insanity. We are about to hand the asylum over to the inmates!

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