That was one way of interpreting the decision to close all the schools in Augusta County in Virginia. The decision was made by the Superintendent when a brouhaha broke out because high school students in a geography class had an assignment of copying calligraphy which read “There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the prophet of God”.
This class is part of a geography-class unit on world religions, which also includes Hinduism and Buddhism. And it was not the first time this task was done; it is part of a teacher workbook. Granted it was truly stupid to ask students to write the basic creed of any religion. But it's just another indication that we live in fear.
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