Islam Assignment Gets Teacher In Trouble
April 23, 2017
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as posted by the channelA Catholic school teacher is in trouble for a reading he assigned on Islam. Cenk Uygur, Hannah Cranston, and Amberia Allen, the hosts of The Young Turks, tell you why he was reprimanded. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“The Catholic diocese of Orlando, Florida, says it has reprimanded a teacher at a Catholic school in the state for giving his sixth-grade religion class an anti-Muslim reading assignment.
Mark Smythe, a religion and social studies teacher at Blessed Trinity Catholic School in Ocala, gave students printouts of a 19th-century Catholic text that refers to Islam as a “monstrous mixture” of faiths. It also calls the doctrines of the Prophet Muhammad “ridiculous, immoral and corrupting.”
“We have spoken to the principal of Blessed Trinity Catholic School, Ocala and to the teacher in question and have reprimanded the teacher for this unfortunate exhibit of disrespect,” Jacquelyn Flanigan, an associate superintendent at the Diocese of Orlando’s Catholic school system, said in a statement.“
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Hosts: Cenk Uygur, Hannah Cranston, Amberia Allen
Cast: Cenk Uygur, Hannah Cranston, Amberia Allen
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