# Moron hillbilly's in bumfuck Virginia

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**Created:** [December 18, 2015, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moron-hillbillys-in-bumfuck-virginia/740744 "2015-12-18T00:47:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moron-hillbillys-in-bumfuck-virginia/740744/11 "2015-12-18T15:41:06Z")

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To clarify a little bit, it appears that this assignment was part of the class study on world religions, the assignment in question came out of a standard textbook and while it doesn’t have an English translation it does state quite clearly that it is the “Islamic statement of faith”.

Here’s a CNN story, including a picture of the actual assignment.

> **[All schools shut down in Augusta County, Virginia, over Islam homework | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/18/us/virginia-school-shut-islam-homework/index.html)**
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> Augusta County, Virginia, schools shut on sheriff's concerns about angry calls and emails over a world religion homework assignment on Islam at Riverheads High.

So to sum up:

-Class specifically includes study of world religions.  
-Class uses a standard textbook on the subject.  
-Teacher picks an assignment from that same textbook.  
-Assignment does say what the phrase is about.

Yes, obviously a case of a rogue teacher stealthily indoctrinating innocent students into an Evil Religion completely outside of the material that they should have been learning.

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