Ever since a young man in Texas named Ahmed Mohamed put an old alarm clock in a pencil case and changed the world, we’ve been having a very valuable discussion about religious discrimination in schools. Now another Texas classroom is reminding us that religious freedom has its limits.
A Texas 7th grade girl says one of her teachers gave an assignment requiring students say God is a myth or receive a failing grade.
Jordan Wooley, who attends West Memorial Junior High School in the Katy Independent School District, told her school board Tuesday night they were given an assignment asking them to identify whether different statements were facts, opinions or myths. On the statement, “There is a God,” the teacher would only allow students to write myth, or else they’d fail, Wooley said…
Wooley said students who argued were threatened with punishment.
This was part of graded assignment and #katy middle schooler says she was told she had to say God wasn't real #khou pic.twitter.com/5EQ5EnSYi7
— Josh Chapin (@JoshChapinKHOU) October 27, 2015
Look, people, it’s simple. These children aren’t being discriminated against because of their religious beliefs. That’s impossible, because none of them are Muslim. How do I know that? Because if any of them were Muslim, they’d have been invited to the White House already.
These kids aren’t designated victims. As Christians, they’re in the majority — it’s Texas, yeeeee-haw!!! — and therefore they don’t get to complain when someone wrongs them. They should just give the answer they’re told to give and shut up about it.
That is, unless they convert to Islam. Then it’s different, because we shouldn’t discriminate against people for their religious beliefs. That’s racist, somehow.
Hey, don’t blame me. I don’t make the rules, I just enforce ’em. Now stop believing in God, you morons.
Er… Unless you believe in Allah, in which case I sincerely apologize and I’m begging you not to kill me.