Is It Ok to Teach Islam in Public Schools – Chuck Limandri

by | Jul 19, 2017 | Podcast

Is It Ok to Teach Islam in Public Schools – Chuck Limandri

On this episode of The Educate for Life Podcast, we explore one of today’s most urgent Christian education questions: What happens when public schools begin promoting one religious worldview over another? As Christian parents, homeschool families, and educators committed to a strong biblical worldview, it’s vital to discern how religious content is shaping students’ beliefs. This conversation brings together themes like Christian apologetics, faith and culture, and the importance of wise Christian parenting in an ever-shifting educational landscape.

Understanding What’s Really Being Taught

Attorney Chuck Limandri, founder of the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund, joins host Kevin Conover to unpack a controversial movement within the San Diego Unified School District. Limandri has defended major religious liberty cases for decades, including challenges involving public-school curriculum, compelled political expression, and the rights of students to practice their faith freely. His background in protecting constitutional freedoms makes him a crucial voice in this conversation.

In this episode, Chuck explains how certain districts have partnered with external advocacy groups to reshape curriculum and “anti-bullying” programs in ways that go beyond neutral education. Instead of offering balanced lessons about world religions, these programs introduce materials and speakers who promote Islam in ways that resemble religious endorsement rather than academic instruction. Christian parents are increasingly asking: Where is the line between teaching about a religion and advocating for it?

Chuck and Kevin walk listeners through the constitutional issues, the worldview implications for students, and the double standards that often arise when Christianity is minimized while other belief systems receive preferential treatment. Through a biblical lens, they discuss why discipleship and critical thinking are essential skills for students navigating secular school environments.

Key Takeaways

  • Why “teaching about religion” in public schools becomes problematic when it shifts toward advocacy
  • How Christian students are affected when biblical perspectives are excluded while other worldviews are elevated
  • The legal and constitutional standards for religion in public education
  • Practical ways Christian parents can protect their children’s faith while engaging with public-school systems
  • Why building a strong biblical worldview at home is more important than ever

Today on Educate For Life, Kevin is talking with attorney Chuck Limandri to shed light on an important issue that may soon affect the San Diego public school system. The district wants to implement a curriculum that would educate students about Islam. On the surface, that doesn’t…

Today on Educate For Life, Kevin is talking with attorney Chuck Limandri to shed light on an important issue that may soon affect the San Diego public school system. The district wants to implement a curriculum that would educate students about Islam. On the surface, that doesn’t sound so bad, but Chuck Limandri sees it as an attempt to indoctrinate students.

The motivation to implement this new curriculum comes from studies that seem to show that Muslim students are bullied more than any other group. But the studies are deeply flawed in many ways including the fact that they consider disagreeing with Islam as a type of bullying. CAIR, the Center for Islamic and American Relations is the group that wants to implement this curriculum. They have stated that their goal is to use San Diego as a test platform to see if they can implement it all across the U.S. in order to use the education system to transform America into an Islamic country.

Chuck Limandri has viewed the curriculum and he says it is incredibly one sided and teaches Islam uncritically to impressionable students. He says it is not the role of public schools to promote one particular view or religion over another. Furthermore, it would be promoting a belief system that is diametrically opposed to American values in many ways. According to what he has seen, this is exactly what this curriculum does. He says that if public schools would teach Islam in balance with other world religions, he would see no issue with it.

Tune in to Educate For Life to learn about this important issue and see why Chuck has legal objections to the implementation of this proposed curriculum. You don’t want to miss it.

This episode first aired on July 8, 2017.

How We Can Help You

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You can also explore our Christian Apologetics Courses to strengthen your own understanding of truth claims and cultural issues.

Here’s a short excerpt from the episode:

  • Kevin: “Some people say, ‘What’s the big deal? Schools teach about world religions all the time.’ Why should Christians be concerned?”
  • Chuck: “Teaching about a religion is one thing. Partnering with an advocacy group that promotes a specific belief system is something entirely different—especially when students are impressionable and attendance is mandatory.”
  • Chuck: “Public schools can’t push one religion above another. Yet we’re seeing curriculum and speakers who present Islam in a favorable, evangelizing tone while excluding Christian perspectives entirely.”
  • Kevin: “As Christians, we’re not driven by fear—but we are called to discernment. Parents have the right to know when curricula cross constitutional boundaries.”

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[00:00:00] now here’s your host Kevin con bring your ti BR your shame welcome to educate

[00:00:07] for life I’m your host Kevin Conover and my website is educate forlife.org my

[00:00:13] guest today on the show is Chuck lamandre if you’ve paid any attention to Religious Freedom issues like the M

[00:00:18] Mount solidad Cross or the uh firefighters in the parade a while back uh these sorts of issues um he is

[00:00:26] instrumental uh he was the key attorney in keeping the the cross up on Mount solidad he’s fought that issue forever

[00:00:33] since 1983 he’s handled numerous high-profile civil law and pro bonus pro

[00:00:38] bono religious liberty cases uh including the cross uh priest for Life

[00:00:43] Jonah and many other organizations in state and federal courts as well as before the United States Supreme Court

[00:00:49] currently he’s defending David deidon if you uh know about this this is the guy that was he’s the founder of the Center

[00:00:55] for Medical progress it was all over the news especially before uh the election took place

[00:01:00] uh he’s the one that was investigating uh Planned Parenthood and uh the human capital project basically what was

[00:01:06] happening was he was uh videotaping undercover uh people involved in Planned

[00:01:12] Parenthood who were admitting that they were actually selling baby’s body parts and U since then he’s been attacked uh

[00:01:19] vly and um Chuck you’ve been defending him is that right yes I have yeah and so

[00:01:24] that’s that’s in the courts right now is that correct it is both um two cases in federal court in San Francisco and then

[00:01:31] there’s also a state court criminal case actually that attorney general brought that’s proceeding in San Francisco as

