Saturday Morning Confusion!

Here it is Saturday morning and as usual I am slightly confused and certainly bewildered.

There is a guy in Simcoe Ontario named Kris Coulombe who was a teacher at the local elementary and high school who has been banned from teaching.

Kris was sentened to four years in prison last month after he was found guilty of having sex with several students at both the elementary and high schools.

The sexual exploitation and sexual assault charges arose from incidents that took place from 1999 to 2003.

Mr Coulombe has since appealed the conviction and this could take up to three years to work its way through the courts and in the meantime he is walking the streets.

Now is this why Kris is not allowed to teach? NOOOOOOOOO! Mr. Coulombe, according to the Ontario College of Teachers, had his teaching certificate suspended because he is in arrears with his memebership fees!!!!!!!!!

Your " ? " scribe;
Allan W Janssen

Muslim students lynch Christian teacher!

There has always been conflicts in Nigeria between different groups based on ethnicity or religion. But the last couple of years there seems to be a surge in radical violence especially in the Muslim north. Sharia law was introduced in 1999. Make the connection.

Muslim pupils at a secondary school in northeastern Nigeria beat a teacher to death today after accusing her of desecrating the Koran.

Oluwatoyin Olusase, a Christian, was adjudicating an Islamic Religious Knowledge exam at the school in Gombe state when the incident occurred.

The students attacked her outside the school compound after the exam and killed her, witnesses said.

It was not clear exactly what Olusase had done that angered the students.

Police confirmed the killing and said their intervention had prevented the incident from turning into a riot.

"We have received information that a female teacher has been lynched by her students. We are investigating the report," Gombe state police commissioner Joseph Ibi said.

Meanwhile, at least five people were killed and several churches burned down in February 2006 in the neighbouring state of Bauchi by Muslims infuriated that a Christian teacher in a secondary school had tried to confiscate a Koran from a student who was reading it during class.

Your "on the spot" scribe;
Allan W Janssen

(Now if we had a story that said "Christian students in suburban Atlanta lynch Muslim teacher over religious remarks," that would really make the news! But it ain't gonna happen folks)

Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God-101 (what the church doesn't want you to know!) www.God-101.com

Christian Values!

Opinions are starting to polarize in Europe concerning the head scarf debate and the influence of Islam on the population in general.

A Munich court on Monday upheld a ban on Muslim teachers (All two of them!) wearing head scarves in schools of the State of Bavaria under a law that says teachers' attire must be in line with "Western Christian" values.

A Berlin-based Islamic association had complained about the law, which authorities in the conservative-run state of Bavaria have used to ban head scarves while allowing Roman Catholic nuns to continue to wear their head-covering habits in schools.

The Bavarian Constitutional Court ruled Monday that the application of the law in the state neither violated religious freedom nor was discriminatory.
An Islamic head scarf represented a "deliberate separation from western values, and that is not compatible with our constitution," Wolfgang Bosbach, a legislator for Chancellor Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, said on television.

However, a lawyer for the Islamic Religious Community said some of its members were considering taking their case to the Federal Constitutional Court, Germany's highest court.

The Bavarian law forbids teachers from wearing clothes or other items during lessons that seem to express views "incompatible with the basic values of the constitution and its educational goals, including Western Christian educational and cultural values."

Personally, I don't care because as these three pictures prove, there's not really much of a difference one way or the other, is there!

But, this is another example of how repeated demands by a minority for expression of their beliefs and culture can lead to a backlash from the majority!

Ask the Jews, or the Blacks, or the Italians, or the Irish, or the Chinese, or the Sikhs, or the East Indians, or the Pakistanis, or the Native Americans, or people from Iowa, etc. etc!

It seems the only thing that will cure this is TIME!

Just as it did all the other times!

Your "Choir Boy" scribe;
Allan W Janssen

Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God-101 (what the church doesn't want you to know!) www.God-101.com