The Trojan War

This is why I hate doing history with them. There are so many Greek/Roman shirk materials. I tried going around them but I still have to present them. In the end I just said,

"You have to know these stuff, because there are so many Greek and Roman stuff around us."

The kids know how much I hate doing those kind of stuff with them, where I have to present them with the stories of Greek and Roman gods and goddesses and one such story was the one that they claimed led to the Trojan War. Hera, Athena, Aphrodite and Paris and the apple.

I kept stalling the history lessons just because I had no mood to go through it but of course eventually we still have to. So today, I noticed that the next lesson was The Trojan War. I skipped right past the shirk stuff and went straight to the mechanics of the War, which of course still revolves around the goddesses. It's part of their history. There's no way of eliminating it. The best I could tell the kids was,

"You have to know this because if you don't, and they tell you about it, you MIGHT believe it."

Nauzubillah.

Better have it presented by me than a non Muslim teacher, who would most probably make the goddesses and gods seems appealing and nothing to be all worked up about. That's one thing that bothers me about public school. To have the teachers teach your children values and concepts that might shake their foundations. Of course, the public schools are not supposed to touch anything religious in their curiculum, but that leads to another problem. With the approach they're taking in teaching science, I would very well say that they're trying to produce atheists.

How can you NOT relate creations to a creator. How can you not marvel at the greatness of the Creator when learning about science? How can you disassociate religion from creations? How can there be such a division such as secular and religious in the first place? Islam is the way of life.

From manners related to relieiving yourself, to sleeping, Islam hands out basically a manual for living. How can we draw a definite line separating what is deemed secular and religious? Humans are just looking for trouble, when there's enough trouble in the world already.

Anyway, at least we're going somewhere with this Trojan War thing. May Allah protect their Aqeedah. Ameen.