This came after a world geography teacher at one local high school gave a controversial homework assignment that required students to copy Arabic calligraphy containing the Muslim statement of faith.

During a class on world religions on Dec. 11, a teacher at Riverheads High School in Staunton asked students to write religious calligraphy in Arabic. The assignment read, “Here is the shahada ...

It was a drawing assignment on “the artistic complexity of calligraphy.” The assignment read: The homework assignment aimed to give students “an idea of the artistic complexity of ...

After a teacher at a Virginia school handed out a standard homework assignment on Islam ... on Islam asked students to copy religious calligraphy. “Here is the shahada, the Islamic statement ...

It then asks the students to "try copying the calligraphy in your own hand." If this assignment is indeed a form of "Muslim indoctrination taking place here in an Augusta county school," as ...

On 15 December 2015, Fox News opinion columnist Todd Starnes published an editorial that focused on a calligraphy assignment given to students at Augusta County, Virginia, schools. Describing the ...

According to The News Leader, a local newspaper in the area, LaPorte did not design the homework assignment herself. “The calligraphy assignment came from a workbook created by teachers called ...

The calligraphy translated to, "There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is the messenger of Allah," according to CNN. The assignment immediately drew ire from some parents who called for LaPorte's ...

Some parents had vehemently protested an assignment for students to practice calligraphy by writing the shahada, or Muslim statement of faith. While such a dramatic reaction from administrators ...

The assignment had aimed to give students “an idea of the artistic complexity of calligraphy”. “In the space below, try copying it by hand. This should give you an idea of the artistic ...

Parents were upset over a geography assignment on world religions from teacher Cheryl LaPorte, who had students practice calligraphy by writing the Muslim statement of faith, which translates to ...

As part of the assignment, students in a world geography class at Riverheads High School had to write down Islamic religious text in order to learn the intricacies of calligraphy. The statement ...