[00:01:38] well incredible and that that’s what happens when you stand up for what’s right are you uncover absolutely correct at least if you go against Planned

[00:01:44] Parenthood cronies and political friends yeah yeah okay well we’ll be praying for him and and praying for you in that case

[00:01:50] thank you well um uh Chuck uh is a part of the he started the freedom of conscious defense fund fcdf legal.org FC

[00:01:59] CDF legal.org if you would like be involved with his organization or learn more about it please check out his

[00:02:05] website uh he’s got all kinds of great stuff but today what we’re talking about I was turned on to this recently uh by a

[00:02:11] friend uh there’s a movement now in San Diego in the San Diego City schools to

[00:02:16] get uh Islamic awareness or um to stop supposed Islamic bullying in the San

[00:02:23] Diego City Schools um can you tell us what’s happening and and when this started sure it probably started as

[00:02:28] early as 202 12 when the San Diego Unified School District started entering

[00:02:33] into what they call a partnership with care which is a council for American Islamic relations in order to heighten

[00:02:41] the awareness of the faculty students administration at the U San Diego City

[00:02:48] schools of uh uh Islam and issues dealing with Muslims with the idea being

[00:02:55] that uh Muslims were somehow being disproportionately singled out for

[00:03:00] bullying and the issue was largely I think brought to the Forefront by care

[00:03:07] which is recognized as the largest Muslim advoc advocacy group in the United States and it touts itself as

[00:03:13] being a religious organization as well and they did their own study which a school district relied

[00:03:19] on which made it look like Muslims were being bullied more than other students but when you actually broke down the

[00:03:25] figures that they had uh their idea of bullying consisted of people basically disagree with Muslims on on certain

[00:03:32] types of uh issues it didn’t necessarily uh mean any type of physical bullying in fact their numbers are very small when

[00:03:39] the school district uh did their own survey on whether or not students were bullied based upon religious issues the

[00:03:46] most recent data they have was for the last half of last year and they came up with out of 130,000 students seven

[00:03:52] complained of discrimination due to bullying but they didn’t break it down by religion so we didn’t even know if any of those students are seven students

[00:03:59] out of 30,000 that’s correct um and none of them may have been uh Muslims as far

[00:04:04] as we know from the data that the Anti-Defamation League a Jewish organization has done is Jewish students

[00:04:10] tend to be uh far more likely to be bullied at least nationally uh than Muslim Students so why is the school

[00:04:18] district partnering with uh partnering with care in order to uh provide what we

[00:04:23] believe is favoritism towards Muslim Students and it’s not just in terms of anti-bullying program because qu frankly

[00:04:30] we believe all students should have a a safe and secure educational environment and be yeah free of bullying not just

[00:04:37] Muslim Students like you know Christians Jews or any religion or or no religion so if they enforce the anti-bullying

[00:04:44] policies already imp place across the board that should be sufficient but we believe the whole bullying thing is a

[00:04:50] pretext because in conjunction with that they want to change the curriculum to be

[00:04:55] more favorable and and putting uh Islam uh in in General in Muslims in

[00:05:01] particular a more uh favorable light uh to faculty and students and again they’re relying on materials supplied by

[00:05:07] care when you look at some of these materials a lot of parents would be uh would find it objectionable they talk

[00:05:14] about how the Muslim excuse me the American Empire has kind of stoked the Flames of Muslim yeah they use that

[00:05:21] terminology uh and how American policies are partially responsible for a 9/11 um

[00:05:27] you know highly charged uh in inflammatory uh matters of a a political

[00:05:33] uh nature uh not just a a religious nature U putting America uh in in a bad

[00:05:39] light uh in that regard so Islam fundamentally is both a a religious uh

[00:05:46] you know belief system as well as a political uh belief system they go hand

[00:05:51] inand yeah no question about it I mean the uh Quran is very clear about that

[00:05:56] and Sharia law is inherent to Islam yeah you essentially can’t be Muslim

[00:06:01] without agreeing with Sharia law by its very nature it’s part and parcel it’s like saying I’m a Christian but I don’t

[00:06:07] believe in the 10 commandments we’ll just throw those those out and I’ll still be a Christian yeah you know you just can’t you can’t have it that you

[00:06:13] can’t uh a jettison the core beliefs of your faith and and still profess to be

[00:06:18] uh at least any kind of fervent or devout adherent to that faith and we as Christians you know accept the teachings of Christ and the uh Muslims accept the

[00:06:26] teachings of uh Muhammad and he was very much in favor of establishing a

[00:06:32] political Empire and and that’s what he sought out to do so it is both a political ideology and a religion and

[00:06:39] the curriculum uh that they’re proposing to give students does doesn’t really show that side of Islam so it’s it’s not

[00:06:47] what you call Fair balanced in objective plus now you’ve been able to review that curriculum we have and and in the

[00:06:53] complaint that we recently filed the amending complaint we got more of those uh materials than we actually quoted

[00:06:59] from them in the terms like American Empire and fueling the Flames of Muslim resentment I mean those are in materials

[00:07:05] that uh care has brought into the public schools and distributed and had uh spokespeople uh so is this is this in

[00:07:12] elementary schools is this middle schools is this high schools what is where is this uh exactly being distributed uh middle schools and high

[00:07:18] schools to our knowledge I’m not aware of of as much has been done uh in the uh

[00:07:24] Grade School uh level but the program that they’re trying to put in place place they’re calling it a comprehensive

[00:07:31] and fully integrated program for all grades so it’s going to we have to wait

[00:07:37] and see to what extent uh the lower grades are going to be exposed to what we feel is propaganda yeah and at least

[00:07:43] a subtle form of indoctrination which is going to include even having Muslim prayer rooms at some of the schools now

[00:07:51] now uh this is amazing to me that this uh because you constantly hear uh people saying hey separation of church and

