I think that if a Muslim student was complaining that he had been told to take of "his Allah glasses", by his public school teacher the student would be getting a more sympathetic response from many of the posters here.

If he were suing after have been told to take of the "Allah glasses" by a teacher in a fundamentalist Christian school, he would be applauded as a 21st century Profile In Courage.

That's just silly! A Muslim student attending a Christian private school? And suppose the moon were made of green cheese...

The context of the remark is important, so I'll point it out again: the subject being taught was European History. The teacher was pointing out the fact that Christian influences over the general population have affected their history, sometimes to their detriment. If the teacher were to point out the facts of Islamic influences in European history & the negative impacts of the Muslim faith, then it's the same thing.

So, the fact of this case is that the teacher wasn't telling his students to take of their Jesus glasses, he was referring to Europeans & the attempt to use religion to control the people. Now do you get it?

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"I would assume that most of the kids in Corbett's classroom are Christians. Only one sued, however. The rest understood the appropriateness of Corbett's "irreligious" comments.

Farnan's suit references Corbett's remarks tape-recorded during a single class period. You wouldn't realize it by reading the complaint, but that session dealt with reforms instituted in the 18th century by Austrian Emperor Joseph II at the time of the American and French revolutions.

My 14-year-old grandson is in an honors World History class at Glendora high school. When I quizzed him about Joseph he referred to the emperor as an "enlightened despot" who attempted to institute reforms that Corbett's class also studied. Joseph tried to abolish serfdom, extend religious tolerance to Jews and curtail the Catholic Church's authority. The church vigorously opposed him.

But while my grandson's teacher didn't relate the struggle over Joseph's reforms to present times, Corbett did. And he is to be applauded, not sued, for doing so.

Which brings us to "Jesus glasses." "When you put on your Jesus glasses, you can't see the truth." Corbett said that about the church's effort to sway peasant opinion against Joseph's reforms, using the peasants' deep religious faith to convince them that Joseph had acted against their religion. In this way, having peasants "put on their Jesus glasses" made it impossible for them to see the need for reform."

The Austian emperor Joseph is certainly an interesting field for study.  Among other things (perhaps you include these among the "reforms" you cite) he set strict limits on the number of candles that could be used at Mass.  One of his cousins, a Protestant German prince derided him as the "liturgist-in-chief".

But as for my point, there certainly are muslim students attending christian schools - you shouldn't be so narrow-minded to think otherwise.   Check out the names on the Mater Dei athletic teams.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Madkow, When adherents to a religion purposely choose names to reflect their faith, yes, you can presume that those names often reflect their religion.

But you're just grasping for straws now.  Do you really need to be convinced that Christian schools have open-admission policies, and that they attract students across religious lines?  They are unlikely to attract muslims from families who demand stoning for teachers who mis-name teddy bears, I suppose.

Madkow, a few posts up, oochild ridiculed my thread contribution - my observation that offense taken by a muslim student if told by his teacher to "take off his Allah glasses", would be defended by the many who are not sympathetic to the offended christian student.

She even compared the notion of a muslim student in a christian school to the notion that the moon is made of green cheese.  Obviously, while noting the muslim-sounding names on the Mater Dei rosters isn't proof-positive, I didn't feel it necessary to work up a more rigorous proof. 

How about addressing the point I made itself? 

My question remains:

Would a Muslim student, if offended by a teacher who told him to "take off his allah glasses", be viewed more sympathetically than this student?