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Children are allowed to pray in school; in fact, they're guaranteed that right.

Uh huh. Keep lying: http://www.adherents.com/misc/school_hou....

Yet Muslims get this: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007....

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while every single public school student is forced to learn all about Islam. A couple goofups by a few school districts means it's happening universally, huh?

http://www.militantislammonitor.org/arti....
Goofups ? Hardly. Nice try but no cigar.
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/460652.aspx
"After the 9/11 attacks, the Massachusetts Board of Education funded a special seminar for K-12 teachers to learn about Islamic history and the Middle East.

The outreach coordinator at Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies helped organize the seminar. Stotsky said she was shocked by the teachers' lesson plans that came out of the week-long seminar.

"They ranged from having students make prayer rugs; describe what it would be like to go on a hajj--a pilgrimage; learn and memorize the five pillars of Islam; listen to and learn how to recite passages from the Koran; dress like a Muslim from a particular country.it was, to me, a clear violation of ethics involved in how one would expect children to learn about another culture. That they would literally go through the memorization and the learning of religious beliefs."

"These are unacceptable practices in a public school," she added. "In fact, they would be unacceptable academic practices in any school.""

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We have to interact with people who are rich, poor, white, black, yellow, red, straight, gay, liberals, conservatives, bigots.

Sounds to me like you're the bigot here. Simply teaching kids to respect others, ie the old Golden Rule if you remember what that is, should be sufficient. Forcing others to roleplay homosexuality, for example, is not a good way to teach tolerance.

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=44773
http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2010/04/....

Forcing this shit on kids who are required by law to be in school is worse than any "intolerance" those kids may display. Tolerance is not fostered by forcing someone to accept a practice.

Edit: Totally agree with Jonathanr here. Government IS the problem, as it is being used to push agendas. Without the force of government, people are free to decide things on their own. And as a result, people would have to "get along", as there'd be no government avenue to gain an edge over another.

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