[00:07:58] state exact and and so forth and so on they’re saying hey uh we’ve got to keep religion separate and yet here um we’re

[00:08:04] seeing in the the city schools which are hardly conservative you know the board members are not conservative no they’re

[00:08:10] very leftists and so it’s strange because typically they would cry hey separation of church and state and yet here you’re you’re saying that they’re

[00:08:16] potentially going to have Islamic prayer rooms well that’s part of their program and to have Muslim holidays on the school calendar now because of the

[00:08:23] backlash are saying okay we’ll put the Christian and Jewish ones back but for a long time because of the so-called

[00:08:28] separation in church State I mean you couldn’t even say Merry Christmas yeah now because the Muslims want to have

[00:08:33] Ramadan celebrated uh they’re being forced to recognize that there’s such things as a Christmas and Easter that

[00:08:39] are on the school calendar but of course you have to refer to them as winter break and spring break you can’t even talk about Christmas and Easter vacation

[00:08:45] anymore so it’s so D it’s such a double standard no no question about it and that’s why there’s been a push back and

[00:08:52] and parents have gone to these board meetings and express their concerns uh to the complete you know disregard of

[00:08:58] the uh the school district has acted with complete disregard to the parents and so we felt it necessary to file this

[00:09:04] complaint in federal court in when when did this start well the bringing care in and having their

[00:09:11] partnership and signing a written agreement with care went back as far as 2012 oh wow but yeah but in terms of the

[00:09:17] school board enacting uh this new regime they’re supposed to put in place for this next school year uh that was I

[00:09:24] believe in in April so they voted on that April of this year 2017 okay okay

[00:09:30] but they had uh people from care coming into the schools as early as uh February

[00:09:36] of this year soon after the election I think kind of as a reaction to okay you guys you conservatives voted for

[00:09:42] President Trump we’re going to show you what we can do with our power oh wow and if you’re going to have uh things like

[00:09:47] immigration reform we’re going to make sure that the people that you think are

[00:09:52] potential um rais concerns with regard to immigration uh that we’re going to bend over backwards to over accommodate

[00:10:00] them in in response that’s the impression that I get it was kind of a knee-jerk political reaction from the leftist members of the school board to

[00:10:07] kind of sticking in the eye of the people uh who voted for President Trump at least in terms of the timing yeah

[00:10:13] okay and uh so in response to that we filed the complaint in in May and we

[00:10:18] just uh amended it based upon additional information that was brought to light in

[00:10:23] June okay well Ahad my my guest today is Chuck lamandre and what we’re talking about is Islam in the public schools

[00:10:29] specifically San Diego City schools and this is a hot a hot issue it’s very significant and we’re going to talk more

[00:10:35] about why you should care why you should be concerned and why maybe you should contact uh the San Diego City School

[00:10:41] Board or uh visit Chuck and just stay uh stay in tune about what’s happening with

[00:10:46] this case uh and what’s happening uh legally here we’re going to be right

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[00:13:14] listen to a recording of this show or past shows if you like if you didn’t if you didn’t catch us on the first segment

[00:13:20] um you can look us up on YouTube you can also see us uh podcast and uh my guest today is Chuck lamandre he is a very

[00:13:26] well-known attorney here in San Diego County very involved in a lot of Religious Freedom cases and and cases in

[00:13:32] which people need to be able to um act according to their conscience and uh that’s what the Constitution is about we

[00:13:37] just celebrated 4th of July where we’re celebrating the freedom uh to live and to believe as we as we desire right not

[00:13:45] to be coerced to believe something and so um Chuck we’re talking about Islam in the San Diego City schools here and you

[00:13:52] know some somebody out there might be thinking hey what’s the big deal they’re teaching some they’re teaching about Islam you know they’re letting people

[00:13:58] know about this religion uh Christians also want people to know about Christianity so why is this a problem uh

[00:14:06] when it comes to Islam here what what is the why should people care that this is actually happening the fact that they

[00:14:12] may be including Islam in world religions would be perfectly appropriate as a major religion a large percentage

[00:14:17] of the Earth’s population uh profess to be adherence adherence of Islam but how

[00:14:23] they do it is very important the school district being in arm of the government since we’re talking about public schools

[00:14:29] we not talking about private you know Christian Schools sure uh the courts have been very clear that since public

[00:14:35] school education is mandatory and because uh kids are impressionable that

[00:14:41] they can’t use an opportunity to push one religion over another okay and if they’re presenting the materials in such

[00:14:47] a way as to have a disproportionate emphasis on Islam and they’re bringing

[00:14:52] in speakers from care whose task it is really to not just educate but proze

[00:14:58] they’re very clear it’s basic they’re painting is Islam in a positive light exact exactly correct and and other

[00:15:05] belief systems in not such a positive light so uh and that’s you know they’re

[00:15:10] they are perfectly justified in doing that the way they want to advocate for their religion in most places but not in

[00:15:18] the public school system and the government cannot partner with them to allow them to do that if they want to go

[00:15:24] out and try to spread uh their religion the way Christians or or any other religion want to do that in the Public

[00:15:31] Square um they can they can do that or in the marketplace or their their MOS or

[00:15:36] churches or synagogues we’re all free to do that you can’t do in the public school system uh and again the the court

[00:15:42] cases have been uh very clear on that even to the point and most people disagree you can’t even you know pray

[00:15:48] before a football game for the safety of students but now they’re going to have a Muslim uh prayer rooms uh not not

[00:15:54] accommodations for other faiths but for Muslim Students said this the San Diego

[00:16:00] City schools have said we’re going to have Muslim prayer room that’s correct and they’re going to have Muslim safe places and they’re going to have their

[00:16:06] special menu items what they call Halal I guess type of how do they think that I’m just confused how does the the board

