Nobody speaking the language of the Islamonazi Beast could possibly recite the Pledge. More likely they are chanting death to America and the infidels in their hate-filled tongue. I´m quite sure that´s how the Pledge translates in Arabic.

Parents who disagreed with this stunt are described by the principal as haters. That´s no surprise. Parents opposed to such PC have 3 other public high schools in Ft. Collins as possible transfer options.

Mr. Lopez appears to have stumbled upon an opportunity to stop and think, but he couldn´t be bothered.

Does MR. Lopex understand that islum demands that the kuran be read in arabick?
Does Mr. Lopex understand that HE just forced Dhimmi status on his students?
Does Mr. Lopez understand ANYTHING other that "I are a Union Members and I cans do whut I wants!"

Headline is misleading. Article says that they had asked to read it in a variety of languages. Arabic was not the first language chosen, nor will it be the last.

The students´ point was that this is a diverse country. Speakers of many languages have come here and feel the words of the pledge.

The headline writer apparently just wanted to stir controversy

More than likely the students at this school are english language challenged. All the more reason that they learn the pledge in our official language (the one it was written), and stop all this multiculti bull. The principal of this school is a supremo jackass.

The schools mascot, the timber wolf, is called, you guessed it, Lobo

Were some of the other languages Cajun, back woods country or Ebonics?

#5, The pledge being recited is to the American flag. While we are a nation comprised of people from many other nations, those who left the land of their birth to come here to be Americans came because they wanted what was here - not what they left behind. Those who came here to change America into something they are more comfortable with should not be accommodated. In fact, they are cordially invited to return to the place where they are clearly more comfortable.

Diversity, or division, is a lie we have allowed the liberals to use for too long. What we need to embrace is our affinity.

The students point is diversity...ok then.guess we have to put all our road signs in 20 different languges´s...how about directions on cake mixes in t wenty different language´s...all for diversity.

If a person moves to Germany...do ya think that person learns German...
This is the only country where we try to please everyone...learn to read, write and speak English if y ou are living here...nothing wrong with knowing 2 or 3 languages...but the primary spoken language in the USA is English

This principal should be reprimanded. He is an example of what has gotten control of America´s schools and are brainwashing our children.

I have no doubt that the students and their principal mean well, just as I have no doubt -well, perhaps very little doubt- that the majority of liberals and Leftists mean well. It is unfortunate that this does not by itself always suffice.

Multiculturalism as commonly practiced at ground level is merely a self-esteem raising exercise, an expression of pity for the wretched of the earth, i.e. minorities, and a kind of psychotherapy for all concerned, minorities and majority both. There is something almost poignant about this manifestation of a fundamentally maternal and hospitable instinct. Too bad it is intellectually incoherent, self-contradictory and thus liable to produce results exactly opposite to those desired.

There is perhaps nothing in the world more inclusive than sharing and speaking the same language. The well-meaning students and their principal imagine that they are progressive by this miniature linguistic Balkanization, a principal function of which is to demonstrate that participants are tolerant, modern, sensitive and free from any taint of ethnic, racial or religious prejudice.

Arabic, of course, is a language. Islam is a totalitarian religion that rejects the modern Western separation of church and state as well as just about every other Western value. It is perfectly possible, though rather silly, to say the Pledge in Arabic and mean it. It is not possible to say it "in Islam" and mean it.

America, rebuilding the Tower of Babel with similar results. The originators are as to be expected, the educational establishment, those that never have to deal with consequences.

The question I have of the principal is this: do you understand Arabic (or whatever other language is used) well enough to know that what is being read is actually the Pledge of Allegiance?

I bet prayers facing Mecca would be ok as well with this principal just don´t let those vicious, hateful, bigoted Christians pray in school! /s

Multiculturalism is nothing more than an organized effort to dismantle and reject our own Western cultural traditions.

For decades universities have been a hotbed of leftist/Communist/Socialist indoctrination and an all-out effort to rob us of our heritage. The is just another glowing example of the America-hating university leftists in action.

The principal´s job is to ensure that his students learn English, can communicate in English, and can read English. It is, after all, a school.
It is not the principal´s job to pander to every minority´s demands to change the system to their needs or liking. This does nothing but "Balkanize" us. What next? Shall we have all official government documents translated into Spanish, Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, Polish, Russian, Somali, etc? THIS AIN´T THE FRIGGIN´ UN!

By the way, do they say "one nation under God"? Or "one nation under Allah"?

Wow, who would have thought: this is a diverse country. Wow! Gee whiz, we need more high school students pointing out the obvious.

