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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Schools in Augusta County, Virginia, home to 10,000 students, closed because of fears of violence from parents angry at a calligraphy assignment. The assignment required the students to copy a ...

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 ...

Some parents of students at Augusta Co.'s Riverheads High were suggesting a world history class's assignment on Arabic calligraphy constituted nothing less than "Muslim indoctrination." ...

Tensions mounted after a teacher at Riverheads High School in Augusta County asked her students to complete an assignment last week that involved practicing calligraphy and writing a statement in ...