[00:16:14] um because you’re suing here um you’re suing the board you are suing

[00:16:20] the superintendent Cynthia Martin um and how how are these people unaware of the

[00:16:27] fact that this uh is such a double standard and it’s violating uh what the

[00:16:32] courts have already determined which is that you can’t uh Advocate or promote or proze within a public school do they

[00:16:39] just not realize this or what’s going on are they I think they realize it I think they want to push the limits of their

[00:16:45] own uh political belief system um Kevin in in doing this religious liberty work

[00:16:51] now for I don’t know uh 15 20 years so I’ve been involved with it I mean it becomes increasingly clear to me that

[00:16:57] there’s kind of two diam diametrically opposed worldviews there’s the judeo-christian worldview and there’s

[00:17:04] the secular uh worldview and the secularists and I I think from what I

[00:17:09] understand of the San Diego Unified School District School Board they tend to be more of that um mindset uh they

[00:17:17] tend to align themselves with anything that’s not of a judeo-christian perspective it seems like that yeah now

[00:17:22] they may say because they consider this a multiculturalism type of issue and they’ve embraced the concept

[00:17:28] multiculturalism is always a good thing so anything that’s that’s not judeo-christian they they’re going to

[00:17:34] embrace for that purpose uh but that doesn’t mean that you can do it in a one-sided preferential fashion that

[00:17:40] turns out being discriminatory towards other students particularly when you consider the fact that I think there’s

[00:17:46] less than 1% of the San Diego population is is Muslim and something like 80 80% 75 80% live Dem Republic here that’s

[00:17:54] exactly right so you know the majority has rights too they they can’t discriminate against the minority but if

[00:18:01] you’re going to be bending over backwards to accommodate students why are you’re going to pick you know the 1%

[00:18:07] uh of the population and especially if as you say there’s no evidence that there’s actually any bullying uh taking

[00:18:14] place that specifically targeting Muslims right we haven’t seen that they’ve not presented you know any evidence and now my understanding is

[00:18:20] that school board meetings where this was announced in advance uh K was able to get students to come forward with

[00:18:27] their prepared speeches Muslim Students and give a little presentation okay as to why they felt that this would be uh a

[00:18:34] good thing uh but again no actual statistical evidence that the school

[00:18:39] district has presented of any actual bullying of Muslim uh students in San Diego and you know it clearly is

[00:18:46] pretextual because car has said they want to roll this out all over the United States so it’s not a San Diego

[00:18:52] issue yeah they’re saying San Diego is their pilot program and because they

[00:18:57] have uh School Board that’s receptive they’ve targeted San Diego to introduce

[00:19:02] this not because we have a problem in San Diego but because they want this to be a model program to help spread Islam

[00:19:09] and the person who is in charge of communications for care for the United States is on record as having previously

[00:19:17] said that uh look we’re we are nonviolent there’s been leaders of care that have been identifi with terrorist

[00:19:23] groups some have been indicted some have been convicted and they were founded by Muslim and Brotherhood which has been

[00:19:29] associated with with car’s group so uh car has a very checkered past and now the school district is trying to

[00:19:35] distance themselves uh from care but um when you say they’re trying to distance

[00:19:40] themselves from care what do you mean is this a recent development yes even the uh we understand that they’re going to

[00:19:46] be a voting on July 25th coming up whether based upon our lawsuit they’re

[00:19:52] going to sever their relationship with K uh which would be a positive sign so we’ll wait and see uh that goes but I

[00:19:59] started to say the head of communications care is on records and although we are nonviolent um make no mistake about it

[00:20:07] it is our goal to eventually have the United States as a Islamic State they’re

[00:20:12] very clear yeah and if they’re going to be faithful Muslims uh that is their goal a worldwide caliphate Christians

[00:20:19] don’t profess to that yeah it’s not as if we want to take over the world Christians don’t want to take over the world no we want to evangelize and share

[00:20:25] the the the good news of Salvation to those who are recept and if a person wants to choose to

[00:20:30] accept Christ Christ says I stand at the door and knock if anyone opens the door I’ll e with him and he with me it’s not

[00:20:36] I’m going to knock the door down exactly right Christ never advocated any type of

[00:20:42] uh forceful conversion you know he said to the the disciples you know Shake the Dust from your feet if they don’t want to receive you but just leave peace

[00:20:50] peacefully that’s not the teaching of Islam exactly I wanted to quote just a couple Islamic scriptures and I want to

[00:20:56] be very clear that both Chuck and myself um it’s not that we are islamophobic

[00:21:01] it’s not that we don’t love Muslims there are a lot of Muslims out there that that um are good people that are a

[00:21:06] part of society that are doing good things uh the stats I’ve heard is that only 10 to 15% of the Muslims uh in the

[00:21:11] world are radical Muslims but if you’ve got one and a half billion Muslims that’s a lot of people that believe in

[00:21:18] what the Quran says when it says things like this this is uh Quran chapter 9 verse 29 and fight them until

[00:21:24] persecution is no more and religion be only for Allah uh but if desist then let there be no hostility against the

[00:21:30] wrongdoers here’s another one this is Quran 9:13 will you not fight a folk who broke their solemn pledges and purpose

[00:21:37] to drive out the me messenger and did attack you first uh here’s another one

[00:21:42] Quran chapter 2 verse 191 and slay them wherever you find them and drive them

[00:21:47] out of the places whence they drove you out for persecution is worse than slaughter now contrast this with the

[00:21:53] words of Jesus Matthew 5:44 love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you Matthew 5:39 this is Jesus again if

[00:22:00] anyone slaps you on the right cheek turn to him the other cheek also and then Matthew 5: 11-2 blessed are you when

[00:22:07] others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account rejoice and be glad for great is a reward in heaven

[00:22:13] yeah so here’s a distinction um Jesus has been very clear that you don’t convert uh through any type of force or

