The California Department of Education has ruled that a middle school teacher in Ventura County presented material about Islamic Sharia Law that was discriminatory and biased.
In January, the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Los Angeles chapter filed an appeal on behalf of a Ventura County family whose son received instructional material taken from an anti-Muslim website that berated Islam and Muslims, as part of a seventh-grade social studies class.
The sheet of paper distributed by the teacher states Sharia Law, or Islamic religious law, gives Muslim men sexual rights over any woman or girl not wearing the hijab, or head scarf; allows a man to marry an infant girl and consummate the marriage when she is 9; and requires Muslims to lie to non-Muslims to advance their faith.