Thomas More Law Center Files Federal Lawsuit On Behalf of Marine Dad Banned from School Property After He Objected to Islamic Indoctrination of Daughter
The Thomas More Law
Center (TMLC), a national public interest law
firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, yesterday
afternoon, filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of former
Marine, John Kevin Wood, and his wife, Melissa, who
refuse to allow their teenage daughter to be subjected
to Islamic indoctrination and propaganda in her high
school World History class. The lawsuit was filed
against the Charles County Public Schools, the Board
of Education, and the Principal and Vice-Principal of
La Plata High School located in La Plata, Maryland.
The Woods’ daughter was forced
to profess and to write out the Shahada in
worksheets and quizzes. The Shahada is the
Islamic Creed, “There is no god but Allah, and
Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.” For
non-Muslims, reciting the statement is sufficient to
convert one to Islam. Moreover, the second part of
the statement, “Muhammad is the messenger of
Allah,” signifies the person has accepted
Muhammad as their spiritual leader. The teenager was
also required to memorize and recite the Five Pillars
of Islam.
Charles County Public Schools
disparaged Christianity by teaching its 11th
grade students, including the Woods’ daughter, that: “Most
Muslims’ faith is stronger than the average
Christian.”
The Charles County Public
Schools also taught the following:
- “Islam, at heart, is a peaceful”
- “To Muslims, Allah is the same God that is worshiped in Christianity and Judaism.”
- The Koran states, “Men are the managers of the affairs of women” and “Righteous women are therefore obedient.”
Read the two exhibits containing
Student worksheets here.
The sugarcoated version of Islam
taught at La Plata High School did not mention that
the Koran explicitly instructs Muslims “to kill the
unbelievers wherever you find them.” (Sura 9-5)
When John Kevin Wood discovered
the Islamic propaganda and indoctrination of his
daughter, he was rightfully outraged. He immediately
contacted the school to voice his objections and to
obtain an alternative assignment for his daughter.
The Woods, as Christians,
believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God and our
Savior, that Jesus Christ died on the cross for our
sins, and that following the teachings of Jesus Christ
is the only path to eternal salvation. The Woods
believe that it is a sin to profess commitment in word
or writing to any god other than the Christian God.
Thus, they object to their daughter being forced to
deny the Christian God and to her high school
promoting Islam over other religions.
The school ultimately refused to
allow the Woods’ daughter to opt-out of the
assignments, forcing her to either violate her faith
by pledging to Allah or receive zeros for the
assignments. Together, John Kevin Wood, Melissa Wood,
and their daughter chose to remain faithful to God and
refused to complete the assignments, even though
failing grades would harm her future admission to
college and her opportunities to obtain college
scholarships.
Adding insult to injury, in an
effort to silence all pro-Christian speech in her
school, La Plata’s principal, without a hearing or any
opportunity to refute the false allegations against
him, issued a “No Trespass” notice against John Kevin
Wood denying him any access to school grounds.
Wood served 8 years in the
Marine Corps. He was deployed in Operation Desert
Shield/Desert Storm and lost friends to Islamic
extremists. A few years later, Wood responded as a
firefighter to the 9-11 Islamic terrorist attack on
the Pentagon. Wood witnessed firsthand the
destruction created in the name of Allah and knows
that Islam is not “a religion of peace.” The school
prevented John Kevin Wood from defending his
daughter’s Christian beliefs against Islamic
indoctrination, even though as a Marine, he stood in
harm’s way to defend our nation, and the Charles
County Public Schools.
Richard Thompson, President and
Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center,
commented: “Defendants forced Wood’s daughter to
disparage her Christian faith by reciting the Shahada,
and acknowledging Mohammed as her spiritual leader.
Her World History class spent one day on
Christianity and two weeks immersed in
Islam. Such discriminatory treatment of Christianity
is an unconstitutional promotion of one religion over
another.”
Thompson added, “The course also
taught false statements such as “Allah is the same God
worshipped by Christians, and Islam as a “religion of
peace. Parents must be ever vigilant to the Islamic
indoctrination of their children under the guise of
teaching history and multiculturalism. This is
happening in public schools across the country. And
they must take action to stop it.”
The Woods’ lawsuit seeks a court
declaration that Defendants violated their
constitutional and statutory rights, a temporary and
permanent injunction barring Defendants from endorsing
Islam or favoring Islam over Christianity and other
religions, and from enforcing the no trespassing order
issued against John Kevin Wood.
Read entire Federal Complaint here. (if
the hyperlink does not work, I have attached it to
this file)
Please see below.
Bill Gawthrop
"Tell the truth; use their words."
General George Marshall to Frank Capra
in commissioning the "Why We Fight" series.
Strategic Intelligence Considerations When Preparing for War
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/
ZAKAT: A Warfare Funding Mechanism
http://micastore.com/
The Influence of Islamic Law on Intelligence and Law Enforcement
http://micastore.com/
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/
Dogmatic Basis of Jihad and Martyrdom
http://smallwarsjournal.com/
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/
Countering Political Islam
http://www.iacsp.com/back_
Sources and Patterns of Terrorism In Islamic Law
http://thinkprogress.org/wp-
http://micastore.com/
"Tell the truth; use their words."
General George Marshall to Frank Capra
in commissioning the "Why We Fight" series.
Strategic Intelligence Considerations When Preparing for War
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/
ZAKAT: A Warfare Funding Mechanism
http://micastore.com/
The Influence of Islamic Law on Intelligence and Law Enforcement
http://micastore.com/
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/
Dogmatic Basis of Jihad and Martyrdom
http://smallwarsjournal.com/
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/
Countering Political Islam
http://www.iacsp.com/back_
Sources and Patterns of Terrorism In Islamic Law
http://thinkprogress.org/wp-
http://micastore.com/
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