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Lets all give Fort Collins Rocky Mountain High School principal Tom Lopez a great big round of applause! Nice job Tom. Letting students recite the Pledge of Allegiance in multiple languages has to be the most politically correct thing I have ever heard of someone doing.

Way to help promote your liberal socialist agenda too Tom. What are you going to teach your students next? How to get on welfare and live like a bum?

What are you going to do for your next trick tom? Start classes on how to fly planes into building and make bombs?

We sit about on a daily basis watching kids that graduate high school and don’t know a damn thing about anything because of morons like Tom Lopez and his army of unionized teachers that are too busy turning our children into walking propaganda machines for the left instead of doing job of teaching our children reading, writing and math.

Keep up the good work Tom. America needs morons like you in the gene pool so our kids learn the importance of being an American and not letting simpletons like you run this great nation into the ground. JD

A Fort Collins high school principal is defending his decision to allow students from a cultural club to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic, and denied that it was in any way, shape or form an attempt to push an Islamic agenda.

Tom Lopez, the principal at Rocky Mountain High School in Fort Collins, told Fox News he has received a number of telephone calls and emails from outraged parents, but he stands by his decision.

“These students love this country,” he said. “They were not being un-American in trying to do this. They believed they were accentuating the meaning of the words as spoken regularly in English.”

The school recites the Pledge of Allegiance once a week and on Monday a member of the Cultural Arms Club led the student body in the Arabic version of the pledge.

The club seeks to “destroy the barriers, embrace the cultures” that exist within the high school.

Danielle Clark, communications director of the Poudre School District, said they understand why parents are upset.

“We understand not everybody would agree with the students’ choice,” she told Fox News. “We’ve heard there are some who are upset.”

On the other hand, she said she received one email from a person who “thought it was a great thing.”
Clark said the cultural club has a history of reciting the Pledge of

Allegiance in a number of different languages.
“It’s not just Arabic,” she said.

Last year, the group found itself in at the center of a bit of controversy after reciting the pledge in Spanish.
“This is a student-initiated and student-led club,” Clark said.

“There is no school sponsor or advisor. It doesn’t come under the umbrella of the district.”

She said the students simply asked the principal permission as a courtesy.
“We deferred to the students because it’s their deal,” she said.

Club members said they don’t understand why there’s a controversy.
“No matter what language it’s said in, pledging your allegiance to the United States is the same in every language,” student Skyler Bowden told The Coloradoan.

But an Arabic translation of the Pledge of Allegiance would have replaced “one nation under God” with “one nation under Allah.”
“Obviously in Arabic, you would use the word Allah, but Christian

Arabs would use the word Allah,” said Ibrahim Hooper, of the Council on American Islamic Relations. “It’s not necessarily specific to Islam and Muslims.”

Clark said she did not hear the pledge and does not speak Arabic so she could not confirm exactly what words were used.

Some local residents said the pledge should be recited in English. Others wondered if there was another reason involved.

“This is no longer about language,” wrote one reader in a letter to the local newspaper. “This is about targeting a group you know will object, intentionally stirring them up under the guise of your opinions on multiculturalism and subjecting your school and community to a divisive issue for absolutely no gain.”

Lopez said he’s been getting bombarded by all sorts of accusations – one critic even labeled him a traitor.

“They claim they are outraged that this is blaspheming a real major tenet of our patriotism – which in their mind the Pledge of Allegiance is only in English,” he said.

He’s also been accused of “pushing a Muslim Brotherhood agenda – to push Islam into the school.” That’s a claim that Lopez denied.

Hooper told Fox News he was dumbfounded by complaints about the Arabic version of the pledge.

“How on earth is it un-American to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in another language?” Hooper asked. “It doesn’t make sense unless the people complaining are anti-Muslim or anti-middle eastern bigots.”

One resident explained his side of the story in a manner that he felt was anything but bigoted.

“As a veteran and a friend of a man killed defending these children in their little games they like to play with our pledge, I’m offended,” Chris Wells wrote in the comment section on

Coloradoan.com. “There are things that we don’t mess with – among them are the pledge and our anthem.”