This Is How Liberal Accusations About Sex Education Lessons Enraged American Muslims

Recently, a program on the liberal-leaning MSNBC sparked controversy in the American community, which came in the wake of protests at local school boards organized by American Muslims upset over homosexual content in school curricula.

The program alleged that the GOP is trying to recruit American Muslims against a small minority of Americans, who are LGBTQ community, while those allegations were met with criticism among Republicans and American Muslims alike.

Conversations in classrooms about gender identity and sex education have recently become controversial among school systems and parents across the country.

All of the above prompts opponents, who complain about the enthusiasm of the U.S. authorities to educate the American community about homosexuality and its propaganda and dissemination in the world, to ask: “Do they want to transfer homosexuality to the rank of religion?”

 

Religious Freedom

Activists from the Muslim community in America have expressed their rejection of the accusations leveled against them regarding the right-wing attempt in the Republican Party to recruit them to oppose the gay community, especially with regard to the issue of sex education within the school curricula.

The former White House press secretary and program host on the liberal-oriented MSNBC channel, Jen Psaki, had claimed that the GOP was trying to recruit American Muslims against the LGBTQ community, as part of what she described as a toxic agenda being implemented by Republicans, as she put it.

“The GOP wants to separate Muslims, a community that makes up less than 2% of the U.S. population, from LGBTQ people,” Psaki said on her show, which was broadcast on July 2, 2023.

Psaki likened the Republicans’ attempt to appeal to Muslims to President Richard Nixon’s Southern strategy of winning over southern whites when he ran for president in the 1960s and 1970s, pointing out that the party succeeded in separating the whites in the South from the Democratic Party.

The host saw that the GOP poses a threat to the Muslim community, and added that it is trying to revive the same rules of the game, but this time with Muslim Americans and LGBTQ people.

During the program, Psaki discussed why she believes Muslims should fear the GOP.

“It’s important to remember that in 2011, during the Republican primaries, the right had designated Muslim Americans as enemy number one,” she said.

Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly has slammed MSNBC host Jen Psaki, calling her a failure, for a speech in which she accused the GOP of trying to recruit Muslims against gay people.

During her SiriusXM podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show, on July 3, Kelly responded to Psaki’s devotion of a portion of her talk show to what she called the right-wing strategy of dividing minority groups.

Kelly accused Psaki of another diminishment of Muslims in America: “You’re just too stupid to realize you’re being manipulated.

“What actually drags Maryland parents on a weekend to protest? It has to be a lot,” Kelly said.

Edward Ahmed Mitchell, an executive director at the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said it was time for liberal commentators like Psaki to accept that Muslim parents are independent, intelligent people speaking for themselves.

“Psaki is absolutely correct to note that the political right has spent years denigrating Muslim Americans…Psaki is incorrect about everything else,” he told Fox News.

“Muslim Americans are not political puppets. Most of us are independent thinkers who could care less what the political right or political left want us to do,” Mitchell added.

“Most of us are speaking up for what we think is right for the sake of God’s pleasure, not at the urging of a political party,” he said.

Mitchell added that “Muslims have not been expressing bigotry against any marginalized community. It was purely a religious freedom issue to protect children from sexualized curriculum.”

MSNBC ran a similar report on June 21, and Mitchell also criticized it at the time, calling it ridiculous for portraying Muslim parents as dupes for the political right.

 

LGBTQ Curriculum

Jen Psaki’s comments come as a growing number of Muslim Americans are organizing to protest the teaching of gender and LGBT ideology in schools.

On June 27, hundreds of parents rallied outside the Montgomery County Board of Education in Maryland, demanding that officials allow students to opt out of lessons that use LGBTQ materials, as The New York Post reported.

A recent Washington Post analysis found that books about LGBTQ people are fast becoming the main target in a historic wave of schoolbook challenges.

Last year, several Maryland parents protested at school board meetings because of a health education framework that included discussions around gender identity in the elementary-level grades.

Leading Democrats, the Biden White House, as well as teachers’ unions, have defended the books with highly explicit sexual images and clips, claiming they help LGBTQ children feel included in classroom content.

However, some parents have accused their districts of providing child sexual material that has no educational merit under the guise of professed inclusion.

Fox News also reported that a partner in the American Federation of Teachers, First Book, was sending explicit books, including some sexual images, to schools for free or at very low cost.

Last October, Republican lawmakers proposed a new law that would ban public schools from offering lessons or literature to young students that discuss gender identity, sexual orientation, and transgender individuals.

The legislation, introduced in Congress by a group of 33 House Republicans led by Rep. Mike Johnson, is called the Stop Child Sexualization Act.

The law prohibits the use of federal funding to develop, implement, facilitate, or fund any sexually directed program, event, or literature for children under 10 years of age.

It also prohibits the use of federal funding for any event that exposes children under the age of 10 to adult nudity, or lewd or lecherous dancing.

Democratic lawmakers have criticized the law, some calling it abhorrent.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, wrote in an email that Johnson’s bill is similar to Florida’s 2021 law, which prohibits education about gender identity and sexual orientation for students in kindergarten through third grade, and limits lessons on these topics to upper grades.

Weingarten said this type of legislation harms the most vulnerable children for cheap political gain, according to the Washington Post.

Sex education across most of the nation is in fact quite limited already per state law, the newspaper has reported: Just 29 states and D.C. require that students receive sex education, while 16 states mandate abstinence-only sex education.

A 2022 poll noted a sharp partisan divide over teaching LGBTQ issues.

 

New Religion

The adoption of the American democratic administrations for homosexuals and their extreme enthusiasm for them prompted opponents to say that the United States is trying to make homosexuality a new religion for the world.

In addition to the fact that sex education has been compulsory in U.S. schools from the first grade for several years, in December 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden signed a law at the federal level that guarantees same-sex marriage for individuals.

During the signing ceremony, Biden stated, “For most of our nation’s history, we denied interracial couples and same-sex couples from these protections. Now the law requires interracial marriage and same-sex marriage must be recognized as legal in every state in the nation.”

This legislation repealed the Marriage Protection Act of 1996, in which the concept of marriage is defined as the union between a man and a woman.

Same-sex marriage has been legal in the United States since 2015. Then, in Obergefell v. Hodges, the country’s Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples had a constitutional right to a formal union.

As for the federal law signed by President Biden last year, which was prepared by Democratic Party deputies, it excludes the possibility of reviewing the decision in this case by the Supreme Court.

It is noteworthy that the United States at the federal level already bears the flag of homosexuality.

San Francisco, for example, is considered the capital of the rainbow in California, and is the first city in the world in terms of the number of homosexuals, with between 10 and 15 percent of the total population.

Since the 1970s, gay people from all over the United States have begun to settle in this city, establishing their own famous neighborhood there.