[00:22:20] or compulsion now have there been people that supposedly in the name of Christianity have abused whatever

[00:22:27] position of author Authority they have yes but it’s clear they’re abusing Authority I had U One news commentator

[00:22:34] ask me and say aren’t these people who are you know advocating violence in the name of uh Islam distorting Islam and I

[00:22:41] said honestly I wish I could say that were true uh but Muhammad himself was very clear that if you can’t convert the

[00:22:48] Infidel you must kill the Infidel and the infidels are anybody who’s not a Muslim yeah including Christians and

[00:22:55] Jews now I guess there is an exception I understand it if Christians and Jews are considered Children of the book because

[00:23:01] he recognized Abraham as a father that um they can uh not kill them but they’ll

[00:23:06] subjugate them and make them pay a heavy tax it’s almost an extortion you could live among us but it’s only going to be

[00:23:12] to our benefit don’t practice your religion openly and pay the tax everybody else has to be killed now that

[00:23:17] is the basic tenant as well as living industrial law which is paron parcel so if a Muslim converts a Muslim will be

[00:23:24] killed in in over a dozen Muslim countries if if you’re gay you can be killed or at least yeah uh jailed it’s

[00:23:31] it’s a capital offense so a lot of things that uh Christians and uh even

[00:23:37] people who are non-christians who are liberals and secularists would find abhorent uh it’s a common practice Islam

[00:23:44] country so people need to be aware that there’s real distinctions not because as you say we we hate Muslims or dislike

[00:23:51] Muslims there’s lots of uh peaceful Muslims although surprisingly even among peaceful Muslims if you ask them if

[00:23:58] violence can ever be uh Justified uh to spread um Islam um a very high

[00:24:04] percentage will say yes sadly my guest today is Chuck lamandre and we’re talking about Islam in the public schools he’s an attorney here in San

[00:24:10] Diego fighting to keep Islam and uh promoting Islam out of the public

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[00:26:58] and and uh what we’re talking about today is Islam in the public schools I wanted to care is the one that in is is

[00:27:04] instigating this that’s the Council on American Islamic relation and a lot of people don’t know that they have ties to

[00:27:11] terrorism and so like Chuck was saying that it looks like the San Diego City schools are trying to distance

[00:27:17] themselves but Daniel pipes who is an expert on these issues says this he’s writing for the National Review he asked

[00:27:22] can a washington-based organization with ties to the Obama White House the US Congress leading media outlets and

[00:27:28] prestigious universities truly be an instigator of terrorism and then he says care can rightly be so characterized it

[00:27:34] doesn’t set off bombs but as the UAE that’s the United Arab Arab Emirates foreign Min Minister explains our

[00:27:41] threshold is quite low we cannot accept incitement or funding care incites funds

[00:27:47] and does much more Visa terrorism it apologizes for terrorist groups it was

[00:27:52] challenged to denounce Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist groups but it would not denounce uh them it it

[00:27:59] denounced the acts of violence but it would not denounce the organizations themselves it’s also connected to Hamas

[00:28:06] Hamas which is designated a terrorist organization by the US and many other governments indirectly created the

[00:28:11] Council on American Islamic relations and the two groups remained tight in 1994 care the the head of care publicly

[00:28:19] declared a support for Hamas uh and contributed $5,000 to care uh or Hamas

[00:28:27] contributed $5,000 to care care exploited the 911 attacks to raise money

[00:28:33] for um the HLF also a terrorist organization um it settled settled a

[00:28:41] lawsuit care initiated a liable lawsuit in 2004 over five statements made by a group called anti- care but two years

[00:28:47] later they settled because the statements were true uh they also have had multiple people that were arrested

[00:28:54] for terrorism or accused of terrorism seven board members or staff at care have been arrested denied entry to the

[00:29:00] US or were indicted on or pled guilty to terrorist charges so on and on you can

[00:29:06] go look at care in in the news and in their past and they’re absolutely tied

[00:29:11] to terrorism Federal prosecutors in 2007 named K as an unindicted

[00:29:18] co-conspirator um in a criminal conspiracy to support Hamas financially and in 2008 the FBI ended contacts with

[00:29:25] car because of concern about its continuing terrorist eyes what’s amazing to me Chuck is that they’re still based

[00:29:31] out of Washington they’re still having an influence in the schools and they’re still all over America and yet this is

[00:29:37] easily accessible news sure and the San Diego Unified School District gave them made some type of proclamation

[00:29:43] certificate that with big presentation thanking them for all of their service and helping design and implement this uh

[00:29:51] anti- uh Islamic bullying program or islamophobia uh program so they’re part

[00:29:57] and parcel of what’s going on in the San Diego Unified School District even though they have as I indicated this

[00:30:02] very checkered past and clear ties to the m Muslim uh Brotherhood and Hamas

[00:30:08] which are known to be uh terrorist organizations and again they make no secret about the fact that their goal is

[00:30:16] to spread the influence of Islam in the United States which of course again they’re entitled to do but not in the

[00:30:22] public school system where it’s a m mandatory form of Education you’ve got impression of students and that quote I

[00:30:29] gave before from the U National director of communications uh for care he said not

[00:30:35] only is our ultimate goal to make the United States an Islamic State but education is going to be our means to do

[00:30:42] it he said not violence education well okay this is uh their means to go about

[00:30:47] accomplishing that objective you cannot use a public school system for that purpose now can a proper balance be

[00:30:55] struck in terms of recognizing uh legitimate forms of religious

[00:31:00] expression in the public schools for people of all Faith yes and they should

[00:31:06] uh try to strike that balance I think that’s preferable than eradicating religion from the public school system

[00:31:12] entirely because it is part of our our culture and our history but let’s be

[00:31:18] realistic what is part of the culture and history of the United States and that is in fact uh it’s a

[00:31:23] judeo-christian nation at least from its founding absolutely more than half the uh founding fathers had the equivalent