While I can understand the Principal´s idea, I think it is wrong headed. I am sick of hyphanated Americans. We are not Irish Americand, African Americans or Hispanic Americans. We are Americans, period!! One of the things that tie us together is a common language. At least that is what my ancestors thought when they came to this country about a hundred years ago. They wanted to be Americans and were completely assimilated into American culture within a generation. Highlighting differences instead of what is similar is just plain stupid. It fosters division and exclusion, not inclusion and a sense that we are the "UNITED" States!

It reminds me of the inscription on the Tomb Of The Unknowns - written in German and Japanese of course.

What they should be doing is reading the real Islamic creed...kill all others that don´t agree with us...

i did not read the entire article but having a hard time figuring out how this is bad. dont get me wrong, progressive can screw up anything.

#12 has the best post so far. Well said!

The Muslimazation of America continues.

I guess I missed the earlier headlines when the school recited the Pledge in French and Spanish. Wonder if the paper will follow through with coverage when it´s given in German and Chinese? It´s nice to see at least one school is still reciting the Pledge. It´s also nice to see the focus on foreign languages. Believe it or not, it´s possible to support the latter without buying into the claptrap of multiculturalism. As for the comment on learning German when moving to Germany, it´s a great idea, but not really necessary, as English is taught in the schools there.

#5, what part of "E Pluribus Unum" confuses you? I mean other than the letters....

#19, for some comfort, read Teddy Roosevelt´s 1919 speech from Cooper Union.....known as the "Hyphenated American" speech.

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If Arabic is NOT TAUGHT at the school, it should not be used to read (not recite, noted) the Pledge of Allegiance.

At most, I would only think to allow those languages taught at the school, and only under supreme duress from the school board.

English is the official language of the US and the recitation of the pledge should only be done in English.

Maybe those multicultural students would be better served to write a paper in English about the origin of the Pledge and the evolutions of the US Flag.

Both my children graduated from Rocky Mt. High School in Fort Collins in the late 80´s. Back then, it was not considered to be a pinnacle for academic learning. And since then, the libs from California have taken over the State. Therefore, I´m not surprised to hear about this PC.

THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO STOP THIS MULTY,
LINGO TO STOP. MAKE ENGLISH THE OFFICAL
LANGUAGE OF OUR COUNTRY.

#22 -

Whether and why such gestures are bad depends on whom you ask. Some people -quite a few, it seems- think they are not bad but good. They prove something. They achieve something. Most of all, they make people FEEL better - which seems to be the principal function of liberal fantasy ideology(If it feels good, do it; make love, not war; sex, drugs and rock and roll; don´t trust anybody over 30 etc.)

As for me, I think they are bad because they are confused and largely sentimental. Instead of indulging in such easy, self-indulgent acting out and political theater, students should be challenged (and permitted!) to discuss the important issues involved. Leftist emotional groupthink seeks to short circuit the phase of critical and analytical reason and go straight to instant gratification. This is poor educational practice.

The great majority of normal people espousing and practicing multi-culti are simply trying to be friendly and hospitable and sensitive to the feelings of others. They really have not stopped to think about the question. They are just being -and feeling- nice.

They are the equivalent of Lenin´s useful bourgeois idiots for the tiny number of hard core radical Left extremists in academia who genuinely hate America and everything it stands for and for who multiculturalism is nothing but a Trojan Horse. Thus multi-culti is simultaneously a harmless expression of goodwill and a dangerous, indeed deadly enemy of America. Scott Fitzgerald said it is the test of a first rate mind to hold contradictory ideas simultaneously. I don´t have any idea what he meant by that, but this could be a case to test it.

The last I knew we are in the "United States of America" and not in the "United States of Arabia". Pathetic!!

One nation, under Allah....

"The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American." --Teddy Roosevelt 12 October, 1915

Translated, what they are saying is


The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.

I´ve said it here before and I´ll say it here again...#5 is a troll,always taking the opposite view of ours in order to purposely stir controversy, much like a HuffPo lefty! It´s been said that Fort Collins and their schools have gone commie, and after reading this incredulous, outrageous, liberal crap, I must agree. Those poor kids.

Try to remember schools receive federal tax dollars-ours and we have a say.

How will anyone learn English if We continue to accomodate them ?

Everywhere you go, there you are.

Diversity, and multiculturalism, are clap trap concepts that deserve the trash bin of history. Communism, socialism. progressivism are full of worms, maggots, and rot.

Protect the divinely inspired government of our constitution, and get out of the sewer, fools.