"A Dangerous Sign of the Times?"

Recently, several Gainesville, Florida students were sent home from school to change their clothes. The students had arrived at school wearing T-shirts with"Islam is of the Devil" inscribed on the back. The shirts had been distributed by a local church, the Dove World Outreach Center, as part of a campaign to expose Islam as a "violent and oppressive religion".



Do you believe the school should have had the right to wear these shirts in school? Why or why not? In "Bashing Islam: A Dangerous Sign of the Times", Charles C. Haynes of the First Amendment Center argues that this incident is one example of a larger trend of anti-Islam rhetoric, "a dangerous sign of the times". Do you agree or disagree with Haynes? Explain.