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First Order Of Business for Mr Pyne MP: Stop Partisan Doctrine in our Schools

Don’t worry about the Gonski Review Christopher Pyne. Your first order of business when you become the Federal Minister for Education is to emulate Arizona’s new approach and empower school principals to sack any teacher who brings their partisan doctrine into the classroom.

Teachers in Arizona would automatically be fired for bringing “partisan doctrine” into their classrooms under a bill pending before the state legislature.

Arizona Senate bill 1202 is meant to ensure students get a balanced view of what they’re taught in school. In addition to firing teachers who bring partisanship into the classroom, school districts that allow it to happen would face losing state funding.

Arizona GOP congressional candidate Gabriela Saucedo Mercer testified in favour of the bill, telling lawmakers: “I have seen, firsthand, the damage done to our young students by partisans who pretend to be educators.”

“I have seen young students who, through classroom indoctrination rather than instruction, were incited to threaten and harass anyone who disagrees with their position,” Mercer said.

 

The second order of business is to stop showing Al Gore’s BS propaganda movie – An Inconvenient Truth to school children.

 

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Radical Muslims Declare Jihad on Dogs in Europe

It seems “Man’s best friend” is no friend of radical Islamists.

 

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Carbon Dioxide and the Politics of the Carbon Tax

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Angry at being told to suck it up and just accept the higher electricity, water, gas, food, and transport prices?

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Mad that Julia Gillard broke her promise to you and the Australian people?

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WikiLeaks: Guantánamo Bay terrorists radicalised in London to attack Western targets

At least 35 terrorists incarcerated at Guantánamo Bay were sent to fight against the West after being indoctrinated by extremist preachers in Britain, secret files obtained by The Daily Telegraph disclose.

Abu Qatada and Abu Hamza, two preachers who lived off state benefits after claiming asylum, are identified by the American authorities as the key recruiters responsible for sending dozens of extremists from throughout the world to Pakistan and Afghanistan via London mosques.

The leaked documents, written by senior US military commanders at Guantánamo Bay, illustrate how, for two decades, Britain effectively became a crucible of terrorism, with dozens of extremists, home-grown and from abroad, radicalised here.

Finsbury Park mosque, in north London, is described as a “haven” for extremists. United States intelligence officials concluded the mosque served as “an attack planning and propaganda production base”.

The files will raise questions over why the Government and security services failed to take action sooner to tackle the capital’s reputation as a staging post for terrorism, which became so established that the city was termed “Londonistan”.

The Folly of Ideology

Ideology is not the same as principles, writes Will Church.

“Ideology provides sham religion and sham philosophy, comforting in its way to those who have lost or never have known genuine religious faith, and to those not sufficiently intelligent to apprehend real philosophy.” – Russell Kirk

 Many posts on this blog have referred to “ideology” and so called “ideological purity.” Some of my associates and friends within the Liberal Party of Australia and its federated affiliate wings often refer to this “ideology”. It appears to me that what they often mean to express is simply a belief in principles, further it’s my private suspicion they’ve been unwitting victims of the growing emphasis on critical pedagogy in education – patently evident in school syllabi, and prevalent throughout the universities. However, I don’t think a loose use of the word “ideology” is excused by the fact that the individuals in question meant “principles”.