The Truth About Common Core

by Sam Huntington

Common Core is a global (voluntary) initiative designed to standardize educational standards in mathematics and the English Language Arts.  It sounds tame enough, so why then are (some) parents alarmed about a Common Core-Islam connection?  It is because school districts have incorporated school-sponsored programs of Islamic indoctrination, which include but are not limited to:

• Visits to mosques at taxpayer expense
• Requiring girls to wear head scarfs in the Islamic tradition
• Diminishing the Holocaust as a political scheme
• Offering allegiance to the United States in Arabic
• Adopting observances of Islamic holy days
• Introducing Islamic vocabulary to students who are barely able to speak proper English, introducing Islamic cultural studies
• Proselytizing Islam by creating pamphlets about Islam
• Reciting the Shahada, which proclaims Allah as the one true god and renounces the God of Abraham

Qatar is the origin of global educational standards; global standards is funded through Qatar Funding International (QFI) and directing the QFI Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics is Tariq Ramadan, the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Moslem Brotherhood cartel.  In 2011, QFI partnered with the US Department of State (Hillary Clinton, Secretary) and the US Department of Education (Arne Duncan, Secretary) to facilitate relationships between US and foreign classrooms.  It is called "Connect the Classrooms" Project.

Here in the United States, Common Core is a product of the National Governor’s Association (NGA), the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), and the College Board.  Common Core standards have the protection of US copyright laws, which means that states may not change the standards once adopted; to ensure compliance with these standards, the NGA and CCSSO control the use of standards and licenses them.  The license requires that the use of the standards must be “in support of” the Common Core State Standards initiatives.

Of interest, Obama supporter and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers reportedly received $49.2 million from Vartan Gregorian, a board member of QFI who is also a member of the White House Fellowship Commission.  Gregorian is an integral part of the “connect all schools” program, through which QFI invested $5 million in order to teach Arabic in American public schools.  Of equal interest, one of Common Core’s leading and unapologetic spokesmen is presidential candidate Jeb Bush, whose father received his presidential library from the Kuwaitis, and whose brother enjoys strolling through the garden while holding hands with the King of Saudi Arabia and who facilitated the escape of the bin-Laden family after terrorist attacks on 9/11.

The largest contributor to the effort to transform America into a Sharia compliant nation is Pearson, the “world’s largest education company” with offices in 70 countries, providing a wide range of educational programs and services.  My guess is that most people do not recognize education as an industry.  As it turns out, that is all it is.  Who are the largest investors in Pearson?  According to the Financial Times, it is the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the Moslem Brotherhood cartel through the Libyan Investment Authority.  Pearson, meanwhile, argues that it has no control over its shareholders terrorist related activities.

The states accepting federal funds from the 2009 Race to the Top initiative, which encourages states to give up their sovereignty in exchange for federal money, were the first to adopt Common Core standards, but few of these states adopted Common Core through the legislative process; it was achieved fait accompli through state boards of education.  Only two years before this, the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed documents that stipulate that the goals of the Moslem Brotherhood cartel included the indoctrination of American K-12 students by teaching Islam.  The seized documents were part of the Holy Land Foundation trial—the largest terror funding trial in American history.  However the caveat continues to exist, federal funding depends on whether states adopt important reforms.

What reforms?

Pearson Education now solely administers the Teacher Performance Assessment.  New York State no longer assesses its teachers, even though New York State is their employer.  No, the assessor of teacher performance is an industry that relies upon significant investment by terrorist organizations, which are determined to force American schools to propagate Islam.  Added to this, there is no federal oversight of university programs under the Higher Education Act, Title VI, who train teachers for grades K-12, and there is no supervision over the development of lesson plans or seminars on Middle Eastern studies, materials of which were obtained from Saudi Arabia and are sold to states by Pearson.

Why is this working so well to the advantage of American leftists (including the Bush family, Barack Obama, George Soros, Bill Ayers, et.al.) and to the detriment of the American people and our children’s future?  It is because parents are completely unaware of the treason that is going on within state boards of education, the NGA, the College Board, and on local campuses to subvert American education to recruitment mechanisms for Islam.

If a parent did want to do something about this deplorable situation, they should start by examining their child’s social studies textbook.  It does not take long to do this; start with the index, find Islam, and determine the appropriateness of what their child is being required to regurgitate.  Second, a concerned parent might discuss these lessons with their child’s teacher and communicate whether the parent will approve of their child reciting Shahada (which renounces the God of Abraham).  Attend school board meetings, demand answers to such programs are requiring young girls to wear headscarves, visit local mosques, and so forth.  Then finally, allowing that the school board fails to satisfy parents, parents have a constitutional right to withdraw their child from these brain washing centers and enroll them in homeschooling programs, where they can have quality teachers such as our blog mistress (See Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390, 399, 402).

Currently, the United States government is spending $621 billion annually on public education; much of this spent on indoctrinating students with one religion to the exclusion of all other belief systems.  While Christians may not recite the Lord’s Prayer in school, schools enabling Islam have somehow found a way to recite the Shahada —and then leftists wonder why conservatives are angry all the time.  If parents cannot or will not do as I have above suggested, then maybe they do not deserve freedom of religion, but in ignoring this assault on American values, they are preparing a very unhappy future for their children and grandchildren.