[00:31:30] of Seminary degrees because all of those early Great American colleges like Harvard Yale Princeton were all Seminary

[00:31:37] colleges and so and the first public school in America from from my own research was actually started to teach

[00:31:42] kids to read the Bible and Congress funded uh the printing of Bibles and they also Congress funded having

[00:31:49] missionaries go out to the uh Indians and Native Americans so there was never

[00:31:54] this distinction of Separation in church and state in the minds of the found fathers that we have now but if you’re

[00:31:59] going to apply it uh however wrongly and and out of the uh contemplation of the

[00:32:05] founding fathers you need to do it uniformly and what we see Happening Here is there’s clearly a preference for

[00:32:12] Muslim Students and they’re saying this is a holistic and fully integrated approach so it’s going to be not just

[00:32:17] the curriculum but it’s going to be uh extracurricular uh type of activities as as well and extracurricular in what like

[00:32:24] visiting a mosque or something like that or what are you talking about uh that certainly said the Muslim prayer rooms

[00:32:30] the Muslim U safe spaces uh the Muslim and are they going teaching about Islam

[00:32:36] like during a social studies class or what is this something that’s like an elective is it completely separate um

[00:32:42] that remains to be seen how they’re going to uh fold uh that out but uh I

[00:32:48] will tell you they they’ve had uh speakers come into social studies type classes from care okay and and talk

[00:32:55] about Islam and give out the materials with the information information in that I mentioned which is decidedly you know

[00:33:02] anti-American by most people’s way of looking at it by saying we’re basically you know largely to blame for what the

[00:33:08] terrorists are doing yeah because we’re inciting that violence because of our our political policies and our n our

[00:33:14] leaders inability to uh consider uh the needs of uh of Muslim suffering around

[00:33:20] the world that’s what they’re saying they’re not uh telling people that there’s something like a 100,000

[00:33:27] Christians a year being martyred for their faith you know over a million in the last 10 years more since the time of

[00:33:33] Christ we’ve never had a greater amount of persecution and most of it is in the Middle East and Africa and and uh in

[00:33:40] Asia and much of it is by Muslims who are not just uh killing Christians but

[00:33:47] slaughtering them uh in the most brutal ways imaginable crucifying children I me

[00:33:53] burning people alive in cages and things of that nature well we’re coming up on a break here so uh my guest today is Chuck

[00:33:59] lamandre um please stay stay uh aware of what he’s doing here with the public

[00:34:05] schools and trying to keep Islam out of the schools uh at least taught the way it’s being taught uh and propagated um

[00:34:10] his website is fcdf legal.org that stands for freedom

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[00:36:36] life I’m your host Kevin Conover and I hope you’ve been enjoying the show today um it’s it’s a great show but it’s bad

[00:36:43] news uh so so uh bad and good news because we’re fighting back and we’re

[00:36:48] we’re making progress that’s right so um you know praise God for people like you Chuck and and what you what you’ve been

[00:36:55] doing it’s amazing but um so Chuck is on the radio with me Chuck lamandre and he is an attorney here in

[00:37:02] San Diego he has litigated uh many many many Religious Freedom cases and done it pro bono which is incredible um you know

[00:37:09] personal question Chuck when did you first start deciding that these you know uh being able to live by your conscious

[00:37:15] and these religious freedom issues when did that start you becoming aware of these issues and when did you start getting involved and litigating these

[00:37:23] well you know I’m a native San dieo I I love this city this this community I went to lot law school back east and

[00:37:28] after practicing in La for a while for big firm and then in San Diego uh for about 20 years I wanted to give back to

[00:37:35] this community and I heard the mount solad cross was going to be taken down the city was going to throw in the towel

[00:37:40] and I felt no we we have to fight on there must be a way to do this and so I kind of got involved not realizing what

[00:37:47] I was getting into honest with you so I started 20 years or something well the case went on for 27 years but I uh got

[00:37:54] involved when the city was going to have the cross remov moved which was 2004 I was in my late 40s the case finished

[00:38:02] successfully uh late last year and I’m in my early 60s so it it was a big chunk of my life now there was no nonprofit

[00:38:08] freedom of conscious defense fund so I was donating my time and paying other attorneys so really it was about a $2

[00:38:14] million uh commitment for me over 12 years in terms of total time and uh and

[00:38:20] money spent but uh it was it was a major sacrifice for me and my family but it was one that we felt was uh welld

[00:38:27] deserved and we’re glad we did it because now that cross is is there as part of that Memorial to honor veterans

[00:38:34] and the sacrifices that they made and for our entire Community to enjoy for time in Memorial so that kind of got me

[00:38:41] started but because I realized there was a need for someone particularly locally to be doing this kind of work and I

[00:38:48] couldn’t continue doing it on the basis of financing the whole thing myself we started the freedom of conscience

[00:38:53] defense Fund in 2012 and uh and now we have several

[00:38:58] attorneys working with me and I work with other Christian groups like The Alliance defending Freedom which is

[00:39:04] based in in Phoenix and they support our work yeah I just had one uh Jim Campbell

[00:39:09] and um Blaine Adamson on they they do wonderful work and they’ve been uh big

[00:39:15] supporters and we’ve worked with other uh religious uh Liberty groups life legal defense fund is working with us on

[00:39:22] this David delen case in uh San Francisco we’re working with Liberty Council we work with the Thomas Law

[00:39:27] Center on the priest for Life case so um we’re trying to pull all of our resources just like the other side does

[00:39:33] none of us are as big or have the resources anywhere near like the ACLU or the Southern Property Law Center which

[00:39:39] has literally tens of millions of dollars in in reserves but uh we do what we can with what we have and we’ve had

[00:39:46] some good success obviously Mount so cross was a big deal for the local community and the firefighters case has

[00:39:53] an impact throughout the state because and that’s where they were trying to coer Firefighters to participate in the

