Storm Track Infiltration: Crosswords & Jihad

Quick. What country’s classroom teacher gave this crossword puzzle with these words to students to solve?

• “Kill”
• “Destroy America”
• “Sharon killed a lot of innocent people,”
• “Palestine is not a terrorist group.”
• “Allah help destroy this body of evil making humanity miserable.”

Saudi Arabia? Iran? Syria? Nope. The United States.

A Spanish teacher at Smithfield-Selma Senior High School resigned this week after handing out an assignment that some students and parents said teaches hate. Khalid Chahhou, who was in his first year of teaching in Johnston County, gave students a worksheet in which they were to translate words and find them within a word-search puzzle. Some students started uncovering strange words in the process. "There were words like 'kill,' then I saw it said 'destroy America,'" Eric Herrera said. "It was kind of scary at first to think about, you know, your own teacher in your own school that is teaching you," Herrera said. School administrators said they confronted Chahhou about an unidentified concern Wednesday and he resigned.

Yep folks, the multicultural curriculum at work in our public schools.

Chahhou, who also teaches Arabic at a religious school affiliated with the Islamic Association of Cary, told WRAL in a telephone interview that students got the wrong message from the assignment. "When I made the assignment, I was upset and angry about a story I recently saw on the news. If any message appears, it is more of a message to myself, not to my students. I never meant to hurt or upset any students or parents," he said.

Whoa! Well at least he didn’t climb into his SUV or family sedan and decided to run down infidels because of a story he recently heard on the news. Three guesses what that news story was about – and the first two don’t count.