No Mixing of Church, State And Schools

This item is causing quite a stir, if you will, in Rome.

The Vatican has disconcerted Italian politicians - and some of the Roman Catholic church's most senior prelates - by endorsing a proposal by radical Muslims for a weekly "Islamic hour" in schools with a strong Muslim presence.

An aside, but nowhere in the article did the author explain why the term radical Muslims was used.

Everyone is taking sides and look at who all we have here.

Cardinal Renato Martino, a minister in the Vatican's government, the Roman Curia. [endorser]

The speaker of the Italian senate, Marcello Pera.

The archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi.

The new Islamic Council [made the proposal]

The National Alliance [which grew out of Italy's main neo-fascist party]

Democracy and Freedom party.

Muslim Brotherhood.

World Muslim League [Italian representative of]

Magdi Allam [an Islamic affairs commentator of the newspaper Corriere della Sera]

Folks, this is exactly why we don't want religion, state and schools messing with each other. Mixing these things together can only produce rancor. The founding fathers knew damn well what they were doing.