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Marine Dad Banned from School Property;
Daughter Gets Failing Grade for Refusing Islamic Indoctrination
The Thomas More Law Center Steps In
The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) today announced its representation of John Kevin Wood, and his wife Melissa, in their battle with La Plata High School in Maryland over the Islamic indoctrination of their 11th grade daughter in her World History class. Their daughter was required to complete assignments where she had to affirm that There is no god but Allah and the other Five Pillars of Islam.
The case gained national attention when the school banned John Wood from entering school property after he objected to the religion of Islam being taught in his daughters history class and demanded that she be given an alternative assignment. The school refused. Wood, a former Marine who served in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm and lost friends in that action, saw firsthand the destruction caused in the name of Allah and that Islam is not a religion of peace; and he would not budge from his position.
The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) is a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. TMLC Senior Trial Counsel, Erin Mersino, and Maryland attorney, Michael F. Smith of The Smith Appellate Law Firm, represent the Wood family. Yesterday they filed a request for records relating to the case under Marylands Public Information Act.
On October 22, 2014, John Wood discovered that his daughter was being forced to repeat religious tenets of Islam as a part of her World History class assignment. She was required to write how the prophet Muhammad was visited by the Angel Gabriel and preached that there is only one true god, who is Allah. The assignment made her write that Mohammad is the messenger of Allah and that the Quran is holy text. The assignment required her to affirm that Allah is the same god that is worshipped in Christianity and Judaism and that the Quran is the word of Allah revealed to Mohammad in the same way that Jews and Christians believe the Torah and the Gospels were revealed to Moses and the New Testament writers. The assignment also forced young women such as the Woods daughter, to fill in the following sentences: Men are the managers of the affairs of women and Righteous women are therefore obedient.
When John Wood discovered the Islamic propaganda and indoctrination, he was rightfully outraged, and that evening unsuccessfully tried to contact the school by phone to voice his objections. Wood witnessed firsthand the destruction caused in the name of Allah and knows Islam is not a religion of peace. He served in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, and lost friends in that action. On 9-11, Wood responded as a firefighter to the smoldering Pentagon. He refused to allow La Plata High School to subject his daughter to Islamic indoctrination despite the threatened academic consequences.
The next day, October 23rd,Wood had a phone conversation with a La Plata vice principal where he again reiterated his objections to his daughter being indoctrinated into the religion of Islam He asked how the religion of Islam could be taught when schools are prohibited from teaching the religion of Christianity.
The following day, October 24th, John Wood spoke with the high school principal. The principal refused to allow an alternative assignment and threatened that if his daughter, a high school junior with college hopes, did not complete the religious assignment on Islam, she would receive a failing grade.
Commenting on the case, Richard Thompson, TMLCs President and Chief Counsel stated: Adding insult to injury, in an arrogant and unnecessary display of power, La Platas principal issued a written No Trespass notice, which denied this former Marine who stood in harms way defending our country including the principal and her staff, any access to school grounds. The schools actions not only dishonored John Woods service, but the service of all men and women in our Armed Forces who defended our nation from Islamic violence. True to his Marine training, John Wood stood his ground. He did not retreat. Yes, his daughter has received a failing grade in her World History Class. But the story is not yet over.
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That principal has to be fired. Period. Arrogance like that has no business leading one of our schools. Obama is behind this influx of Islam into our country, and he needs to be fired as well. Every Christian and Conservative should sue this president for stomping on our Constitution and lying about almost everything that has come out of his mouth. He is the one pushing Islam on our schools. He gives them freedoms and takes ours away and it has to stop.