[00:39:58] Gay Pride PR yeah we had four Christian firefighters that were promised if they showed up for work that day they would not have to participate and even though

[00:40:04] they worked to the Hill Crest station and had no problem serving the gay community in terms of firefighting

[00:40:10] services or medical emergencies and going into the gay bars and bath houses they’ do whatever they needed to the Gay

[00:40:16] Pride Parade as you know is a political event and they didn’t want to participate in a certain type of political expression when they’re

[00:40:22] basically on the job in uniform but told they couldn’t perform any of their functions they can’t engage in any emergency services or firefighting they

[00:40:29] just had to be there kind of as spokespeople for the fire department supporting a cause and a messages they

[00:40:35] may not necessarily agree with why father your organization is freedom of conscience defense fund exactly yeah and

[00:40:42] we were successful in that the basically the law in California now is you can’t coer public employees on the job in

[00:40:48] uniform to participate in political events so that includes saying you have to go in uniform to the Republican

[00:40:53] convention or Democratic Convention or any other political event it’s not a appropriate for uh public uh employees

[00:41:00] paid with government funds on the job in a uniform to be sending a message they may not agree with be there as police or

[00:41:06] firemen to provide emergency services and or security absolutely but that’s

[00:41:12] not what these guys they’re told they couldn’t do that they had to be in the truck and and we’re in America we’re we’re in America where we’re supposed to

[00:41:17] be able to live according to our conscience absolutely so that’s why we formed this this organization and um

[00:41:23] this new case involving the San Diego Unified School District uh is an expression of that uh nobody should be

[00:41:31] forced to uh you know accept a particular Creed or have a particular belief system in the public school

[00:41:37] system when you have uh kids uh because these kids are taking this in and they’re thinking to themselves hey this

[00:41:43] is what’s true right right and a lot of their parents don’t necessarily you know most of the parents don’t share that uh

[00:41:49] belief system and they don’t want their kids being indoctrinated uh into a belief system that may be directly

[00:41:54] contrary to the values that they hold and and they espouse part of Islam as as

[00:42:00] you know is women quite frankly are second class citizens yeah in Saudi Arabia women are not allowed to drive no

[00:42:06] and and they’re in in in court their testimony is counted half the weight of a man uh these Concept in the United

[00:42:13] States are are considered to be highly discriminatory uh against women you know we’re all considered equal and that’s

[00:42:20] the view of Christianity Christianity elevated woman uh more than any other uh political or religious belief Paul

[00:42:27] actually says there is no male or female we don’t we don’t discriminate based on sex or race or anything else absolutely

[00:42:34] and you know in Christianity Mary is recognized as the mother of God and hel in a place of high the first people to

[00:42:41] see the Risen Christ were two women exactly that’s exactly correct so all of

[00:42:46] that uh makes Christianity somewhat unique and and perfectly well fit and IND disposed towards a democratic system

[00:42:54] of government which is why our founding fathers you embraced it and from Washington who was very religious to

[00:43:00] Jefferson who is maybe not quite so religious or Franklin not quite so religious they all recognize the fact

[00:43:06] that religion and morality were essential and John Adams who is very religious said that specifically without

[00:43:12] Christianity our government’s not going to stand and Wasing without religion and morality our government’s not going to stand and these guys specifically

[00:43:18] referring to Christian religion they weren’t referring to Islam absolutely or Hinduism or Buddhism or anything like

[00:43:24] that no and again uh Jeff is in some respects the the least uh religious made

[00:43:31] it up a point to go to Sunday services and they had them at the time at the US capital because it was the largest

[00:43:37] building so he would walk from the White House to the capital and attend church services in standing room only now we

[00:43:45] have a concept of of separation of church and state but that was inimical to the thinking of the founders who

[00:43:51] believe that our faith was absolutely an indispensable part of the new form of

[00:43:57] government because it was dependent upon self-rule by a people and if they were not virtuous they were not going to rule

[00:44:04] that’s right it’s Anarchy exact okay so my guest is Chuck lamandre and Chuck when we come back for our last segment I

[00:44:10] want to ask you if it’s true that our country is founded on religion and religion is indispensable to this um

[00:44:16] what would you say to somebody who said well let’s have Islam and Christianity both be taught in the public schools so when we get back um we’ll have Chuck

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[00:46:42] on okay thanks for tuning in to educate for life really appreciate you being here for today’s show I hope you’re

[00:46:48] having a great Saturday my guest today is Chuck lamandre and he is with the uh freedom of conscience defense fund and

[00:46:55] uh he is currently litigating uh on behalf of parents who are concerned about Islam being in the San

[00:47:01] Diego City Public Schools and that’s what we’ve been talking about this whole time now Chuck I wanted to ask you so we’ve been talking about how our country

[00:47:08] uh was founded on Christianity religious principles and the founding fathers considered those in indispensable in

[00:47:14] order to have a good uh country right so what do you say to the person who says well if that’s the case why not teach

[00:47:21] Islam and Christianity in the public schools and then they can they can teach what they want and the and the Christians can teach what they want and

[00:47:27] you’re good to go well if you’re going to be bringing in uh imans or people

[00:47:32] from organizations like here to talk about Islam then you should be bringing in uh ministers pastors priests or

[00:47:39] rabbis whatever so that could get a little unwieldy depending upon how many faith-based groups you want to get

[00:47:45] represented but if they’re going to be uh in any way fairly reflective of the uh population you’re you’re talking

[00:47:51] about uh Christians by far in way are the largest group represented in the population in in the school so I I think

[00:47:58] the way you you present these materials should reflect that and I think as long as it’s done in a fair and balanced way

[00:48:04] that takes in consideration the well-known and and irrefutable facts that it’s Christianity that helped

[00:48:11] establish our Western Civilization is Christianity it started the hospital system in Europe and the university

[00:48:18] system in Europe Oxford Cambridge sbone they were all uh started by people of of

[00:48:23] of the Christian faith certainly not the uh is Islam faith and it was those principles that were embraced by our

[00:48:29] founding fathers so when they’re writing the Declaration of Independence which we celebrated yesterday on the 4th of July

[00:48:34] when they talked about God of Nature and and Nature’s God that was coming from a

[00:48:40] decidedly Christian Perspective and while they’re doing all that the Boston Tea Party and all that’s going on here

[00:48:46] on in the other side of the country in California particularly San Diego where the mission system started with Mission

[00:48:52] San Diego de oala again that’s a Christian emphasis and those missions became the Hub

[00:48:57] of which all the major cities in California uh were built by people who again were devoutly Christian so that’s

[00:49:03] our heritage and that that needs to be uh taught and people need to understand

[00:49:08] that that’s the basis for our American system of government now the Islamic system of of of government based on

[00:49:14] Sharia law is diametrically opposed to our constitutional form of government so

[00:49:20] if you’re going to teach that students need to know that and if they’re going to be asking students to embrace certain

[00:49:26] certain ideas that are contrary to constitutional form of government they need to lay it out pretty clearly so

[00:49:33] that students can make in informed Choice under which system they want to live under one that’s going to recognize

[00:49:39] all people as as free and equal as we do under our United States Constitution or

[00:49:45] system of government under Sharia law where not everybody is free and equal if you’re not uh Muslim or if you’re not a

[00:49:51] man uh you’re not going to be accorded the same rights as everybody else so

[00:49:56] they need to present that in a fair and balanced way and if they’re not doing it they’re not doing their job as Educators

[00:50:02] so uh that’s our take on that okay so that’s very interesting so you would actually be okay with them um putting

[00:50:09] Christianity into or at least teaching something about these belief systems and so forth the Christian belief systems um

[00:50:16] as or teaching Islam even I if they had a Counterpoint to that to that teaching

[00:50:22] is what you’re saying that’s right and it doesn’t have to be done in a hostile way but people need to know that Muhammad was a military leader yeah and

[00:50:29] that Islam was spread through military conquest yeah one of the big battles in

[00:50:35] in early Islamic history uh he actually beheads 700 uh Jewish men who had who

[00:50:41] had surrendered and a lot of people just are not aware of that history no that that is correct and that’s why there’s

[00:50:48] beheadings today in Islamic countries because that’s foundational to the Corin that’s how you treat uh infidels you Lop

[00:50:55] off their hits that’s what you’re taught so so Chuck um is that even feasible I

[00:51:01] mean is that something we should just go you know what it’s easier just to take the just to not have Islam being taught

[00:51:07] in the schools at all um I mean where do you stand on that realistically realistically people need to understand

[00:51:14] uh in an educational you know system that’s again uh not biased or slanted toward One Faith about how religion is

[00:51:22] is being used by various groups we have a constant uh stream of ter acts uh in

[00:51:28] in Europe and and to a lesser extent in the United States and if it’s motivated by religious adherence I think students

[00:51:35] need to be aware of that because the mainstream media is not telling people that right and every time that there is

[00:51:41] a terrorist attack they they downplay whether it’s uh religiously motivated or

[00:51:47] not yeah so if you’re going to have a fair and balanced educational system uh people need to understand so they can

[00:51:52] make proper choices not because we want to act in a mean Spirit or a bigoted passion towards our Muslim brothers and

[00:51:58] sisters who are peacefully living and working here in the United States in our communities and and to the extent that

[00:52:04] they want a peacefully coexist we need to support that but we also need to recognize that there are a lot of

[00:52:10] adherence to the Muslim faith who take the Quran more literally uh which does justify in fact require them to uh act

[00:52:18] in certain way so essentially what you’re saying here is that not all World Views and not all religious views are quote equal and ultimately we have to

[00:52:25] look I mean what they’re equal under the law in the sense that you can believe them but different ideas have different

[00:52:31] consequences absolutely and quite frankly you know some ideas in different times of our history people felt you

[00:52:37] know communism was more of a threat maybe uh in the 50s uh than it is now you can’t put your head in the sand and

[00:52:44] ignore those realities yeah or pretend that somehow hey we’ve got to be we’ve got to accept all ideas yeah accept all

[00:52:52] ideas of of uh of equal value uh when they’re not particularly if they’re inconsistent with our our own

[00:52:58] constitutional form of government and quite frankly shria law is and communism is and students need to be aware of that

[00:53:04] and they need to know why and if they want to choose to try to Advocate to make the United States a communist

[00:53:10] Nation or an Islamic Nation uh so be yet they’re entitled to do that once they graduate but um the school system is not

[00:53:17] the place to be indoctrinating students into beliefs and values that are

[00:53:23] inconsistent with our American form of government and the wishes of their appearance yeah Chuck thank you so much for being on the show today really

[00:53:29] appreciate pleasure thank you for thank you for everything you’re doing if you want to stay up to date on what uh Chuck

[00:53:35] lamandre is doing fcdf legal.org freedom of conscience defense fund I I highly

[00:53:42] recommend you to get involved and be concerned about this kind of stuff it’s happening all the time just a week ago

[00:53:48] uh we had um Ashley beaver and um her attorney on on the uh air talking about

[00:53:55] what’s happening with sex education in the Public School San dieo City school so we got all kinds of stuff happening there so uh please be involved the more

[00:54:01] involved you are uh the bigger difference we can make in U making sure that these kids are safe and ultimately

[00:54:09] that um uh God is honored in the way we live and um and uh Jesus Christ is

[00:54:15] glorified and uh we we want people to be blessed so thank you for being on the show today I hope you have a wonderful

[00:54:21] Saturday and uh we’ll see you next Saturday or we may or may not see you depending on if you watch you or not but

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